The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-27

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 Congressman Francis T. Malol United States senate. Political for predicting that he will win. .AccOn and their children, Grace, 2; Mar of establishing a new residence in ticularly the independent voters of Connecticut. And by independent voters I mean that vast number who have no party utilization but who desire to cast their ballots for the party which stands for the greatest good for the greatest number.
 l am not going to bore you with an analysis ot the republican state platform. Any child, who has passed the second grade, is capable of discovering the fact that the platform upon which MT Alcorn is standing one hundred per cent has neither blanks nor program. It finds fault with everything Presi- dent Roosevelt has done and stands for, without putting finger on any one thing which has been det- rimental to the common good. And 1t is particularly neglectful in tell ing you what specific remedy it proposes to apply to measures about which it grumbles generally. What would you think of an archi- tect who came along, found you living in a house where you were fairly comfortable, and wanted you to tear it down and put some thing different in its stead?
 The first question you would ask him is What kind of a house arc you going to build in place of the one which has housed me success. fully for the last eighteen months ?"
 And what would you do to him when he answered, T haven't any plan. I don't know whether it will be chicken coop, a barn, a shed, a tent, or a hole in, the ground"
 That is jus. the situation here in Connecticut as far as the re- publican candidates for office are concerned. They refuse to tell the independent voter what they will do about anything. The explana- tion is easy. They have not yet been told by MT Roraback what to do, how to vote, and how not to vote; when to vote and when to fail to answer the roll call. Per- haps you don't believe that. Then let me call your attention to significant occurrence.
 In MT A1corn's speech of ac- ceptance he whaled away with both hands at the New Deal. That was, I am sure, a spontaneous ut- terance. But in the course of a few days one of the game keepers on MT Roraback's estate, which happens to be the entire state of Connecticut, Frank Healy of Wind sor Locks, took MT Alcorn across his knee and applied the slipper of advice. Mir Healey's counsel was to the effect that MT Alcorn should stop attacking the New Deal and MT Roosevelt, and confine himself agine their conversation.
 "But listen, Frank, I've been reading the platform. I can't find any issue."
 "Hughie, my lad, I've been in politics a long time and, as far back as I can remember, we repub- licans grabbed all the offices be- cause we never had any issues and never talked about one if it did sneak into the platform"
 But Frank, I'm a big fearless man; I wear no mans collar"
 Great, Hughie, my boy. There's your issue. You're for no-collar administration. Of course it may lose you the laundry vote and the collar manufacturers but it's safe, sound ground. Talk all around the mulberry bush but always come back to the collar issue. Find fault with everything, promise 'em everything, and we'll see that they get nothing when it's all over. But whatever you do pipe down on Roosevelt. We've got to remem- Der that, while you're talking your collar off, that that fellow in Washington is giving work and food to the people, while all we've got to hand them is the second hand collar buttons you don't need"
 don't vouch for the accuracy of that conversation but everyone knows that, since talking to MT Healey, batting for MT Roraback, MT Alcorn has stuck to mulberry bushes and the no-collar issue.
 Unfortunately, for the republican ticket, the other candidates either did not have the value of Mr Healey's advice or they have not been properly rehearsed. Tn y have been running wild off Mir Roraback's reservation and sho0t- ing up the state with peashooters loaded with pellets against the New Deal They have been plead ing with the electorate to send to Washington republican congress- men and a senator and have been quite frank in explaining why 1t should be done.
 They say, If we can get enough republican votes in the national congress, we can stop the wheel of legisiation. We can scuttle the ship while the captain is busy on the bridge. We can't do any good but we can do a lot of harm. We have proved that in Connecticut. For the last four years we have killed any measure that would benefit the state. We've either de- feated or stalemated Cross all along the line and the beautiful part of it is, while we do the harm, Cross and his party get the blame"
 So far as the republican nom inees a1re concerned, the country can go to pot. Their siosan Is We will rule or we will ruin" f- L--a A. ~.sf& l..