The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-11-01

IHS NOlSIb VI SuCA OL IltS AluuutCN and stxty-nine towns of the state where I have been unable to go during this campaign. It has been physically impossible to go every where unless was like the Dionne quintuplets.
 For the time being the voters will have to take the will for the decd. I want to assure them that, when the democratic candidates ara in office after January 1st, l hope to go to those towns in .he state where have not ap- reared personally and talk to the residents. It is just as important that the people of this state be kept the people of this state be- on in the legislature after election as it is that they be told now what the Roraback republican assembly has done in the past.
 In the meantime invite tho small town voters to come and see me, not as Mir Alcorn has done, sometime" but any time they feel I can be of service to them.
 President Roosevelt has called attention to the fact that people are taking a greater interest in the people than ever before.
 That the panic is on among the republican candidates on the state ticket is evident from the despera- tion with which they are trying to make everything and anything, and especially nothing an issue.
 MT Alcorn has announced that he is in favor of an equal oppor- tunity for all the children of Con necticut to get an education. Who isn't?
 The democratic party has always believed in equal opportunity for children in education, and has practiced the belief.
 It has, also, believed that chill dren should not be permitted to work in industry at the age when they should be going to school.
 MT Alcorn's party has defeated every attempt made to secure pro gressive legislation on the question of child labor in this state.
 MT Alcorn is in favor of restor- ing the Teachers Retirement Fund to a reserve basis. It was on a re- serve basis until a republican com- mittee of finance and control Tn Hartford broke the provisions or the law.
 My own record and that of the democratic party where education and teachers are concerned Is a matter of legislative history. ask the teachers of the state to recall the treatment they received from a republican general assembly in the past.
 MT Alcorn is now in favor of old age pensions, and all the other advanced blanks in the democratic state platform. l am glad to hear he is, because the party led by MT Alcorns son in the house and the senate have blocked every meas ure to insure old age pensions, and unemployment insurance, and pro- lection for women and minors in industry.
 These measures were sponsored by a democratic governor and fought for by the democratic mem- bers in both houses of the legisla- ture.
 MT Alcorn is in favor of anything which may get him vote.
 In a recent speech he delivered an euIogy of Giuseppe Garibaldi while Garibaldi's grandson was on the platform with him. And Gar ibaldis grandson returned the compliment by telling MT Alcorn, publicly, that he would be the Ital- ian vote because he just mentioned the name of Garibaldi.
 I laeve it to the Italian voters of Connecticut to make the proper answer next Tuesday to tho insult to their intelligence.
 MT Alcorn paid a merited tri- bute to the character of the Italian people on the occasion to which l refer. I suggest the next time he gets on the subject that he exxplain to the Italians of the state the treatme mt whicl. the capable, lav- able Frank Palotti of Hartford got firm tho republican party ir 1850.
 MT Palootti was an American just as good an American as MT Alcorn or anyone on his ticket, but he was of Italian blood.
 MT Palotti had been elected sec- retary of state on the republican ticket.
 He had done his work in that office ably and we'll. He was in line for promotion to the lieuten- ant-governorship. Did he get the nomination? He did not.
 know the reason why. So does MT Alcorn. I'd like to have him tell the voters of Connecticut what that reason was. But in case he does not do so, will. It was be- cause the republican party did not want a man of Italian name and xxyhn a become governor of the state in flee died or retired.
 Never mind Giuseppe Garibaldi, Mir Alcorn. Tell us about Frank Palotti. It has never been prac- tice in the democratic party to deny high office to anyone because he belonged to a particular race. MT Alcorn is also in favor of lib- eralizing the liquor law. When l read that statement could scarce ly believe my eyes.
 Hugh Alcorn, one of the bitter est foes of liquor in any form that this state has ever had, announc- ing, that if elected to office, he will "liberalize" the liquor law?
 There is a vast number of peo- pie in Connecticut who would like to take a drink after their days work is done. They want to be able to do it without violating the law. Do they imagine that MT Alcorn, who called the entire liquor legislation ''inquitous" is going to make it possible for them to do SO? How is MT Alcorn going to remove the 'iniquity?" He doesn't say. But from his past rec
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