The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-23

made a plea for the support of the democratic ticket by the "inde- pendent and the intelligent repub- | iican" in an address delivered early | this afternoon in Norwich at a gathering sponsored by the New ! London County Federation of Democratic Women. Last night
 Mayor Hayes spoke in West Hav- en, Milford and Bridgeport. at I tacking the republican party s campaign methods while Congress- man Francis T. Maloney of Meri- den, nominee for United States
 senator, in a radio address from Hartford, attacked the republicans from various angles. Major J. Jo- seph Smith of this city, candidate for congress in the fifth district, yesterday afternoon and last night continued to punch holes" in the
 g. 0. p. campaign charges.
 Attacks Walcott.
 Congressman Maloney character ized his republican opponent, U. S. Senator Frederick c. Walcott Of Norfolk as the outstanding re- actionary of the senate on the grounds that The turned his back every time there was an oppor- tunity to bring relief to the unem- ployed men and grief-stricken wo- men and under-nourished children of his own country"
 In the course of his radio talk Congressman Maloney took sev- eral pointed "shots" at the editor
 of the Hartford Courant, stating that while he praises the paper as a liberal organ he felt sympathe- tic towards its editor because, as a liberal he is finding it so difficult to be honest with himself, as party fidelity commits him to the SUD- port of the outstanding reaction ary of the congress of the United States"
 Politician Defined.
 Congressman Maloney referred to editorials in the Courant favor ing the reelection of Senator Wal colt. He termed the republican campaign a vicious one and one filled with criticism aimed at des- troying the progress made to date under the New Deal. Referring to a claim made by the g. o. p that he was a. politician because he criticized Walcott's actions in con- gress, Congressman Maloney said: I once read that a young school girl, asked to define a politician said that he was a man who drinks lots of liquor, smokes big cigars and wears a large watch chain. ..
 T plead guilty to being a poh- tician, but I have never tasted ln- toxicating liquor. never smoked cigars and I do not wear an over sized watch chain. I am, however, interested in the relief of those able bodied, honest and willing men who are unemployed.
 Major Smith Gives Address. Mayor Smith In his address be- fore the democratic women in Washington Park yesterday after noon, charged that the republicans are following destructionist pro- gram, but that the democrats. are willing to have them seize upon the issue of the ''New Deal or the republican party"
 Mayor Hayes said in part:c
 "Out of the welter of fault find- ing in which the republican candi- dates for office are indulging one complaint is constantly accented and that Is, the cost of President Roosevelt's relief measures now and in the future. They say that the money to pay for the various departments which the president has set up for the alleviation Of financial and business distress, as we'll as for relieving human mis- cry, must come from taxes which all the people will have to bear. The allegation so far as finance and business is concerned Is alto- gether untrue because the sums advanced by the government are already in process of repayment. The accusation that the money spent for direct relief is gone, never to return, is true, and 1t is the only truthful thing our opponents have said, or will say, throughout the entire campaign.
 q am going to direct my very brief remarks tonight to the inde- pendent voter and >to intelligent thinking republican business men. Let us, for the sake of argument. suppose that there was no such thing as President Roosevelt's re- lief program. We cannot eliminate the fact that from 1929 to 1893 there was unemployment for. mill lions and that nationwide destitu- tion was tragic fact.
 President Hoover had enlisted the best minds in the republican party and had brain-trust advisers in carload lots at his beck and call. In spite of both, conditions grew steadily worse, and by the time President Roosevelt entered NAI A1 hn abyss. He had two alternatives: One, to set going his machinery of relief; the other, to do noth- ing. Our republican friends ind fault with him, and us. for what he did do and is doing.
 'Iettus consider for a moment the situation if he had adopted their do-nothing policy. Two things would have happened. Either the endurance of the American people would have been tried beyond tho breaking point and we would have had revolution; or the burden of taking care of the destitute would have fallen on every state, city. town and village in the United States.
 "Treasuries would have been ex- lidu6LCu anu SVaAo OAfAy w %Se-AsS0 by increased taxation. taxation which under existing conditions neither communities nor individ- uals could stand. We would have had not only an army of unem- ployed, a host of starving, but also breadline of taxpayers.
 'In all honesty and fairness I ask the independent voter and the intelligent republican if President Roosevelt did not take not only the humane but also the reason- able way out of tn edifiiculty. Re- publican orators have howled that President Roosevelt's relief meas ures are pauperizing the nation. That statement only goes to dem- onstrate once again the essential contempt the party they represent has for your intelligence. With remarkably few exceptions the American people are not only will ing but eager to work. They do not want something for nothing and 1t was with this fact in mind that the president gave them the