The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-07-16
Third Party Partners

While it is doubtful if any serious
minded citizens, much less taxpayers with
properties or business at stake take the
sporadic talk of third or independent
democratic party seriously, nevertheless,
a word of warning to those that might, is
not amiss.
To begin with any such movement as
far as local democracy is concerned, when
we said yesterday was within anyones
right, nevertheless is irregular. The Dem
ocrat thinks fifty years continuous sup
port of that party in victory or defeat,
year in and year out, fully supports 1T IN
any such assertion.
There is no attempt being made to read
anyone out of the party by drum-head
court-martial on the part of the Democrats
support of the present administration 1t
is, however, our aim to see that no group
of disgruntled office and job seekers
wrecks the party.
In support of this we only have to refer
back to other years when differences
arose. There never was any talk then OF
third or independent parties. Those seek
ing nominations fought it out in the open
at the primaries and abided by the de-
cisions rendered.
Within our memory as far back as the
late ex-Mayor Martin Scully's administra-
lions the democratic party had primary
fight when the late Senator John Hurley
sought the mayoralty. Again in ex-Mayor
Guilfoile's time there was the harrington
primary. And in recent years the
Kennedy Hayes primary.
All three of these were regular and
above board, both factions uniting on
elections day in each instance to give the
oc1,i Thorn
fault to find, and until the primary was
held fair treatment was accorded both
contestants.
In the present instance no such cond1-
ton pervails. The effort is not an honest
one, but on the contrary we feel one
to wreck the party if necessary to
gain their ends. No third ticket can
possibly win and what any such crowd
can expect to get from the republican
party, should it be shunted into power
by such route, they can put in their vest
pocket.
Final and conclusive proof of its insln-
cerity and hybrid makeup, however, is
the frantic and desperate efforts OF
those two "Waterbury-loving" papers -
the American and Republican = to fan it
into fever heat. The public should feel
proud of the mud-slinging, back-alley
campaign they have inaugurated against
Mayor Hayes and his associates.
In their desperate zeal to knock down
the democratic administration for their
own personal ambitions, too numerous to
mention, these papers are forgetting that
they have an ill-smelling kettle of fish to
cook in their own party. And by the time
election rolls around as in previous years
and all all years to come, until they throw
away their ak, even the better element OF
republicans will prefer good democratic
mayor and administration to any dummy
set-up of their creation.
The Waterbury American and Repub-
lican may, or may not, as they blast every
SO often, have that 1913 out of every 1907
English speaking readers = we have only
their word for it - but, as we said before,
if their political prestige in Waterbury
and Connecticut is any criterion of their
convincing power, it's next to nothing:
That, likewise about sums up the third
party's batting average to-date.