The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-07

JUDGE EDWARD MAsCOLO
 dificulty in raising all of the funds it required for it's current needs, and, what is more, such loans were secured at 8 very moderate rate of interest. In fact, the last loan obtained by our, city was secured at rate of interest which was the lowest ever quoted for our city's obligations.
 PueriIe Attacks
 Does that indicate that we have been governed during the past six years by bandits or high way men, as the republican and independent democratic candi- dates and that portion of our local press which is espousing their cause would have you taxpayers and citizens believe?
 With financial conditions as stringent as they have been throughout the country, and for that matter throughout the world, during the past six years, bank CTS and investors with money to lend, have not allowed any of it to stray into the hands of any city or town whose credit would be impaired by reason of being governed by incompetent or dis honest officials. After all, you should form your ideas concern ing the competency of Frank Hayes and the other candidates on the democratic ticket now seeking reelection, from evidence such as this, and not from any puerile attacks made against them by their opponents and the latter's newspaper friends.
 Mistakes
 Any administration necessarily is bound to make enemies, and in 8 city as large as this, where many hundreds. are required to perform the various routine duties of government, some mistakes must be made, and all we hear now from the candidates on the other tickets is a great hue and cry concerning various picayune matters which are of no real consequence in establishing the ability or lack of 1t on the part of our present administration. If a worker in one of our factories should throw a tack on the, floor, and a fellow worker should step on it and suffer a minor scratch or cut, can you blame the presi- dent of the corporation which conducts the factory for that occurrence? Well, it would be just as logical to do so as to blame Mayor Hayes or the other execu- tives in our city for sOfne of the ant-hill episodes which their opponents are now trying to build into mountains.
 Tax Rates
 Look at the whole picture in a big way, and do not allow your attention or sympathies to be diverted by personalities and mudslinging. Look around the city and see the improvements which have been made during the past few years. notwithstanding the scarcity of money with which to work. Realize that your children have been able to go to school everyday, and that our school houses have not been closed down for lack of coal, as they have been in some of our cities. Remember that your tax rate was ten mills lower last year than 1t was in 1880 when Mayor Hayes was first inducted into office, and remember also that our bonded indebtedness has been reduced by several million dollars. And all this has been accomplished dur ing the longest and direst period of woe and distress ever experi- enced in our countrys history. If that has not been good manage ment of civic affairs, then I can not conceive of what must be done or accomplished to merit that distinction. Under the great est of handicaps, our present administration has worked mir acles and rightfully can be proud of job well done. Certainly, upon its record it deserves to be given the opportunity to con- tinue its good work, and now when 1t seems that we. are at the threshold of a new and real pros perity, 1t is only common decency and good sportsmanship to give it an opportunity to show you what can be done for the city's benefit under favorable conditions.
 Mrs. J. K. Y.
 I read an open letter in one of the newspapers which was signed by-a Mrs. J. K. Y, and it's sub- stance was an apology to Mayor Hayes for having employed terms in another open letter, previously published, which were unfair to him. In her second letter, she stated that after careful inquiry she was satisfied that she was the victim of just that kind of propa- ganda to which I have alluded, which actuated her in writing the first letter to the press. She also stated At the present moment, the Bible of God stares me in the eyes. and I will never again revile an upright man. Politically, am very gullible and often accept hearsay as the truth. I wash my hands of innocent blood. and I'll never believe in false campaign propaganda again. Well, I gless I'm licked and that meanes to right this unjust wrong against Hayes, I'll have to vote for him." I have no doubt, but what this frank admission on the part of such an upright woman will cause those of you who have been vic- timized in the same manner, to feel reinOrse in your hearts, and