The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-27

 is left to eat itself out in sad ness and isolation?
 Tears, Idle Tears
 "Why don't they let me alone?" walled William the woe.begone? "Why do they not cease trying to disturb an obscure and inoffensivc cit. izen, whose principal desire Is to be allowed to end his days in peace on that much adver- tized farm in WOOdbury?"
 What ineffable modesty!
 What supreme humility!
 What a perfect example of the toil-worn worker for the public veal yearning, like Cin- cinnatus, to retire to his furrows and his ploughshare!
 And what a consummation devoutly to be desired!
 Mir. Pape should be allowed to end his days among the bees and the flowers, and perchance to "wear Q nest of robins" In his hair!
 I cannot imagine the Lion of Leavenworth Street lying down with the lambs of Litchfield county. I cannot visualize the simon Legree of local imaginary evil doers turning his blood- hounds into coon dogs whose only pleasure in life would be to bay the harvest moon as 1t rose over the Woodbury hills. Nor can see in my minds eye the man whom the Pape papers ad- vertised not so long ago as Wa- terbury's first" citizen dwarfing himself to the midget-like pro- portions of the city's most ob- scure one. Much less can I, or any one else, detect in the publisher of the Pape papers that are characteristic of inoffensiveness which he himself had discovered to be one of his principal traits. At least not by reading some of the expressions of kindness and good will which a haphazard glance at his publications dis. closes.
 Bouquets!
 Bouquets! "what has been done there (Hartford) un- doubtedly could be duplicated in Waterbury. We, too, have had our full share of repeat ing, slugging, and voting in the names of former electors who have been dead or away for years-- and too many Waterbury citizens have been prone to ignore the whole fetid mess" American, Feb. 17. '34.
 "the mayor and his kept newspaper. Repu b lie a n, March l, '34.
 'It is a matter of record, in Waterbury, that the mechan- ics of political election in this city do reek to high heaven" American, March 9, 'S4.
 "The Stygian stable mess of election corruption which has been smelling the political atmosphere of this city was not for its cleaning" Repub- lican March 10, 's4:
 eff we cannot have honest and reasonably efficient use of the public money in times like these, our city which has been paying high taxes for years to wipe out past def icits. is sunk and the next step will be bankruptcy" (W. J. Pape in a letter to the Committee on Cities and Bor- oughs relative to requiring city contracts to be let by competitive bidding). March 21, 's5.
 "These newspapers have mixed in nothing of the inter- nal-should we have said inc fernal--politics of the Crary machine in this matter" American. April 16, 's5.
 His gruff, impatient treat ment of petitioners before city boards and his truculent att titude towards other leaders we have hitherto put down to natural cussedness. But sure- ly it were only common char fly now to assume that the bangs of disprized love are troubling his vitals." Repub- lican, June 8, '36.
 
 "The politics out of the slough of which comes our city court appointments maintains the sape green scum the sight of which has long sickened dee cent Republicans so that they have no stomach for voting