The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-01
Limit Passed for Abuse States His Honor in
 Opening Radio Talk

ClLlng cOnCfcUC HnStonCeB Ol PFOs gross during the past six years on the part of Waterbury under the present democratic administration, Mayor Frank Hayes last night formally opened the campaign Ol his. party for reelection in an ad. dress over WATR. The city's tax rate has been reduced almost 10 mills: thousands upon thousands of feet of sanitary and storm sew. CTS and curbIng have been install led and 10000 squares of paving have been laid; and, in general, the city has enjoyed a prOgres. slvc program. Mayor Hayes nt. tackled the personalities put into tho present campaign by the Re. publican and American under the direction of Publisher w. J. Pape IFS address follows:
 Fellow Citizens of Waterbury:
 This broadcast is the start of the radio program of the Demo- cratic party in its campaign for reelection. It is addressed to every voter in the city regardless of political utilization.
 We are asking you to cast your ballots for our ticket be- cause the men on 1t have proved themselves over a period of Six years to be your efficient and honest public servants.
 The administration they have given Is such as to warrant it's continuance in office. The Democratic nominees have mas tered the details of their respec- tive offices. They possess a complete knowledge of the city's affairs. They have acquired an experience in handling the city's business which in itself is inc valuable to the taxpayers and furnishes an additional reason why the community should con- tinue to receive the benefit of that experience.
 I ask your indulgence for few minutes to treat of 6 phase of this campaign which, think, in all fairness should receive your just and studied consid- eration.
 Unit Reached
 Occupants of public office ex- pect to receive a certain amount of attack from those who differ with them politically. But there is a vast difference between at- tack and groundless abuse. There is also a limit to what public servants should be ex- pected to tolerate. That limit has been passed so far as we are concerned and propose to speak plainly about 1t.
 From the day 1t assumed office, the administration has been subjected to & storm of vili- fication and misrepresentation which has never ceased.
 We have been called protec- tors of every kind of vice and tho intimates of every type of criminal.
 We have been accused of breaking the laws of the state and the charter of the city with out the slightest Justification for the accusation.
 We have been charged, with out foundation, of violating the oath of office we have sworn to observe. t We have been blamed without cause for things we have done, for things we have not done, and for things which exist only in the disordered imaginations of those whose eole argument against US Is that we have been returned to office by your ballots and by increased majorities at each city election. have been trying to recall. and have been unable to do so, 8 single instance in. which we have received a word of encour- agement or bit of constructive criticism from those whose aim in life is to libel and islander us. And all this has continued while we have been doing our level best to struggle through the worst times Waterbury has ever known.
 American Right
 There must exist in. any com munity difference of opinion as to the advisability or wisdom of certain administrative policies or actions. The right to express that opinion freely is an Ameri- can right. Neither nor my as- sociates on the Democratic ticket resent its exercise. But, like all other rights, 1t carries with 1t m obligation. The obli- gation is that the difference of opinion be an honest one and that in tho expression of 1t there /, be q regard for the truth. No one has the right to bear false witness against his ncighbor un- der any circumstances.
 Nothing that this administra- ton has done could justify the venomous personal and political islander which 1t has received day after day, month after month, and year after year. I want to say that I and my fellow candidates absolve the rank and file of the Republican party from any complicity in | these attacks. They have worked side by side with us in every cause that meant increasing the good rcpute of the city which is our common home. We appre- ciate and are grateful for their cooperation. We value their regard and have done nothing to lose 1t.
 The responsibility for the mis- representation and the deliberate distortion of facts rests on the shoulders of one individual. Lest
 there should be any misundcr- standing as to his identity and lest be accused of speaking in- directly, I state here and now that I am referring to the pub fisher of the Waterbury Ameri- can and the Waterbury Republi- can, William J. Pape.
 q 0 F Dictator Since his risc to the dictator ship of the Republican party every consideration of political decepcy has been ignored by his newspapers. Unable to convince the voters of Waterbury that he was right and that we were wrong he has resorted to the