The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-11-20


 zation. Miss Lennie Mclaughlin is worth knowing, observing and hearing about. Furthermore she IS pretty.
 LOUISVILLE was spinning into an election the last time was there about three weeks ago. The official Democratic headquarters-- not to be confused with other lo- cal headquarters around and about was a teeming, steaYIly place free ouented by characters tough and gentle. All of them wanted to see Miss Lennie behind her scrubby desk in an unhappy, scarcely fur nished room which Is the brain cer- ter of Democratic politics as 1t Is played in Bourbon-town on the Ohio River. Miss Lennie was seeing them one, two or three at @ time. She was directing Q couple of office assistants in the routine of getting this and that into the malls with the addresses on the outside of the covers and the stamps in place. Miss Lennie' own desk was @ heap of things to be done. So she sat there, sweet and pretty, and had various people do them for her.
 COL. M. J. (MICKEY) BREN- NAN, who did well in precinct pol- itics as proprietor of Q saloon, Is the Democratic boss of Louisville, vice John Whalen, who died, and a cou- pie of other politicians of Irish ex- trac..on who either died or failed otherwise to survive the competi- ton of Miss Lennie and Brennan for political control. Now that Miss Lennie and her boss are running the Democratic show the young woman who keeps strict office hours ct headquarters Is very important person, indeed. Brennan often is absent. "See Miss Lennie," visitors are advised to do If they want to know something, If they want to see Brennan or whatever Miss Lennie cen arrange whatever 1t is. There is gossip in Louisville that some of the old timers resent the necessity of seeing Miss Lennie instead of the Boss in Person. But they see her just the same.
 THE legion of the late Mrs. Belle L. MoskoWitz admirers would resist any effort to compare any woman politician with that astute and properly renovated lady. Mrs. Mos- kowitz wa sAl Smiths best and closest advisor. It is told now that she was first of the Smith cam paigners to realize he was licked in 1926 and that she knew 1t many weeks before others suspected. Mrs. Moskowitz was a woman in l0,O00,- GOO. Miss Lennie is one in 1000, ,00O at the least. Take the run of women politicians over the country and most of them who have appeared on the national scene wouldn't be able to play checkers with Miss Lennie, let alone municipal politics. If and when the Louisville lassie gets on the state or national poli- tical stage she may prove that she has what politics needs in the way of brains.
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 PROOF so far that Louisville shelters one of those rare women with a real talent for politics is that things are coming along very well indeed for Mickey Brennan and Go. There wasn't any Demo cratic organization there for awhile that was worthy of the name Brennan and Miss Lennie have lnutured the party. They have an organization now and control the city administration. They produced e shell shock majority for the Dem. ocrats in this months election ant that is an achievement in Loulsvills where the negro vote is large and Republican. Those in the know in' sist that Miss Lennie does much ol the political planning for th'