The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-07

AP~NSANSAAC1 the democratic party on that de- pression, it also resorted to even more serious propaganda when 1t decided to drag peoples religion out of. the churches and into the mire of a mudslinging campaign.
 Religious Issue
 When the religious issue was brought into the campaign it stirred up such intolerance, big otry and prejudice in the minds and hearts of our people that 1t caused the severance of many a beautiful friendship. The republi- can party succeeded in its purpose and was elected, and then com menced one of the most incom- petent administrations that this country has ever known, and you listeners know the rest. It is not necessary to spend the time re- calling to your minds all of the ills and pains we have endured ever since, as result of the in- efficiency of that administration.
 During the campaign of 1928, not word was mentioned by this so-called great republican party that its false and malicious propaganda violated the very principles of the constitution of the United States, the very prin- ciples upon which that great document was founded, and they are, that every person in this country has & God given right to worship religiously in his own way, without hindrance or moles- tation. And not one of these so- called great republicans who ad- vocated the election of MT. Hoover deigned to rise and say that such practices were in violation of our peoples rights. But now that that determined and fearless man, Franklin D. Roosevelt, has suc- ceeded in relieving millions from misery, in eradicating the industrial and financial chaos, in rendering bread lines unneces- sary, in helping millions of people to hold their homes, in restoring lost homes to many other mill lions, and in inSuring the ,integ- rity of our banks, concerted action has been set in motion by mem bers of the republican party to attack our great president with a sudden burst and cry of patriotic loyalty to the Constitution of the United States, which activity is neither sincere nor philanthropic, but is aimed only to discredit the great work accomplished by the present national administration.
 Distortion
 The same tactics are now re- sorted to by those representatives of the republican party in our own city, who, in their eagerness to wrest the control of the reins of local government from the democratic party, ever since this campaign has started, Systemat- ically have distorted the facts so that they would have you believe that our local government is in the hands of a gang of bandits. And this great republican party does not stop there with it's devious schemes. It has resorted to one which is even more vicious.
 That is, to stir up a number of our good citizens to such pitch as to cause them to place blindly before the electorate the so-called Independent Democratic ticket. Such encouragement is not based on love for democracy in any form, independent or otherwise. Its sole purpose is to defeat the regular democratic. ticket by any means. The republican party in. giving this encouragement has but one purpose in mind, and that is to estrange 8 sufficient number from the democratic ranks to the so-called Independents because it knows that it cannot win on straight issues or on the strength of its own numbers. Such tactics are not commendable and do not appeal to fair-minded people, be- cause if any party succeeds in winning an election by such meth ods, 1t simply means that the minority has elected that party. and that the will of the majority has been defeated through unfair tactics.
 Frank Hayes does not need me or anyone else to come to his de- fense. He is well able to take care of himself because his record of 8 job well done speaks for itself. But because of the vicious and malicious attacks that have been made upon him in this campaign, I do want to say few words to demonstrate to you how unjustly he is being treated by his oppop- entS.
 No Sayst Here
 He was elected in October ot 1929, and in that same month came the market crash, with all its devastating consequences. Dur ing his administrations, we have been informed through the press that large number of our great cities in the United States have been reduced to 8 state of bank ruptcy, have not been able to pay their teachers, their firemen, their policemen, their common labor CTS and their own city employees. That has not been the case in our fair city. Because of the intelli- gent and businesslike way its af- fairs have been conducted by Mayor Hayes, Comptroller Leary and the other executives of our local government, sufficient money has always been available to meet every payroll requirement on the dot, and, what is more, payments have always been made in good United States currency, and not by means of script or other tok- ems which many communities were forced to use in lieu of real money.
 To accomplish this end, 1t was absolutely necessary at times to go into the money market and