The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1935-05-24
"COMMON CLAY" URGED
TO RETURN TO
DO RATTLE
Waterbury, Conn,
May 20, 1895.

May 23, 1895.
Editor Of The Democrat:
Dear Sir:i
I have been a reader of your
paper for quite a few years and
of late have taken a great interest
In the column, I'm Today's Mail".
There have been times when !
have boiled" at different letters
that have appeared in this section.
but never took the time to write to
you expressing my opinion of
them. This Is one time when
feel that an answer ought to be
made to a certain ~. v. Walker.
Common Clay has contributed
quite few articles lately and they
were quite enjoyable to read. He
defended himself in the little scuf-
file with ~. v. Walker very well.
but was little disappointed in
the way he let ~. "" talk him out
of the subject at hand when the
battle got at a high pitch. l more
or less stood on the sidelines taxi
ing the part of Common Clay
because his convictions coincide
with mine. In the last two edi-
tons of the paper there hasn't been
any response from Common Clay
and / have been looking for an
answer to that person in regard to
his last epistle to the unintelligent
of the country.
If 1 am not mistaken -. ""
made the statement that the best
or some of the best minds of the
country were unable to solve the
present economic conditions in the
u. S. Did he have reference to
Mr.. Sprague of Harvard - WASH
Downey Street, or General
"Hoople'' johnson, or Herbert
Hoover, Andy Mellon, James War
berg, or whom? Also because
these great men were unable to do
anything about conditions. the rest
of us might just as well sit back
and ..let the rest of the world roll
by, starving to death at the same
time. / take issue with ~. w." on
these statements forthwith.
In the first place, because a per-
son goes to college and receives
degree it does not always hold that
that person has, the essence of in
telligence wrapped up in his skull.
Neither does it mean that he has
the right to ridicule seemingly
flaws in another persons endeav-
ours to write II he Is not a pro-
fessional writer or author. I'm
making reference to the flowery
writing of -. "" in respect to his
coaching of Common Clay" In the
way to write an essay.
If everyone in this country was
to express his opinion OF things In
regards to government and eco
nomic conditions, there wouldn't
be such wide spread corruption as
there is now. 1t Is only now at
ter $50 years of letting the great
est minds'' in this country handle
things that we are getting some-
where, because a whole lot of the
lesser minds are raising a howl.
~. "" would have a man go 70
the polls and pull top or bottom
lever, whichever the fad was at
the time and not know n thing
about what was going on, only
what ne was told what was hap
pening by few intelieetuais.
The day has passed when the
straight party lever 10 pulled,
thanks to the radio and q few un.
prejudlced papers. the majority OF
the voters are much more IN
formed on the topics OF the day
and the issues IN question, than
they were even a. late as four years
ago. n -. W" doesn't think 70.
let him stand on some corner and
ask a few questions Of some work
Ing man as that man h vending
his way home because he can't AZ
fora q token % ride home.
The Constitution of the " y