The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-08-14
Local Politics

probably cost them the elec- ton.
 Local Politics
 Finally. and not to be gloss ed over, is the fact that the Rhode Island campaign was, be- set with local jealousies and ross-currents which made it anything but indicative of the country at large.
 Here are some of the intra- state hornets which stirred up the animals in Rhode leland:
 i. Processing taxes on cotton bore down with a particularly heavy hand on the states tex tile industry. Largely owned by absentee B ston merchants, Rhode Island textile mills are far behind the south in equip ment, were among the first to close down. Republicans att tributed this unemployment to the democrats.
 2. Democratic Governor T.. F. Green was anything but an asset to his party. He incurred labor wrath by calling out the National Guard in the Woon- socket strike last year.
 8. Racial animosities fiared on both sides. The state is large ly Catholic, but there is bitter war for control between the Catholic French Canadians and the Catholic Irish.
 The republicans cleverly pick ed q candidate - Charles F. Risk--who was friendly to the Irish, but also half French. Democratic candidate Prince, on the ether hand, made his appeal entirely to the French. pointing out that they got most of MT. Farley's patronage.
 So the Irish either voted re- publican or stayed away from the polls.
 4. Finally, the democrats of Rhode Island are divided into three bitter factions. They are:
 a. Aristocratic Peter Goe- let Gerry, married to wealthy Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, and himself equally wealthy, dominates the tory faction. He is vigorously anti.New Deal.
 b. Tom Mccoy, democratic ruler of Pawtucket, .domin- .ates the left wing labor group.
 c. In the middle is Cover nor Green, with whom demo- cratic candidate Anto o Prince was allied.
 Amid all these wranglings his defeat was certain. Its chief lesson was what the democratic party is up against if it does not stock together in 1886. Hearts and Flowers
 The finale of Pat Hurley's ap. pearance before the senate lobby probers was one of the most hilarious ever staged be- fore an Investigating commit tee.
 Through his testimony the grandiloquent Hoover secretary of war sought to make 8 speech, which the committee persistent ly refused to hear. But as he was closing, Hurley took the bit in his teeth.
 "I believe" Hurley shout. ed apropos of nothing that related to the investigation. ''in the regulation of all acc tivitics. I believe in the linn. itation upon liberty. I believe that the limitations on liberty are as sacred as liberty 1t. , self. ."
 Chairman Hugo Black, laugh ing: That Is not part of that speech you made at the Bar Association Gin Los Angelss), is 1t?
 HURLEY: No. But the other was a good speech, too.
 BLACK: Which one was this taken from?
 HURLEY: Would you be of. tended if close with this sug- gestion. !?
 BLACK, sarcastically: This is not a quotation from a poet? HURLEY, disdainfully: I sug- gest to this committee and to
 BLACK, shaking with laugh ter: Wave the other hand, too.
 HURLEY grimly: and to all of my many friends of the opposition that Nthey read Dean Swift's "Gulliver Travels" and "The Man Who Corrupted Had leyburg" by Mark Twain and when they have read that let them read the Golden Rule ac- cording to St. Matthew. I thank you.
 BLACK: Can you not quote a little poetry at the end.
 Hurley departed amid gales of laughter from committee and audience.
 Melon Control
 Before you can plunge your knife into a big green watermel- on these days, you must reckon with that multiplex New Deal agency. the agricultural adjust ment administration.
 This year for the first time the AAA-usually associated in the public mind with cotton. wheat, and corn - has a pro- gram to control watermelons.
 Requiring neither a plow-up campaign nor the slaughtering of half.grown young ones, wa termeion control accomplishes two things:
 l.. Keeping off the market all save the best fruit-Grades One and Two.
 q. Keeping the price steady by the declaration of a holiday"
 4 holiday among m el m growers Is a period of . day or two in which they agree not to ship, thereby easing . crowded market.
 Degplte aii this melonsrrow-