The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-10-25

people in this town who did they heard that President their historic city.
 You don't have to walk very far, under the palms and the grey tree moss, before you encounter anti-New Deal sentiment as bitter as can be found in the hot spots of New England.
 Charleston cannot be considered typical of the South. It stands aloof in opinion, as 1t does geo. graphically, separated from the rest of South Carolina by a vast encircling marsh. / Even its Negroes are different. In speeches and in appearance, the blacks of Porgy's famous Catfish Row" are more like West Indians than like the average southern colored man.
 Yet the feeling harbored by Charleston's people is important to Roosevelt and to the whole democratic party. It is the feel- ing the rest of the South will have if they get jolted strongly enough.
 It is the feeling that Roosevelt is leading the party away from the good old Jeffersonian doc- trines, and throwing states rights into the ash-can.
 Reasons Why
 There are two reasons why Charleston stands out as a rebel city:
 l. It has Q tradition of aristo- cratic independence, cherished ever since 1t seized Fort Sumter from the Yankees 75 years ago.
 2. Not being an agricultural center, it's critical sense has not been dulled by AAA benefit pay rnents.
 Elsewhere through the state, there Is little revolt. Every road carries its farm wagons, loaded with q fluffy cargo of loose cot- ton. just picked from the fields.
 Any qualns the driver of that wagon may have about the fate of the democratic party are stilled by the thought that the cotton he is carrying will bring ten or eleven cents a pound.
 If you had asked that same farmer five years ago what chance there was 6f govern ment agent coming on his place and telling him how much cot- ton he could grow and how much he couldn't, he would have laughed at the idea.
 Theoretically, he still scorns regulation. But he began by agreeing that 1t was an "emer- gency", and he is willing to stretch that word, for the present. Anti-ROOscvelt Leaders
 Leaders of Anti-New Deal sen- timcnt are w. N. Ball, editor of the News and Courier, and Thomas P. Stoney, ex-mayor of the city and candidate-to-be for the United States senate in the seat of Jim Byrnes of Spartan burg. {. Stoney spends his mornings around City Hall handing out such choice fnorsels as1
 Roosevelt has no | pore ful- filled his campaign promises than if he'd declared he was going to the South Pole, and headed for the North Pole in- stead"
 Privately, stoney admits he cannot beat Byrnes, especially if the sante-C Cooper power project goes through.
 This project is to South Caro- lina what Paasaimaquoddy is to Maine. It would require $$37,- 100000, and might mean the dawning Of g new industrial day for this quaint city. Even anti New Dealers are for it--in a cyni- cal way. What they say is:
 T don't know as we need the thing much, but if Tennessee and Maine and all these states are getting their grab out of the bag, why should South Carolina stand on her dignity" Service
 WAsHINGTON--Genia Irish Minister Michael MacWhite writes to his wife regularly. So he wofl- dered why she. on vacation in New Mexico, complained of not hearing from him.
 Mrs. MacWhite was in Taos. \. M., had rented a post box, paid the fee of fifteen cents.
 After further waiting, she de- manded that the postmaster look more carefully. A search revealed an air mail letter sent from Washington ten days before.
 "Why, this is disgraceful," she complained. "This should have been delivered . week ago!"
 "Wcll, Madam" was the an- swer, "if you don't like the ser- vice. you can take back your sifteen cents"
 Lightning
 State Department career boys were thunderstruck when Larry Duggan, 30-year old hon-career man, was appointed to the vital post of Chief of the Latin Arneri- can Division.
 This is one of the most inl- portant bureaus in the State De- partment, usually is headed by