The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-29

and sore. But the attempt will get nowhere among Democrats who have, since the exposures of The duPont's American Liberty League, learned to turn a deaf ear to all the advocates of party dis- sension no matter by what name they call themselves. The editor of the Republican will not believe it but 1t is the absolute truth that the terms Old Guard and New Guard have disappeared even from the private conversation of the Democratic leaders in the state. They remain only in the minds and expression of those who wish to see the party in this state divided and conquerable.
 
 HoneyHnOOners
 A press dispatch from Hartford, under date of May 27ta, describes the trek of the Republican state delegation to the national converl- ton at Cleveland next month. The details of the trip were arranged at Poverty Hollow Farm, the coull- try place of State Chairman, J. Henry Roraback, in Harwinton. The delegation will stop over at Niagara Falls on the return trip doubtless to accustoiln themselves to the sensation of seeing a cat- aract in operation. I would not do anything to spoil the 3unket of such representative. Rorabackiai1 honeymooners as Lewis F. Good sell Of Bethel and Clarence c. Willard of New Haven. However, in case there may be 6 shortage of funds, when the campaign gets started, how would 1t be if the ex- pense of the sightseeing stop at Niagara Falls were eliminated and the delegation brought straight back home? The delegates will get the experience of looking at an ir- resistible flood next election day and finding themselves inundated tho morning after. In the inte-est of consistency since the watch- word of the g.o.p. is to be economy. this department moves you, sir. that the Niagara Falls trip be abandoned.
 Campaign Stuff
 Speaking of floods brings up the subject of Republican cain- paign literature. In addition to the rising waters of leaflets, bro- chures, charts, and what-have-y0u which are spreading all over the place from the usual party pub- licity sources there are nice little treatises from the National Asso- citation of Manufacturers, biogra- phies of potential candidates turned out by press-agent hacks, and books attacking the De1n- ocratic national administration from every conceivable approach. Not all of them bear the iln- primatir of the Republican Ma tional Committee but all are in. tended to further the will of that august body. One of them has recently come to hand. It Is called "Democratic Despotism", pulp lished by Dodd, Mead and Com pany, and written by Raoul Y. Desvernine. There is not space for Q thorough analysis of its con. tent but briefly 1t is Q restatement of the accusation made in Repub- lican- Republican, quarters that the Roosevelt administration has attempted to change our political institutions and revise our social and industrial order into some. thing altogether foreign to tradi- tional American concepts. MT. Desvernine criticizes the New Deal not for the ends it seeks, which he does not discuss, but for the man. ner of reaching its ends. He neg lects also to consider the Strangle hold which Big Business has exer- cised upon the throat of the kind of democratic government m whose preservation he is interest- ed. one reviewer, Aloysils J. Owen, while admitting the value of some of MT. Desvernine's ob- jections puts his finger on the fatal deficiency of the book.
 'Nfr. Desvernine's indictment
 of the New Deal rings hollow,
 for unfortunately he has made
 himself the spokesman of that
 very group Of obstruCtiOnists
 who, having usurped the liber-
 ties of the American people, now
 invoke the sacred name of Lib-
 erty." N