The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-12-18

on Victory Dinners" There is no wish on my part to interfere with the business opportunities of cooks and walters, hotel and res- taurant keepers, bus boys and bartenders, and all the other
 gentry who provide food and drink to the hungry and thirsty. The principle of Live and Let Live" is among my dearest per- sonal tenets but after all there must be a limit to these recurrent pot-latches if the principle is to be retained. What good is it to go through all the drudgery of @ po- litical campaign and be elected to office if, before you assume that ofIlce. you have been stuffed to death with food by your exultant party members at ianquets which go on interminably. Connecticut has reelected a fine, equipped, and able set of state officials who have a difficult job ahead of them. They should be permitted to ap- proach the doing of that job with some degree of physical health. That will be impossible If they are not relieved of the dreary obliga- ton of eating their way around the state. The Democratic State Central Committee threw a "Vic- tory" feed for Governor Cross last Wednesday night in New Haven and 1t is to be hoped that the event is the last of the post-elec- ton gastric raptures. If 1t is not and the victorious gorging contin- ues, the heads of our beloved Connecticut government will be- gin the year 1897 handicapped with gout, chronic indigestion, biliousness, dizziness, and all the other after-effects of too much in- dulgence in plate polishing. Not only will the business of the conf- monwealth suffer in It's admins tration but the Democrats of the state will wake up some fine morning to the realization that the men they selected to lead the party have been turned, by too
 many banquets, into flock of Strasbourg geese enroute to the pate e-foie-gras carlnery. Let's continue to celebrate the Novem- Der victory in every appropriate fashion but cut out the feedbag feature.
 Good!
 The press reports of the New Haven gathering carry the news that Junior U. s. Senator Frank Maloney endorsed the candidacy of Senior J. 8. Senator Augustine Lonergan for reelection in 1888. This should bring to an abrupt end the whisperings and rumors that Senator Lonergan was in for a fight to get re-nominated and that the fight would come from Senator Maloney,s Young Demo- cratic supporters. MT. Lonergan has ability, pluck, and party loy- alty. His senaotrial record justi- fies and demands his renomina- ton and return to office. It is well to smash any attempt to beat him before 1t gathers impetus. Senator Maloney's flat endorse ment of his colleague is both def- mite and timely. There should be no place or toleration in the Democratic party in this state for bonfire builders.
 Breakers Ahead!
 The opening weeks of the next General Assembly sessions are not going to be all beer and skittles. The demand for ifty-flfty repre- sentation by Democrats on the legislative committees will, unless sane counsel prevails, bring about solid opposition from the Repub- lican side. The House, controlled though 1t is by reduced g.o.p. majority, is not going to surren- der any of its arrogations after years of possession without mak- ing battle to retain them. It is in a position to block any legis- lation which comes from the. Democratic Senate. Tn the same fashion the Senate is able to block measures coming to it from the House What the outcome of the impasse will be I do not presume to guess. But whatever 1t is, 1t will develop only after a sit-down strike by one branch of the As- sembly against the other. All of which, while 1t will beyond ques- ton impede the business of the state. is not altogether without possible profit to sundry individ-