The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-18

reSenCaC1On m those years was.
 Rep. Dem. Soc. 1881 (House of
 Representatives) 1s2 sS . 1888 (HO1se of
 Representatives, 19B 72 Q 1885 (House of
 Representatives) 1so s 2 1881 (Senate) 20 IS O 1883 (Senate) IT 18 O@ 1885 (Senate) IS 17 3
 From the beginning of Gov. Cross incumbency his party co11- trolled the Senate by ONE vote in 1883. In 1881 and 1885 the repub- licans were in the saddle in that body due in the latter year to a deal with the Socialists. He nor his party have ever been in con- trol of the House.
 Co-operatiOn-And How'll!
 If, as MT. Roraback claimed in Hartford, the republicans had co- operated with the democratic governor in his financial and econ- omy plans no matter how iIncon- trolIable the democrats were, they could not block His ExcelIency. Mir. ROraback's representatives and senators always were ifa . poe sition to support the governor and pass his desired legislation even if the democrats tore down the Capitol in their opposition. I do not wish to contradict anyone so experienced in Connecticut legisla- tive dealings as the chairman of the Republican State Central Committee. His party did cooper ate with the governor at every turn and in every detail. Gov. Cross received the same kind of cooperation from the republicans who controlled both houses that Cain gave to Abel; the same type of assistance which furnishes 8 razor to a man bent on suicide; the same sort of leg-up the du- Pont Liberty League is giving the President; and the identical aid being given to the American Fed eration of Labor in its unioniza- ton efforts by the National Asso- ciation of Manufacturers. No, the blame for the red ink on the ledg- CTS of the State of Connecticut, belongs to the republican party. No amount of soft-soap stopped over Coy. Cross by any spokesman for the g.op. can wash that truth out. Even the State Board of Finance and Control, democratic in complexion for the first time in 1885, could not put the conn monwealth in hook for fourteen or sixteen millions in the one year of its functioning.
 Not So Hot
 There is a suspicious lack of growing from republican political chicken yards and very little cack- ling from republican newspaper henroosts over the g.o.p. land- slide (?) in Maine. The flood of campaign oratory and the influx of fifty odd thousand dollars in campaign money clipped in for the good of the nation by those well-known patriots and lovers of the plain people, duPont, Morgan, Rockefeller and Co, do not appear to have done what was expected. True the democrats lost 8 state which has never been 8 demo- cratic stronghold and a democrat- ic candidate for the United States Senate has been beaten. But Gov. Branp refuses to be utterly woe begone. There is 8 prospect that Wallace H. White, the republican winner, may not be seated when, as, and if recount of the elec- tion returns is made. Stranger things have happened. The gov- ernor is positively chipper in his defeat: 7
 "The increase in the total vote was about 10000. If they conId only defeat me by less than 5,OO0 votes with the greatest effort ever made, in which the larg- 9 est number of votes ever cast in { Maine were polled, I would say that it Is decidedly favorable to !. President Roosevelt
 'It was claimed that lot Of { money was sent into Maine," he said. 'I1l say this-I was able < to bring . lot of money to the s republican party by the fight I ! put up. They had more money { by at least three times than had ever before been spent in Maine.
 'If they give me the money they used in Maine I'd. elect . < Chinaman Governor of the '. State" M <
 Maybe that is what happenedI
 
 Chop Suey Vote
 Gov. Brann's allusion to China men brings up something which should worry the Democratic Ma tional Committee more than the result of the Maine election. The news has just been broken hJ William P. Lee Ono kin to the Lees