The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-01-29

not seem to enter into it.
 "The same has to do with the fac. tory code; the same has to do witt the provision for modern. up.to- date housing for our sInall-iIicome group; the same has to do with the development of state-owned water power and the ownership by the state of the power at the site Twenty years ago these were re- garded as socialistic. I was referred to many times by political oppo- nents as Q socialist. But, in the light of our present-day legislation, MT. President, I claim I am one oi the tra-ccnservativeg.
 Nothing tO Fear
 we have nothing tc fear in
 this country fron . dictatcguhip. There can he nothing of that
 kind iR this country. Ht cannot
 live here. We are not organized to
 carry it on. We have no sdealre for it Great as may De the grant
 Of temporary power in an emeE-
 geIlcy that congress may by con.
 gressional enactment put into the
 hands of . president, the thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the infIu-
 ence of the organized ninorities,
 because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organise"
 Yes, those were MT. Smiths own words. Somehow think there must be two Al Smiths. One is the happy, carefree fellow behind whom we marched and shouted in 1928, proud of his principles and eager to place him in the White House. Now we have this other Al Smith, this grin-visaged fellow in the high hat and tails, who warns us that we are going straight to Moscow. If I recall correctly, he came before the senate finance committee in 1893 and urged us to recognize Soviet Russia and give 1t . five-year moratorium on debt payments.
 1928 Campaign
 Throughout his 1928 campaign Governor Smith hammered ct the power trust, denounced greed and special privilege and faithfully promised the people that if he were elected he would establish Q new orders of things and bring about what he called 'more equal dis- tribution of prosperity" Now. he talks about stirring up class hatred, but what he said then sounded . great deal more like share the wealth" than 1t does like the com. paratively mild statements of Pres- ident Roosevelt.
 I pass on to his next Accusat ton. He charged the New Deal with fos- tering an unconstitutional farm re-. lief program. He forgets that in 1928 he advocated the principles of the McNary-H -Haugen bill, which in many respects was far more drastic in it's use of the taxing power than the A. A. A. ever was. That's just case of second guessing. Let me quote you from his Jefferson day speech on April 13, 1882. He said:
 Tt is e perfectly easy thing to say we must restore the purchasing power of the farmer. Finel Of course, we must. But how are we going to do 1t? I would sooner have Q short shake hands with the fellow that knows how to do 1t than listen for week to the fel- low who knows how to tell you what the trouble is"
 Well, Governor Smith. you should have stepped out of that Liberty League banquet and gone four blocks to the White House to shake the hands of the man who raised the purchasing power of the farm CTS more than $2,000, ,000. 900 in one year.
 In his speech on Saturday night MT. Smith denounced the N. R. A. as a giant octopus that entangled Itself around all business, big and small, and tried to smother 1t to death. Another second guess. He made Q radio speech on August 22, 1883, in which he called attention to the fact that ". R. A. was largely voluntary, and he added-I quote:
 Industrial Act
 "The slightest reflection on these facts should dispose of the
 claim, from whatever source it came. that the national industrial recovery act shakes the firm foun- dati0nS of our Constitution, or
 marks revolution in our govern- ment and in the conduct of our everyday life
 "Let us see whether, by shorter hours, higher wages and increased employment, we can avoid the dole, called home relief, and the disguised dole popularly known as relief work, the evil consequences of which we all know. It Is infi- nitely better to pay the bill by the methods proposed in the national industrial recovery act han to pay it in the form of public or. private charitable relief"
 The next charge was that public money was being wasted and that the party had failed to fulfll it's pledge of e 2S per cent reduction in government expenditures. He ne- glected entirely to state that no president ever could have refused the call of suffering humanity that existed during the crisis of 1883. He knows very well that any chief executive, too cowardly to use the A Aaaea