The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-24


 g0od-naturedly, but J. Ham Lewis, ever the gallant senator, turned to Mrs. Roosevelt and remarked:
 Glow clever of the President to make that little inadvertence
 and line up the Jewish vote for Governor HOrner.@.
 The governor in question, very colorful personality, was with the President on his train. And the truth is that Horner probably can line up about as many Hi : nois votes for Roosevelt as Roose- welt can for Horner. ts Three Jacks
 In fact, upon the personalities of three prominent democrats Homer, Nash and Kelly--hingeS the outcome of the election in Illinois. -@
 Heretofore they have battled bitterly. At present they appear to be united for the purpose. of returning Franklin Roosevelt to the White House. For a time, however, it was doubtful whether even that would unite them.
 Henry Horner is JEWISH,
 born LEVY, took his mothers
 name after his parents separ-
 ated, is just as popular with
 Illinois business men as ROOse-
 welt is unpopular.
 With 98,0O0 families on relief in :, Cook county alone, he balanced the budget. He is a bachelor, has a library of Lincolniana ia. nous throughout the state, also collection of Thomas Mast car- toons, and has battled as vigor- ously against Kelly Nash bossiSm in Chicago as Mast did against New York's famous Boss Tweed. 4 Pat and Ed >s< His chief political enemy is an elderly sewer contractor and stud farm owner in ;, Chicago, with 9 derby hat and the map of Ireland written all. over his face. Pat Nash is chairman of the demo- cratic committee Cook county, democratic national committee man, and 8 power in his own right. When Mayor Cermak was killed, Pat aspired to fill his shoes, but was edged out of it on the ground of age. -. Instead he put in his old
 friend Ed Kelly.
 When Kelly was president of %Ia 0a,,ty, novsly noord a.rd nk,Raf engineer of the Sanitary District, Pat Nash often found himself lowest" bidder for fat contract ing jobs. At one time Kelly's use of $5,000,000 Sanitary District funds was investigated but a grand jury failed to indict him.
 Mayor Kelly is affable with
 curly hair that is still reddish brown, weighs 200 pounds, has
 adopted three .chilren after lOs- ing his only son, has an. at-
 tractive wife who keeps him from dropping his g's and who l pOlishes him up socially.
 When reelected mayor in 1885 by 799,060 votes against 67,107 for his republican oppon- ent, Ed had his election total put on his auto license plate.
 Machine Aid
 Ed Kelly and Pat Nash run Chicago and its Cook county just about as they please. And u1- doubtedly they had lot to do with the fact that the county piled up such a tremendous demo- cratic registration last April.
 Since then, however, one or two little things have leaked out which haven't looked any too good for Roosevelt or for them. One was the conviction of five women poll watchers in the Twentieth Ward, three getting a year in jail and two getting six months. Three of them were democrats and two Republicans, and they were found guilty of writing on ballots the names of IA people who later tes- tified they had note voted. :. l All of the names were in favor of President Roosevelt l anu skAC ACny ~NdSA CSAlUAu1bC
 for governor. For a time this
 caused a bad reaction against
 the President.
 Two other factors also were against him. One was the fric- tion between the Kelly-Nas democratic machine in Chicago and the democratic machine of Governor Horner in down-state Illinois. The second was the tremendous activity of Chicago's two newspaper "colonels" Bertie and Frank
 Colonel Robert cCormick of the Chicago Tribune, and vice. presidential candidate Colonel Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News have been business rivals for years. They have even bat tied over setting all the clocks of Chicago ahead one hour to Eastern Standard Time so the News, an evening paper, could not print Wall Street stock clos ings in its last editions. This meant increased circulation for the morning Tribune.
 But suddenly they buried the hGtchet and became as brothers in order ITO MAKE WAR ON ROOSEVELT. - ~ | And for a time their war