The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-29
WAS IT TRUER, POLL TICS INDEED MAKE STRANGE
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Southbury, Conn.,,
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,.,- Southbury, Conn,
 Oct. 28th, 1886.
 Editor of the Democrat:
 It has been said that politics make strange bed fellows, a saying which during the present national campaign proves to be true. In order to present the issues properly to the voters, and avoid any mess alliances and complications, those who so loudly claim to be the "only" believers in our national conStitu- tion, should have set up8a separate party. They could have called them- selves Constitutional. Democrats" l" on the same planas that of the. so-- called democrats in 1896, when sfhey' put up a figure head for president, John M. Palmer of Illinois, and called themselves the Gold Demo- cratic party In this campaign, these Constitutionalists" should have schoSen as their leader, Al Smith for president; Herbert Hoov- CT, formerly under two flags, for vice-president; W. R. Hearst could be appointed secretary of state: one of the DuPonts secretary of the treasury, and Ogden Mills attorney. general. Then this country would have had 3 real reactionary group at the helm. However; as 8 ,Sprac-, ticaE substitute, the g.o.p. have gathered together a bunch of the same caliber; as those above sug-- gested. " < <
 The present campaign is the most bitter and disgraceful that I have witnessed in almost a half century of voting. The standpat g.o.p. press is carrying on a propa- ganda miSrepreSenting facts. Some of these papers call themselves in- dependent, but could not possibly be more partisan than they are. Whatever the present administra- tion has done to remedy all the mistakes and blunderS of its prede- cesSors, is and has been condemned by the reactionary press. Ex-Sen- ator Reed of Missouri, once in the limelight of the democratic party, who is now 8 mouth-piece of the g.o.p., stated the other night that Roosevelt and his bunch ought to be sent to Russia where they be- long!" Such a slanderous statement should not go unchallenged, and the one making it should be held accountable. He, like most of the g.o.p. spellbinders, is taking an un- fair advantage of the freedom of speech and press which our country enjoys, and which they have the efffrontery to claim has been re- stricted by the present administra- tion. i
 In Chicago the g.o.p. candidate told the world that if the present administration is retained, the country will be ruined. The fair minded people of this nation still remember what deplorable condi- tions prevailed when the present administration took the helm of the Ship of State. The former commanding officer had failed to see the danger ahead, and the ship of state went on the rocks, to be successfully fioated by the present commander. Surely, we cannot forget the dark days of four years ago when factories. stood idle and deserted, when. banks were failing, when tragic faced men on the street begged for a nickel for a sandwich, when the city dump in many cities afforded the only shell ter of groups of forgotten men. Now, factories are running full time and over- time, bank failures practically unknown, the groups of forgotten men moved from the city dump to decent healthy camps, the highways congested with handsome and new cars, and six million more radios in the homes of the nation than there were in 1883. If that is ruin. then 1t can only be the ruin of 'soft living" and 1t is possible of course, that the g.o.p. feels that a little hard sledding is good-for the other fellow. X; s Lastly, as a matter of comparison, we take a look atethe figures: Dur ing the World War this country spent twenty-two billions for de- struction; the New Deal has spent thirteen billions on warson the in- herited depression from former, ad- ministrations. There is a vast diff ference between the two items,
 one for the destruction of human lives, the other for human welfare. (which would you readers prefer? SFA rn ~ rar SsFxEesur