The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-10-06

AAAAAAAA2 ~~N~8 Gov. Landon will gain no sup- porters because MT. Smith has declared him to be the cure for all our ills. The very fanaticisrn of AIS vindictiveness for the democratic candidate proves that he has lost his political Savvys Had he confined himself to an attack, however bilious, on the administrations policies he might have influenced a few minimizing voters. Even his fiat endorse ment of Gov. IIandon might have won that betrayer. of condolences (See Fridays columns) a few moronic votes. But the personal spite which envepomed every line of his speech poisoned the whole thing. When it was finished it became necessary to re-w-s+a Congreve's Seventeenth Century conviction that:
 ':Heaven has no rage like love to
 hatred turned,
 Nor hell fury like . woman
 scOrned."
 In the interest of accuracy the last line of that oft-quoted senti- ment must now be altered. The woman scorned must give way to MT. Smith.
 Explanations Galore
 There are explanations galore for MT. Smiths turning of his coat. Al made Franklin and the creation forS t the creator, is one. That the money Shylocks hold his bond for financial favors done and have demanded their pound of flesh, is another. Smith was entitled to the democratic nomi- nation in 1882 because, to quote his Carnegie Hall squawk, he had planted the seed in 1928 which brought eventual victory in 1892 That MT. Roosevelt "stole" the nomination while Al was sulking in his Empire State Building offices, is still another explana- tion. I am not interested in all or any of them real or fancieds MT. Smith f.Ts ceased to be for me, and I think to most people, 6 political case. He has become 2 psychopathic study, 8 living ex- ample of the havoc which loss of memory can wreak in the one who voluntarily contracts 1t.
 Back in 1928
 When in 1928 MT. Smith was a candidate for the presidency the Ku Klux Kl:n was provided with bedsheets and horses by the re- publican high command and or dered to ride, day and night, with the fearSome tidings that All was the advance guard for the Pope's seizure of the American government. MT. Smith forgot Tat bit of scoundrelism on Thursday night. MT. Smith was labelled as 8 drunkard and 8 'nigger lover" by republican sponsored whispererS North, South, East, and West. MT. Smith forgot that pleasantly on Thurs dsy night. Mir. Smiths admir- able wife, the devoted mother of his children, was sneered at and derided by republican paid g0s- sips, as utterly united to be the First Lady of the Land. MT. Smith forgot those sneers and the derisions on Thursday nigtA. I can understand a politician for- getting the abuse, the villification, the lies, and the islanders heaped upon him, by his opponents in an election cc~teSt. Those things, unh.ppily, seem to be part of "the game" can understand how personal chagrin and bitter disappointment can warp any mans viewpoint and utterance. I can understand patriotism sub- merging every other emotion in a mans soul. What I cannot un- derstand is a---y man with a claim to and a reputation for decent feeling clasping hands, rubbing j0wls, going to bed with. and en- dorsing, the candidate of a party aich, six years ago dragged the name of his wife and the mother of his children through the pig style of political filth.
 Gratitude
 There isn't space this afternoon
 ., take up point by point other phases of MT. Smiths loss of memory. For the time being one is sufficient. MT. Smith loaned with rage on Thursday night ove- the sins of ingratitude he alleged had been committed by thC democratic administra tion against those who had alwayA been regular" To use phrase !, MT. Smith made synonymouf with his own name let us look al the record. Let us glance at MT. Smiths reco-l for gratitude to those who were regular" with him. Let US not go to Minnesota, Nebraska, or Wisconsin. Let us remain right here at home. Among the staunchest supporters MT. Smith had at the Chicago convention was the delegation from Connecticut. It was pledged to him. It kept the pledge to the last ditch. For keeping faith with MT. Smith and for their loy- atty to his cause, even when it was plain that his cause was lost, the regular" democratic leaders. in this state have paid a stiff price. To date MT. Smith has failed to release the Connecticut