The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-06-05

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 But it was not the facial ex- prcssiOn of the central figures nor the elbow-t -to-elbow proximity of their pose which awakened my ins Credulity. It was the sheer impos. sihiltty of Mfr. Roraback and MT. Pape being that close together in Q photograph or elsewhere. Per- haps that statement requires D slight revision. I can imagine Mr. Rorahack being next to MT. Pape because Mfr. Rcraback Q on exs perienced, able, aStuto politician who takes the bitter with the sweet and to whom compronlse is . tragic but inevitable necessity in politics. But knowing eonae- thing of MT. Pape's tinbendlng re fusal to be associated in the re- motest degree with anyone he cons siders politically iniquitouS I Casl- not believe that he would be found dead much less photographed in the company of Mir. Roraback whom he described on August l2, 1030 as being "a gentleman and socially . fine fellow" but ~efI1- clally, Q perfect specimen 0k the cave man i'm pOIitlcs'; aS one who "Hnisreprescnts us and ml1governs the Republican party" and who "when necessary to his ends COr.' rupts the Democratic party" as one who "is in politics solely for the benefit Of his own corporations and his own pOClEet"; as one who "must 90" and If he won't re- tire he must be kicked out. No one can tell me that William J. pape, the wtlite-llot crusader for purification of the Republican party in Connecticut, the calender of the invitation to "the Republl. cans of Waterbury to join in this noble venture and send delegates to the Republican State C0nvens ti0n to join fin . fight Co unseat Roraback and clean up the party" is the same smiling gentleman ct MT. Roranack's left in the front page picture in The Republican and the inside page reprint tH1 The American of May 2oth last William J. Pape is not that kind of . citizen. It is c dirty trick of some photographer to put him in a picture side-by y-side with the po~ litical caveman of Connecticut Re. publicanism, who is "in politics solely for the benefit of his own corporations and his own pocket, and who as . sideline "corruptS the Democratic party"
 Done With Mirrors
 I can just imagine how the pho- tograph of the Republican Lead. CTS At Roraback Farm" came to be made up. Someone got c pie ture of Mir. Roraback all alone and Q picture of MT. Pape by his lonesome. The two snapshots were brought at e fat figure by Democratic National Chairman James Farley who turned them over to Charley Nicholson, direc. tor of publicity for the Democrat. ic Menace to the Constitution and Our Liberties. MT. Nicholson knew . slick photograph -compos- or who put the pictures of Messrs Roraback and Pape together and turned the composition loose to create diSsensiof1 among the Re- publicans of Connecticut. But let mo tell MT. Farley and Mir. Nicholson that the trick will not work. We in this state have been told 50 often by Republican ora- tors and Republican editors that we have Q corner on the nations common sense that we now be. lieve 1t. We look at things aS they are not as they seem to be and if we were to be shown thousands of pictures of MT. pape and MT. Roraback even in bed together we will not be fooled. About MT. Roraback we might believe anything in view of MT. Pape's description of him i've years ago. But we will not be guilty of the atrocious stupidity of accepting the Republican and American picture as anything but Q despicable Democratic attempt to bring The Incorruptible Bill into discredit among the Repub- lican voters of Waterbury. It was not William J. Pape, publisher of the Republican and the American, who stood beside J. Henry Rora- back and leaned against Q stone wall on that leaders 4O00 acre Poverty Hollow Farm. It was someone made up to look like MT. Pape. Or else 1t was that Pro- lessor Levitt, who once rode 50 long and 50 close to Mir. Pape in the holy war to kick MT. Roraback out of the Republican State Chairmanship that he grew to look just like him.
 Mystery Here
 I have already imagined how the photo of MT. Pape and MT. Roraback came to be made. But cannot imagine how the Repub- lican and the American came to print 1t. If who know the Boss only slightly could sec through the fake how Is 1t that the art editors of his two papers failed to recog- nizc 1t? Maybe MT. Pape is no longer the publisher of the Terri- ble Twins of Printers Alley. May be there is another William J. pape, Q man whom nobody knows, who goes about passing himself of as the William J. Pape, the man whom everybody knows. There is dirty work afoot some where and while I do not always look ct things through the same glasses as the real William J. Pape, do not propose to sit idly by and see him misrepresented. If were he I would start . libel acc tion against the. Republican and American. I would expose the trickerv of xh0 Rorahack- -Pap0