The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-07-17

ring is that County Detective FIickey's dark lantern, gunnshoeS, handcuffs, blackjack, and gun are right there beside the Alcornian Investments. That's what I coll real loyalty, 0 real example of:
 YOu for Me and Me for you
 Hugh for EA and I'd for Hugh. Move to Strike Out!
 The second sentence of Good Old Hugh's Tuesday proclamation Is moro interesting than the first:
 "A large number of men and women who loyally supported me two years ago have person. ally assured me Of their contIn- ued support, and ! am confident Of the same attitude on the part : of all of my many friends in tho last campaign"
 The fault in this sentence Is glaring. It containsa tho wrong words. It is nice td know that your supporters still stick to you and in large numbers. It Is sweet to be assured that their support is to be continued. MT. Alcorns confidence still reposes firm and fast "ln all of my many friends in the last campaign" Strike out the term many friends" and substi- ute "those who voted for me" and 1t makes sense. The dlfilculty which Good Old Hugh failed to surmount in the last campaign was not that he did not have oil of his many friends on election day. He did have and still has many friends. He just did not have enough of them to do him any good at tho polls
 Objection!
 Good old Hugh prattles alons to say:
 q shall welcome an oppor- tunity to continue my opposition to tho New Deal In an election where It's place in the American system of constitutional govern- ment is the dominant issue."
 I may be thick skulled but it seems to mo that there iS Q de- plorable ambiguity in the above. Does MT. Alcorn mean that his opposition to the New Deal is tho dominant issue in the coming election? If he does, all Jim Far- ley has to do from now on until November is to roll over and get himself Q few winks of shut-eye for the election Is in the beg. It was Good Old Hugh's opposition to the New Deal accompanied by twenty or thirty other handicapS, including the anti-Alcorn opposi- ton in his own party, which made him run Q bad second his last time out. But MT. Alcorn does not think 50.
 Beaten By An Eyelash
 Tho Democratic state ticket played Q dirty trick on Good Old Hugh-and Good old Ed too--in the '34 election by
 "uslng tho borrowed slogan sup. port Roosevelt successfully ap- peaIed to the electorate to give the national administration . chance to make good its prO- gram, and the ticket won by . marrow margin"
 do not know what MT. Alcorn is going to do to stop Connecticut Democracy from borrowing the Support Roosevelt" slogan this fall. If there is Q statute cover- ing such Tneretricious borrowing 1t should be invoked and Good old Hugh knows the way to go about 1t. But while he is studying up on the law he might devote Q few minutes to re-reading the election returns for November 6, 10S4. He would then avoid making such on egregious blunder as saying that "the ticket won by . marrow margin"
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 What Happened
 The Connecticut State Manual, page 206, gives the summary of the election wherein MT. Alcorn's opposition to the New Deal was not the dominant issue but Mir. AL corns candidacy was.
 CROSS over Alcorn for Governor.
 0E09.
 HAYES over Wilcox for Lleuten-
 ant Governor, ie,764. SAITH over Danaher for Score.
 tary of State, lO,O0l. ADDS over Hope for Treasurer, O,O56.
 sWARTZ over KeeIer for Comp
 trOIlcr, 1l,O80. DAILY over Burrows for Attorney
 General, 12,S36.
 Scattering, for Governor, 3. He Only Had Elm