The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-08-21
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 I sympnthige with Publisher , H0ndrlck and tho Hartford Collrs ant in it's efforts to mako public the proceedings of tho Finance Board. I, too, would like to have, tho discussions of the board print. cd, especially tho suggestions and requests of heads os the republi. cam bOssod, republican, dominated and republicans -manned depart. menls. I would like to aee not only o printed account of all that has bcon said and done by the board since the democrats took it over but also everything that was done and said for the past twonty- Ave years--just for . starter.--, while the republicans were In power. I would not only Do glad but even tickled pink for I can imagine no more juicler reading than tho record would provide. And I would bo knocked cooke eyed with delight IR the publlcas ton of tho boards deeds and say- lnRs prior to 1884 were Co Do niadO right now BEFORE ELECTION. The cItisonry of tho state has been kcpt in ignorance too long of how itS money has been spent md do- Iudod into tho belief that only honost disposition of It's funds could Do insured through repub. llcan hands. The democratic Board of T'inanco and Control, I believe, has nothing to hidD, Ex- copt tho shameful fact that 1t has failed to play politics after tho long established, inherent ana confirmed republican method, And by all means let us have tho rcc' ord of the boards actions every minute of the time pubIlsher Hcn' drlck was Q member.
 t Slightly Related
 It must Do kept In mlnd that tho last General Assembly was controlled by tho republicans. The House was republican and the Senate republican thanks to tho mosalllonce with tho Socialists, What more natural that Q repub. iican General Assembly should cali for the filing of the minutes of 0 democratic Board of Finance and Control? It is . inc thing to know what tho other fellow B doe ing particularly # you don't want him to know what you have been doing for years. can tndcrstand Publisher Hendricks sympathy with the effort of tho Courlnt to expose tho proceedings Of the board to tho pitlless light of pub. llcity. What I cannot understand is tho tardinos of Publisher Hen" drick's approval of tho CourantS efforts. Much less can l fathom tho Courant's positlonp Has the COurant, which has ever cham. plOned the cause of sweetness ana light ln the public veal, ever de" manded until now that the dOIngs of the board be made public props erty? if it has been silent for go long what has been tho reason Of the sllance? And # ! am doing the COurant an injustice by fOr' getting that lts present efforts to make public the prpeeedings 0I Che state Board of Finance and Control are just the climax Of long fought battle for political purity how does 1t happen that those efforts have been 50 long aborted by General Assembly after General Assembly which the Courant held in terror of its edl' torial wrath2 The Courant M the most influential republican news paper in tho state. It is ably run and frequently intolligently articu- late. What has kept 1t inarticu- iate so long in this particular niatter? was the time not pro- bilious in the long ago or was the Courant . victim os involun" tary paraiysis2 Politics llke nee Cossity make strange pcntellows'