The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-10-02
Leary Cites Instances Of Incapability
Refutes in Radio Address x Campaign Propaganda
 of COP. Speakers

broken every promise he made tc me to his greatest benefactor, Mayor
 Hayes, to his fellow Democrats in tl1e Senate, to the Democratic
 party" and ito his new friends
 among the Republicans, Senator
 George T. Culhane, Fusion candi- ~Hodate for mayor, was branded as the
 lprogenitor of series of false
 hoods" last night by City Comptrol- " Ter Daniel J. Leary, speaking over radio stations WATR and VERY.
 Asking MT. Culhane to explain his own program for cutting costs of city government, Comptroller Leary { quoted the accounted reports of the departments whose handling the sls Fusionist had criticised, to show that N. there had been no reduction of funds yn allotted in the public service de-
 partments during tenure of the ad- Na ministration. The comptroller pointed to increased appropriations sfsy 1lievery instance where the Fusion a candidate had charged cutting sirf provided impairment of service to 4ir4he citizens.
 The comptroller offered lesson
 in city government to MT. Culhane ,, n in the matter of competitive bidding
 for city contracts, declaring that in arA one instance only had the city engaged work without the general .foroutine of asking bids, This, he ya pointed out, was on advice of City
 Engineer Robert A. Cairns, for more than 40 years the expert in charge osn0f the city engineering service.
 MT. Leary repeated his charge
 that the Fusion candidate had not given "a dime" to the Mutual Aid,
 personally, or from his frm since 1892, when MT. Culhane went
 into business for himself, leaving the employ of the banks where, the <, <, Fusion candidate claimed, he had V made regular weekly payments" to In the fund. The city comptroller re-
 minded Mr. Culhane that the Mu-- .y~tunl Aid donations were continued M after 1882 until 1886.
 e,y Ignorance of city affairs was {, charged to MT. Culhane in the mat .a- tec of his attacks on cutting ap- x inspirations for the Park Depart .fvnment. The city comptroller pointed
 out that the minimum allowed the
 park department was set by law ano 7, showed that increase of more than
 $20,OO0 had been made since l93o
 for the benefit of the department. ''aN Question of Ideal" whereby the .ss Fusion candidate had injected a \, split in the proposed joint ticket at \ the time of the convention was
 raised by the speaker who charged .~ .Mr. Culhane with having broken v, promises to his own constituents
 Even before his nomination was \machinated at the Fusion meetings gsin Temple Hall.
 EpUr Text of Address
 'aEc Fellow Citizens:--
 MS 1t must be clear by this time to every thinking voter in Waterbury 'sii who has been listening to the '# radio speeches or reading the printed statements of the candi- f dates on the opposition ticket that ~ they have no issues to discuss. 'f'w It must be equally clear to " every thinking voter in Waterbury ''r that they have no definite pro-
 gram to offer. They have never
 told you in plain words what they :. Intend to do.
 n The reason for their silence Is 1is due to one of two things. Either A they themselves do not know '1o what they intend to do or they do Nd know and wish to keep the citi- 'ta zers in the dark All you have heard is promises. They are ask A. kA na n ,g Waterbury on their promissory ~. note with no security behind 1t and with no indorsers whose fi-
 iancial or business credit Is worth
 anything. They are asking you to do for them as prospective man. 'H agers of the affairs of Waterbury q what they would not do for you if you were customers of their stock brokerage offices.
 Lies Listed
 ,kr.e But being without arguments of M any weight they attempt to win .sf~your votes by making misrepre- .ss sentations and telling falsehoods Yra about the way the business of v.s Waterbury is being conducted. In | some instances the misrepresen- '1s0 tations are due to ignorance of .~c.the simplest details of city man. .e,s sagement. In other instances the ~s falsehoods are deliberate with Id malice aforethought and intend-
 ed to fool the voters.
 Ssaa, The most frequently repeated .tas falsehood Is that the city in nak- g,S ing its purchases and letting It's
 contracts does not call for com
 petitiVe bids. That lie has been
 exposed so often that the most
 inexperienced campaign speaker
 should have sense enough to stop
 repeating 1t. But the repetition ls lis continued with the idea that v If the lie is repeated often enough
 some one may finally be persuad-
 ed into thinking 1t is the truth. < 4 And MT. Phillips
 Mfr. Francis Phillips repeated ss the falsehood on Tuesday night.
 Mir. Culhane repeated the false
 hood again last night. answered
 Mr. Culhane's reference to pur-
 chasing on September twentieth.
 Fits re-statement of the falsehood
 1oes not change the true facts as
 gave them. If MT. Culhane had
 the slightest knowledge of city
 affairs he would know that pur-
 ehases for the City are always
 made under competitive bidding. Repeatedly in this campaign the
 imposition speakers and writers N have been harping on the words
 favored and favorite contractors
 From 1880 to 1887 the only public
 Improvement that has NOT been
 done by the City itself was the
 Thomaston Avenue sewer project.