The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-08-06

c 0 ir man J.
 Warren Upson of the Republican Town Committee to land mern- Der of his own party in the Regis trar of Voters ofice. And his chances of doing that little thing are just about as good as snowball on the hobs of Hell. MT. Upson's big worry from now on will be not to get his SwitcheI candidate for mayor elected but to keep Inde- pendent Democrat Frank Wall from grabbing off the job now held by Republican Registrar Ale bert o. Taller. If MT. Upson fails ---as he is very likely to fail-to get MT. Wall to withdraw in favor of MT. Taller he has only himself to blame. MT. Wall is presumed to entertain the desire of being registrar otherwise he would not have his name on the ticket. He doubtless figures that he has chance to be elected. What in- ducement can he be offered to pull out? None, except the dubious "You'll be taken care of later." Which is just the same as telling a horse to live and he'll get grass. MT. Wall may be a reophyte In politics but he certainly cannot be green enough to take stock in any such promise as being taken care of later" But in the event he is a trusting soul and inclined to take pledges on trust he might do well by himself to have short chat with one Elmer E. Parker, a former clerk in the registrar of voters ofiice and life long Re- publican. I don't know anyone better able to tell MT. Wall what being taken care of later" means than MT. Parker. The Business"
 When the Switchel slate for the election was being scratched to- gether 1t was understood that there was to be no fighting over the places on 1t. The nomina- tions were to be split between Re- publicans and so-called Indepen- dent Democrats on a basis agree able to each and both. If the Re- publicans nominated a candidate there was to be no Independent Democrat running against him. And vice-versa. A gentlemans agreement, If you please. Everyone trusted everyone else; harmony ofs purpose and unity of action were to be preserved and pursued; no- body was to get "the business" The double cross, the triple cross. the Maltese cross, would be miss ing before, during, and after the campaign. Keeling, back-handing, rabbit-punching, eye-gouging, bit- ing and hitting in the clinches, were all barred. Beautiful Too beautiful to last. Even for the length of a July evening. To say nothing about the duration of \ tough political campaign. Every thing went by the boards when, after craftily waiting until they were sure their Republican allies could not take . run-out pow der on the gentlemen's agree ment, the so-called Independent Democrats loosed the whizzer. and nominated enc of their own for Registrar of Voters. The trust ing MT. J. Warren Upson got "the business" his Republican CD fol- lowing the shock of their lives, and, in addition, bitter pill to swallow. To quote, and expur- gate, the comment made to me by an infuriated Republican party worker, "If you can't trust the thus and -so's to keep their word before the election is even started tell me how are you going to trust them if they should win? Tell me?" I could not tell him and doubt if anyone else can.
 Bad Start
 It would appear to every think ing person that the Switchel party and ticket got of to a bad start. How partners in the same politi- cal bed can get any rest for the next days labor when they have to sleep with one eye open to watch what the other fellow is up to passes my comprehension. But there is something else which would indicate that the founders, supporters, suborners, or what ever you care to call them of the Switchel movement, are political numhskulls. That Is the complete