The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-05-04
Explanation Proper

] nave uO WASll, HUI AA6AiOD w question Senator Maloney's hon. esty of purpose in opposing the Supreme Court proposal. Nor Senator Lonergan's. Nor that ot Congressman J. Joseph Smith, James J. Shanley, or any other representative who is alleged to be ganged up against the White House. But as a Democrat who voted for them all I want is to hear the reasons for their OppOsi- tion to a democratic president now. And it better be good. l voted for them because l thought they stood one hundred percent back of MT. Roosevelt and because I believed, as Democrat, that the President was not only the Chief Magistrate of the United States but the spokesman, the leader, and the expresser of the political and social philosophy of the Democratic party. The members of Connecticut's Democratic bloc in Washington have the right to change their minds on essential questions and to vote any way their consciences dictate. But when the change of mind or the dictate of conscience carry with It fundamental difference of opinion and direct opposition of action to the head of the Democratic party in the nation, it seems to me the proper thing to have done in the present situation was to make an announcements
 "I was elected to office, as
 Democrat on the Democratic
 ticket. I pledged myself, before
 election, implicitly at least, to
 stand with the Democratic
 president on all questions con-
 corning the national welfare. On
 the Supreme Court issue find
 myself i'm unalterable opposition
 from motives of conscience to
 the head of the Democratic
 party. Therefore I am getting
 out of the Democratic party and
 becoming an Independent. So
 help me GOd!"
 That, I believe is the announce ment which should be- made at once from the camps of the Demo- catic opposition from Connecti- cut to the Democratic party lead CT. And I am sure l am not alone in the belief. Watch for its de- livery.
 Strange BedfellOws
 It must be source of tremen- dous qualification to State Chair man Smith, Mayor Spellacy of Hartford, and the Connecticut die hards in Washington to know that those who in the past looked upon them as a menace to good government, a threat to the pres ervation of political purity, and an offense in the nostrils of all patriotic citizens of state and na- tion now laud them to the skies for their fight against the Pres ident. It must be soul soothing to MT. Spellacy to realize that the Terrible Twins of Printers Alley, the Republican and American, who never have said good word about him now print the kiss of affectionate regard upon his brow. The Republican newspaper editors of the state who expended all their efforts to beat Senator Ma loney, to defeat the machinations of Chairman Smiths Democratic State Central Committee, and to deride the mental capacity of any Democrat to hold office now hail them the oppositionists as patri- ots, statesmen, guardians of the citadel of our liberties, and as Daniels come to judgment I trust none of the former victims of Republican newspaper abuse and attack will be fooled by their sudden elevation to favor. The g.O.p. admiration and lavish praise is not born of any real respect. 1UHA, NAlu DUtA VA6Ahc, 0nu OVNs and Jim, and Gus stand no higher now than they ever did in the estimate of those who now clasp them in the embrace of ad0ratiOn. The reactiOnary press of the state loves anyone who fights the Pres ident. And it's passion for Demo- crats who do that little thing has no limits. So . common enmity like necessity makes strange bed- fellows.
 Go to Esther
 Before write anything more on the mess into which Chairman Smith, his aiders, abettors, and advisers have plunged the Demo- cratic party in Connecticut l would like to refer the lot of them, for their profit, to the story of a gentleman named Haman, the son T |. kA