The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-02

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 Alcorn Complex
 Strange tales are spreading all through the state while politicians are walking softly. Many resident of terrain far from Bridgeport and Waterbury has acquired an Alcorn- Hickey Greer complex these days and every stranger might be a sub- poena server.
 And, strangely, too, Republicans, by the organ, the Connecticut State Journal, are crying for "unification", are claiming potential defeat for the Democrats because the lack of this factor is charged. Starting, "The Republican thermometer in Connecticut continues to show an increasing rise in the mercury, an article in the Republican organ warns, Republican speakers have pounded away at principles rather than personalities. The theory that the district and county divisions should concentrate in their own territories seems to be developing fast. If somebody wants to fight in given territory, good! Let him fight! But keep it in that territory. It's strange how rapidly the talk of fights begins to grow weaker and weaker the more that talk is con- fined to specific local boundaries"
 Panacea Offered
 Which is material intended to soothe the factionalism that had de- veloped in Fairfield county long be- fore the Bridgeport and Waterbury grand juries began tracing the trail of political dividing of much that was unknown to the man on the street. The panacea offered now, restriction of factionalism to a given locality. comes as anti-climax to the most serious disruption of the Con- nect-cut Republican party in his- tory.
 Because the Waterbury grand jury during the last two weeks has hailed before 1t, per Hugh M. AL corn, ST., formerly interested in po- litical attainment of high order, such personages as Harry E. Mac- kenzie, potent "boss" from Bethel. who recently had allied himself with J. Kenneth Bradley and Sam uel F. Pryor, Jr., state senator and national committeeman, respective ly, the "New Deal" from Fairfield county.
 COP Parade
 While the more conservative New Deal" Republicans hoping for peace, sought to eliminate such terms as old Guard" and New Guard, MT. Alcorn was calling to his ses- sions Charles E. Williamson, whose feats in Hartford have earned him prestige beyond most; Maj. John A. Buckley, of Union, stalwart of the Roraback regime, in whose be- half the new state chairman, Ben- jamin E. Harwood, and the com- mittee secretary, Clarence c. Will lard, warned the Bradley-Pryor combine to steer clear of further pickering, or else.
 Flung into this mess of querying c&AAd AObbJ NAuAc SSAV VAAO Waterbury politicos, sharing the larger portion of blame for a chaos such as the Grand Old Party of this state has never encountered. Shaky with the repercussions of the probe, Publisher William J. Pape. once mentioned as gubernatorial possibility, is in the limelight as he never thought to be, held up to the Republicans of the state as the fac- tor which brought the boomerang, when, all of the time, Publisher Pape was thinking of bacon.
 "All Alone"-Upson
 Town Chairman J. Warren Up- son, whose merging of Independent Democrats with his Republican or- ganization last year brought about election of a Republican controller, creating a wedge intended as a deep thrust for personal and party gain next fall, is today in the posi- tion of walking alone. He has dis carded his controller, Sherwood l.. Rowland, as even a good instrument for party prestige and the ties be- tween Chairman Upson and Pulp fisher Pape are strained with the ca ctjpp Of hlama one t0 the other