The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-03

change the subject, and Fitzgerald is trying hard to start electric CO., operatives to bring power to the Connecticut farmers. He may not yet have been told that Connecti- cuts utilities are tops among the states in doing this very thing. With a good 70 per cent of the states farms electrified, there isn't much room left for Bill to blow in this field.
 Bill Citron will be both feet for the Support Roosevelt" platform, because to him that's the open sesame of the gateway back to congress. He's been for FDR, right or wrong, although he has been unusually quiet lately. Maybe he found out the folks in Middle would rather be protected against floods than be right.
 The Rubber Stamp" Boys
 Junior" Phillips and Herman Kopplemann complete the list, and no list of Connecticut representa- tives would be complete without them. Roosevelt? YoWsah! They're New Dealers through and through, and can be taken that way-if you want to take them at all. But some of the rest of the lads are beginning to wonder about them (some of the voters, tool. Will they help or hurt the state ticket this sweet cider time? Right now doubt is starting to be expressed whether either Herman or Junior" can win again except by riding a successful Roosevelt campaign. And the boys are not sure that they want such a cam paign nor that it could be success ful.
 Junior" as a freshman in con- gress, has ridden high and wide but not necessarily handsome through the halls of legislation. His never-Spent energies have always been aimed at something or other, but few could find out what. But he was and is a New Dealer. People first started Won- dering about Junior" when he proposed that all the snakes in the zoos and museums be killed, so they could not escape and do harm in case of an earthquake or something. Phillips had some others, too, and he has sent an in- : cessant chain of letters and tele- grams here, there and elsewhere condemning this thing and that, especially "the power trust" He helped to block ratification of the flood control compact because he felt sure "the power trust" had written it. More recently, he had a run-in with Nathan Straus, housing authority chief, stalked out of a conference and ran to the White House to squeal to Jimmy Roosevelt that he wasn't being let in on housing plans in his dis trict. Mayor McLevy, it seemed, had got his big housing project through without Juniors" knoWl- edge. Strauss charged Phillips was impeding progress.
 Good old Herman has always been a source of wonderment to some for his statements on var ious subjects. Kopplemann still has not been able to justify his opposition, to the satisfaction of many of his constituents, to hay ing said constituents guarded against the periodic rampages of the Connecticut River. Lots of people prefer having dry feet than joining Herman in raving about a power trust" that exists only in the minds of politicos looking for whipping boy to get them votes.
 Herman's prize came last month, however. He had always been for strict neutrality. The U. s. must keep it's nose out of other coun- tries business. That was his theme song, but he must have decided that the Department of State wasn't doing itself at all proud in diplomatic relations, so he signed that circular expressing felicita- tionS to the CommuniStic Loyalist government in Spain. He tried to explain later that he was only attempting to uphold democracy" But thousands of people in his district, particularly the large Catholic vote, had been seriously offended. The Catholic Transcript thought it "a strange way of up- holding democracy" and related at length in it's columns the per secution of Catholics in Spain by the Loyalist government.
 Whether the whole collection above will be found on the voting machines and ballots in November can't be judged just yet, but, if they are, the ticket will look like Jacobs coat patched with Scotch plaid and the sundry flags of the League of Nations.
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