The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-12-21
(BY FRANKLIN FARNHAM)

Three political parties in Con- necticut are engaged these next two weeks in the serious business of outlining programs anent the General Assembly convening on January 3.
 What the Santa Claus of pat ronage brings the preponderantiy successful Republican party mem bers, however, depends on couple of factors, one of which is how deep-seated is the conviction of Governor -elect Raymond E. Baldwin, as announced at Water bury recently, that the applica- tion of the merit system will be his method, rather than whole sale attention to patronage de- mandS.
 Leverage
 Another factor is the situation in the state senate where, should Senator -elect Cornelius Moylan of Hartford, be chosen president pro tempore, the Republicans would have prime leverage to ex- act support of two Socialist sen- ators, giving control to the fusion membership of 16 Republicans, two Socialists, over the IT Demo- cratic senators. Senator Moy- Ian was both a Republican and Socialist candidate, the votes of the latter party providing defeat for the veteran politician, Sena- tor Joseph Cooney of Hartford.
 In speaking of three political parties, the phrase is somewhat elaborate inasmuch as Mayor Jas per McLevy, of Bridgeport. is most of the Socialist" party in this state and Connecticut gave him more support in the Novem- Der elections than the total vote of Socialist candidates over a con- siderable number of elections in years past.
 But the major consideration of all politicians is the power of former Senator J. Kenneth Brad ley of Westport, partner of the governor-elect, whose ups and downs in party prestige have been numerous during the last several years. While Bradley suffered personal defeats in Fairfield county last election time, he emerged from the cam paign with Judge Baldwin lead- ing the ticket and winning on the McLevy split of the vote.
 Merit System
 And the governor-elect's ges- lures towards the merit system fail to transcend Bradley's power to attempt building some potent Republican machine during the next two years for the national election. Bradley, with Repub- lican National Committeeman Samuel F. Pryor, Jr., represents the New York commuters living in Connecticut, doing business in Wall Street, who are the most bitter of all groups opposed to the New Deal and President Roose- welt as both political leader and a personality.
 Thus, Connecticut for all the promises of liberality made by Re- publican candidates during the November debacle of the Social ist split, stands to be the seat of concerted effort to swing opposi- tion by conservatives away from the liberal Democratic command. No matter how liberal the plat form of the party, without ques- tioning the original sincerity of the candidates; the fact remains that the Bradley-Pryor faction of Fairfield county and New York city is in the saddle for the term of Governor -elect Baldwin.
 Those observant of the manipu- lations of patronage and machin- ations of the legislative majorities need only scratch the surface of the attitudes and acts of the lead- CTS in the course of the next sew eral months to become aware that the building of another Roraback machine is in the making. True, it will not have the apparent evils of the erstwhile dictatorship and the gleam of liberality will shine for the general public in at least the first acts of the governor. But, basically, the same undercov- CT campaign against the Presi- dent will be the theme of the leaders, conniving with Wall street and the really big business of the brokers of New York to gain a Republican victory in 1940. Patronage
 Coming to the question of pa tronage as 1t will be doled in the early staaes of this camnaign- the