The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-09-06
Primary Victor "Out.TOWnSendS Townsend"


 A new movement and . new
 Messiah z0Om across the poe
 litical heavens. This Is the first
 of two articles on Sheridan
 DOwney and the S30 Every
 Thursday idea that carried him
 to victory over Senator McAdOO. By NEA Service
 San Francisco, Sept. elf Sheri- dan Downey sweeps through the November elections with anything like the power he displayed ir soundly beating William c. Nc. Adoo in the Democratic primary the U. s. Senate will find in itl midst this winter a champion ol the latest panacea to end the de. questionable "$S0 Every Thursday plan.
 And Ham and Eggs for Califor. ians' may become a national slo' gan by a slight alteration to Han and Eggs for Everybody"
 Downey, personally a rather col orless campaigner, won the nomin' ation on the sheer power of th' movement which has swept south ern California like a forest-fire Downey has promised to "laboI energetically" to put the plan ovel nationally.
 It is @ plan to pay $30 a weel to every unemployed person ovel 50, in scrip to be retired by week ly tax stamps affixed by users, cents tax @ week on each $l, whicf would in 52 weeks amount to more than the face value of the scrip retiring 1t, The movement, startini quietly in the same area of con centrated elderly population ii southern California which produced the Townsend movement, rolls Ill like Q snowball week after week giving Downey a four to three leat over McAdoo and an easy victory Downeys Republican opponent il November is not yet definitely re vealed in e close vote, but the tre mendous Democratic vote at tn primary strongly suggests Downe, will be the next U. s. senator iron California.
 CHAMPION OF
 MANY CAUSES
 Downey is 0 Sacramento lawyer identified all his life with libera (his opponents say, "crackpot" movements.
 He claims to be e lifetime stu dent of economies, and wrote Q boo on "Why I Believe in the Town send Plan," which has been a sor of gospel of that movement. Di Townsend hailed him as "the fore runner of e new type of economist.
 Downey first appeared on tn political horizon in the now-histori EPIC campaign of 1884, as candi date for lieutenant-governor ant running -mate of Upton Sinclair Ii the embittered race in which nar rowly lost the governorship. It 1 significant that Downey ran i26, ,00 votes ahead of even Sinclair.
 Production for use" was tn slogan of that campaign, and Dow new whole.heartedly endorsed Sin clair's plan to have the state c California launch Into Q giant pro gram of stated directed production with distribution of the products ol Q basis of need.
 STRONG
 FOR ROOSEVELT
 In 1886, Downey was on tn Townsend bandwagon running fo Congress on the platform that Dl Townsend's $200-a month pension for old people was the panace needed to jerk the country up ou of the doldrums. At the Clevelan Townsend convention of that veal Downey fought the proposed plai for c third party coalition inde pendent ticket of Townsendites Coughlinites and the Lemke Nation al Union Party.
 That was serviceable to Presi dent Roosevelt, and 1t Is not tn first time Downey has backed hin He claims to be FREQ (for Roose welt before Chicago) and to hay backed r. D. R.'s nomination Il l9s2 before the convention ct whicl MeAdoo, for example, was still sup porting John Garner. Downey wa one of the first California Demo crats to line up with Jim Earle, when the r. D. R. mentor wa