The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-11-02

great change in the buying habits of the community and the little store on the side street with It's honest, open and above-board method of doing business for the benefit of its customers is abou to come into its own, as @ similar store in @ nearby city did six years ago and still another similar store in a city in Wisconsin did twenty seven years ago, and will keep its trade indefinitely because of its fine policies just as the other two have done.
 Sadder, Wiser Man
 In other words, MT Pape, if you feel that your particular pet, the Republican Party, has any great appeal to the voting populace of the city of Waterbury as being in any great degree different from the Democratic Party, you are doomed to become a sadder and wiser man during the evening of November 14th. The people of Waterbury have had a look at what goes on behind the fancy false fronts of the two old parties. They have seen the double machine come out in the open in the 1897 election when certain leaders of the Republican party actually joined in a circular letter urging the reelection of the Hayes administration. They have seen pictures of you and other leaders of the Republican party attending banquets and shaking hands re- gently with signer of that letter. They have seen other signers of that letter still tolerated and al- lowed to be active in the Republi. can party. They have heard lead- CTS in both the old parties saying nasty things about each other but explaining at the same time that "Of course this is just a family fight and after it is all over, we will be united behind whomsoever wins the fight in spite of the fact that good bit of what we are saying about the other fellow may be true and that he may win the fight. They have listened, and, we think, have concluded that neither of the old parties Is in Q position to govern Waterbury well even if 1t wanted to, because each con. tains and has to take care of Q bunch of job-seekers trying to put themselves in power for the bene- fits that they will get out of 1t and not in order to be of service to the city. They heard the leader of the Democrat slate swear his allegi- ance to the two-party system in the opening address of his radio campaign and now they read an article by you doing the same thing, and they wonder if the two party system really is Q two party system at all.
 No Spoils Machine
 On the other hand, they see a ticket of men and women present. ed by the Socialists who are not interested in building up a spells machine, who do not owe any po- litical obligations to anyone, who are honest and capable and have common sense, who are ready to do business out in the open where everyone can see what is going on, who will listen to suggestions and advice from anyone interest," ed in the welfare of the city as a whole, and whose party's record in other cities sets standard for them to live up to so far superior to anything ever dreamed Of in Waterbury that the possibility of having such Q standard main- tained here seems almost too good to be true. Yet when they think 1t over they see no reason why we, as well as Bridgeport, Reading and Milwaukee cannot have the type of government that those cities have. They realize that our dollars have just as many cents in them as those of the people of Bridgeport, Reading and Mill waukee and can buy just as much for us as the people of those cities get for themselves for their dol. lars, if only our dollars are being scpent by people who want to get the right things for us at the right prices. They see that in other cities good administrations are retained in office without having to build up a spells machine by the usual devices of spells poli- ticians and without necessarily being c party of q state and na- tional party. Ia fact they see the cities which are not tied into the two old parties with their state and national machines getting much better government than those which are governed by the two old parties, who always have one eye on the state and national patronage and spoils and so do not devote their time to purely iiunic- ipal problems.
 Another McLevy
 Finally. they see at the head of ticket of the Socialist party, man who has the same potentiali- ties that Jasper McLevy had when he was first elected to the mayor alty of Bridgeport in 1883 and that Dan Hoaii had when he was first elected to the Inayoralty of Mil. wsukee in lei2. They see an hon- est. straightforward. intelligent man of the people, who has lived ell his life in this city and knows