The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-01

TRUE 1t is" wrote CnarleS OuQiey
Warner, "that politics makes strange
bedfellowsns - and It is consider
ably truer today thar when he wrote
it before the turn of the century
Party lines and personal political
ties are broken and tangled. In this
campaign a former Democrat is the
Republican candidate in opposition
to a Democrat whose vice-presi-
Dental running mate is a former
Republican.
Herbert G. Hoover and Alfred E
Smith, who fought the presidential
battle of 1928 are on the same side
now, speaking for Willkie while
Henry L. Stimson, who was Mr.
Hoover's secretary of state, is Hr
Roosevelt'S secretary of war. And
the brain trust is scattered and di-
vided with Raymond Moley and Gen
Hugh johnson notable among New
first term. warning against third
And in the election stretch Presi-
dent John L. Lewis of the Congress
of Industrial Organizations bolted
the New Deal which he helped make
secure four years ago.
Urban street corners are blaring
with speakers and loud speakers for
and against, and the plain ordinary
voter is the acknowledgements this
week and next-through Tuesday.
Roosevelt Holds Poll
Close as the popular vote promises
to be, there still is the possibility
~ ~ ccrifo
pecially if Mr.. Roosevelt is the
winner. He goes into the contest
with the votes of the So-called solid
south and there is no evidence of
general weakening of his position
among the border states despite poll
indications of a soft spot in Mis-
souri,. Democrats claim, also, that
mountain states-where silver is a
prime eommodity-and the far west
are leaning satisfactorily to the
Roosevelt-Wallace ticket. The Re-
publican drive on the Pacific coast
depends ON the personal pull of Sen.
Charles L. McNary, vice presidential
candidate, in oregon and of Sen.
Hiram w. Johnson, Progressive Re-
publican, in California.
Both sides are reaching for the
"bloc" votes, the Negroes and those
citizens of German, italian and Jew
ish blood Republicans warn direct
ly or indirectly that Mr.. Roosevelt's
reelection would move the nation
toward war and the Democratic re-
Spouse is that Willkie might be an
appeaser or that he is playing poll
tics with war scare. Henry A.
Wallace, Democratic vice presidential
candidate, told a Madison Square
Garden audience in New York last
night that there were Mai propa-
ganda and Nazi pressure" for Will
kie's election. In Camden, N. j.,
Willkie said Mr.. Roosevelt'S gov
eminent would make Our constitu-
ton a scrap of paper" and he and
other Republican campaigners hit
again and again at the possibility of
a dictatorial government.
On His Last Lap
President Roosevelt leaves this af-
ternoon on the last lap of his cam
paign-a trip to Pennsylvania, New
York and Ohio.
He has three speeches left-to-
night in Brooklyn, Saturday night
in Cleveland, Monday night, election
eve, from his. home in Hyde Park.
When he returns to the White
House - sometime after Tuesdays
election-the voters will have decided
whether to end the New Deal or
make him the first president to
serve more than two terms.
Tonights speech before a Brook
1yn Democratic rally will be broad
cast by the major radio networks at
8 p. m.
Saturday morning he campaigns in
upstate New York for the first time
this year. There will be 10-minute
rear-platform speeches at Rochester
and Batavia. He will arrive in Buff
falo when the factories are empty
ing at the noon hour to inspect the
Curtiss Wright aircraft and the
Bethlehem Steel company factories
There will be another stop in Erie
Pa, before he arrives in Cleveland
for his final full dress speech of the
campaign Saturday night
In an address late yesterday dedi-
eating the new $4,500,000 National
Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md
Mr.. Roosevelt denied that his admin
istration plans to socialize medical
practice.
Ramparts We Watch
Declaring that "the ramparts we
watch must be civilian as well as
military" he called upon science to
form partnership with government
for total defense" similar to the de-
Tense partnership between govern
ment and industry.
I'VE seek the same partnership
that we seek for industrial produc-
ton In the advisory commission" he
said. Neither the American people
nor their government intend tc
socialize medical practice any more
than they plan to socialize industry.
Pointing out that the objective In
America, as almost nowhere else i7
the world, is life conservation rather
than life destruction, Mr.. Roosevelt
asserted he is working to build de-
tense in terms of humans as well as
in terms of guns.
1.-THE total defense which this ma
ton seeks involves great deal more