The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-11-02
A Thought for Today
The Democratic State Ticket

Although the presidential campaign OF
necessity holds the spotlight in preSi-
Dental election year, it is highly import
ant for voters to consider seriously the
candidates for all other offices to be bal
Ioted on. The entire Democratic ticket is
one to be proud of. Without exception
the Democratic nominees are clean, able,
and upright. They deserve the support
of voters who insist upon honesty and
character in public office. In our opin-
ion, an opinion which in this respect is
not an humble one, but to which we
admit feeling of sincere pride, they are
the type of men and women that the
average Connecticut family would well
come into it's home; that careful man
or woman would trust in business deal;
that a Self-reSpecting man or woman
would gladly have known as his or her
friends.
Their political views we consider sound.
Their outlook on life is that of the over
whelming majority of the citizens of
Connecticut Their likes and diSlikeS,
their hopes, their ambitions for their
families and their felloW-citizens, their
problems and their methods OF solving
them are the same as those of most Con-
necticut people. Their background is a
sound, careful Connecticut training based
On loyalty to their state and their nation,
and a determination to advance the In
terestS of both.
These Democratic candidates are op-
posed, and properly so, by Republicans
for political reasons. Such opposition is
the healthy function of political parties.
IF this no fair-minded person can reason
ably complain. No other opposition to
them has come to our attention nor can
we believe that there is any such. In
Justice to the Democratic candidate at
tention of the voters should be called to
the fact that some of the opposition to
them Is based on the political ground
that they support President Roosevelt.
The opponents of President Roosevelt are
entitled to take this position. The sup
porterS of President Roosevelt ought to
consider this phase of the question when
they vote for other candidates on the
ticket.
AS to the charge that they are
machine-controlled it is we'll to remem-
Der that every two-party society in the
country, political, social, business or
otherwise has two factions The Demo-
cratic and Republican party are not eX-
ceptions. The faction in power is always
referred to by the faction not in power as
"the machine. The faction in power
always in both Republican and Demo-
cratic circles refers to itself as the Organ
ization". The candidates on the Demo-
cratic ticket, as we'll as those on the Re-
publican ticket, were chosen by their
party and by that section of their party
which commanded the majority of votes
in the state convention.
Our praise of the Democratic candi-
dates is fulsome, but no more fulSome
than sincere. We insist on adding this
statement: The praise we have given to
the Democratic candidates is not, and is
not intended to carry either by implica-
ton or distortion of our purpose, any
disparagement of any candidate on the
Republican ticket. Our purpose iseto
give praise and support where we think
it is deserved, but at the same time to
make certain that no voter by any posi-
BILE stretch of the imagination can draw
either deduction or inference that the OPP
posing candidates are thereby to be
vilified.
Because of our respect for the candi-
dates on the Democratic ticket, because
of our agreement with their political out
look; and most of all because we believe
that they can and will best advance the
interests of Connecticut and America,
we give them our unfaltering support.
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