The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-01-13

clImbed to cover the bald spots caused by hOad-scratching fol- lowing his city board appoint msntR The writer has often been told by out-of-town 0bserv- CTS Of what Is politely called the political arena that Waterbury is q city of politically y-minded people, and he subscgibes to that belief himself, but it was never better Illustrated (the word, perhaps, should be ''broadcast") than in the cries of anguish of the disap- pointed aspirants who went not only unsung but unappointed. .,t Noise Of the gnashlng of teeth
 led AbrigadoF residents, to whom
 it would be treason to pull any
 thing but the Democratic lever,
 Co fear that some rapscallion !, was using . ge.hammer on < the lucky stone" at the crest Of
 Pine HiII. The screams of dis-
 appointment on Washington Mill were so loud and piercing \ that the policeman at Baldwin - and Washington streets thought ! fire engines were on the way and { halted all tFaiIlc for exactly 12 2 minutes and AS seconds. Cracker Hill Democrats who ' had assured their friends that their appointments were "in the . bag" laughed 1t of by announcing , loudly that "the job had too many headaches, anyway" The East ] End, after its hocus-p -pocus in get- < ting an appropriation for c gym- { nasium despite Charley DeBis- schop's objections, decided to bide tits time.
 WateryiIle decided it had y nothing to complain about, with '' Alderman Art Dubois on the A- ' nance board and his nelghbOr, Alderman Pat Shea, on the fire ' board. But even In Waterville v could be heard the laments from 1ss the North End, as "the boys" saw their appointment hopes
 evaporate like alcohol In .
 radiator when you're worried
 about the car freezlng. le Things were SO bad in Brooklyn {. that several who had received premature congratulations thought 4 gloomiiy of falling asleep on the railroad tracks just before the express" from Naugatuck came i, in. But, instead, they decided to talk about forming e new political clvb. South Waterbury Democrats cailed in lawyers to look up the procedure necessary to have that section annexed by Union City. Through all the hullabalOo,
 the 2S Democrats on Bunker
 Isill sat back and enjoyed them
 cGlves hugely, deciding that this
 was long. delayed recompense
 for all those post election TO.
 marks from their worthy broth.
 CTS.
 |. At press hour, 6 report came In that the Young Democratic club was squabbling over whether to give Q vote of endorsement to Gov. Ray Baldwin or back Charley Foster.
 g The Italian Democratic club was 5 battling behind closed doors on whether to back J. Francis Smith for governor or J. Warren Upson for chairman of the ways and means committee. (Unconflrmed reports said that seven members had walked out of the meeting, z but there was no news available on whether or not seven new Democratic. Republican clubs had been organized.
 The above only beginG to give
 an idea of the carnage. On
 every street corner was some , once.proud figure, now equipped 7 with sub.eye circles and the re. Y malnder of the usual accoutre- ,g ments, bsbbllng for the benefit
 of passers-by, q was sure l was
 goin' On." Some 30.odd commls-
 slcners were named by the
 tnayorj but at least S,00O-odd < efstwhile candidates were on the o outside locking in. They didn't
 like the view.
 Much of the grief can be attrlb- uted to the penchant of some dab- blers in politics to build them. selves up for the big let-down but that doesn't serve at all to help the fellow who'd arranged Q big party to celebrate his appointment CT really didn't want the job but he said it was e civic duty"), only to find that he's been talking to two other fellows. Or something.
 The principal fault that some
 0e the Democrats who worked
 hardest for MT. Scully's election
 find with Che board appoint 2 xnents is based on one of the
 mayors own claims. They re-
 fer tO his statement that he
 would name active Republicans
 as minority members. The ap-
 peintments bear out that claim, :, they say, but (shaking their
 heads In puzzled fashion are the
 Democratic app0inteeS active
 Democrats? Or have they been.
 There can be no question but that the Democratic organization of former years, which largely rallied behind the mayor during the primary and election cam- paigns, was virtually ignored by the new head of the city govern nnent. Even 6 drastic reorganiza- 'ticn of the town committee failed to win any great fayors despite the high hopes that some party quarters had built up
 Mfr. Scully. of course, feels sin-
 ceFely that he is using the best
 judgment in forgetting party
 ana factional ties. His political
 purpose, # he has any, Is to win