The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-10-01
Hurley, MaloneyS Speak
At Testimonial Dinner
Senator Declares Nation Needs Roosevelt Hurley
Il Holds Government as Servant Of People; Praise
for Chairman Mccarthy

"A 10th century version Of the
movement toward aristocratic con-
solidation fought by Jefferson has
been checked by the Democratic
party curing the past eight years,
Robert A. Hurley, Democratic can
didate for governor, told an audience
Of more than 300 at a testimonial
dinner for State Chairman John T..
Mccarthy in Newtown last night.
President Roosevelt and the party,
Hurley, have fought INCREASINGLY for
the ideals Of Jefferson and for the
principle that the government is
the servant not the master Of the
people.
Defense Program.
u. s. Senator Francis T. Maloney
declared that defense measures are
proceeding at an extremely rapid
pace, and asserted that full pre-
paredness would keep the nation at
peace. 'The President is no indis-
pensable man." said Senator Ma
1oney, "but there is no man who
better knows the people or how to
lead them or Is better informed on
foreign affairs in these perilous
times"
National Chairman Edward j..
Flynn, who was unable to attend be-
cause Of tie trip to the West Coast,
sent q message In which he praised
McCarthyis work in his brief period
as state chairman.
The text of Commissioner Hurley's
address follows:
Being the actual working head
OF a statewide political organiza-
ton is probably the most thankless
job there is. Anybody willing to
take such job has to be a bear
cat for punishment. He has to
be willing to neglect his home and
family and business and go in a
big way for assuming everybody's
headaches. He has to be willing to
be the butt of name calling for any
little mistake that anyone in the
organization makes. He has to
listen to everybody's pet grievance.
He has to take all the worries and
all the responsibilities and none of
the credit. And what does he get
out Of 1t?
Satisfaction
Well, In the first place, if he does
q good job, he gets the satisfaction
that always goes with getting some
thing worthwhile accomplished. The
satisfaction though goes deeper than
that in the case of a fellow like
John Mccarthy. This deeper sat
isfaction comes from seeing an ideal
and going to bat for it, standing
in a really practical way for prin-
ciple.
No one in this room knows John
Mccarthy better than I do. I've
known him since the days we played
ball together on the sandlots of
Bridgeport. I have grown up with
him.
John McCarthy's not much on the
showof side. Instead, he's one of
thoSe rare people who can go out
and do a good job without having to
shout about it from the housetops.
He can be quiet about his own ac-
complishmentS.
41lC AAkl VI uCtOt1OA1 JO1AA WI
Carthy gives to his job of heading
the Democratic party in Connect
cut has to have something back
of IL. There must be a really big
ideal in the background Of that sort
Of devotion.
Well, that really big ideal is the
ideal on which our Democratic party
is founded. I don't want to go his
torical on you, but can't think of
a better time and place than now
and here to think back for a few
moments to our party's beginnings.
To talk Of Thomas Jefferson's
work doesn't of necessity involve
arm-waving and fancy oratory.
There Is the quieter way, the John
Mccarthy way, of examining an
ideal that has stood now for many
generations, the ideal on which the
very life of the worlds greatest ma
ton is based, the ideal you and I
and John Mccarthy and all Ameri-
cans who are Americans in the true
sense are fighting today to preserve.
Contempt for People
In It's beginnings, that ideal had
tough shedding. The whole atmos-