The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-27
McHugh Scores c. o. r.
 Contention "Stooges '
Present Egotistcal Leaders Not Representative of
 Party-Deplores Dropping of Dubois, Reiner,
 Mrs. Lowell From Ticket-Urses Vote for Scully

Editor, Waterbury, Democrat:
 The candidates on the Republican ticket in the coming city election, are positively not representative of the Republican voters of the city of Tfnterbury, but representative of the small group controlling the Republican party, not for the bene- it of the party, but to satisfy their lust for power and to furnish food for their egotistical minds.
 Egotistical to the greatest extent by conceiving the thought that real Republicans, in the slightest man. ner have any faith in them, or trust them as far as one could throw bull by the horns.
 Some of the candidates must be excused for allowing these same leaders, despoilers of the party, in placing their names before the rub Der stamp and stooge conventions, because being Republicans and fully realizing that the despoilers frantically sought numerous others to be candidates before asking them to run for office, felt that unless they did, the election would 90 by default to the Democrats.
 Absolutely no excuse can be of- fered for other candidates who for months back connived and con- ceived methods to become car1di- dates, hiding behind the, guise that they were not seeking place or the ticket, but were, being guided by the dictates of their friends, but would gladly seek oftice, if their friends secured the nomination for them.
 No excuse can be offered for the candidates whose friends through their efforts succeeded in eliIni- hating all other prospects for par ticular nominations, because these prospects realized that they could not get the nomination without going into a primary for 1t, and then double crossed these same friends by graciously accepting the nomination from the group that has ruined the Republican party locally. The same group who two years ago refused to recognize them and considered them undesira- ble and not worthy of the nonlina- ton for ofnce. .4
 No excuse can be offered for the despoilers Of the party who dared refuse the opportunity to Republi-, cans who have served the city well, to seek reelection by stacking the conventions with stooges to pre- vent them from getting renomi- mated. N@t
 No excuse can be offered for these same despoilers who saw to 1t that Arthur DpBois, an alderman for 16 years, a man with ability, Q Republican who possessed real color on that board be dropped for ari- other who has no qualifications equal to his, or for dropping genial Joe Reiner, minority leader on the board of aldermen, who was always in there fighting for what he thought was for the public's inter- ests, or for dropping Mrs. Emma Lowell from the Board of Educa. ton, 6 woman that every mother and father knew was @ commission CT on that board, because of her energetic efforts in fulfilling her ob- ligationS to the public who elected her to ofilce.
 No excuse can be offered for these so-called leaders for making 1t possible to perpetuate Registrar of Voters Albert Q. Taller in once, when 1t was impossible for himself to do so as Is commonly rllInored by having a law passed in the State i Legislature to that effect.
 Every excuse in the world can be offered for real Republicans of Waterbury who earnestly desire to have their party represented in an election by high grade citizens worthy and qualified to execute the duties of their ofiice, who the pulp lie at large would support to the extent, that they would elect them to administer the affairs of our city, who refuse to support the present ticket forced on them by the Dictators of the Republican party. Consider 1t not disloyalty, but your constitutional rights fellow Republicans to resent such a ticket.
 Vincent A. Scully, your present mayor is not a Republican, but if he were you would feel proud to have him head your ticket. You know he Is educated, honorable, quali- fled, honest and respectable. For two. years he bas administered the affairs Of your city very creditable for your benefit. He is diSliked by few Job seekers and gold diggerS who were offended because he re- fused to be hamstrung by them in discharging his duties to you.
 By au means vote for him. Vindi- cate yourself in the eyes of the despoilers of the Republican party and assure yourself that your. af- fairs are not going to fall into the hands of tncompetents that your Republican party has fell into.
 A short time ago but e very few dared openly to dispute the poll cles of the so-called leaders, but today there arc hundreds. yes thou. sands who dispute ond ln a sreAI many cases defplse their methods. I Snow your resentment. % Co tnl |Is14.4. z4sss .=1&~ 1Fr z|Sn ~A4..IEE|fEs