The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-01
A Thought for Today
Day of Reckoning

Next Tuesday is the day of reckoning for voters of the City of Waterbury. Un- der our very Democratic form of local government all who are duly registered voters may record themselves for the various candidates seeking public office Dn the several tickets wing for favor This year there will be three tickets on the voting machines - Democratic, Repupll- can, and ependent-Democratlc Head Eng the long list of candidates IS the name of Vincent A. Scully, the present mayor and himself the son of mayor He is coming to the end Of his tlrsC term as chief executive of this city.
 During the past two or three weeks Mayor Scully has endeavored to give an account of his stewardship. TO most people 1t has been sensible, sober reclVaI of civic accomplishments, not miracles as the mayor himself pointed out on several occasions. The Scully administration has not been a spectacular one and this very fact apparently is ground for attack from the opposition parties, particularly ,Re- nublicals. The Scully administration has been accused of being "sloW and cautious". It has been termed "do-noth- ing. All of which is political talk ana to be expected at this season Of the year.
 Your thinking citizen, and we believe in this category must go the great major ltv of voters is not clamoring for spectacu- lar or flashy local government. If you will recall it was only two years ago that the air was filled with cries of good gov ernment and there was movement a1ooI Go restore public confidence in thelr oi1l- cials by election of men who were steaoy- going, industrious, and very much CIVIC minded. On such platform Mayor SculIy campaigned through a primary, ana an election. It was his battle cry; 1t remans it today in this his second election cam paign. Why should he change it because rivals accuse him Of not doing what oo- viously we were trying to avoid doing two years ago?
 Republican tactics in this current cam paipn are bit too confusing for the aver ape man in the street. He knows that Mayor Scully has done good job ot running the city and has tried to keep down expenses at the same time bringing Waterbury to the front in worthwhile lrll- movements and vital municipal serVlceS' Across his administration has been drawn the familiar stock-in-trade stunt ot the local Republican board of strategy Mayor Ecully has been linked to previous Demo cratic administrations as If thlj made nm an outcast for life or disqualified him TOT any municipal service. If so, then into the exile to which he will be cast must go as his companion the Republican nomi- nees for mayor, Patrick M. Perriello also a city official in the previous Democratic administration.
 In a further effort to brand Mayor Ecully as aligned to machine-dominated party stories of coercion of city employees to contribute to campaign funds efforts to put names back on the voting list, con1pulsion of voters are being floated around. No names can be mentioned TOT obvious reasons = is the appendage to such claims. Well, there was once time when these same sources didn't find men, tioning names. Why the hesitancy now? Probably because there are no names to attach to these political yarns, which are that and nothing more
 Tn the final analysis Mayor Scully has met the acid test of demanding voting public and critical "good government, taxpayers, and other civic groups re- markably we'll He claims no miracles, but he does claim that his adminlStra- ton has been for the people at all times throughout the past year and three- quarters. On the basis of what has been accomplished in restoring public conh- dence in our city government and pro- viding economical, sensible, progressive, far-seeing administration Mayor Scully and his associates deserve the support of he voting public next Tuesday.