The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
Editor of The Democrat:

Republicans, Democrats, Social ists and members of any other pon- tical party privileged to vote at the special election on January 20th, to elect 8 representative to Con- gress from the 5th Congressional district have a very serious mission to perform. It Is imperative that the candidate best qualified to ad- minister the affairs of the citizens of the 5th district be elected.
 The resignation of Hon. J. Joseph Smith as representative of the 5th district to accept judgeship in the federal court was Q serious loss to all of us. Our only alternative Is to elect & man with the qualifications that J. Joseph Smith possessed.
 Records of the candidates in the field for that position prove posi- lively that Joseph. E. Talbot of Naugatuck has much in common with J. Joseph Smith and Is quan- fled in every way to fulfill the du- ties of representative to congress from the 5th district in a manner that will repay us for the loss of MT. Smith.
 My thoughts are far far away from making disparaging or deroga- tory remarks about the Democratic candidate for this position. It would be 8 rash breach of etiquette on my part If I should do so, because from all accounts he is a perfect young gentleman. do think that am right in believing and stating that he is too young man to en- trust in the responsibilities of the 5th district in such precarious times that we are now going through. There Is no doubt in my mind that during his collegiate career that the academic knowledge instilled in him by his instructors at Dartmouth college, If not the same one that instructed Joe Talbo. were as qualified to rate his educa- ton on a par with MT. Talbot's. His age alone prevents him from hav- ing the actual knowledge of life that 8 man must have in these times to handle the responsibili- ties that will confront whoever we send to Washington.
 On the other hand Joe Talbot has ten more years of successful public life being ten years older than the Democratic candidate
 He has been prosecutor in a borough and city court, g. judge in 8 borough and city court, very successful and known today as one the best state treasurers that the State of Connecticut ever had, in fact some of the innovations in- stalled in the state treasurers' of- flee by MT. Talbot because of their value to the rublic of the state are still in force and will be for long time. For the past year he has been compensation commissioner To- cated right here in Waterbury and decisions made by him and him alone proves conclusively what an honorable and qualified man he is to handle the affairs of the public.
 To every Democrat in the 5th Congressional district I openly state that If Joe Talbot were Democrat I would support him implicitly and request yes even beg every Re- publican to do likewise. The Presi- dent of the United States now more so than ever needs men like Joe Talbot in Washington, men who he can sit down with and gather data that will enable him to carry on the great struggle that he Is having at the present time. Long before Joe Talbot was mentioned for this posi- tion he was man enough to publicly request to politicians to quit their quibbling and support the Presi- dent of the United States. To the upper crust Republican leaders who in the past were content to consider me as a dissenter In Republican ranks, to the reportor1al representa- tives of newspapers who labeled me as an organization hating Republi- can and to Republican curb stone politicians who readily threw brick bats my way because I dared to differ with their opinions on the qualifications of past Republican candidates and the outcome of elec- tions because of these same candi- dates and the way the party affairs were handled, openly state that you have & real candidate in Joe Talbot for congress and 1t be- hooves each and everyone of you to get out and put him over with the plurality that he deserves
 Show the public not only from Waterbury and the 5th Distriot but the whole United States that the
 Sth Congressional district always ] intends to have man of experi-