The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-21

dates, as well as providing TOT elec- tion by wards or districts and stipu- lating a fee of $25 per district per ticket. In other words to file ticket, on which will be listed l02 names of delegates, anyone desirous of controlling the city, town, and school conventions must lay $500 before Chairman Tangney and Sec retary Treasurer Neil Maloney either in cash or certified check.
 The total voting registration in
 Waterbury at the present time Is
 46.729 with the Democrats having
 I9,386 registrants, the Republicans,
 S.192, That's a decided advan-
 tage the Democrats have, but it's
 safe to assume that the propOr-
 ton of Democrats and Repubfi-
 cans, enrolled on these lists and
 now absent from the city, is not
 the same. And the mere fact that
 the party enrolment leaves an 18,-
 900 unregistered balance of power
 should be enough to show that
 election can be won or lost on eff
 fort devoted to bringing in others
 than those known to be affiliated
 with either party.
 Dr. Wilbur L. Cross autobiog- raphy has been completed and will be published by the Yale University Press in October. according to ad- vance notices. According to "BilP Walsh of the Bridgeport Post the book will be awaited with keen in terest in political circles for Uncle Toby's' discussion of state politics in the depression decade of the I930's. running from the upset of the Roraback machine in 1880 to the Waterbury scandal. the rise oi Mayor McLevy as state figure and the COP. return to power in 1889
 !"In short 1t isn't as a literary work that Dr. Cross book is already being regarded, but as an opus In which political careers will be sub siected to the erudite Yalensian's scalpel and probe. If such proves to be the case 1t certainly won't be <ecomtnended reading for some.
 Some montrs ago city officials
 were subjected to some criticism
 becaase at Finance Board meet
 fng the question of relief case
 reimbursements was brought up. Hartford was mentioned as spOn-
 soring a program along such lines.
 thousands of dollars being re-
 turned to the city coifers by in
 diyiNuals, now in the money, but
 who were hard pressed during de-
 pres ion days. Over in Manches-
 ter the town treasurer recently
 made 8 report which revealed that
 S6O, 1000 had been collected to date
 from recipients of relief during de-
 uression days. However, 1t should
 be pointed out that in Manchester, since 1883, recipients of relief from fhe town have had to sign a con- tract indicating that they would
 nav back such relief payments when and If this were possible.
 Hartford has had an acting town chairman for the past 7h years. Daniel F. Finn has held the post. But this fall at the town conven- tion he will be definitely elected to the chairmanship. Indications from the Capitol City are that Mayor Dennis O'Connor will short lv announce his candidacy and that there will be no changes In the Democratic lineup for major posi- tions on the ticket And down In New Haven Republican party aes ders have agreed on an eignV weeks campaign. Nominations are to be made on September 8, which will certainly be well in advance of the Democratic convention to re- nominate Mayor John w. Murphy. Angus K. Fraser, an executive of The Southern New England Tele- phone company, as apparently the man the COP wants to have nom- mated for mayor.
 Mayor John s. Monagan's ] ssmoye" for the absentee vote this fall so caught the local Repubn- can leaders off guard this past week that it required some snappy nhono work on their part to fore stall his a-ballot- for every y-service- man-drive". Secretary of State !. Frances Redick was and probably still Is whole e-heartedly in favor , of absentee ballots being dis fributed on 3 nOn-partisan basis . and subscribes to efforts to see that everyone has a ballot, whether they're Democrat, Re-
 uublican, Socialist or what-nOt. But when she virtually endorsed . Democratic suggestion that town clerks to send. d................ rexistrars be allowed to direct town clerks to send such ballots to the last-known address of those esixible it was too much for the 0epublicans and this was soon labeled . misinterpretation of the recently enacted absentee ballot statute. Maybe it was, but 1t didn't prevent the local Dem crats from indicating they were
 going to go hot-and-heavy for
 the soldier, as well as local vote.
 The story behind the delay in a finance committee subcommittee not IepOItAle OAA PAoP
 praisal of local school buildings IS 1hat members aren't convinced itS necessary to spend $500. as the ochool board has requested, for such purposes. Companies insuring the buildings will appraise them ex. teriorily, but won't go inside and inventory contents. One member of the subcommittee feels that such lob could well be entrusted to the school department itself and that reliably accurate appraisal of such things as books, desks, etc, might come from the principals who are tu charge of the various buildings.
 In tho event that Mayor John
 6. Monagan decides to make
 Housing Authority out of his pres-