The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26

eNgWAOAA38eE3N emotional appeal, to divert t, the real matters at issue"
 Republicans have failed to meet the issue from the start the Mayor declared, namely, whether or not the people of Waterbury wish to continue the good government they have received under the present ad- rninlstration since 1040.
 Continuing, the mayor referred to the opening campaign remarks of his opponent when MT. Kearney con- tended that the way to get rid of the New Deal in Washington was to elect Republican nominees in the smaller cities such as Waterbury, claiming that Tho distinction can be made between national and local issues because bureaucratic govern rnent reaches out SO far and sub- merges every vestige of what could previously be recognized as local issues."
 The mayor replied to the above stand with the criticism that ''these are highly emotional appeals and typical of the logic used by the Republican candidates in their ap- peal to the voters of the city"
 'The fact that your taxes have been lowered, your debt reduced and your city well managed lis inmate rial to the voters according to the oppositions claims, the mayor stated, for what is more important is not your personal city matters but that you should be interested only in the presidential candidate for i944 or in the organization of the na- tional program or the regulations of the OPA" and like matters more i'm. portant to these Republican lead- CTS.
 Tn rehuttal to the oppositions calm that twenty-five years of rule by one party Is enough the mayor stated:
 We may disregard that the claim overlooks the two Republican mayors who were in office starting with 1918, and the fact that there have been three different Democratic admin istratons since then, and say, in reply only that an administration should be judged, not by It's time in office but by the efficiency of ts performance during that time"
 Also attacked by the mayor, in his radio address, was the claim of his Republican opponents that the two party system would be en- dangered by the failure to elect Re- publican candidates. The mayor ate tackled this reasoning with the statement:
 'The fallacy of this claim 6 ob- vious. If our administration is do- ing c good job, the people who are our employers should retain us. II not, they should retire us."
 ''The best illustration of the work ings of this System," the, mayor continued, "came in 1889 when Vincent Scuily first ran for of. flee. You will recall that there was Q spirited campaign and on election day almost 37,o00 people cast ther vote. MT. Kearney has made the statement against the rule of public interest and decency, the people were powerleSs to bring Q change in io3o." T shall not finger on his implication that the election of the scully administra- ton was indecent and against pub. lie interest, the mayor stated. q merely wish to point out that the two party system functioned on that day"
 Pointing to the fact that he and Neil P. Maloney candidate for con- troller are both running for offlce for the first time and that Maurice Healey, city corporation counsel is Q new appointment; the fact that new members are up for election to various boards such aS aldermen, education, office of constable and others; all these the mayor said are Q direct factual answer to the Republicans "cry" that the ad. ministration is made up of old faces.
 Pointing to past statements made publicly by such Republican party leaders as MT. Kearney, Charles Foster and others who have spoken repeatedly about the defeatist att. tude of their own party, the mayor concluded by stating that the Re. publtcans have failed to meet the issues squarely and since they have admitted that the administrations claims are just, they cannot re. sort to any means but that of bringing in matters which may be irrelevant but which they hope will have the tendency to arouse the emotions of the people.
 Concluding the mayor said, "Re. memher-Vote Democratic. Pull the second lever on the second of Novem.