The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-31

office to prove whether they would or would not commit the same blunders.
 This paper has openly opposed what 1t believes Is Q dangerous practice among some administration leaders: namely, the permissive disregard of the tendency toward centralization of our nations gov- ernmental and economic affairs, We have openly scored attempts by some Demo cratic administration leaders to foster further centralization, and we stall con- tinue to oppose 1t. We are of the belief that the majority of the party members likewise oppose such tendency and that this majority will continuously stand watch on the possibility of It's develop ment.
 We are in opposition to continuance after this war of the broad wartime eXec- utive powers now in effect. We advocate their return to the archives during the days of peace to come, to be reviewed only If America should ever again, by the will of It's people, take up arms In defense ot liberty and civil rights
 We oppose any grandlose scheme, as advocated both by the Democratic ana Republican leaders in this campaign, of setting up the Federal Government as the prime employer of this country; to be accomplished by vast governmental projects To believe such Is possible IS without foundation, for no government, within a democracy, can eliminate the major burden of unemployment by such means without invading the constitu- tional rights of private enterprise we advocate thinking in terms of employ ment and the continuance Of the current high level of such factor.
 We advocate the following also: the elimination of any wholesale system Of bureaucracy; the defining of Q more amenable formula for the rights of both industry and labor; the establishing on the books of the nation the anti-poll tax and anti-lynching laws; the recognition, by civil rights, of our largest of the na- ton minorties; namely, the thirteen mill lion Negro citizens, ~
 On such matters, we are of the beliet, that 1t Is @ select group which eXpoundS the need for such administrative meas ureS, as we are opposed to, and that the majority of the Democratic party IS op- posed to them as well. For this reason we think that this majority coupled With the majority of the patriotic thinking people of this nation will bear their weight upon that select group to ultimately de- feat It's purposes and It's effectiveness, and to write It out of the party.
  publican leaders have harangued against much that we also oppose, but as peti- tioners they offer no alternatives other than abolishment of these practices, These practices did not spring up solely as experiments but as attempted solu- tions of many of the ills besetting the nation during the troublsome times of the past ten years and more. If the Repup. lcan party has no solution now, then It seems reasonable to presume that under any leadership of theirs we would receive nothing but experiments
 
 A summation of the two party differ ences, one week before election day, leads us to believe that we are entering phase of world wide experience and knowledge which can be best coped with, for the ultimate good of this nation, by the Dem. ocratic party. We believe that no social system, such as our democracy, is able to endure unless 1t remains forever suscep. tible to change and be prepared, at all times, to modify the pattern Of It's lnstl- tutions to meet with the demands of new ideas, fresh technic, and altering circum- stances. It has been proven to us III this country that this Is so by the fact that only, constant amendments have en- abled our form oi government to exist and progress. Our nations forefathers provided for this expediency within the Constitution. We believe that the domin- ant Republican leaders today, in the majority, have lost sight of this fact and would have us remain static and dormant, to become a nation whose sovereignty would be hoarded and not used.
 We must assume our rightful moral duties, as nation, in the world affairs as provided for in the foreign policy plat form of the Democratic party, and we must seek the proper use of the power of our Federal Government in our do- mestic affairs, so that it will be, at all times, government under moral law wltn social and economic regulations so administered that our citizens remain free men. These we must all seek, Demo crats and Republicans alike, for the well fare of the peoples of the world and or our nation.