The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-03

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days that the stone can hold itself
intact are numbered.
That Is the impression that pre-
vailed 1t the meeting held In The
Elton Monday night By che So
called Victory Committee Of che
Republican party. That meeting
was che elimination Of . series Of
meetings that were held BY the
Young Republican club the past
nine months. The murmurs Of
protest against the junta that Is
In The control Of the party that
started last June grew into .
raging torrent Of indignation
against q continuation Of that
control and resulted In the organ
lxatlOn Of q Reorganization com.
mlttee for the express purpose Of
BUSTING II.
The reporter who covered the
meeting Tor the morning paper did
q poor reporting Job, an occurrence
that Is not as unusual as 1t should
be considering his experience. He
reported J. Warren Epson, front
man for the junta, to have said that
the leadership Of the party was
neither stupid, lazy nor crooked.
That was clearly a misquote. What
Mr.. Epson really said ran something
like this; "Tlaat the leadership Of
the party was blamed for the failure
Of the last campaign and that blame
can be divided into charges that 1t
Is either stupid, lazy or crooked. No
one has accused 1t Of crookedness,
he continued, so, according to his
reasoning, the only charges that
could be made against 1t was either
stupidity or laziness. or both"
Mr.. Epson admitted that there
may be b sound basis for these
charges but he could not see why
he alone should be blamed for
them. Some Of the blame should
be placed on others, he stated.
And II those present insisted on
placing al the blame on him, II
was all right with him, - there
Is nothing that he could do about
IL.
! do not believe that Mr.. Upson
was fair when he brought the word
"crookedness" into the discussion,
because the word involves moral
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took place at the meetings Of the
Young Republican club the past
nine months never sank to the level
Of making such charges. would
suggest that the term party 10y
atty" be substituted. I was also GO
ing to suggest that the word "in-
competency" be substituted for the
word stupidity" as It Is O statelier
word, covers the matter In o broader
sense and because continual stupid.
ity actually amounts to incompe-
tency, but Mr.. Upson may object
on the grounds that I want to carry
on the discussion In my own way,
so I will let that phase Of the dis
cussion remain on the basis Of
stupidity.
In taking up the matter Of party
loyalty, ! will have 10 refer 70
statements made by Mr.. Kearney
last falls candidate for mayor,
chairman Of Monday nights
meeting and newly elected vice
chairman Of the reorganization
committee. Mr.. Kearney stated on
several occasions that no could
have been elected II he had the
honest backing Of the leadership
Of the party during the campaign.
! believe that Mr.. Kearney was
mistaken when he made that
statement. Mr.. Kearney's goose
was cooked back In 1871 when
william J. Pape and J. Warren
Epson fronting for the local junta
and accepted ~ local leaders by
the Republican state organize
ton, helped the local Democratic
administration 10 get their bond
bills through. They gave the
Democratic administration more
help by the character Of the legis-
lation they sponsored and by their
support Of Or indifference 70 the
Summa bills that were presented
before the last session Of the legis.
lature and ! do not believe either
Mr. Kearncy or anyone else could
have overcome such o handicap,
even II the junta did q turn about
face and went all out for his cleo.
ton which II did not. The damage
had already been done.
Mr.. Epson tried to place some OF
the blame for the revolt on others,
presumably his stooge town chair
man and his stooge town commit
zee. That Is too ridiculous O matter
70 waste space upon. He also
brought out the red herring that q
great deal Of the dissa tisfaction
was caused by the fact that there
was no patronage to hand out
That 10 absolutely untrue. There Il
considerable patronage being hand
ed out. There Is the city court, the
registrars Of voters once with four
Jobs and the minority places on the
boards. The junta controls prac-
tically all those Jobs. These are jobs
that are on record. There Is an.
other type Of patronage that Is not
on record. It consists Of favors that
are handed out by the Democratic
machine to so.called Republicans
on whom the machine can depend
on TO throw a monkey wrench into
the machinery during Q campaign.
This type Of Republican" will be
found to be In good standing with
the junta.
! have referred above 10 the
Adage that drops Of water wifi
wear away stone. I will put INV.
self out on . limb and predict
that the junta is definitely on the
way out ana In the near future.
FIREMEN RESPOND
tn THDEE rAIIC