The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-07

he ls Q Democratic campAlgner whose Rntecedents In thls direc. tlOn 70 all Che way back Co 1919 when he stumped his native state of Maine for Woodrow Wilson, He joined the Gov, Cox train In . whlrl through Indiana in 1920 and ln 1928 covered Connecticut for Al Smith, although his part In that campaign can't bc recalled too vlvldly. He ls not an orator, but can say An awful lot In . few minutes-his vocabulary is com. plete and picturesque, his pres. entAtlon ierky, but convincing.
 Ex. Governor Robert A, Hurley must have been somewhat moved by the spectacle of J, Francis smith and Senator Francis T, Maloney Joining his band.wagon here In Waterbury last Tuesday night, At any rate in the course of his re. marks, many Of which he asked ee considered as of the record, he intlmated that, If elected, he won't forget tho part that those com. munities which put him across play an the victory. That was long one Of the cries against the Hurley 0d. mlnlatratlon-lt failed to recognize the men and tho organl2a tons that were instrumental in his success back ln i040, Evidently Mir Hurley has heard the comments - or else his running companion, Brien Mo. Mahon. may have insisted that this promise be ono Of the Hurley plat. Gorm supports,
 ] Continuing about the peace naPty ln Waterbury senator MRAloney welcomed Che oppOrtun. lty Co speak last on the program as recOgnitlon that he was back ln Che fold or accepted again where Democrats f0regatheF. The MeFlden legislator didn't merely intimate but plainly stated that many Democrats both ostra. clRed and accommodated him after the Hartford convention of last August. He polluted out that he had no apologies Co make for hls actions at that time and would probably duplicate them # given the opportunity, but he did dls. claim any right Co read him out Of Che party for independence of action or speech.
 Lower grand lists are causing some anxiety in both Hartford and New Haven. Up In the former city the kaxpayers arc being primed for c possible tax rate increase next year if the fears on the grand list come true. At present HartfoFd's grand list is s3e0b02,004. A drop as high ms ei4,000 900 is anticipated. That would be about ih mills Of the tax rate. To make 1t up the present rate os 50S may be upped. Tn New Haven c 92,000,000 drop from the i0l3 figure of e320 1000. GOO is feared. lon the other hand it's known that some Waterbury officials are in. ciined to believe that when the TO. valuation survey now underway Is Iuompleted Waterbury'S grand list will be considerably more than the he43 figure of S226, ,000,000, But once war inventories start to drop sven Waterbury's list will shrink, although it may not 90 below the $500 000, 900 mark again, unless the city is hit by c depression of the blackest type.
 No town meeting could ever have been as lively as the promises held out for the public hearings sshe2uled for the proposed pen-
 nn revision for City of Water
 y employees. The commission Aas promised that every group of mmnployee will get chance to ex- pFess itself on the existing plan and changes that arc contemplated am lt. Already Q mass of figures lMRG ee4alls are AA hand from which the commission hopes to extract Q workable plan and one 6fat win satisfy all concerned. mat seems almost impossible Right new, but maybe that's due to 4Ihe fact there's so much misun. Anratandlng over what has been Anme and what ia Co be done. The commission, apparently, wants to he fair-mlnded on Che pension mlmm. but it also feels there k as mrloh obligation to the taxpayer as ahere is tO the city employees, @llo constitute probably per cent @e Che populace. At any rate ahhre will be arguments back and 10rsh untn Q plan has bean drawn ! mn that can work without preju. Esce CT favor.
 DemOcratlc Town Chairman Cor Mniius r. MuIvihill of Bridgeport hFlngs up c good point with regard Ka the actual casting of the ab- @sAkes votes on November 2. In Msast communities certain persons mfs designated as vote-casters for hi such ballots. All parties have Werreseukatives present when the &ose is actually dropped into the box M put on the machine. But where h6rn are thousands such to be
 k in big cities Mir. Mulvihill feels hAf in some districts there is apt e be crowding at the polls and Nzzheps somebody will lose out.
 hers there might be 1000 abe
 I&e ballots cast in one district
 mems tying ID the available
 hines for c long period of time
 resultant delay for the vot-
 wI1o arc there in the flesh Co