The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-16
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BY JAMES M. MOORE

M, MOORE tion. because of the war boom. This the Republicans may claim is a point which can be driven home to the voting public as means of dulling some of the sheen of the claims of the Democrats. In other words when prosperity is wide spread 1t becomes commonplace and has little individualistic distinc- tion)
 Eff unemployment become rel atively widespread in Waterbury, by this fall, as result of production cut-backs then the voters, so af- fected, may well get out of hand po- litically and become unpredictable. (The CIO-PAC undoubtedly would become a factor for either slde).
 3-That, while the Mayor has cre- ated an efficient organization in its administrative functions, as a party top-leader he has failed to maintain unity within the ranks. That is to say, while maintaining his sights on the welfare of the tax payers in general he has stepped upon the toes of party adherents. This has been blamed on his haste" to establish his principles of sound government which, it is claimed, has proven detrimental to some in the party. eve have heard Democrats who claim that the May or Is trying too hard to disprove the axiom that Rome wasn't built in day" but how consistently firm is the opposition to such an al- legged practice, we don't know0
 That the Republicans may attempt to use war veteran as their mayoralty candidate on the basis of popular appeal to bene- eft from the current wave of pa triotism. eve doubt very much the value of this. In the first place we don't know the veteran who would permit himself to be SO used, and secondly, we doubt if the public would want to so use such man by voting for him).
 The Democrats are much more capable of unity than the Republi- cans. There have been clashes of personalities among the Democrats and likely there are more to come, but these will not be permitted to disrupt or shackle the party's ef- forts, as an entity.
 The party's town committee lead- ership is made of individuals who think of the party first and them selves last. They will accept intra- party rebuffs and will disagree si- lently or openly with other leaders and party members, but when elec- tion time rolls around they can be calmly seated for a discussion of necessary procedure to assure suc- cess.
 Mayors Position
 Undoubtedly the Mayor hasn't satisfied everyone in the party. He has been accused of being too close ly allied with conservatives of both parties none of whom, 1t is claimed, are party faithfuls or workers, and some of whom, it is alleged, are antagonistic to the Democrats. Yet We can honestly say without casting any bouquets, that we have never heard anyone question the Mayors standards of administrative honesty.
 Trespassing upon Johns sense of humor we would call him a left conservative. (Not conservatively leftish, mind you! No conmissar stuff0 But disregarding the ex- istence of liberals or progressives and assuming there was no other median or norm other than a con- servative We would say he was ''left" of that. Which reminds Us some what of the conversation of group of Washington correspondents talk ing about Truman's position the day after he became president.
 All these correspondents knew Truman well as result of close as- sociation with him when he was a senator. One correspondent thought the President was a bit to the right particularly because of his high standard of modesty; another thought he was to the left because of his general agreement on New Deal policies and such, and others thought he was right down center Finally another declared: Be fore we could figure out just where the President hangs his hat, 1t first would be necessary to determine just what is 'center'-and we could be here for the next ten nights be- fore We even got close to such a de- termination"
 Party Weakness?
 The Democrats have been giving good administration, and, as we have said, have the distinction of being a party with personality by virtue of its incumbency.
 We believe that the only real weakness of the Democrats may show up within their party organ ization-and that is another story in itself. A-twice-told-tale.