Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-13
HEARD IN PASSING

Four days have elapsed since Editor Vance of the New Britain Herald called upon AguinaldO ito come out of the woods and give himself up." and Aguinaldo goes right along, and Gen. eral Macarthur says it will take q large army and considerable time to subdue the Filipinos. But the work of civilization must go on.-NeW Ha ven Union.
 New Jersey is to have q chicken ranch of 350 acres. We have nothing against our New Jersey friends, but We would say to certain people in the lower Naugatuck valley who are too fond of chickens that New Jersey of ferS inducements to immigrants tha t Connecticut cannot hold out.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 Vermont contemplates going into the good roads movement in earnest. The legislature of that state is about 10 consider q bill which provides for the negotiation of a loan of $1OO00. .0OO, the entire amount to be expended on the highways of the Green Mountain state within the next two years. The people of the state generally favor the contemplated cXpenditure.-NeW Ha- ven Register.
 If Station Agent Brooks of Gales Ferry had net stopped to borrow a gun with which to shoot skunk which lie met on his way home on Saturday evening he would not have gone back to the station in pursuit of the skunk and consequently he would not have discovered and shot the burglar whom he found there. There is a surplus both of skunks and of railroad station thieves in the rural parts of Connecti- cut Nt the present time.-Hartford Times.
 Voting by machine is inevitable and the sooner the politicians recognize 1t the better. The people should demand that the system be adopted at the earliest possible moment and its adOp- ton can be provided TOT by the next general assembly. No vote should be registered in performance of any cor rupt bargain. Every vote deposited should be counted exactly as the de- | positor intends it shall be. The voting | machine is the guarantee against l fraud. It makes error impossible; it 1 makes quickness of compilation easy | and certain. It is the only process that should prevail in any town of the country.-New Haven Leader.
 The political reconstruction of the state senate during the past decade is | interesting. In the session of 1891 | there were seventeen QGmOCratS ana only seven republicans. The senate of 1893 was tie-tWelye republicans and q dozen democrats. IF 1895 John H. Hall of Hartford monopoliZed the | democracy of the body. and his demOc- | racy wasn't rated as of the pernfcious sort. In 1897 the democratic represent tatiOn was a vacuum and in every seat sat q squaretoed republican with q Roman nose In 1909 three of the i twCnty-fOur senators were democrats, but to the session of 1901 only two democrats have been elected.-Hart- ] ford Post.
 GOvernor-elect George P. Mclean, by virtue of his being elected chief eX- ecutive of the state. will have q nun ber of plums to distribute about Con nccticut. Naturally those who have been working with the greatest zeal during the past year to secure his nom ination and election will claim the | appointments. We haven't heard of any plums signifying their intention of dropping into the town of Winches- ter Had MT Warner been the success full competitor we might have expect ed that the wind would blow in this direction, but he wasn't and the re- | publican leaders here, though no more capable can be found in the state. are l attending strictly to their priya te busi- | neSS-WinSted Citizen.