Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-12
EEARD IN PASSING

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 ful studS of state election returns
 show that Mclean ran ahead Of Me
 IIinlpy in eighteen towns, was tie
 with Mckinley in nine towns, and ran
 behind Mckinley in 139 towns.
 The New Haven board of finance was startled the other night by re- cpiying a bill of tS3J3 for dinners and IunchcoI.s furnished to the SplGctmen and their helpers during the time vot- CTS were being made. The board promptly disapprOyed the bill, anl thought that it was eXOrbItant.-Hart- ford Post.
 The general assembly, which meets next January. can do service to the state by restricting special legislation
 to the smallest possible limits. There
 is not much hope that it will do SD, for rhe pressure is always heavy, and these who gO. tu the capitol convinced 1 against il usually. end by aCQUiesCing. It is because this ia almost inevitable that the revised constitution whenever made should include some restriction on such legislation. The ide4 is neith- er new nor impracticable.-1 &AEtford Times.
 Attention is called to the fact that two deaths have resulted from college h0Zin@ in the past week. Students who indulge i'll this s2nsuless and dan l @eTOus practice and the faculties which | do not take stern measures to stamp
 it out iniuTe their college m52e than | they are aware of. The greater uni i versailles do not now tolerate haZiHs, | and it is time the smaller ones follow | c,l their example. Parents Gu uOt care
 to send their boys to colleges, where i they will have to undergo such iiu- | initiating and djS4Tartful treatment aS l prevails in some inStitutiJnS.-EeW l Britain Herald
 When the democratic leaders sub 1 stttuted policy for principle and dis l cardcd what they knew was right for
 what they though was eHpedipllt they l made defeat ineyituble: fer although ! it brought back thousands of gold | democrats in states where their num- | Der was too small to overcome the | republican &j0ritT. it drove out or
 made indifferent many who voted for 1 principle ill the states that Bryan car | ricd in 1&96 and in others which he | couid have caJicd this year upon the | issues of 1&9G, and lost them to the l lademocraJic party. That iS the true
 reason for BTyan's defeat. It Is prob l ably the last of Bryan ;4 presidential
 politics. but it is not the last of the principles he stood for in 1S9G. They l will live because they ire rignt.-Eew
 Britain Independent.
 An arc lea dIight for electric street
 cars has jnst been brought out. The 1 ordinary oil lamp headlight, CT the 1 variety using an incandcSceut lamp in ! small paraDOiic reflector sunk in
 the dashboard serves well enough to
 notify waiting passengers that the ear
 is coming, but they light the tracks
 for q few feet only. In these days of | high speed trolley cars there Is urgent
 need for a light that will show an ob-
 struction on the track in time to stop | the car. In the new headlight an en-
 closed arc lamp is used, consuming
 about three quarters of an ampere of
 current at 800 volts, or about six | tenths of a horse power. This amount 1 of current is significant compared with | the value Of the better light obtained 1 It was asserted that the new head
 lights are simple in detail and work
 well in practiee.-Norwich Record l From the democratic New Haven
 Register: The knifing of James P - Pigott who was the democratic candi- 1 date for judge of probate ill the recent l election, is still furnishing the poll
 ticianS with 8 subject for discussion | No one can clearly account for it, but
 there are some ugly rum6rs which
 will surely be believed. It is indis-
 putable that democrats did the knifng | DuI WHu tlA&i itss iS the td duSSllOA,s 4Ip I votes against him were so numerous l that they encourage. a suspicion that l there was an organized opposition to l him among the democrats. Ii is amus-
 jag now to see, the men labelled as I democrats who come forward, to dis l clainl that. they had apYthing to do J swith defeating ,Pigptt. Some Of them. no doubt tell the truth, but Pigott's ] friends, -belieye. that the disclaimer ih j sanle, ,instanGes is but an attempt to sdisafm suspicion of guilt. In the dem l .ecratie wards Pigatt was frIghtfuliy l cut, and 10 doubt the treaehery was I done by.demecrats. The work Is sure I to prolong faetional differences and
 may hurt the partygin the spring cleo l ton.