Connecticut western news., 1900-09-06
CANAAN CONN. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 6,

creult the act and to ,5iu themselves immune against punishment for electoral crimes. But the law abrogates no rights of the citizen and in no way interfereS with local administration. It is designed solely for the detection and punishment of crime and for the protection of honest voters against rogues.
 The Republican legislature has enacted the franchise tax law, which is now for the first time being put in operation. Its results cannot yet be stated. The taxation of corporations enjoying the use of public property will continue to be, as it has been in the past. policy of the Repub- hcans. . ...-..... .-....... ...
 The Republican party is not opposed to the nat ural and legitimate combination of productive forces, whether of capital necessary for the con ducting of large enterprises of labor looking to the profitable development of resources and to securing to industry its due share of the rewards earned by its efforts but it is opposed to all combinations seeking to control prices and to pre- vent competition, and it specifically denounces criminal conspiraeies between public officials and corporations by M~;>h such corporations design are enabled through the favor and protection of officials to exact unjust tribute from the peo- pie.
 We believe that in the interest of the health and comfort of citizens the people of the munich palities should own and operate their water sup pheS, and the Republican party will favor legisla tion to enable every municipality, the just rights of all being conserved, to enter upon and take under the condemnation laws the wa ersheds nee essary to for their inhabitants pn adequate water supply. s..
 Franchise Tax Law Indorsed.
 The Republican party has committed itself without reserve to civil service reform and has passed act which it is effectively enforcing and which it intends to enforce in the spirit of the constitutional amendment whereby merit and fitness, proved by competent examination, are made the test for entrance into the public service and for the future promotion therein.
 The proper policy to be pursued with respect to the canals of the state is subject of grave to the people. Thirty years ago. when the capacity of the canals less than it is to- day. there was moved over them twice great 8 tonnage. In proportion as their capacity has increased and as the amount of possible business has grown and developed their use has decreased In 1896 the lake receipts of -four amounted to 10,37l ,653 barrels, but only +, ,l66 were shipped through the canals; the lake receipts of grain 215, ,537 169 bushels but only B, 900 ship ped through the canals; the lumber movement at Tonawanda amounted to 469, IT ,446 feet, but the canal shipments only 1S4, 709, ,746 The freight tonnage of 1898 over the railroads of New York was 6, 7S1, ,0S3 tons, but the canal tonnage was only per cent of the railroad tonnage, all though the railroad charge for freight per ton per mile was nearly twice great as the canal charge. The last Republican legislature appro- priated the of Sl0O,0O0 to be expended in a thorough and scientific investigation of the cause of this decline in canal traffic and of the charac- ter and expense of all the numerous projects that have been proposed for the betterment of the ca nals and to bring about their greater use. It is the policy of the Republican party, if any further expenditure of public money is to be made upon the canals except for maintenance, to place be- fore the people the assured facts. together with estimates the accuracy of which can be relied upon. ..a.=- ..-...
 Credit is given the Republican party for the enactment of labor laws which extend protection to the workingman and to women and children employed in mer- cantile establishments. The increased prosperity enjoyed by the farmers of the state of New York engaged in marketing an important product is referred to thus:
 The legislature has encouraged by reasonable appropriation the establishment of the sugar beet industry, with the result that thousands of acres already devoted to the growth of the sugar beet, and hundreds of thousands of capital have been invested in plants for the production ot beet sugar.
 Attention is called to the repeal of the Horton law, to the care of the interests of the unfortunate classes, to the appro- priations for scientific purposes, to the state ownership of timber lands in the Adrondacks and finishes with this para graph:
 Covering the whole period of the seven years of its control of the state government, the Repub- lican party points record during which the charge of maladministration cannot be brought successfully against any of its officials It is a record of progress and good government, of prom ises kept, not of pledges broken Relying upon this it asks the support of all the voters for the candidates nominated by this convention.
 The following ticket. agreed upon in conference, will be nominated: =-.. For governor, Benjamin Odell, Jr., of Orange; for lieutenant governor, Tim othy L.. Woodruff of Kings; for comp troller, William J. Morgan of Erie; for secretary of state, John T. McDonough l of Albany; for state engineer, Edward | A. Bond of Jefferson; for attorney gen. eral, John c. Davies of Oneida; for state treasurer, John F. Jaeekel of Cayuga