Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-30
"CURRENT EVENTS" DAY.
Prof Gulliver's Topics Were Highly In teresting Yesterday at High school

Prof Gulliver's Topics Were Highly In
 teresting Yesterday at High School.
 Professor Henry & GuEiver gave the second of a series of lectures on Current Events" at the High school yesterday afternoon, and it proved to be even more interesting than the weeks ago. Owing to the large at tendance it was necessary to give the lecture in the assembly hall.
 Professor Gulliyer is an excellent speaker, and as he is thoroughly fa- miliar with the subjects on which he dwells his lectures cannot be but in- teresting and highly instructive. There were five distinct divisions to his lee ture yesterday. They we're as fol- lows: First. The Pan-American Ex- position at Buffalo. Mrs Taylor's Trip over the Niagara Falls and the execu- tion of President Mckinley's assas- sin: second. Connecticut Constitutions al Convention, King Alfred's Memor- ial, the Schley Investigation; third, New York City Politics; fourth, the Booker T. Washington Incident. and fifth, the Yale Bicentennial. Owing to the lack Of time, the last subject was left unfinished and will be treated again by Professor Gulliver in his lec- ture next week.
 In regard to New York politics the speaker stated that Shepard was q man of brilliant abilities He dwelt on the vast benefit of political organi- zation i'll campaign, and concluded on this subject by stating that q con- tinuance of the democratic govern ment in New York would be a suryiv- al of the fittest. He incidentally re- ferred to Cleveland's campaign for mayor of Buffalo in 1881.
 As to the constitutional convention, Professor Gulliyer discussed particu- l,trly the historical side of the ques- tion He referred to the constitu- tional convention of 1918 and to the fact that after the convention had adopted the constitution. it was rati- fled by the people by a scant major Eity. the vote standing 13.91S- ,361. He discussed the fifteenth amendment to the constitution. which was adopt ed in 1874. and allows two representa- tiyes for towns having 5.OO0 or more inhabitants. He also gave the opin- ion Of an out of town lawyer who does not favor q change ill the repre- sentation of towns. This lawyer stated that more care will be taken in selecting good and able men when the number of representatives is only two than if the number was eight or ten. Also that two good and capable men
 would be able to accomplish mere than six or eight men of inferior abil- ity
 As to the Booker T' Washington in- cident, which refers to q dinner at the White house to which the president invited the distinguished colored man, the speaker quoted several quo tations from southern papers, which were as follows: "A blunder that is worse than crime" ''The most damnable outrage which has ever been perpetrated by citizen of the United States Opposed to this he quoted from New York daily as fol- lows: If the president was seeking votes at the south, we should be obliged to join the criticism ill pro nouncing this act of private hospital ity blunder. But as he was man before he was a president, he has achieved his most honorable success of his life and that not by way of dem- onstration or advertisement, nor we will add by way of carrying out the policy of his predecessor" He dis cussed clearly both sides of the ques- tion 10 the satisfaction of tine large audiencp