The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-10-05

cular that has been issued and spread | broadcast over the commonwealth | published in papers, by most of them at so much per line And it emanates l from whom? I think I know who the modern Judas is and if do know he is | one of the best men I know, personally. | There is nothing in the circular itself | to be discovered that an honest man | under senatorial persuasion might not l lead himself to believe. But it Is as clear as though written on it that it is a politician and of the Hartford stripe, who wrote that circular The circular is steeped and damned in selflshness from the first word to the last. And it goes to the towns. It tells them that if the convention is voted New Haven and Hartford will cheat them of their constitutional rights, and the circular
 tells them not to let New Haven and
 Hartford do 1t,
 If I thought that by a convention
 the town system would be impaired
 would oppose it. But there is no such
 danger. That convention will be ab-
 solutely controlled by the delegates
 from the small towns. There will be
 ten times as many delegates from the
 small towns as from the cities Is
 there any danger? Are they afraid of
 being hypnotised? Have the small
 towns been buncoed? Were they. hyp-
 notised when the cities wanted the
 street railway taxes paid into the city
 treasuries instead of being paid to the
 state? Mo- they said pay it to the
 state treasury, and they kept 1t there
 No the countryman is not to be cheated. If anyone is to be cheated it
 is the innocent man who comes from
 the shadows of Yale university.
 Important as is the matter of repre- senta ton it is by no means the most important thing to come before the convention. It was almost the fashion a few years ago for candidates for jul dicial offices to be elected by the legis- lature from it's own members. When I was governor I had occasion to consid CT a resolution appointing two of my personal friends, members of the legis- lature. to positions. I considered 1t my duty to veto that measure, and I sent it back. The house voted unanimously to overturn that veto. Every man in the senate, except one, voted it down. and that one told me that he voted for it out of personal regard for me. I do not tell you what happened to con- vince you that I am a great man. l assume you all knew that long ago. In the constitutions of twenty-t three states of the union it Is written that no mem Der of the general assembly can be ap- pointed to any office of profit, and the of the state of California | pointed until after he shall have been | put of office a year. Why should not | our constitution be reformed in that | way?'
 The ex-governor also suggested a con- | stitutional amendment to prevent spec al legislation, and said T want it that | lere no special charter can be granted | .o any big man or any little man. I want it so that one man can get a charter as well as another. I could ,all attention to many such things hat need attention, but these few sug- ,estions ought to be enough to induce ,ou to walk up to the polls on Monday lnd I expect that when I read the pa ,ers on Tuesday I will read that you lave boiled at least 16,00O votes, and hat not three New Haveners voted .gainst the proposition that will be be- ore you.''
 Brief speeches were also made by Ion. Daniel Davenport and Colonel N. !. Osborn.