Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-10-23

trusts are with us. He couldn't see
why President Roosevelt should refer
to good trusts and bad trusts. He
considered this as absurd as talking
about good horse thieves and bad
horse thieves. 1.-THE president cannot
destroy the trusts" he said, through
the instrumentality of the republican
party, because they are part of itself.
They are not going to kill the goose
that lays the golden egg once every
two years or set fire to the house they
live in. The only way to destroy the
trusts is to put the republican party
out Of power and keep it out I'm in
clined to think the president goes gun.
ming for trusts just as he does for
grizzly bear and mountain lions. 1t
is simply vacation amusement to be
abandoned when vacation is over and
congress assemblies. They tell me his
study abounds with horns and hides
and other trophies of the chase, but I
can tell you, you'll find the pelts or
the tentacles of no destroyed trusts
there. 1t is considered a great tri-
umph of republican diplomacy when
the president Of the United States
gathers together the coal barons, GRIM
lnal conspirators as they are, and begs
and pleads with them to do justice,
and at last persuades them that in the
interests of the republican party they
should make some concessions. The
triumph of the people will come not
when the president of the United
States so far debases himself as to
plead with criminal conspirators, but
when the law of the United States
sets foot upon the necks of these con-
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the democratic party in power you may
expect to see the trusts wiped out. II
it does not do it from philanthropic mo-
t1ves it will do it as a matter Of self
protection, for the trusts are striving
to kill the democratic party" (Cheers.)
Mayor Cummings was the last sneak
er. He talked upon state and national
issues and referred to the full dinner
pail. He contended that the American
Work1ngman should not be content
with full dinner pail He considered
MIN entitled to some of the comforts
OF home life, thought he should have
trial by jury instead of government by
injunction. and an opportunity to
make some provision for the RAINY day.
The meeting closed by giving three
ringing cheers for the candidates of
the democratic party. :.
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The delegates to the Hartford re-
publican town convention last evening
nominated Patrick McGovern for SEN
ator from the first district and Everett
J. Lake and Herbert Knox Smith for
representatives from Hartford.
Has Mayor Charters been asked to
reconsider his withdrawal from the
shrievalty race and again. enter the
lists as the candidate OF the Economic
league! Rumors are current that.
such request has been made, saws the
Ansonia Sentinel, and it is reported
That New Haven representatives of
the third party came to Ansonia yes
terday afternoon to sound the may
or's friends about the matter. The SEES
sion is said to have been interesting,
and strong language is reported to
have been freely used. Inquiry this
morning among those who are sup
posed to know failed to locate the re-
ported conference, and no one seems
to have been in it, Mayor Charters
friends Indignantly deny the reports
OF another withdrawal by his honor.
and brand the story as false. DESPITE
these denials the rumors will not down
and there is said to be something more
doing. How his honor feels about the
matter is not known, but it is not be-
lieved ne would entertain such a sug-
gestion, and is really. truly. and finally
out of it. II re.
Comptroller Abiram Chamberlain.
candidate for governor, and Charles
G. R. Vinal, secretary Of the state
called at the headquarters of the re-
publican state central committee in
the Allyn house yesterday afternoon
to have little talk with Andrew r..
Gates, chairman of the committee.
says the Hartford Courant. AS they
We're about to state the object Of their
call James L. Cowles of Pennington
appeared. He followed Mr. Gates
about the room and began to talk
about the Postal Progress league. of
which he is secretary Mr. Gates
backed away, but Mr. Cowles, who
/ seemed to know how to do it, got Mr.
Gates into a corner and gave him a
long address on the merits Of the
league, the ultimate aim of which is
the widest practicable extension of
the sphere of the post office and its
most economic and efficient admins
tratlon. Mr. Cowles was anxious that
the committee should endorse his
scheme and he said it would result in
thousands of additional votes. He
told how Congressman Henry and ex-
Governor Coffin had endorsed tbe
scheme and from Mr. Cowles' argu-
ment there was no other side to it.
Those who are familiar with Mr.
Cowles's enthusiastic style of speak
ing know how hopeless it is for a
nearer to get in a word and Mr. Gates
was helpless. The young woman
stenographer was unable to smother a
series of yawns. George e. Hinman.
clerk of the committee. finally went to
the chairman's assistance and said
that Mr. Vinal was in hurry to catch
a train. The chairman looked crate
full, and as if he'd like to take the
train, too.
AWARDED TO FINDER.