Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-15
VICTORY COMING.
What Democratic Party Workers Done the
 Past Week.
(special Correspondenee.l

Special Correspondence.
 Hartford. Oct IA, 1904.
 The week has been marked by
 teady democratic progress all along The line. The notable feature has been the monster rallies held at Bridgeport, New Haven, New Britain and New london, and which were characterized ky the old-time democratic entuhsi
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 The Hon A. Heaton Robertson, dem, bcratic nominee for governor, attended The rallies at Bridgeport, New Britain
 nd New London, and made addresses hat were received with marked favor,
 udge Robertson's convincing eXposi> ion of the extravaganza of the state bxpense under republican rule is arous- Ing the people to a realization of the #acfs.
 The Ansonia Sentinel, a republican newspaper, admits the truth of the Pharge in these words: Expenses have mounted to an enormous figure" but attempts to break the force of the pdmission by saying that receipts have Exceeded expenditures But the re &eipts are due to excessive taxation, md it all comes from the people. The Hartford Courant also makes a lame httempt to evade the issue by Saying hat the corporations pay a large share bf the tax; but the reply is made that hese corporations are favored by re- publican Special privilege legislation, md the corporations are in turn en- hbled to levy on the people. The final Truth is clearly brought out that the 'enormous expenses" described in the AnsQnja Sentinel, and shown blythe .ecords. are result of republican man. hgement, and a burden that the peo- ple will not stanh
 The national caflvass is progressing we'll Judge Parker's letter of accept Rnce made strong impression on the Independent voters of the state, The etter of Hon Frederick Seymour ia Former resident of Connecticut and brother of John $. Seymour of Nor valk), accepting the democratic nomi- hation for congress in the eighth New Jersey district, has been widely pub ished in Connecticut, and its plain Fhowing by detailed facts as to how Republican tariff excesses and the tax bn raw materials actually burden even Republican manufacturers, is arousing he intelligent business men of the Btate to an appreciation of the situ- ation.
 Senator Kennedy's remarkable can vass for ongressman-at-large contin- les leading feature of the campaign. His own personal popularity is strong, and he possesses the full confidence of
 he workingmen in the state without &'egard to party. His republican op- ponent, Hon George Lilley of Water Dury, the present congressman-at- large for Connecticut, who is not a man of high public capacity, and has 21epended much on personal popularity, now finds more than his match in Sen htor Kennedy in the matter of per. Fonal popularity, while on public ques- lions Lilley stands as the exponent of trusts and favored corporations, and Kennedy is real tribune of the peo- < ple.
 4 The republican state ticket is prov Ing exceptionally weak MT Roberts, the head of the ticket, is very unpopu- ar throughout the state because of his hlieged unfairness to laboring men hnd his exclusive personal manner. He shows the platform no grasp of either state or national Issues, but in stereo- Typed phrases rehearses the ancient gleries of Connecticut, while Judge Robertson Is not only, as the Water bury American says, "a first rate mix er with the people," but on the plat Norm he makes strong impression. discussing state and national issues with signal ability and force. Judge Robertson is leading the ticket splen- *1fdly. Similarly, as to the respective candidates for lieutenant governor, the Hon Henry A. Bishop, democratic can-i 1idate, is developing great personal strength all over the state, while his republican competitor is scarcely heard Df.
 Over in New London, the young re publican candidate for secretary of 2state Theodore Bodenwein, is 'sbe tween the devil and the deep sea-" In his exploitation for the domination. it was told how he had in a few years developed from office boy to the own ership of the New London Day (repub- <clian) and the New London Telegraph &democratic), but the straddle of the two newspapers is proving too much flor him, and 1t is developing that in shis commercial attempt to suppress Ideas in the two papers he has pleased nobody. His canvass is developing zwhat may be called strong weakness, Hnd it is freely stated that he will fall below his party vote. The democratic candidate for secretary, Hon James Huntington of Woodbury, is citizen Sof the sterling type who commands universal respect regardless of the 2party, because of his strong integrity 5and common sense, and he will poll handsome vote.
 For treasurer, Hon John NJ. Ney Of Hartford, the democratic nominee, is zanother man whose high character Five Of party, and will not only poll