The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-03

to New Haven. This is as untrue as the other Is ridiculous. I was a mem Der of the railroad committee of the house in that session. There was ab- solutely no need of MT Donahue's s 1tradinE his vote, as he said he did, be- icause long before the trolley matter Icould come to vote the Consolidated had withdawn all opposition and the lreport of the committee was unani- nous for the trolley and the charter was granted by unanimous consent.
 But note the delicious inconsistency lof this statesmanl In explanation No. 1 he says was the champion of the un- der dog because it needed help against an adversary that was trying to eat it lup. In explanation No. he says he made dicker with it to get its fafor for his constituents. He says that he voted with it to get its favor for his constituents He says that he voted with it on principle, and then says it wasn't on principle, but he swapped his vote with it for purely practical req sons!
 Which is right? Both can't be true. And if one is false, why may it not be assumed that both are untrue and that there was some other inducement for him to line up with the big corpora tlon? Every member of that legisla- Iture knows that other inducements were floating around.
 And note the second rich and merry inconsistency, This man who is ma ligning other people from the stump as friends of corporations admits that he was very friendly with the biggest one in the state and actually swapped his vote to it for consideration On pretty good terms with it, wasn't he?
 Now llsten MT. Donahue says he was sent to Hartford to get Q trolley road. How much did he do to get it? The Journal of the House for 1901, page 2SS, shows that he did not introduce the resolution for a Derby New Haven road; it was introduced by MT. Wood ruff of Orange
 I was a member of the railroad com mittee of the house during the entire six months of the 1901 session and att tended every hearing held by that body. During that whole session MT l Donahue did not appear before that eommittee-not once-to speak in be- half of trolley from Derby to any where, and although 1 was active as a member of the committee he never ap- peaIed to me in behalf of the citizens of Derby. But he did ask me to intercede lN behalf of a strike that he was at that time leading in Waterbury and went to eonsiderab trouble to comply with his request to bring about a set tlement between the employers and men
 Now note this: The Journal of the House for 1901, page 795, shows that the trollay franchise was granted without any contest whatever on April IS, and that 1t was more than 8 month later on May 22, that the big railroad fight was taken up. MT Donahue says that he traded his vote to the Consolidated to get what? A trolley charter that nad been granted by unanimous cor sent month before! And mark you as late as the night before the vote on the railroad matter MT. Donahue as- sured me, as the leader of the fight far lthe little road that he was with us. If lMr Donahue changed his mind over night-if he made bargain with the big rairoad as he admits-the consid- eration was not the trolley charter all ready granted, but must ave been Something else. Does this man think Ithat he can base his canvass on false hoods that are so easily disproven? Why, if he had a few more opportuni- Ities to explain" I am afraid I should be unanimously elected
 Of course you know that the trolley road that he says he had to trade his vote for never came to vote at all ; there was no fight over it; it went Ihhrough by unanimous consent, But are we not justified in believing that if there had been a real fight and the company Mir Donahue was so friendly with had again needed his assistance, he would have suddenly found that the Vanderbilts or the Rockefellers were back of the trolley enterprise?
 And what an admission for candi- date for the peoples trust to make that he made a practice of swapping his vote! I am happy to say that no corporation lobby ever succeeded in convincing me that it was necessary for me to trade with it for legislative 1 favors. It has been my experience that you can make better terms in the end | with concerns that ask unfair con- sessions by fighting them and fighting I tbor11 he r6 1o1 ho Is ybiot 5 rxyttt. the Paper trust, which was eventually broken up; the Southern Railway mail subsidy, the Hawaiian Electric Co.,, and several other concerns.
 Suppose l had withdrawn my regolu- Nion for the investigation of the Paper trust through a dicker with it's lobby and it had a big one in Washington, which labored pretty hard with me. | The trust would have been in existence to-day If had bent a friendly ear to the Hawaiian syndicate I wouldn't have had to pay my expenses out of my own pocket, as I have done in this and every other canvass. Does Con- necticut want Eelf-confessed traders and trimmers in Congress, men who denounce corporations during cam- paigns for vote getting purposes and make bargains with them in office?
 Down wiJh the corporations when I need the vote of their enemies' and Up with the corporations when they need my vote' is the platform of MT. Donahue, according to his own ad- missions on the stump and his record in the legislature. He cries wolf" 1 whnr he is 1.11nnincr fn,. nff1nn h11t tnhnr,