The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-26

PoI luIllty IS presented TOT great nor
 al convulsion in regard to that matter?
 Did not the president of the New York,
 New Haven and Hartford railroac | company come to Hartford a year ago I last January, appear before the general
 assembly in joint convention, and tell
 them that his corporation would not spend one dollar in lobbying, or in buy
 ing the legislation it desired; that the
 company came with clean hands, and
 would take what 1t could get by meth
 ods open and above board and in no other way?
 Was not that pledge kept?
 Was President Mellen talking then to men whose nomination and election had been corruptly procured by his company? Nobody so far as we know, has ever suggested such a thing Is the New York, New Haven and Hart ford Railroad company or any other railroad company, either insolently or politely, attempting to rule or run"
 the state government of Connecticut?
 Then there Is the question of taxa ton. It costs about three millions of dollars to pay the expenses of the state
 each year. The people of this state
 pay no state taxes as do the favored
 citizens of Massachusetts and other commonwealths where reformerss find so much moral oxygen in the atmos- phere. Why? Because the corpora
 tions are made to pay the whole cost of carrying on the state government and the railroads pay more than one-third
 of the total. What betterment in that situation can be suggested by LaFol-
 lette or Churchill, or the Springfield
 Republican?
 But Connecticut has it's Bulkeley and it's Paige" says the Republican, at
 the same time referring to the latter as
 "a head lobyist in the service of the same corporation meaning the New
 York, New Haven and Hartford Rail-
 road company. MT Paige is intimate ly related to a corporation, the Con- necticut Lighting and Power company, which has been in rather sharp rivalry with the New York, New Haven and Hartford company It will be news to
 MT Paige and to Connecticut people
 generally, we fancy that as state senator he was or is to be head lob byist for the corporation which he has antagonized. The Times would like to
 see a reputable democrat sent to the state senate in place of Mir. Paige, but will not join in any of the solemn non- sense that is published in certain re-
 publican papers because Mir, Paige has upset the bossy chemes of some of the Hartford crowd of politicians On the other hand, if Senator Bulkeley is such an inferior and injudicious sort of man as Mir. Bryan's friends in Massachu- setts allege that he is, why do they not rejoice over the fact that MT. Paige is better satisfied with the state ticket put up by the republicans this year than the senator is? It is perfectly useless apparently. to expect our re- formatory friends in other states to re- member or even to understand why, when there were only two republican candidates for the vacancy in the Uni
 ted States senate caused by the retire. Ill6lll OL GSUtTdl I1dWltyI tnG pCtICA sort of people in Connecticut rejoiced
 that it was Morgan c. Bulkeley and
 not his opponent who was chosen to
 that office,
 It would be well if the folks who are
 so anxious to administer a moral con-
 vulsion to the. state of Connecticut would bear in mind the fact that there
 is system of legislative representa- tion here which enables a small minor- ity of the people, living in country
 towns, to retain control always of one branch of the legislature The result is
 that the native American element ex- ercises q much,ularger. control over the government than it might be expected
 to do in a state where nearly ,two- thirds of the population are either for eign born or children of foreign pa- rents If the condition of moral dead ness exists here which is discerned by the Springfield Republican then "the original stock" has wofully degenera- ted But, as a state, we are not so bad as we are painted. We shall introduce needed reforms into our state govern n7ent from time to time, but that there
 is any exceptional opportunity" here for anybody to organize radical-pol- itical upheaval is not yet provable proposition Hartford Times,