Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-03-24

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 BEFORE HE HAD UTTERED A Doz FEN SENTENCES. THE CRIsIs-FARl
 LEADER WAS CARRYING HIS At
 DIENCE STEP BY STEP.
 clipped closely enough to show tn
 lines of bulldog jaw. and eyes tha
 had the gift, priceless to the publi
 speaker, of seeming to hold every on
 looking eye in the audience. Unlik
 his packers in the awkward semi-cir
 cle, he wore professional long coat
 and the hands that marked hi
 smoothly flowing sentences were slin
 and shapely.
 "Who is he?" asked Loring, in al
 aside to Kent.
 { Stephen Hawk, the ex-district at
 torney: boomer, pettifoger, promoter
 "a charter member of the Castor
 wolf-pack. A man who would per
 suade you into believing in the impec
 cability of Satan in one breath, and
 knife you in the back for a ten-dollal
 bill in the next" was the rejoinder.
 Loring nodded, and again became s
 listener. Hawks speech was, merely introductory. and it was nearing itl peroration.
 Fellow citizens, this occasion Is al
 suspicious as it is significant. When the people rise in their might to say
 to tyranny in whatsoever form 1t op-
 presses them, Thus far and no far ther shalt thou go,' the night is far spent and the light is breaking in the east. E5t
 Since the day when we first began to wrest with compelling hands the natural riches from the soil of this our adaptive state, political trickery in high places. backed by the puissant might of alien corporations, has ground us into the dust.
 But now the time of our deliver ance is at hand. Great movements give birth to great leaders; and in this, our holy crusade against oppres- sion and tyranny, the crises has bred the man. Ladies and gentlemen, have the pleasure of presenting to you the speai,er of the evening: our friend and fellow citizen the Honorable Jas per G. Bucks. by the grace of God, and your suffrages. the next governor of the state"
 In the storm of applause that burst upon the dramatic peroration of the ez-district attorney, man rose from the center of the stage semicircle and numbered heavily forward to the foot lights. Loring's first emotion was of surprise, tempered with pity. The crisis-born leader, heralded by such flourish of rhetorical trumpets, was giant in size; but with his huge figure, unshapely and ill-clad. all promise of greatness seemed to pause.
 His face. broad-featured, colorless. and beardless as a boys was either a blank or an impenetrable mask. There was no confinement in the lack-lustcr gaze of the small. porcine eyes; no elo- Quencs in the harsh. nasal tones of the untrained voice. or in the ponderous and awkward wavings of the beam- like arms. None the less. before he had uttered dozen halting sentences he was carrying the audience with him step by step; moving the great con- course of listeners with his common place periods as a mellifiuous Hawk could never hope to move 1t.
 Explain it as he might, Loring soon assured himself that the Honorable Jasper c. Bucks was laying hold of the sentiment of the audience as though 1t were a thing tangible to be grasped by the huge hands. Unlike Hawk, whose speech famed easily into denun- citation when 1t touched on the alien corporations. he counseled moderation and lawful reprisals. Land syndicates, railroads. foreign capital in whatever were prime necessities In any new and growing common wealth. The province of the people was not to wreck the ship. but to guide 1t. And the remedy for all ills lay In controlling legislation, faithfully and rigidly enforced.
 My friends: I'm only a plain, hard handed farmer, as those of you who are my fellow townsmen can testify. But I've seen what you've seen, and I've suffered what you've suffered. Year after year we send our representatives 10 the legislature. and what comes of t? Why, these corporations. looking 1nly to their own interests. as they're I In duty bound to do. buys 'em if they l ,an- You can't blame 'em for that: ts business-their business. But 1t is ,ur business, as citizens of this great I commonwealth, to prevent it We have good laws on our statute books, but 1 Ee need more of 'em; laws for con- rol with plain. honest men at the ,apital. in the judiciary. in every root ind branch of the executive. to en- orce 'en- With such laws. and such men to see that they are executed. here wouldn't be any more extortion. my more raising of the rates of trans 'ortation on the produce of our ranches md farms merely because the eastern market for that particular product 'appensd to jump a few cents on the 'ollar.
 No. ny friends plsfu- hard-kanded