The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-09-11
SENATOR A. ". PAIGE.
HIS PART IN REPUBLICAN
 STATE POLITICS.

A Long and Highly Honorable Record The Many Positions of Usefulness and of Trust Which He Has Occupied Roth influential and Politically Astute Worked His Way Upward.
 Hartford Sept. 1O.-The part which isenator Allan w. Paige of Bridgeport has taken in the republican politics in 3tbis state since his first term in the house has been one of note from every point of view. Before his election as a member of the general assembly from athe old town of Sherman he had held 1.-the clerkships of both houses and was Familiar with the methods and pro- fcesses of legislation. In 1882 he was sohairnnan of the state prison commis- slon and it was mainly due to his eff forts in that capacity that the board Aof pardons was created. He carried 6the measure through against the op- Aposjtion of the late William c. Case, swho wanted the pardoning power con- ftinued in the general assembly. The sspectacle of a young man like Mr. sPaige in 1882 encountering the legisla- tive equipment of Speaker Case suc- Fcessfully can only be recalled with ad- smiration. The board of pardons has been one of the best outcomes of Con- lecticut legislation since the civil war beriod. In 1891 MT. Paige again ap- Aeared in the general assembly, repre- Eenting Bridgeport in the house. He was elected speaker by his associates Ind was called upon by virtue of the Position which he held to take up the hardest tasks, that any speaker in the Eonnectieut legislature has ever bhouldered T. was the deadlock ses- iion, the election of Judge Luzon B. Norris of New Haven as governor be- hg involved in the struggle. 4 man Sith less pertinacity and judgment ban Speaker Paige could have easily st control of the situation. Charles Thayer of Norwich was in the Anate leading the democrats of that Rdy with skill and determination. In e house Speaker Paige fought and led in support of the contention that lge Morris had not been elected and t Governor Morgan G. Bulkeley was facto governor under the constitu- h. The firmness of Speaker Paige resisting every attempt for a joint #sion of the house and senate but Used the republican position through X two years. The decision of the su- ne court in the end sustained the tion taken by the republican lead in the state. Speaker Paige was lltering in his support of the party Tas one of the foremost factors in domination and election of Cover
 George P. Mclean, submerging his
 political interests at the time to
 npass that result. Two years ago as the one man upon whom Gov
 Bulkeley depended for election
 United States senate. Speaker
 was the leader of the republican
 in the legislature which made
 lor Rulkeley United States sem
 SAhen the contest was unexpect-
 & upon the general assembly
 Ing Senator Platt's successor
 ition taken by Senator Paige
 of great importance as affect
 interests of the republican
 Connecticut. He took the
 that the two United States
 should not be given to Hart
 lnty. Governor George P Me-
 as placed in the arena by Unit
 es Senator Bulkeley, who led
 laged the canvas In support of
 r Mclean. It was at this
 that Senator Paige took a
 view of state politics than the
 h whom he had been allied
 e campaign that resulted in
 V McLean's election. He head
 forces in the legislature that
 Senator Bulkeley's project for
 ction of Governor Mclean as
 Platt's successor The time Is
 knt when republicans through
 state will acknowledge the po-
 stuteness of Senator Paige in
 the decision that made Sena-
 seley's project impracticable. It
 difficult to see even now what
 e republican party would have
 lave been in Connecticut had
 ership of Senator Bulkeley been
 It was Senator Paige who