Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-11-03

AVl RuIe1y prHCLIC8l GG0pUub.
 Which b right? Roth can't b<
 true. And If one Is falss, why may
 1t not be assumed that both ara un
 true and that there waS some other
 tnducement for him to line up with
 the big corporation? Every member
 of that legislature knows that other
 inducements were hOatlng around.
 And note the seond rich and mer.
 " inconsistency. This man who is
 maligning other people from the
 stump as friends of corporations ad-
 mits that he was very friendly with
 the biggest one In the state and actu-
 ally swapped his vote to 1t for con-
 sideration. On pretty good terms
 with 1t, wasn't he?
 Now listen: Mr Donahue says he
 was sent to Hartford to get a trolley
 road. How much did he do to get 1t?
 The Journal of the House for 1901,
 page 233, shows that he did not intro duce the resolution for q Derby New
 Haven road; 1t was introduced by Mir.
 Woodruff of Orange.
 was member of the railroad
 committee of the house during the en-
 tire six months of the 1901 session
 and attended every hearing held by that body. During that whole session
 MT Donahue did not appear before that cOmmittee-not Once-t0 speak
 in behalf of a trolley from Derby to anywhere, and although was active as member of the committee he nev- CT appealed to me in behalf of the citizens of Derby. But he did ask fSS In h ts1 HnkS ~R ,&,psN- that he was at that time leading in
 Waterbury, and I went to considera- ble trouble to comply with his request to bring about settlement between the employers and men.
 Now ncte this: The Journal of the house for 1901, page 7O5, shows that the trolley franchise was granted without any contest whatever on April IS, and that it was more than . month later, on May p, tllnt the big railroad fight was taken up. MT Donahue says that be traded his vote to the Consolidated to get-wnat? A trolley charter that had been granted by unanimous consent month be- fore! And mark you, as late as the night before the vote on the railroad matter Mir Donahue assured me, as the leader of the fight for the little road, that he was with us. If Mir DOnahue changed his mind over night If he made bargain with the big railroad as he admits--the cOnsidera- tlOn was not the trolley charter al- ready granted, but must have been else. Does this man think that he can base his canvass on false- hoods that are so easily disprOven? Why, if he had few more opportu- mites 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 1t; 1t went through by unanimous consent. But are we not justified in believing that if there had been real fight and the company Mir Donahue was 90 friend ly with had again needed his assist ance, be would have suddenly found that the Vanderbilts or the Rocke- felfers were back of the trolley en- terprise?
 And what an admission for a can didate for the peoples trust to make that he made practice of swap ping his vote! l am happy to say that no corporation lobby ever succeeded in convincing me that 1t was neces- sary for me to trade with 1t for legis- lative favors. It has been my expert ence that you can make better terms In the end with cOncenrs that ask un- fair concessions by fighting them and lighting them hard, and that is what did with the Paper trnst, which was eventually broken up: the South nrn Railway mall subsidy, the Ha- waiian Electric Co, and several other concerns.
 Suppose I had withdrawn my reso- luti0n for the investigation of the Paper trust through dicker with it's |obby-and 1t had big one in Wash ngtOn. which labored pretty hard with me. The trust would have been In existence today. If I had bent n ear to the Hawaiian syndi- cate I wouldn't have had to pay my expenses out of my own pocket, as l have done in this and every other Does Connecticut want self. traders and trimmers in congress-, men who denounce corpora tions during campaigns for vot get ting purposes and make bargains with them In of{ice need the vote of their enemies" and Up with the corporations when they need my vote" is the platform of Mir Donahue, according to his own ad- nissions on the stump and his record n the legislature. He cries wolf when he is running for ofYice but when he was in ofYice he wasn't so lfraid of it. He lay down with 1t md beautifully fulfilled the pro- ,hecy of the day when the lamb shall iave no fear of wild beasts.
 But to be absolutely just with Mir Donahue it should be admitted that l n a way he has been consistent in | lighting certain corporations. He has ed several strikes against Connecti- ut industrial concerns in whom thousands of our citizens of modest | means have investment and other l thousands earn q contented living. To To him further justice 1t should be aid that these strikes have been, 90 ar as I have been able to learn. in- failures.
 What . pity that organized labor which has done much good In raising he level of the workingman and is for the most part of peace ! owing and intelligent citizens. should ,e compelled to bear the responsibil- ty of self-seekers who confess to | uch a record. The friends of union i abor are those who tell 1t that only Il vhen 1t puts forward men of clean ands and upright purposes will 1t e accorded the popular trust given