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lakes idea OF POLITICS
JUST LIKE FOOTBALL
In the Game Because He
Likes tiff Nominated
He Will Enter Race.

IF there is any one Of the $40 dele
gates who will nominate me, shall be
in the running"
Mr.. Lakes friends talk little more
freely. In conversation one of them
to-day said
MIR. Lake goes into political con-
tests because he enjoys them, just as
he used to play football. AS in
football also, he would like to win, but
his first consideration is play the
game, getting all he can out Of it, then
if he is defeated, why it is no killing
matter; there will be other days and
! other games, his college diploma did
not depend upon football victories and
| what he counts as his success in life
does not depend upon politics.
Yes, he has fair amount of mon
| ey at his control, and his lumber bust
ness 1 have no doubt is very profitable
But can say this for him that he is
not hunting for a hole to throw money
| into and if the campaign should take
a turn where heavy expenditure were
essential, he would let it slide. Nor
would he have any part in a fight like
| the Warner contest.
''Mr. Lake watches with interest the
working up of Mr.. Lilley's campaign
the Same interest he used to feel at
Harvard in the reports from the Yale
corral, In my opinion most Of this
| somwhat PREMATURE thought perhaps
not unusual newspaper talk-has been
! inspired by Mr., Lilleys hackers And
it may tell to the Congressman's adj
vantage.
"Mr Lflley is good fellow--a
worthy foeman If we may use the
word in friendly strife l cannot my
self feel the same confidence he prob
ably feels in the character of some of
his support, There are certain Incl
dents in the history of the State CEN
trail Committee and of the senatorial
contests the past few years that have
not been forgotten, l suspect, by men
who were not pleased with them al the
time. am not casting any aspers!ons
| upon Mr.. Lilley personally or indivi-
dually but | am thinking how the
working of the machine may be af
fected. If were Mr.. Lilley, ! should
| IGdIs Thai Ol1G VI lNU pUMSLIQA Cl1~
ments that at present are innocuously
| quiescent might not prove emphati-
| cally acquiescent when the critical mo-
ment arrives. In other words, there
are some apparent bedfellows to-day
who, ! believe, must feel the husks in
the mattress and who may thrash the
blankets off just before sun-up.
/ But, however, am not analyzing
the other fellows rainbow It's a long
span from now to the fall Of 1908, Mr..
Lake has been holding down his Job
at the capitol pretty satisfactorily as
/ think all sides vii admit and I
might say he Is depending for the cam
paign wholly on his personality his
personal friendships. He has no hand
made organization and will not have,
He has received many expressions Of
good will and | am Of the opinion that
he will poll more votes for governor
in the convention than he did for leu
tenant governor. FOR one thing, the
opposition put up last year has served
to develop his training, and he knows
more of the points of the game to-day.
Still, he is simply saving wood. i
think you will find his strength in
Litchfield and Middlesex counties in
creased, and that he has lost nothing
in Hartford Tolland, Windham and
New London counties He depends up
on no Civilizations anywhere with any
man. He believes that after all every
so-called leader controls only his own
vote and that results can't be known
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Thus, he is what you might call a
freelance. No proposition has been
made to him for combination, and
none can be made, that he will accept
He has no personal fght against any
man. If some of those opposed to
him have strong sentiments that is no
more than can be expected; there is
nothing personal in it, from his view
point and he is willing to await The
issued He would lose no sleep o.
ayoirdupois if the correspondents
should prophecy his defeat every day.
There ere a good May days altsd,
and there's mo telling, even by a press
bureaG,"
What is said in this ntefv view ahtut
Mr., Lake and his frlen lsulps here Is
true. Whatever may be printed 10 the
contrary. the contest surely has NOT
TAKEN on q personal natate, and prob
at. VIZ not. Congressman Llleys
lends ana they are many--usually
leak something like this, "What 40
you think of Lilley's chances And
then answer themselves; r think
they are pretty good, dom year.
Even there it is seen the character o.
the talk is all of as preliminary ma
ture as the action Of the small boy
: who gets down to the water in the
spring and tests the temperature OF
: the pond before he begins to strip fol
, a plunge.
t Chairman Kenealy of the state cen
: trail committee has nothing 70 say ion
S publication. 1t is not believed lat he
/ Is Lake man, nor yet has he put of
S from the shore to gather lilies from
9 the lake. Perhaps the fact that his
: predecessor, Andrew T. Gates Of Hart
. | ford, and his circle, are Watching t.
: see how Mr. Kenealy conducts him.
. self in the situation has something tc
S do not only with the sphinix-like ex
t preston In Mr. Kenealy's own face bu
f in the approach -one-noW manner Ct
certain of his associates on Che com
a nittee
Again, the public is pretty watchfu
: this time. Deals or combinations, some
times SO essential to the smooth work
i ing of machinery, are intoierable. Their
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