Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-06-13
HOT FOR POLITICS
But Inc Fall Campaign Is Begin
 DIns 10 Gel in Shape.

Things are rather quiet in local politics, but this will not be so much longer unless all signs of the times fall. The republicans expect lot of trouble in their own camp on ac- count of the feeling over the Lilley imbroglio at Washington and to add to this there Is the charge that the o is not doing the right thing by the people and that it is about time we had change and gave the other fellows an opportunity 10 make good if the stuff is in them. A rather strange thing about the re- port of the Lilley airing is that re- publicans are very anxious to get not only the book containing the re port of the committee into the hands of the public, but they are also send ing the matter in two indexed vol umes, containing all the evidence submitted wl.A charts and so forth to make things as clear as possible. The people are reading these books and the closer they look into them the more they wonder what has be- come of the press of Connecticut
 Every man you meet who has gone into the evidence, not as he found :t in the papers but as it appears in the official documents, makes no bones of stating that George was lucky to get out of the tangle with out more serious trouble. The strongest point they see in the book in favor of the committee is that MT Lilley was asked if he had any fur ther evidence to introduce, anybody he wanted sent for whom he thought could throw some light upon the case or in any way dig up some thing that had been overlooked, he frankly admitted that he had told all he knew, and as there was noth- ing to what he had charged, then of course his case fell fiat. Of course here and there you meet man who takes the newspaper version Of it, but even he claims that the thing was hard blow to the party. If Lilley was right the whole bunch that runs things in Washington ought to be in jail and in arguing that he was right the republican press is unconsciously building up an argument against the g O D which 1t will find hard to explain away at the election when the party asks to be returned to power for four years more. The matter is in the hands of able men, but even at that 1t will tax them to their wits end to put Lilley in favorable light before the people of the state and at the same time vindicate the republican parry whose agents and Spokesmen Boutell and his committee are. If Lilley was right surely there is something rot ten among the republican leaders at Washington and no good citizen can vote to maintain such management. On the other hand, If Lilley erred he is bold, bad man and should be kept on probation for season. One thing is certain and that is that both par ties to this great public scandal can not be right. The republican mana gers are aware of this and wise as they are they have not yet hit upon plan that will insure safety at the polls for both parties to the tilt. The man who supports Lilley cannot con- sistently follow where Cannon. Bou- tell and their colleagues lead. and the man who stands with Cannon and Boutell will not be likely to vote for Lilley. There Is just one way out of it and save both, and that it to for get it, but the party finds 1t out of the question to keep 1t in the back ground.