The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-14
JUDGE RoBERrsoNs VIEWS.

JUDGE RoBERTsoNs VIEWS.
 Those who expected Judge Robert son to run to cover as a director in several public service corporations be- cause of Mir. Lilley's approval of a proposed public utilities commission, with sufficient power to make the cor porations feel the restraint of state needs, have already been disappoint- ed. In an interview with the New Haven correspondent of the New York Herald he makes 1t clear to every fair minded man that if elected gov ernor he will serve the people first, Mast and all the time to the best of His ability.
 Judge Robertsons words are these; "As far as my influence as director goes l will not allow those corpora tions or any other that l may be con nected with to ask of the legislature and the state anything that anybody would justly critclse. But If they should ask anything that could justly be criticised l should take stand against that request and that corpo- ration so asking would have no stronger opponent in either branch of the general assembly than A. Heaton Robertson. will not permit any in- dividual nor any collection of men to dictate i'd me. But believe that tho the citizens of the state of Connecti- cut are identical. There ought to be no antagonism between the citizens and the great corporations which have done so much to build up the state and that furnish work and em- ployment directly and indirectly to so many of our citizens. am absolute Jy Independent and I shall remain SO H elected Nobody will run mo, for I intend to do what I believe ia best for the state of Connecticut"
 Spoken like a man and an honest citizen. There is only one ground up- on which these manly statements of Judge Robertson can be rejected, or even suspiciouslY scrutinized, and that is the ground that he is an insincere man and the representative in polt- ics of public service corporations seeking to exploit the state of Conncc- ticut for their own selfish benefit. That that ground Is not tenable for q minute is shown by the high personal character of the boards of directorate in all of the public service corpora tions' of Connecticut. Men have been selected for them because of their business judgment and their reputa- tions in the communities in which they live. To mention some of Judge Robertsons associates in these corpo- rations, we have George ], Brush of this city, formerly the efficient head of the Sheffield scientific school; D. Newton Barney of Pennington, Colo mel Frank w. Cheney of Manchester, Charles F. Brooker of Ansonla, Con- necticut's member of the republican national committee; J. Fl Whttcmore of Naugatuck, James S. Elton of Wa terbury. James S. Hemingway and Frederick F Brewster of thls city.
 Does any sane man suppose for a moment that men of the character 0i these directors are either going to use "Governor" Robertson as wicked tool or to wrest from the people of Connecticut powers which belong tc them and confer them upon the pub lie service corporations, or to order him to do their bidding as contrasted with his own sense of duty? These men are more to be trusted to protect the well being of both the state of Connecticut. upon whose prosperity the value of their properties depends and their corporations than men who have suddenly and for the first time presented themselves to the overtired public as corporation baiters, The Llley camp is crowded with men who have supported the public service cor porations of the state in all of theii demands and includes newspapers which have supported the New Haver Railroad company even to its request to be recognized as q natural monop. oly. Hypercrltical pretenses as to the superior reliability of MT. Mlley, the candidate of the Fyler machine, over Judge Robertson must make the in. habltants of tho yellow building or Meadow street, or at least some oi them, smile knowingly
 Judge Robertson need have no ap.