The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-10
THE LILLEY CANDIDACY.

THE LILLEY CANDIDACY.
 Strictly in accordance with the agree ment entered into more than year and half ago, the Republican state convention yesterday nominated George l.. Lilley of Waterbury for governor, The nominating convention gave the preponderance of cheers to Governor Woodruff but the votes went to the eminent nachinist from the Brass City just as 1t has been recorded in the se- cret archives of the organization they would.
 z The candidacy of Mir. Lilley involves Issues of such striking force that to ig- of responsibility on the part of the op- position. He comes before the elector- ate without a program, and he will re- main without one until his masters have provided 1t. His only claim to the nomination lies in party contribu- tions, party regularity and personal pledges obtained when the people were watching the administration of the man he seeks to succeed, He is a ma chine made candidate for an office for which he has shown no aptitude and much temperamental unfitness He can bring to the discharge of its duties no such preparation in the public ser vice as to entitlc his bid for votes to the slightest respect, while his profess sions of fitness are of nature to award him an assured calm in private life.
 His nomination involves the delib- crate repudiation of an administration which took It's oath of office seriously, fought the professional lobbyists fear lessly and strove diligently to introduce improvements In government which had received the acclaim of the people and the press It Is of no account whatever that the Courage and abIl- ity' of the repudiated governor Is praised in words which wither on the lips of an honest voter; the platform is as silent as the tomb upon the practi- cal reforms in which the people are in- terested With Governor Woodruff goes his policies and all that pertains in his official conduct to the purinca tion of boss ridden state and the h. tsoduction of more representative forms of popular control. The very manner in which this emancipation of the ma. chine from crowding doubts and fears has been accomplished should be enough In itself to at once shape pub. lie opinion In resistance
 MT. Lilley's nomination means. the deceitful manipulation of one tradition in order that Governor Woodruff might be put out bag and baggage, and the deliberate neglect of another tradition that Lieutenant Governor Lake might be taught better manners when seeking political preferment in Connecticut And 1t has all been shamelessly done to perpetuate a machine in power, which seeks now to become the absolute mas te- of the offices and the halls of legis lation. A more perfect combination tc effect this purpose was never planned in secret and grimly carried out in pub He, Later If the ticket is successful at the polls will come the additional forms of political elavery--the house spoakerehip, the president pro tenn 0 the senate and then for holiday on Capitol Hill.
 MT. Lilley's nomination involves the insolent neglect of the feelings of Con. necticut business interests, which lie a the very foundation of our prosperity and which have the deepest interest h the Cl1hTdCIer or lflelT servants. HdV)0j respectfully presented their views tt the bosses in whose hands lay the leash which held the delegates, the, were first insulted, then cajolet and then dismissed from the roya presence with the parting injunction ringing in their ears, that Allah hat spoken and his dccrees would be re- corded in the morning-"the cold gra, dawn of the morning after These wer, not mere industrial leaders, they wer, industrial leaders who have alway supported the Republican ticket witt their votes and contributions, Whel any political organization thus treat the commercial bone and sinew of tn state, its motives may well be inquir ed into more completely, It's slneerit questioned and its sanity impugned.
 MT. Lilley's nomination Is a stinginl insult to the congress of the Unite