Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-07-31
LILLEY HARD HIT
BssmjrchiDg ot Bis Friends
 Names Sharply Recalled.

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 The Journal-Courier in comment ing upon the special" from Water bury to the Hartford Times on We'd nesday evening had word or two this morning on its editorial page as follows:
 We are more pleased than displeas- ed that the esteemed Hartford Times should have permitted itself to be de- liberately imposed upon, in its issue of Wednesday evening, by corre- i spondent writing under the date line of Waterbury. It gives us an unex- l pected but none the less welcome op- portunity to again illustrate the Lil- l ley method of campaigning, whether 1 the object of his reckless attack be a l United States congressman or the ed- i itor of the New Haven Journal-Cour- l fer We should not notice the mali cious falsehoods at all, so far as they | relate to us, were it not for the fact that they display the same dangerous l indifference to the truth and the same brutal disregard of the good name of others, which has compelled every open minded man, who has read the stenographic report of the Lilley in- vestigating committee, to view MT Lilley's possible elevation to the gov ernorship of Connecticut with pro- found humiliation.
 | In speaking of the attitude of the iJournal-Courier towards MT Lilley's candidacy, the Waterbury correspon- dent alluded to says that the general opinion Gin that city) now is that this attack is inspired by the submarine boat interests which came near suf- 1 fering at Lilley's hands last spring" ," That is the most Lilleyesque assertion yet made and can safely and logically be filed away with that gentleman's assurance given the congressional committee on rules under the sharp examination of Mir Dalzell, that he was led to open his eyes to the dis honesty of the Holland boat people by the deliberate attempt made by three of his own constituents to influence his vote, as a member of the commit tee on naval affairs, in a manner to arouse his suspicious and provoke his indignation. These three gentlemen were John P. Kellogg, assistant states attorney and at one time chairman of the republican town committee of Waterbury; Franklin A. Taylor, vice-president and general manager of the Randolph-C Gloves Co and Charles Ferry, metallurgist of the Bridgeport Brass Co, of which F. J. Kingsbury, Jr, Is president.
 If one will turn to the stenographic report of the severe examination of these three gentlemen by the investi- gating committee, he will be carried irresistibly to the conclusion that MT Lilley used their names without war with almost fiendish malice. As Mir Lilley himself said to one of them, who asked him in the presence of the editor of this newspaper, why he had
 used them so badly: ''I had my back against the wall and had to fight my way out" That was his only excuse for besmirching the regulations of
 honorable men. two of whom were
 personal friends, and it is his excuse
 now in undertaking to explain, in a
 manifestly vicious and untruthful manner, an opposition to his candida cy. which is personal in no sense
 whatever. but which is based exclu-
 sively on the revelation made at
 Washington to his reckless and au-
 dacious use of hotel lobby gossip. If more Is needed to better understand the unreliable operations of Mir Lil-
 ley's mind in connection with politi- cal matters than the submarine inves- . tigation, the letter printed in the col umns of the Hartford Times is suffi- cient. If he did not actually inspire it. it Is obvious that 1t meets with his heartlest approval for it reflects the manner in which he does things when his back is up against the wall In spite of the fact that We have
 stated in a manner, which permits of no intelligent doubt, that every com
 munication, whether signed or un-
 signed, which has appeared in these columns has a voting citizen back of it, the Waterbury correspondent of the Hartford Times, speaking Of a
 communication printed in the col
 umns of this newspaper under a Wa. terbury date line, says that Water
 bury men claim to have knowledge
 coming directly from the Journal
 Courier office" that 1t was written in
 this office. We assert without fear of contradiction that any aspiranttopub-
 lie office. who feels obliged to meet a
 just criticism of his public acts with such mad aspersions. instead of mak-
 ing good with the proof of his origi- nal charges. is fit only for the medita-
 ton of private life. The friends of Mir Lilley have reason to advise him
 to rely on the promises made him a , year and a half ago to get the nomi- nation for governor and to fling away the pen"