Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-20
DEMOCRATS HOLD A HOUSING RALLY
Candidates Robertson and Avery and Ex-Governor Waller Made M dessesTx Collector Reeves Speeches of Introduction Right
 to the Point-Marching Club Out in Full Force.

eh'hb ehas He Hnn Suiu ID true WhAtc
 everything that Cannon and $.
 man, the would be vice-presid'
 and the other sons of Ananias 10
 false. Can l do more than that!
 Not a word that I, as a friend. would
 not want him to say about me If l.
 were in the same position.
 MT Lilley has been my personal
 friend for years and there Is no man
 in the state against whom have less
 personal reasons to say a word
 against But based on the as-
 sumption that all his stories are
 true and that the words liar
 'forgerer' and 'perjurer,' are false,
 although think he agrees to forger-
 CT, l say he should not be elected
 governor" Waller went at 1t in a
 roundabout but interesting way but
 the scoring he gave Lilley was
 scourging. He went back to a case
 he had in New York some years ago.
 A woman died in Hartford leaving
 her estate to man whom she
 thought was her husband. It tur
 ed out that he had been married
 two years to another woman who
 lived a few blocks away. Cover,
 Waller was hired to break the will, did break it and afterwards effected compromise with the man to whom
 the money was originally left, the false husband as 1t were. The hus-
 band agreed to settle for one fourth of the estate. Allan Paige
 Bridgeport was also in the case,
 A couple of years later the hus-
 band brought suit against Waller and Paige claiming that they had procured his signature to the papers fraudulently. The case finally came to trial in New York and lasted three weeks. But before went on the stand" said Waller, T told my counsel not to question me in the usual manner Do not ask me If were governor of Connecticut, ds not make me tell that I was your consul general at Great Britain. Now why did I not want to be vim dicated by the state of Connecticut when New York papers were de- nouncing me as fraud. 1 did not want this state to clear me of doubt ful charges, l wanted to do so n1y- self. Do you suppose when I came back to Connecticut that if I had been offered the nomination for gov ernor would have accepted. Do you for a moment think that if l was be- ing called forgerer, liar, concealer of papers, even though the charges were untrue, that would accept the nomination even though it was offered me should say would not. If had, where would have stood? I would stand just where my friend Lilley stands to-day, even though he may be innocent.
 What Lilley should have done and he will regret to his dying day that he did not do 1t whether elect- ed or not, was to have gone back to Washington. That's the place he should have gone to fight 1t out, said Waller. If in the wrong he should have told them so. It would have been better for him to fight it out and be carried back to Connec- ticut on his shield than to come scurrying back carrying his shield. If he were innocent he should have fought all the harder. I tell you this although it grieves me, because he is one of my closest friends out side of my own family Liliey should go on the stand and tell who put him up to it, who they are ana what they are. Explain how that miserable little fellow so called got m bv the side of Taft. Then say if ha has the courage on election day to vote against that man who called him liar, perjurer. forger, unnf 70 sit in congress, if he has the courage to vote against him, will cast my ballot for Lilley.
 But I will give him remedy to get him out of this fix which the re- nublican leaders seem unable to do. have been flying between he state and President Roosevelt like wireless telegrams, but all to no effect. But go to Washington again, MT Lilley. and do all in your power to get back to congress. There IS an other man going there, or at least thinks he is on his way. Go to him and tell him that you will swap places with him. You go on the ticket for congress and let him run for governor. Neither of you will reach your destination, but you VIII have done all in your power for the welfare of Connecticut. One word more. MT Eflley. Be quiet # you ,an: a man when he is politically dead ought to know it"
 Governor Waller also spoke on the right of trial by jury and said that Tor the first time in thirty years un- der republican rule the people Of were enjoying this right, procured mainly through the agita- ion of the democrats. He stated how a republican senate in 1898 had ratified the very thing which they were now denouncing in the demo- cratic platform. On the guarantee ,f bank deposits he put over some telling blows and poked Mir Hilfs theory right in the ribs.
 When expressing the democratic dea of the Income tax he had his audience almost spellbound. Do rou want this kind of tax?" he said. If you do say Aye" You could nave heard the response in Nausa- tuck.
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