Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-01
POLITICAL POINTERS
Robertson ssd LIIIsy Compared
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governor to-day a well known citizen expressed himself thus MT Lilley's highest feather In his hat Is his claim that he Is not a corporation man and that MT Robertson is a director of the railroad company. If Mir Lilley Is not a member of the beef trust. and he says he Is not, he must be first cousin to that omni- vorous corporation. But If MT Robertson Is a director of the rail- road company 1t must be said that the railroad company has given the people of this state voluntarily what the people of other states are clamor- Ing for. that Is the two cent mile rate. Now the beef trust has given the people nothing but high prices when there was no work and no means of obtaining 1t. when in fact people could get along without beef If they had only little bread. But they had neither bread nor beef all summer, yet the beef trust put it's commodity so high that the common people could not reach it. Another thing, the. railroad company Is the most popular concern of the kind in the country. By means of the trolley 1t has developed this state, and par ticularly around Waterbury it has spent millions during the past few years. We have half a dozen exits out of Waterbury now by train and trolley. In fact, while the railroad company of which MT Robertson is a director was giving the people of this community good things at fair price, the beef trust was doing the other thing. I think after all," said this well known citizen, "that MT Lilley has not so much of an argu- ment."
 Every republican asked about the matter to-day agreed that the sena- torial candidate from the fifteenth district will be Senator Irving H. Chase. This will make MT Chase's second term in the senate, for of course he will be elected in that dis trict hands down, as the saying is.
 It is said that the candidate for senator from the sixteenth district, the fourth and fifth wards, will be Henry Weyand, the tinsmith. MT Weyand ran against Attorney Finton J. Phelan four years ago and met the fate that never fails to be the lot of the republican candidates in that district. He was defeated. It is said that he can have the nomination if he cares for 1t. ...
 The republicans will hold their town convention this evening and the fight for the nomination of rep resentative promises to be interest. ing. It seems to be a foregone> con- clusion that Attorney Abner P. Hayes will be the first choice, not withstanding the rumors heard some weeks ago that the republicans were about to throw him overheard. Hayes 1t appears is not nearly as popular as he was two years ago, and the leaders of the party evidently fear that he will be defeated on election day. For the second place Captain Goodrich and Alderman George E. Sellew are running neck and neck. The past couple of weeks Goodrich has been doing much campaigning and is of the opinion that he has overcome the lead which Sellew got in the early part of the campaign. Captain Goodrich was at Hartford for the past two years but the repub- licans must be displeased with his term for they decided to drop him. Alderman Sellew is a practical busi- ness man and would pull strong with his party.