The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-09
MACHINE GOVERNMENT.

MACHINE GOVEHNMENb Today Is likely to show the fuii fruition of machine rule In the state of SO far as the Republican party is concerned. program will be carried out ,which had it's inception, not in the needs of the state but In the needs of the party organization This ie not only denied but admitted In pri- yate conversation by the very men who propose to fulfll today the kind of A,ntract which In the long run must ,rA,ke a farce of representative gov erAnent.
 MA one questions the need of party orsaYA'sation and party leadership. They are as necessary as organization and lead ership in a business enterprise, but a bMsiness enterprise, which vac conducted Ayithout regard for the well faro of those intits employ AS well as for those who are It's stockholders would soon be In, the hands Of re- ce,ver The kind of political machine from which men shrink Is that which undertakes to manipulate the state for the benefit of few interruptions men, q machine which has its eyes upon the executive chamber, the halls Of legis- lation and the offices to be filled. It Is not easy to realize this sort of politi- cal comprehension because the average man knows nothing of it. It Is his part in the comedy to visit the polls at stat k .d intervals and cast the ballot pre- n red without his aid. It begins to .-s,A l. however. as if the people Of the staN> of Connecticut were to receive a lessdy1 in the art of working a machine which may provoke their resentment.
 It Is Absurd to talk about the neces- sary redemption of a promise made a year and<a half ago for political req eons then h2-sibly pressing, in view of Athe situation\ which has since been ! roreatcd. It isstrue that such proms- eA have been made before and Con- neA.icut has not been sufferer but not b promise which involved the abanA,nment of man. who has re- ceived the acclaim of the entire state press, and the, substitution of another who is absolutely without other pollti- cal ,desls than Nsuch as the committee on resolutions wiN present him today. A political machine which will delib- erately ignore the service of a man in office, who hes been ahle to only parti- ally fulfill his pledges though willing to redeem them all. and to turn its back upon its own promises given In the form of party platform for no visible purpose of dignihed character, Is the kind of machine the people have reason to fear and to repudiate. No man can afford to be the benefici- ary of such a power; no voter can af- ford to trust the man who Is willing tc be the beneficiary of such power. Governor Rollin S.. Woodruff has <. tood for certain definite things of the pa litical life of Connecticut, and In his deh srmination to achieve them with the ,narH fest approval of the people he has been Noppcsed by the very interests which gre evidently in control of the RepublicLtn convention today Govern or woodruff has advocated the creation Of public<ptillties commission to take the place of she present railroad com mission, not fdg the purpose of annoy ing and irritating the public service corporations, but fort sthe purpose of properly guarding the interests of tho public against whatevar evils Turk IT the recognition of thosescorporations a. raturaN monopolies. Governor Wood ruff hasAadvocsted the establishment ol a purchasing department m the stat government, which shall reduce possi
 bly the cost to the taxpayers of tho
 care of public institutions. Governo Woodruff has stood as a sentinel at thu
 cross roads warning the advocates O
 special interests that the general vel
 fare of the people should be conserved
 and he succeeded in influencing tn
 legislature to enact trial by jury law
 A dozen other Improvements In gov
 ernment, which he has advocated Il
 addresses to the general assembly an
 the public, could be mentioned whte
 go to prove conclusively the recreanc,
 Of a party leadership which enforce
 his retirement from public office, l
 order that another who has no know
 views upon these subjects may succee
 to his honore
 Upon what theory of representativ
 government Is the Republican ccnyen