Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-12
HEARD IN PASSING.

In recent speech at Utica, N. Y., Secretary Cortelyou urged the busi- | ness men to take a greater interest ill politics. Can it be possible that the
 next republican campaign fund is to be placed on an interest bearing
 basis New Haven Union. -.... The Brooklyn police have been, in- structed to see to it that kissing in | Prospect park be limited to one sec
 ond per kiss. The police inspector
 says people do not like to see it. Yet
 they go to the theater and pay S2 Il
 throw to see the soul kiss acted out
 Morning Journal-Courier.
 Public service commission of New
 York has found out that 8 per cent
 of the gas meters in this city are fast, and only II per cent correct, but you can bet that the favored II per
 cent of the consumers do as much kicking as their less fortunate brother consumers.-Bridgeport Post.
 We fancy that the Rev Henry S. Dawson, an Episcopal clergyman at
 Canton, O., is standing with reluct-
 ant feet about this time. A woman
 (of course) formerly of this city, has
 willed him an estate of $10,O00 if he
 will join another church. This is one
 of those bequests which cause the
 judges of our courts to earn their
 salaries-for they usually have to set
 tie such matters.-New Haven Pal
 ladium.
 Winston s. Churchill has been
 elected to the House of Commons from Dundee by d substantial plur- ality against three candidates in q campaign that was not without its ludicrous features. He was uncom- plimentary in his remarks concerning the suffragettes and q leading repre- sentative of that element, Miss Ma loney, broke up one of his meetings by the ringing of a COW bell.-New Britain Herald.
 The longtime sadness of the Fair banks boom is deepened by the news that Taft has captured Kentucky. It had been the fond hope of the Fair banks men that they might be per mitted to keep the vote of Kentucky with that of Indiana to make re- spectable showing for their candidate but the hustling Taft managers have purloined Kentucky under their very noses. It's just like finding money, to have Kentucky go to Taft.-New Haven Register.
 While some of the states have strug- gled along more or less complacently under the constitution since that great document was framed, it Is already galling the shoulders of the youngest member of the family of states. Okla hOma proposes immediate amendment of the fundamental law of the union It desires election of senators in con gress by direct vote of the people, au- of graduated income tax and universal employers liability AnsOnia Sentinel.
 Up in Worcester some of the people are complaining because under the no-license experiment, druggists li- censes are being issued. The law of is to the effect that they may be issued, and there is good au- thOrity for the opinion that they must be issued. Worcester ought to have taken this into account when she voted no license. The mo" vote has no bearing whatever on the druggists licenses. as the law explicitly states. New Bedford Standard.
 X bronze statue of Alexander Ham, ilton. of heroic size. by that admirable sculptor. William Ordway Partridge. is to be unveiled in the grounds Of Columbia University on the afternoon of commencement day. the 27th inst. IL is the gift of the alumni and the college. Hamilton is represented as the orator. in the convention at POughkeepsie called to ratify the cor stitution, and the statue Is an original portrait, resulting from Mir Part ] ridges study of all available represen- tations of Hamilton.-Springiield Re- publican.