The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-23
QUERY.


 It Is inconcelvable that the repub- lcan organization of the state of Con nectlcut should permit the state nom mating convention to drift Into d sea of confusion for the want of the proper information to steer 1t straight The national republican convention has nominated for vice president member of congress from the great state of New York by the name of James Schoolcraft Sherman. Mem bers of the Connecticut delegation in congress substantially agree that he Is man of the highest integrity and ability He Is member of the com mittee on rules, which signifies that he Is very close to the throne.
 It Is the we'll known purpose of the' republican organization to nominate for governor George L. Lilley of Wa terbury, member of congress from this state, who, If he maintains speaking relation with MT. Sherman. or Is in turn recognized by Mir Sher- man when they meet the fact may be charged up to ordinary politeness. As the boys say In the street they have no use for each other Mir. Sherman 
 voted for the adoption of the report which so emphatically denounced Mir. Lilley, and Is thought at this moment to still believe that he did the only thing he could possibly do. It has been said, though with what authority we do not know, that before Mir Sher- man was nominated for vice president he had expressed a willingness to en- ter Connecticut and tell the repub- licans all about their congressman at large and warn them against his ex- travagance of speech and unreliable impulse It Is hardly to be expected now that Mir. sherman will either visit Connecticut as he thought at one time that he might do, or that the re- publican state convention will in addi- ton to vlndicating MT Lilley deliber- ately affront the candidate for vice president, which Mir. Lilley's nomina- ton would do. The resultant sltua- tion would be altogether too gro tesque.
 On Tuesday, March IT, Frank B. Lord of the New York Sun testified that in the course of an interview with him Mir. Lllley said; q will tell you these damned submarine people have been grating to both political campaign funds. Jim Sherman Is In the graft, and he is a member of the committee on rules" On March Q Mir Lilley assured MT. Shern an be- fore the committee on rules that l,, had never given such an interview, which later raised a point of veracity between MT. Lllley and MT. Lord, who for fourteen years had been a re- spected correspondent in Washington. On April 2s MT. Sherman was called to the witness stand to testify with regard to conversation he had in the republican coat room with Mir. Lilley. Said MT. Sherman. "A few days before MT Lilley introduced his resolution he called me into the re- publican coat room and showed me a resolution which he said he proposed to introduce. Whether 1t is identical with the one he did introduce of course I cannot now say. l read 1t and can only give the substance of the conversation. He said in sub stance that such a resolution would stir up muss, and intimated that I thought so, too, and he said in sub stance that if the action of the com SAhllCc Souiu bc HloNcu So llldl lHt competition for submarine boats could be to other competitors he would not introduce the resolution, and he asked me to see some members of the naval committee, with the hope that seeing such member might possibly induce the committee to change its action. ' MT Sherman declined to undertake the job.
 This practically covers Mir Sher- mans part in the Lilley investigation of submarine legislation in congress It must be seen at once that 1t places MT. Sherman and Mr. Lllley on differ. ent planes and makes their joint ap. pearance before the voters as claim. ants for their support preposterous If MT. Sherman is right in condemn Ing MT. Lilley for what he did a Washington then Mir. Lilley's cast falls to the ground, and he has nt right to ask for vindication or ever approval at the hands of his party If MT. Lilley Is right in his contention that he is the victim of unfair pla!