The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-16
A MAN OF LETTERS.

\ MAN OF LETTERS.
 The state republican machine mag mates, we should think must be eX- perienclng feeling very much akin to the provcrbial father who anxious ly awaited specific information as to whether 1t was a boy or girl. only to have the nurse burst In upon nim with the exuberant remark Its twins!" The reason k that the now famous Roosevelt-ta-Lilley letter "is \ twins" There "is two If 'It" And Wherefore the more the wonder If Sle proverhal father, referred to, hastened to his business, upon the re- ceipt of his news. that he might get the wherewithal to provide for two where one had been expected. the state republican machine magnates will now hasten t. find some empty but SSeihiuGlS app upl ldlN Hh'hHS " NA@ plain this latest complication of It's pedigree and candidate.
 The latest attempt of Mir. Lilley to "explain" reminds one Of the hefud- dled explanations of the typical mirth- producing funny men in the comic operas. It now develops that the specific letter which Mir Lilley re- ferred to, when he said Mir. Roosevelt had written him to cordially wish him success in his campaign, was not the same letter which Mir. Lilley read be- fore the Taft club of Waterbury on Tuesday night According to his way of thinking, We suppose the Connec- thinking that the letter he read was the one which was being so much talked of, and which had been summa- rily demanded and expected, not even when MT. Liley made no effort at the time of reading It to explain that it was other than the ''one and only" A specific demand had been made for a specific letter which he had referred to in a specific way. What more log ical, MT. Llley would tell us, than that he should read another letter ? And what more illogical than that the public should jump at the pre- sumption that 1t waA the letter ex- pected in the absence of any expla- nation otherwise2 We have the word of the Waterbury American for it. 8 paper very close to Mir. Llley that the letter read by him was written by MT Roosevelt under the date line of October 10, which was some time later than the letter which had been expected and which had been referred to by him
 When MT. Lilley said a few days ago that he had received q letter from MT. Roosevelt commenting his cause The Journal Courier felt justified ir questioning his statement. If tht much wanted letter has not even ye been produced, we are even more in. cined to question him now because of his delay In producing 1t and be, cause of his unquestionable attempt tc throw the public off the scent by of fcring another document. If we know anything about MT Llley, from formei experience with his methods, we ar, inclined to the belief that, had he eve, received an ut-and out endorsement of his candidacy from the presiden in a letter, the next batch of statt papers, morning or afternoon, as tn, case might be, would not have com, soon enough for him to hand over tt them, in toto, the whole documen that they might print 1t. Much as i may 6e regretted, our president l,al time and again shown himself willin, TO use his executive station to furthe tho political ends of certain near ff0nds But there is reason to be lieve that Mr. Roosevelt hae not aide' tho republican guoernatorial can didate in this state ono iora,
 The Journal-Courier takes oceasio, to make another demand for that let ter, the right one written acme tim earlier than October 10th" Mir. LII ley has cried Wolf once too often Mir Lilley made 6 record in congres such as gave hls glrbernatoral candi dacy in Connecticut q political hlaci eyc from the start Flo has followed I'D that record in Che present cam paign with series Of "Lilley-ians of which his puolo utiiten contra