The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-03

De above the charge or even the sus- picion of guilt.
 While on the contrary fin his case, he requested his colleagues to permit the charges to go unchallenged and he himself in effect pleaded guilty to them by staying away from the tri- bunal when they were proclaimed, and without asking for time to pre- pare his answer or confront hls ac- cusers. When the earnest protest of this body of republican representa- lives in the industries of the state or more than $50,000000 of capital when their earnest protest was ua- needed, and their party bosses had insultingly triumphed over 1t, they resolved for their party's sake that they would fight the forced and unfit nomination till the last ballot was deposited and their last shot was fred So far they have vallantly done so, and successfully done so too, as l believe the ballot will show when they are counted before this hour to-mor- row.
 And their fight has heen-as their triumph will be--their party fight and their party triumph. It will result in ending in ths state in either party, l the making of party candidates by three or four party bosses, defiant of the will and the wishes of the best | element of the party they assume to | boss.
 As a partisan, I regret that the re- publican independents I speak of who vote again MT, Lilley will not vote against Mir Taft, but l am sure that they would vote against him much as they admire him If they knew he were charged with the crimes MT, Lilley Is charged with and by the same men if such charges still hung over him as those that hang over Lll- ley unanswered and unconfronted hy him. The gravity, If not the disgrace of the situation in which the republi- can party bosses have put Mir, Lllley, his party, and his state Is shown in this, that MT Taft as presidential can dldatc does not allow himself to rec oggize or speak a word in favor of the republican candidate for governor, though he sits on the same platform behind him at the late Taft reception in the city of New Haven.
 While an hour or two later in New York he devoted half of his speech to promoting the success of the repub- lican candidate for the same position in our sister state
 Has 1t come to this, that the bosses shall succeed when they force a man for governor who cannot be well spok- en of hy the presidential candidate even in his presence Mir. Taft's si- lence meant just what Mr. Palmer and his associate independents meant when they opposed the nomination of Mir. Lilley at the convention and when they oppose his election now. It does not mean personal enmity per sonal prejudice, or party disloyality. II means only this, that until Mir. Lil- ley's vlndlcaton of himself by cour- ageously fighting and by ample proof against the charges made against him, he ought not to expose himself to a 'dliAlIhdNO lVl lllt DbHOldDlt bllltt DI governor of Connecticut.
 "Let MT. I.illey go back to con gross and in a speech on the floor ! not only defy his accusers, but prove f he can, and God knows l hope Inc can. that he is not a liar, a periurer or concealer of proof that might II produced convict him. Then let hin come back and his party and his fel- low citizens will welcome him to any honor his capacity and ambition may ask of them"