The morning journal-courier., 1908-12-01

gets a good deal nearer to them and can accomplish 8 good deal more than 1T their relations were purely o'- 1cial, It ls too bad that our gover- nors are obliged, in order 10 carry out Important executive policies, to resort to this kind of method to exercise in- duence, A Connecticut governor like any other governor should nave at least a veto power On the other hand it Is also too bad to confne the privilege of entertaining to very rich governors"
 Of a governors right to hire mansion, though why 1t should be called a mansion we do not see, there can he no question If he has the price and wishes to use it in that way there should be no one to discuss the act What interests US more Is the philosophy of our Waterbury contem- porary We have never known before that the governors of Connecticut have been obliged to resort to enter tanlng in order to accomplish things of concern to the welfare of the peo- pie of the state. It can only he upon the theory that the nearest way to a mans mind is through his stomach that the suggestion can he seriously made, And it can only be upon the modern theory that an executive has something more Co do than recom- mend and approve new legislation that the suggestion can be seriously urged It may, perhaps, be an old fashioned idea, but there is yet wisdom in it., that the relations of the executive and legislative department should be off, cial rather than social SO far as ac- complishment Is concerned. Connec- ticut has never mad a governor who took himself SO infallbly as to ln- terpret his duties in the way here sug- gested and we fear if there ever is one of that sort he will come upon disappointment.
 As to whether the governor of Con nectlcut should be given suca veto power as the average American gov- ernor has there Is room for discus sion. It was the belief of former Gov ernor Luzon B. Morris that as a rule legislation which comes to a governor with the support of a large majority of the general assembly, deserved or rather commanded his approval. In the course of the proceedings of the constitutional convention when 1t was proposed to enlarge the veto power of the governor, Mir. Waller, a for mer governor, argued stoutly against it on the ground, 1T we remember cor rectly that that official should rely upon the moral power of the office to accomplish nls ends with tho legisla- ture; that if such moral power was
 ineffective the chances arc that the governors attitude would not bear close examination, In other words, anything which tends to add to the arbitrary view of the power of the office snould be avoided and 1t Is in- teresting to recall that the convention | subscribed to Mir. Walters view. and declined to enlarge the executive au- thority.
 The best way, after all, In a state the size of Connecticut, Is to move along according to tradition So faI as the governorship is concerned there is no need for introducing new prac-
 tices, that Is beyond the proper and l personal views of each particular in. cumbent Governor Woodruff would
 have been no more successful wit I his reform views had he maintained a
 mansion at Hartford. The bunch wa,
 against him for reasons which would
 have outweighed q reception following
 a good dinner