The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-26

and have not yet aroused from tho consequent lethagy
 In commercial life, when We find | a man fitted for his job as we eX- press 1t, and who does his Job, we do | not open the back door and kick him | out, and place an untred one in his posti)l, but striic in all ways to re- tain him. The friends of Governor | Woodruh would nave been glad to give him another term to enable him to carry out certain business changes | in the management of state affairs. Mr. Lllcy is now caamploning them in his speeches as though they were his own The friends of Lieutenant Governor Lake had strong founda- tion for thinking that he should he advanced for as q member of the house tho senate and In his present office he has done excellent work for the state, and of late 1t has been the custom to advance the lieutenant gov crnor In addition tho state Is full of active business men managing large interests, men of affairs" as they are termed, and of sufficient growth to he considered as guhernatorial timber No lacking of excellent ma, teral We might think that these men are doing the objecting but lt Is not SO, they were defeated at the conven- ton have accepted the result and suhslded. Defeated at the convention? ? No; and here comes the rub They were defeated nearly two years ago, not hy the people, but by the machine who selected Mir George L, Lilley, and gave promisory note for four hundred votes payable at the conven- ton, and started immediately to se- cure then1--did it with two to spare. "Tha Connecticut republican ma chine is one of. if not the most pow erful political combination in the coun try, not excepting the notorious Tam many Hall organization of New York l do not admit that it's sources of rev. enue are the same, but for power to compel obedience to its orders fl can give points to the New York organiza ton. and is headed hy boss as ar hitrary and unyielding as ever led the New York voters The one man with | a few lieutenants dominates Conneeti- cut to-day The machine hy reason of methods and ways that have long ex- isted in the towns of nominating dele gates to the various conventions. the method of controlling the town delega lions. the controlling Of the states business by commissioners The sher- frs power with a deputy in every town all aid in making despotic power almost impossible 10 conceive Of as existing in a modern government. II is this machine which by reason of snap-shot caucuses and other acts of political sleieht-of hand, has nominated Mir Lll'ey, and the people could not help themselves II Is this machine that is saving come to the polls on the third of November and carry out our mandate, there are the orders, and these are the facts There are two courses open to the voter, obey orders, or revolt II is up to the individual voter to decide for himself which he will do. That there will be an exten- sve revolt must be evident to every person however remote he may be from political bulletin boards, and reads something beyond his local ma chine governed paper.
 II is well to consider the moral effect the election of Mir Lilley will nave on the party His campaign will lose many votes; his election will tend to still further estrange them, and ultimately they are lost, From this point of view 1t was poor politics to nominate him, A party should al- ways select a winner, not loser of votes. TO young men just entering politics it will say that If they have an ambition for public life 1t can only be achieved through base methods and corrupt actions; that honor, thuthfulness, patriotism and courage count for nothing; that power leads to further power and the only way to obtain 1t is to sacrifice all moral prin- Ciplo and give heed alone to dark and subtle ways. Demoraliaed politics opens the door for greed and graft it brings to tho front class of men that good society will not receive
 having no use for them. Conse- quontly respectable men shun 1t, the party goes from bad to worse, till the wreck comes.
 A very few years ago an exceed ingly prominent politician and mem Der of the machine said to me as he shrugged his shoulders rolled hls segar in his lips and elevated 1t to an angle near the perpendicular God Bowen, your political Ideals are al- together too high for Connecticut