The morning journal-courier., 1908-10-21

---------------.---------- Is 1t necessary to tell you that al- most the only obstacls to the soyer- nor's plan for a public service com mission was the lobby, supported by the interests that would have been directly affected by such legtslation?' Now, having said 80 much he should say more He should give the names of tho men who were employed t5 ob- struct the progress of the governors program of reform and tell what their mysterious power was over the members of the legislature, who saw to 1t that, even when a commission to inquire into proposed public service legislation was granted, the power to appoint the commissioners was denied the governor, He won't have to go far outside of his own political house. hold His own visiting list will be quite sufficient to suggest the right names.
 MT Lilley speaking of conditions in his own town of Waterbury, said Tn my own city of Waterbury the street railway rights were granted to an alien corporation composed chiefly of Philadelphia capitalists in perpetuity and without dollar of compensa- tion.' Again: But tho people were not vigilant In these days and the agents of the company were 'on the job at Hartford and this source of vast income was lost to the municipal lty forever To-day owing to other legislation subsequently secured, the railway Is grossly oyercaptali2ed, and out of the pockets of the people must come the money to provide a fair re- turn on the watered capital" All tho ills to which the state has fallen heir Mir. Lilley charges up to the lobby and demands that 1t shall be cleaned out.
 These arc very serious charges, ant they are true, but Mr.. Lilley should remember that they are charge, brought against the machine leaders of the party of which he Is the can didato for governor anu against th, very men who forced his nomination upon his party and who are to-da, carrying the burden of his election | Did a single one of these gentlemen offer his services to Governor Wood ruff when that official was at work oi the public utilities proposition? Dh they not all give aid and comfort L the governors enemies? To be speci hc, did Mir Lilley's chief poitica sponsor, Railroad Commission O. R . Fyler, lift his voice in protest whcl the injustice was done the city of Wa terbury of which Mir. Liley now S loudly complains? By merely raisin his voice Mir. FNler could have stoppe that particular outrage and every cor responding outrage, and it Is the opin ion of many that 1t was his duty, as a
 officer of the state appointed to guar
 it's interests in railroad matters, | do SO
 Mir. Lllleys speech is a fearful in
 dlctnent of the republican party ma
 chine, which the independent rcpuf
 llcan voters of the state have deter
 mined to smash in November. A
 the door of that machine can be lai
 all of the evils done by lobby mett
 ods, all of the iniqutous leglslatio
 which has been enacted and fnall the low tone of political morals the state of Connecticut The men
 bers of that machine are the politics | intimates of Mir. Lilley and for hii
 now to ask the voters to aid him , the task of retiring his polite friends and comsellors to private H
 because of the wlckedness they ha, done is too much. Once more quote the words of Nirgl I fear C r Greeks, even when they offer pre- s cnts.'