The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-30
BOSSISM IN
 CONNECTICUT Republicans Rebel Against the Workings of the Machine Causes of This De,
 velopment. TYLER AND HIS RECORD Personality of the Boss--Trolley Stock Watering as a Machine y-Product--Anti-Bos
 Movement.
TYLER AND HIS RECORD

A recent issue of tho New York Evening Post contains strong article which shows up the so-called bossism in this machinc-ri ridden state. The ar ticle Is from tho pen of Mir, Clarence Demlng, whose statements on the methods and character of Q. R, Fyler and tho revolt of the republicans throughout the state doubtless will be read with great interest. It Ia AS fol lows:
 With tho possible exception of Rhode Island, no state in the union, through her civic institutions and her politlca hahtudes, so easily adapts herself tC the control of the boss and his ma chine es Connecticut. The tradltiona town-rule polity of the state reaches directly Into the party convention Th' state contains ls cities, with A popula ton at present of about two-thirds th' population of the state. But to a TO publican state convention they sent only about one. fifth of the delegates 4 large group of rural townships with a very small fraction of the pop ulation send 10 such convention probably a clear majority Of the dele gates, and thus an ollgarchy of smal towns controls nominations for stat' officers These little towns have pttl' caucuses easy for a local politician o two to control
 Caucus Registration law.
 As though this were not enough, , caucus registration law passed feV years ago still further, in practice, ha limited the number of party voters on ] titled to vote at the primaries. and ha given those voters 10 very large dc gree tho character of adherents of In local party leader ar leaders, Finally | by custom, republican members of th legislature have kind If pre- -emptiv claim to the caucus election 10 th next state convention There Is thus large number of prospective delegate to the state convention who can h | last Connecticut legislature the repuh lican members numbered 2ls. ar abou two 1fths of tho total roll of stat convention of tho party. As other fac tors of a party or personal ma'hn there are eight state salaried commits sIons. thirty-s six members of tho stat central committee. each representa- a senatorial district three county com missioners for each county. or twenty four in all. practically all politician all republicans, and. as boards of ey else. having purview of the ssloons and. finally 1ss chairman of the tow committees with their subordinat henchmen
 The Machine and Its Maker.
 The checks on an interruptions an selfish party machine should have bee threefold-a strong and respectable nf position party. an assertive press, ar factional resistance within the part. Connecticut for sixteen years has lacl cd the two first. and for some eigl years has lacked the third The defet by large majority In 1924 of the don ocrais. followed by the crushing defei of Bryanism In isa6 and alienation the better democratic clements. mac republican nominations spell election Next the democratic press ran dow and the republican press, with vol few exceptions, has sunk to even low depths II has become non sssertlv non informative, editorially weak, an it is to he feared. in not a few cas directly or indirectly venal Horace Taft brother of tho presidential cal didate. head of successful prepari tory school in Watertown, this stat has been quoted as saying In subsian
 that if srafters stole the state hoU
 the back towns of Connecticut wou never find lt out from the newspaper and it was to hll this void that gave much money and time last sprir to the publication of little pap seeking to expose legislative abuses ar entitled Publicity. Nothing Indeed h
 in civic sense been more ptlahle ar depressing In Connecticut than il spectacle of newspapers edited hy Va 7 graduates consentIng to he the GOES : a vile political machine and grndii up in it their academic ideals But il l machine. under the conditions state ! of course, was installed. Ii crushed U , der it's steam roller what was for , time vigorous factlonal opposition wit in the party reused by the senatorl l aspirations of Sam Fessenden It's chi
 engineer the republican boss of |
 state. and in milder way an an
 loeue of Boss Brayton of Rhode lslan
 Is and has been for years Orsamus ? Fyler of Torrlngton
 Boss Fyler.
 Fyler has been long in state politi, , He served in the Civil war, was woun 1 ed, and carries a crutch; and when l l civic patriotism is assalled he oft : counters with his patriotism during { V war In his partys councils ho h t won his way upward from membersl a of his town committee. has been l member and chairman of the repub : can state central committee, has be l a very active and influential work , in the state house lobby, and is : puted rich man, beginning poor. F
 five years ending in 1893 he was e surance commissioner of the state, a n for nearly eight years has been ra : road commissioner, his term in II O body, with that of his political lie
 tenant, Andrew r. Gates expiring nc
 year and hoth nrartica1lV sura r,f