Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-04
HEARD IN PASSING.

uS Sccms tO uS ndklug StuTQy eI- fort to qualify for his shoes as the national representative of Iyaak Walton.-New Haven Register.
 The assertion that any man can get wife nowadays by making lit, tie effort seems borne out by the fact that Rabbi Wolinsky of Brook lyn, who claims to be 106 years old, has been married again.-New Lon- don Day.
 Congressman Lilley appears to have captured the republican nomina- tion for governor of Connecticut we'll in advance of the convention by a large majority. It is tolerably ap- parent that the displeasure and cen. sure of his fellow congressman in Washington don't count for much down in Connecticut, excepting, per, haps, as a decoration. n.-Boston Her aid.
 And just ahead is Labor day, which after trial of 19 years. has gained in popularity throughout the land, becoming of as much signifi- canoe to the families of wage-earn. CTS as to the trades unions them selves. In recent years it has been observed as a day of recreation, rath- CT than One of demonstration. More over, it is conceded there is more honor in work than in talking about it.-Ansonia Sentinel.
 Postmaster General Meyer, who is in position to hear things and to read the. nations postcards, impress lively warns the republican managers that Eff interest is not sufficiently aroused and the importance of this coming election fully appreciated, several states may be lost by de- fault" This does not exactly har- monize with what Hitchcock is say- ing. However, consistency is not a republican jaWel.-Exchange. .,..
 Bryan's banking scheme is plausi- ble. so they say. Bryan's own indi- vidual banking scheme is the most plausible, however, and it is to his credit that he has made a fortune while abused from one end of the country to the other. As nation we judge individuals by the amount of money they accumulate and Bryan must be chased among the most successful, having become independ- ently rich in 12 years.-Middletow Press. .4
 Senator LaFollette's remark that while he supports Taft, he shall at tack the authors of the republican platform, means among other things, probably, that he is going to try to aid in defeating the reelection of Senator Hopkins of Illinois, who was the chairman of the platform com mittee and who declared, in advo- eating the platform in the convention that the Wisconsin propositions which were voted down were social istic.-Hartford Times.
 A paper alleged to have been writ ten by the late ex-President Cleve- land was published on Sunday last. It gives high praise to MT Taft and, by inference, antagonizes the Bryan candidacy. No adequate proof of it's authenticity is given, but it's Mt- erary style resembles that of the de- ceased. As he had been known as anti-Bryan, the document adds noth- ing to the public knowledge of either him or. Mir Bryan; it merely voices one mans opinion and he a man of such what We may call radi- cal conservatism that in reform times his opinion counts for little.- Bridgeport Farmer.
 Nothing could be sillier than the claim by the opposition to Mir Lilley that his supremacy in ballot getting throughout the state is the work of the machine and not the outspok- en will of the people. They have worked the people to a realization of the situation by their parading of the unfair and unjust report of the Boutell committee, and they have in- suited the justice of every thought full voter in the state by asking that the finding of that committee be accepted as measure of MT LII ley's ability and competency. To ex- pect this after that finding had met the honest and hearty reproduction of the people without regard to party, was expecting the impossible and asking that which they them selves had repudiated The consist ency and sense of right of the peo- pie could not have been appealed to more forcibly and the answer will he found in the nomination and cleo tion of MT Lilley. by the people, Standard.