Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-09

,and experience in American life. He comes from long line of sturdy New I England ancestors Born on farm /, He was early made sensible of all the duties and experiences which come to children of New England farmers of small means. He was obliged to work hard, and very naturally came to know the struggles and aspirations of the toiling masses, and to this day his sympathies remain with "the man with the hoe" His successes have rarely been paralleled, and his good fortune shows that he had the wis., dom to take "the tide in the affairs of men at its food"
 At ten years of age he might have been seen early in the morning de- livering milk from his fathers farm to the factory hands for miles around, afterwards attending the village school at fourteen managing the farm alone and caring for ten milch cows, h6rse and wagon, and ped ding milk and produce from the farm; at seventeen making a success full venture in mercantile business as purchasing agent for his father; at nineteen driving a delivery wagon for one of the branches of the Swift wholesale house. and at twenty-one member of the firm of Lilley, Swift & Co. Success has waited upon him like handmaid at every turn of the wheel of fortune. In 1901 he and served together in the general assem- bly and became fast friends and noth- ing has occurred since to weaken our 1 friendship, or to lessen my admira- tion for him as a public officer, or my belief in him as man. Honesty, ability and fearless devotion to duty were marked characteristics of his work in the legislature, and it made him the logical candidate for con gressman-at-large. His life in con- gress Is an open book wherein every one of his constituents may read of his courageous struggle against ex- travagance and graft. He carried to that larger field the same high stand ard which made his work in the state legislature notable, and he has en- deared himself to us by the great service which he rendered the whole country by fearless attack on the print paper trust. The Southern Railway Mail subsidy, appropriation for the maintenance of useless navy yards, the electric light charter, for the Hawaiians and the monopoly in submarine business
 He is a twentieth century states man, and a part of the great "civic renaissance He believes with his party that the highest aspirations of the American people have found a voice in Theodore Roosevelt. He finds reasonable source of pride in the stewardship of the republican party under whose administrations the na- tional wealth has increased from sI6,0OO,00 to S110,000,000 and the workmen of this country have been enabled to make one-third of all the modern manufactured products of the world; but he believes that manhood the square deal" the awakened con- science, courage and honesty in pub- | lie station, and virtue and honor in private life, are paramount.
 l Some democratic politicians and newspapers have been claiming that Mir Lilley cannot draw the full re- publican vote if nominated. One of their most brilliant writers stated in last Sundays Herald that it is pe- culiar characteristic of the campaign in Connecticut this year that demo- crats are anxious not to have MT Lil- ley nominated for reasons of state pride" Surely this is delicious poli- tical self ahnegation. Think of the hungry democracy of the state being