Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-21
BARBOUR ON LILLEY'
garIisrl illsrssy's Wsfds Arc Coming Trse -lilley Lss.
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(Hartford Times.)

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 Joseph L. Barbour in the New Haven
 house, after yainly trying to convince
 Mr Fyler and other republican lead
 CTS that 1t would be folly to nominate
 MT Lilley for governor, shouted, as he
 was leaving the hotel. If Lilley IS
 nominated there will be h. to pay
 He was laughed at and his threat
 pooh -poohed.
 Time has justified MT Barbour. His
 prophecy has been fulfilled. There
 Is a great deal of dissa tisfaction in
 the republican party, and, If the
 statements, which are heard wherever
 republicans gather in groups or in
 large bodies for the discussion of
 politics, are to be taken as an indi- cation of the sentiment of the state
 MT Lilley Is doomed to defeat. In the words of MT Barbour there will be h. to pay" on election day. Republican machine leaders in Hartford have not been satisfied for some time with the outlook for Mir Lilley in this city. They have preached and talked and shouted for regularity in this year when there is a president to be elected. The re- sponse to their exhortations has not been heartily sympathetic. The lead CTS have had feeling for some weeks that there was something wrong with the situation in Hartford. The indifference shown was attribut- ed to general apathy, that mythical parsonage who has served so often as la convenient and uncomplaining scape-goat for the frigid bearing of voters towards their party ticket. At the ward primaries last week Monday for the election of delegates to the city convention an attempt was made to distribute Lilley buttons. The attempt was a failure. Very few seemed to care for them. Taft buttons were on hand for distribu tion and there was a general desire to wear them. The leaders thought by distributing the two buttons at the same time the republican voters would take both and would not go Ito the trouble of accepting one and rejecting the other. But they were mistaken. The voters drew the line between the two buttons. This was the first tangible evidence of the dis satisfaction with MT Lilleys candida cy that was shown by the republican voters of the city.
 At the reception to the candidates on the state ticket, which was held Wednesday evening at the Republi- can club, the coldness of those who attended was noticed. Ernest Walk CT Smith. the chairman of the re- publican town committee. did his best to create even the semblance of en- thusiasm. but he failed. MT LilIey was in the house of his political as sociates, but not in the home of his friends Even the Courant. which is favorable to Mr Liiley's election. in its report of the reception. the follow ing morning viewed 1t as an amusing comedy.
 The prominent republicans of this city. who are behind the anti-Lilley movement base their objection to MT Lilley mainly on the ground that his nomination was forced on the. repub- lican party of the state by the bosses. They resent the dictation of the ma chine and its arrogant assumption of the right to pledge the nomination of the party two years in advance of the holding of the convention. They ask and in tone that shows their feel ing: What right had the men who make up the republican state machine to promise MT Lilley two years ago that he would be nominated this year?' That" they add, '.was for the convention to decide"
 Some give the additional reason for opposing Mir Lilley that they do not like his record in congress. Ex-Judge Harrison B. Freeman, ex-Congress- man John R. Buck, ex-Judge Briscoe and others who are associated with them in opposing the election of MT Lilley are. old political friends of the late Joseph R. Hawley. When the senator. was alive their bond of union was devotion to his interests. Now reverence for his memory keeps them together politically. They have been called "has-beens" by MT Clark of the Courant. These men recall the sentence that appeared in an editorial written by the late Charles Dudley Warner and printed in which the dictation of bosses was resented. The sentence was as follows:
 We love leaders but hate bosses"
 Straw Votes.
 Straw votes have been taken to obtain an expression of sentiment of the working people of the city in re- gard to MT Lilley's candidacy. In one instance there were 200 employees of factories boiled. The employees were all republicans. They worked in our different factories and fifty were boiled in each factory. Their vote was:
 George L. Lilley. 26
 A. Heaton Robertson. ....174
 In civic organization. consisting If something in the neighborhood of ieyenty-five members, all of whom put two are republicans, a poll was aken. The result was:
 MT Lilley ............... 24
 Mir Robertson A
 The latest news which comes to the Times via underground raiIroad,p is he statement that the manufacturers who are opposing Mir Lilley have canvass of 147 towns up o this time. This canvass shows for Mfr Robertson of near -0.000. It includes the three largest titles. New Haven, Hartford and Bridgeport.
 THE CITY COURT.