Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-11-20
HEARD IN PASSING.

pCuSid al I1duCOCk WASH SO lar wrong when he said the tariff was a local issue. This is being demon strated every day at the hearings in Washington. Each section of the country is after something without reference to how the country as a whole feels about t.-Bridgeport Post.
 Now Bills brother, c. P. Taft, of Cincinnati, is being prominently mentioned as the next senator from the state of Ohio. Good suggestion! Anybody with the name Taft goes now, especially if he is in the fam fly. W. H. T's recommendation is enough.-New Haven Journal and Courier.
 There is some opposition to the hunting license law among the farm CTS of Connecticut, whom it was real ly designed to benefit most. The oa Ject of this law is the preservation of the game and song birds, and the number of licenses which have been taken out show that it was not en- acted any too soon.-Norwich Bulle- tin.
 Few cities in the state are as we'll situated for convention purposes as is Meriden. It's location is central. It's day and night train service is ex- cellent. The people of Meriden are hospitable, it's natural scenery is un- surpassed and we have the facilities in the way of hotel and hall accom- modations for taking care of all but very few of the largest state con- ventions that are held in Connecti- cut.-Meriden Record.
 President Roosevelt made char acteristic speech at the labor dinner at the white house on Tuesday. This is the way he explained the situation: Now, you labor people get together, find out what you want and let us know, and by George we will try to help you out both by leg islation and in the courts" That doesn't sound as though the presi- dent has given up all his thoughts to that trip to Africa.-New Britain Herald.
 Three fatal auto accidents in New Haven within AS hours are three too many. Hartford has lately gone through an almost similar experience and almost every city in the country, big and little, has had nerve racking incidents if not fatal accidents. Ac- cording to report New Haven has adopted strenuous measures to pre- fttf1 trnf a,,t,, squadron of police has been formed and it is said the automobile speed regulations will be rigidly enforced. Norwich Record.
 Only those who have been working short hours, or have been idle a part of the time in the past few months, have any conception of what it means to have business revived and to be put back on full time and un. derstand that there will be a chance of plenty to do all winter. The aver age man who works in a shop and has a family dependent upon him has to be busy about all the time if he hopes to meet his obligations and a curtailment of 25 per cent of his earning ability makes serious loss to his revenues.-New London Day.
 There are some mighty we'll tried and veteran voters in Connecticut, and at the late election two of them, "C. J. Camp of Winsted, and Avery w. Barnes of Norwich, cast their eighteenth and twentieth presidential votes, respectively Mir Camp first voted for William Henry Harrison in 1S40. and MT Barnes for Andrew Jackson in 1892" We take it that MT Barnes is not one of those who having voted once for Andrew Jack son found the habit so confirmed that it could not be broken. We ha heard that there were such.-Bridge- port Standard