Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-12
POLITICAL POINTERS
What Some Edllers IhIpk Abeul
 Candidate LiIlsy.


 cheered itself hoarse for their candi- date on the occasion of Lilley's home coming. The good natured crowd swept the police to one side and 50 men divested his carriage of it's horses horses and drew him through the streets.--New Haven Palladium.
 Well, what tommyrot. Phlegmatic Waterbury, forsooth. Cheered itself hoarse. Good natured crowd swept the police. and the rest of the non sense. The police were few and far between, perhaps four or five were at the head of the procession, which If 1t had not been padded up and men drummed into the Taft march, ing club for several weeks would have been more like funeral march. There was no spontaneous outburst. The thing was all cut and aired, and the arrival of the candidate in this city was even deferred from until g o'clock to give further time to make the affair even more "spontane- ous."
 When the committee Of manufac- turers visited the ruling members of the machine at the New Haven house last Tuesday afternoon to protest as manufacturers and members of the republican party against the nomina- ton of MT Lilley, as they had the right to do, it was the controlling head of them all, an oficehoider, Mir Fyler of Torrington, who made this insulting remark to Mir Palmer in | practically these words: T have read your paper and understand you are | ready to use your private fortune to debauch the electorate of Connecticut in order to defeat MT Lilley." It Is unnecessary to record the whitening reply of MT Palmer. It is more vital and necessary to refer to the Fyler insult as striking illustration of the attitude of the dominent political machine towards respectable gentle men, who claim the right as free | holders to have voice in the man. agement of the party they support with their votes and their means. It Illustrates that spirit of organized l power which Vanderbilt once put forth in these historic words: "The public be damned" It finally illus trates the hidden mystery of how a machine made candidate c"n accu- rately estimate what his vote will be in the nominating convention months before the caucuses have been held. -New Haven Journal-Courler. 1
 MT Lilley is looking for vindica
 tion, and Connecticut republicans are perfectly willing he should have it, but he should have sought 1t in another term as congrcssman-at- large, and not as governor of Con- necticut. When he Is rendered the nomination by the republican lead CTS to-day, he would do well to pass 1t back as not theirs to give by right. He should release them f.om their promise, made year and half ago, and, in the interests of the re- publican party of Connecticut, should refuse to further arouse the resent ment of independent voters. From the kind of political manipulation which this state is now witnessing. self-respecting men shrink.-Anson- la Sentinel.
 Two years ago, Woodruff was elected governor of Connecticut by about 20, ,O0O, and -Lilley was chosen ongressman-at-large by practically the same plurality. During the past session of congress, Lilley mlde him. self the laughing stock of the coun- try and the republican machine in Connecticut has forced Ll.!ey upon the party as the candidate for gov ernor. Springfield Union.
 | We cannot congratulate Connecti- cut upon the action of the republican convention in nominating Congress- man Lilley for the governorship. It was, of course, the carrying out of bargain made two years ago, when MT Lilley, who had been promised the nomination, stepped aside in favor of Governor Woodruff, with the pledge that he would be the can didate this year.-New York Even- l ing Post.
 The republicans of Connecticut en- ter the governorship canvass burden
 ed with preposterous candidates The nomination of Congressman Lll- | ley was not merely unwisc, it was foolish and silly. It may he rather | far-fetched to say that his nomina- ton is an affront to the house of representatives, but unquestlonably it Is an affront to an electorate IS intelligent as that of the state of l Connecticut. He made himself rt- diculous last winter by bringing groundless charges Involving the honor of his associates in the house.
 He was able to prove nothing what ever concerning the submarine scan dal, and the house snubbcd him
 without mercy. Whatever promise
 the state organization may have made to MT Lilley in the past, this exhibition of himself was certainly i sufficient to absolve it from carrying
 out an agreement 1t had no right to make.-New York Times.