The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-22
TIRED or BEING BossED.

TIRED or BEING BossED.
 A resident of New Haven and a voter Inquired through these columns the other day, if the practical and manag- ing politicians could not sec that q new spirit was showing itself in American politics and that In consequence the people were getting tired of being bought and sold? Now comes Golfers Weekly with this contemplative asser- tion; Tt Is rather exciting, this get ting along without nurse; this self government this new tendency of the people to boss the politicians"
 While 1t Is plainly seen that the end of political bossing Is in sight, there is still lot of hard work to be done and much abuse to be received before the transformation is complete. In the meantime 1t is interesting to account fer this change of attitude on the part of the American voter. There Is no great difference between the people of this generation and the former genera tion. Their outlook upon life Is prac- tically the same and the end they have in view is the same The people of this generation have what we are pleased to call greater convenlencee, and we are perhaps nearer skimming through the air In dirigible that the fathers were or perhaps walking the waters, but from the point of view of human nature the actual difference soud not be detected with micro- scope.
 We rather suspect that there was as much bossing If not more q generation ago than there is now, and certainly more than there will be a generation hence. To put our finger on the differ ence we must look at the bosses of one generation and compare them with the bosses of another generation. We take t that the art Of bossing was devel- oped slowly and that 1t was not until bosses, through successive victories, exaggerated their power, that the mis- takes were made which have since taught the people how to boss the boss es It Is conceded that there will con tlnue to be bosslng. but the proposal now is that the hitherto bossed shall take over the job. The boss of an earlier generation was more or less of an artist and deftly concealed inc fact that he was acting otherwise than in the Interest of the people. The great American eagle was given a circle in wEc, t1 pay and the people thought they were sailing around with him in majestic supremacy
 For example, II is quite likely that In the last generation the artistic lead CTS of the period met quietly and de- .ermne1 who should fill the offices, but, when they came 10 nominating them in convention, they adroitly let the peo- pie think they were doing 1t. In the day and generation in which we of Connecticut are living the bosses fool ishly drunk on inherited liquor two or three times blended, make no conceal mcnt of their purposes. They determine upon one man while his predecessor Is still early in office and wire him that he is in the training stable It Is this stupidity, If the expression may be pardoned, on the part of the modern overfed boss which has finally turned the stomachs of the people and driven them to attempt to gather up the reins and sit on the box themselves, As Golfers trutilfully says it's fine tc be away from the nurse, and the beauty of 1t all Is that sooner or Inter the nurse will be discharged from her position, and then here in Connecticut, in New York and in other boss ridden states the people will turn the boss on the impertinent leaders who assume to own, capitalize and operate the com monwealth,