Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-05-27
HEARD IN PASSING.

/ The prohibitionistS claim that their recent no license campaigns in New
 Britain and Hartford cost the liquor
 interests of those cities close to $4G,- 900, while the prohbitionists spent
 but $350.-Bridgeport Post.
 One objection to a national cam paign is that besides unsettling bus mess it generally starts up those who can successfully run the government during few months that the cam paign funds lasts. - Middletown
 Press.
 Hughes headquarters have been opened in Chicago. The 'to-let" sign on the place next June will be a mel ancholy commentary of the abun- dance of good republican timber which has to be overlooked in this year, 190S.-New London Telegraph.
 There's a note of pathos in the re-
 quest received by the governor of Hawaii from the leper settlement on Molokai that the battleship fleet sail close enough to the islands so that the lepers can see it. This is their only show, as they cant leave the island New Haven Union.
 No-license has reduced the number of arrests for drunkenness in Wor- cester from 271 in the first 19 days of
 May last year to g in the first 19 days of May this year. Now Wor- cester ought to inquire where the 57 arrested this year got the intoxica- ting f1uid.-Boston Globe.
 The increase of rabies calls for d closer surveillance over canines. If the disease is to be stamped out, own CTS and city officials must cooperate in the movement. It would be better Tor the public if half of all the dogs in town could have their tails clipped just back of their ears-not your dog of course, but the other fellow's.- Ansonia Sentinel.
 Chairman Gary of the steel trusts board of directors, announces that there will be no reduction in prices either now or during the summer, de- spite the lessened prices of iron. This trust is the principal obstacle in the way of relief from the industrial de- preSsion for most other industries fol- low its lead, and there can be no hope Of relief so long as the prices of bad times are arbitrarily retained. - Bridgeport Farmer.
 William R. Hearst is going to Eu- rope within few days 60 recuperate Tor the busy weeks he intends to put In in the fall campaign. He says he Is not candidate for the presidency on the Independence league ticket but that he is going to support who ever is nominated by that organiza- ton. He has not attempted to con- ceal his dislike for Bryan and he strongly intimates that the full infiu- ence of his papers will be turned against the Nebraskan. Bryan ap- parently haS hard road before him but he seems bound to travel it.-New Britain Herald.
 Governor Hughes has vetoed the bill passed by the last New York leg islative session providing for a five instead of a 10-cent fare on the Coney Island railway. He takes the ground that if the 10-cent charge is regarded as too high, the proper course is to go before the public ser vice commission, which is empowered to lower the rate If investigation tends to confirm the position of the complainants. This is right. and in harmony with the governors veto of q general two-cent fare bill. What is fhe use of creating such commissions With such powers if the legislature itself is to do the regulating directly? -Springfeld Republican.
 Since the days when the late Thomas Mast pictured Senator T. c. Platt of New York state as Me TOO tag, pinned to the coat-taiIs of senator Roscoe Conkling of the same state, the position of Mir Platt has never been one of commanding dig 1ity and it has now sunk even below | he level of average responsibility. or senator, and. presumably. a | Time was when the sen. ltors from New York, as we'll as from 'ther northern and eastern states owered above the average in charac- CT and ability, but in New York they lave certainly shrunk to the level of he roaring, rioting negro shooting amples from the south. 70. what a all was there"-Bridgeport Standard.