The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-18
STILL AT TT.

STILL AT TT.
 For the first time in weeks Congress- man Lilley returned to the subject of submarine frauds at the slimly attend ed outing of the Young Mems Republi- can club of this city on Tuesday. What he had to say was characterized by the same shiftless reasoning which marked the discreditable progress of the sub marine investigation. In discussing the capital stock of the Holland company he says he has been told" that its actual assets are f1oo, GOO. He does not appear to know thing himself about the facts but contents himself with repeating what others have told him. which was exactly what he did when he charged congress with graft We are beginning to suspect that If someone told him that the Hol- land Boat company had recently ac- qnired part of the moon for the pur- pose of selling the man In 1t Holland submarine boats, he would believe 1t and make charges accordingly. But he does say that on account of the man ner in which this offending boat com pany does business on small assets but large capital stock, the country has been victinized by ''monopolistic legis- lation." That's definite. He also as- serts that the prices paid for these submarine boats are extortionate and that he stands ready Ito take a con- tract to build these eight boats" for one-half of the sum appropriated.
 In various other ways Mir. Lilley as- surcd the young Republicans that graft Is the rule at Washington. There can be no other meaning attached to his recent speech, and since no other meaning is to be attached to what he says, the spectacle Is presented of a machine candidate for governor who charges that the congress of which he Is still member, and of which the Re- publican candidate for vice-president Is member, is morally rotten. There can be no exploitation of the public In the way he points out unless congress and the navy department are partners in the enterprise. If the navy depart ment is advising and congress Is in- sisting that twice as much money shall be appropriated for boats as should be then congress and the admin istration are morally rotten. If these things are true 1t Is Mir. Lilley's duty, not to run for governor but to return to Washington and uproot the evil He has no right to accept nomination on the Republican ticket for governor or any other state office with the charge of graft on his lips made against the Republican administration both in the executive department and in the na- tional halls of legislation.
 The attitude of MT. Lilley Is prepos- terous from every point of view and he should be doubly rebuked now that he has returned to unsupported gossip and tttle-tattllng. The outings of the Young Mems Republican club are not the place to repeat unproven charges any more than the Waterbury club or any other social body Is the place to repeat and manufacture charges x against the government In two of it's branches. The place to make them is on the floor of congress, place which was open to him the moment the in- vestiga ting committee made It's report but which he ran away from on the plea of illness. We do not believe for a moment that the shrewd and intelli- gent people of the state of Connecticut will with their votes approve a can didacy for office which has at last set tied itself voluntarily on basis of personal distrust of the federal gov. ernment. If they do decide to do such preposterous thing we advise that they at the same time make their pro. test the more effective by defeating the national ticket In Connecticut, the sec. ond nominee on which has called MT Lilley harsh names. MT, Lilley had ar opportunity to make good his charges He ran away from that opportunity He Is today in the attitude of mar under indictment who seeks to make his state go ball for him,