Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1903-1917, 1908-04-27
HEARD IN PASSING.

Taft adherents in Arizona have
bOlted the republican convention and
will select a contesting delegation,
The Gray publicity bun eau Of Viii
mington, Del, is sending out a
pamphlet with an interesting biogra-
| ply and review of the public Works
OF Judge Gray.
President Gompers continues to
declare that if congress does not
| pass the labor legislation asked for,
| republican candidates for reelection
| will be opposed at the polls.
Secretary CortelyCu is swinging
around the New York circuit with u
he preparing them for the campaign
fund collector who will follow later?
For the first time in several years
it was boldly declared and success
fully maintained in the house of rep
resentatives several days aSo that
the president is not the commander
in-chief of congress" What's the
matter?
With three separate and distinct
sets of politicians angling for the
republican whale in Bridgeport, and
all the hooks fixed in the carcass,
the poor whale stands mighty poor
show of getting away without losing
little blood Bridgeport Post
Miss Julia Marlowe's name has
been withdrawn from the queer look
ing divorce case. with the assurance
that it should never have been men
toned in connection with il. Now
what redress has that good lady for
the smirch thus gratuitously put
upon her good name?-Ncw Haven
Union.
Another sign Of awakening indus
try is the completion of plans by the
H. c. Frick Co of Connelisville, Pa,
for the erection of three new coke
plants at that place, to cost $4,000
coo Somebody must work to build
these plants and somebody must
work to run them after they are
built Bridgeport Standard.
Those who are inclined to think |
that things are dead when they are
killed will have an exception in the !
matter of the third term idea. That
keeps bobbing up in ways and places |
that surprise the well Informed. 1t /
hobs up again, right in the face of !
the assertion by the Taft managers /
that the secretary is sure OF the NOM
ination on the first balloC. Perhaps .
ii will continue until the nomination
has been made, and may even wig
gle after that-New Haven journal
Courier.
Yankee thrift is not confined to
New England. Down in New Jersey
on u road popular with Automobiles
some of the farmers made a big and
deep mud hole. Every auto that
came along stuck there. the limo
cent farmers charged from So to ST
to pull the machine out It is a pity
that some of our Connecticut road
hogs cannot be compelled TO take
that road Those who have suffered
from their unreasonable actions
would not pull them out for S.
Bristol Press
There's a teacher in o1e of the
public schools of the city of Cincin-
natl. If the report is true. who feels
highly elated in these days, and who
-eads the newspapers carefully and
With increasing interest For thirty
eight wears ago she told Willie Taft.
hen - Years of age. that he could
become the head of the nation some
lay If he would only try. The pre-
.pmptinn is that he has tried. for he
ooks at this present writing like a
'airly sure winner of the republican
and there are those who
.ay that. once nominated, he will
win the election hands d0wu.-New
taEen Ensister-