The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-15
NOW, estJE.1s Ft11IY JOINED

Our esteemed aeontemporary the Post, which reJoiced greatly and con- gratulated itself loudly over the har- bor line and car barn surrender, is now urging the renomination of May or Lee In citing lately the names of persons and interests which evidently desire vindication from the attacks of sdemagogues' and corporation bait ers'' (the Farmer ,includeO at the hands of the people at the polls next month, the Farmer inadvertently omitted the Post, for which sin of omission due apology is now and thus made. It was wholly an oversight which we deeply regret and for which we now desire to make amends. The list of the victims of demagogism, who desire vindication, now includes Mayor Lee, the local Republican ma chine, the railroad company and the Post
 The last named lately made the fol- lowing Statement in the course of an enthusiastic endorsement of Mayor Lees candidacy for renomination:
 At the present time the Democrats have no issue like the Republicans. The latter are bound to support the present Administration and rise or, fall on its merits. 70 '
 The Farmer is pleased by this frank acknowledgement of the main issue in the coming campaign, viz, approval or disapproval of the Lee administration. We had been rendered somewht des- pondent by an apprehension that the Republican organs would not join is sue upon this matter, but would dodge 1t and endeavor to base their cam paign upon forest conservation or the irrigation of arid lands or some other issue of more local pertinence than the question of approving or disapprov- ing the Lee administration. This ap- prehension is happily aliayed by the full acceptance of the Lee issue by the Post which, as the Standards record upon the harbor line question has a flaw if judged from the Lee stand point, while the Posts harbor line oint- ment is wholly devoid of the obtrusive fly, may now be classed as the author itative organ of Mayor Lee, the local machine and the railroad company in theH present campaign.
 But we must dissent from the Posts statement that ''the Democrats have no fssue," though as the following sen- tence in the Posts article accepts the Leeg issue previously offered on the Deinocraticy sidef the dissent is really unnecessary. The Democrats have an issue, yfz., approval or disapprova1 of t11ess record of the Lee Administration issue is not in the nature of "con-
 
 pertains wholly to the past, we quote from our esteemed contemporary, the Standard, the statement recently made by it that Mayor Lee should be given an opportunity to ..do more in the same line" This clearly pertains to the fu- ture, for it outlines the policy to be pursued by the Mayor with his usual vigof and persisteney if reelected The Post, with better discretion or perhaps under more .discreet prompting, has not yet endorsed this policy of ttmore in tile same line,, though consistency ready demands. it. Possibly the Post is. However aware of the Mayors pol icy If reelected, but is apprehensfve of fife sresults of overlooking his can-
 Really, it matters little, in so far as Rehublfcans are concerned, whether or not sMayor Lees future policy embra- ces Further grants of harbor area to corporations, or further concessions te the Trolley company, or favors to oth- CT public service corporations; the Re publican privates are mere automata and stand ready to ratify, either the Leeapolicy of the past or the more
 
 machine so orders.