Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-04
TRAYER's FOURTH LETTER.
-Horv.ich Mayor Addresses Hartford
 Editor This Time.

The following open letter on the sen ateriGi situation has been addressed by Mayor Thayer to the editor of the Hartford Courant:
 C. Hopkins Clark, Esq,
 You Funny Little Man:
 I had prepared an open letter to the prohibition party-the party of prin- ciple-but your editorial squib anent barking dogs and your kindly sugges- tion therein put me on a new train of thought, and the prohibition train
 must be shunted to the sidetrack to let the newspaper flyer go by. To warn me of impending political death was really kind of you. but you see it is this way: Our colored brethren in the south get religion at every camp meeting but they fall from grace soon atterward, they so enjoy getting relig ion all over again. The writer like wise courts political death; he so joys the resurrection. Your we'll in tended advise while highly appreciat- ed was therefore wasted. But speak ing of dogs, reminds me that the legislature in its wisdom has required that all dogs wear tag and number; that automobiles wear tag, and number, yea, two tags; the writer short time back suggested that lobby ists wear the tag and number of their CWners; and now that the senatorial question is uPpermost in our thought. whynot tag our U. S. senator's? All dangerous things, CUTS, automobiles, lobbyists and senators, ought to have a tab kept on them. Lorimer, no less dangerous than a benzine buggy, ought to be required by statute to wear both fore and aft, like the auto q metal sign which shall be printed in black figures, at least four inches high. the total bribery fund expended In procuring his seat in the senate common people in America,-thoSe plain people whom Lincoln loved, could thus ascertain easily the quali- ty of senatorial dignity possessed by 7hkar- of fl mil in 1J4rt For instance, the writer, a mere bark ing dog. with a row of ciphers on his senatorial bellyband, would look like thirty cents alongside a Lorimer with c fund reaching six figures similarly Indicated. and such a situation might well call for continued Courant edi- torials on my lack of dignity. How Bulkeley's dignity would measure up with Lorimers remains to be seen; but if his advertising fund is any cri- terion his senatorial bellyband will be beauty, for notice he's using the advertising columns of the Courant that come to my rescue" ad on your sixth page? Confidentially. Hopkins, doesn't that "ad'' look rather undigni- fed for a United States senator who plain people? Is it necessary for United States senator of experience to use the advertising columns of the Courant to reach it's readers?
 
 story How long since the able and distinguished editor of the Couront was opposing Bulkeley for the senate | on high moral grounds? If our mem and I have always wondered how it | Happened that all at once that oppo- | sttfon ceased. The editorial dog had l the senatorial coon up a. tree all right. l all right, and there were those cruel | enough to say that the coon muzzIed 1 the dog Now, wouldn't that look aw- 1 fully funny to see a coon muzzle the i dog that treed him? No wonder Lin coln's plain people asked and continue | to ask: How could the coon muzzle 1 the dog? To say the least. doesn't | that coon dog look quite as undignified | as the ordinary barker
 But what is the use af talking about | dogs when a fellow needs all his time l to get into the senate? These editor | men make me weary. There's Colonel | Trumbull, the brains of the New York Herald. saying that I have no more show of getting into the senate than | of being ambassador to the Court of | Saint James, How does he know that l Teddy ROsenfe1t won't send me to the Saints court, or at least give me a | ticket to St. vitus' dance. after my | first few years in the senate? Isn't | the senate a stepping stone to things | Ask AIdrich- If he didn't step into a 1 soft and elastic thing when he reached | the rubber schedule, what is Bristow l talking about? But Aldrich says Bristow Is liar! And there you have senatorial dignity of a high | order. How I do run on If I don't stop, all the senators will be proyed 1 liars. or worse, out of the mouths of their dignif1ed brethren.
 Now. brother. many thanks for your | distinguished consideration For you am all afiame with that fire against which there is no insurance
 Hot for the senateI
 CHARLES F. THAYER.
 Norwich Aug l. 1910