The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-02
AUTHENTICATE EXCORIATES
 COL. ULLMAN

| COL. ULLMAN
 Republican Boss in New Haven
 Accused of Manipulating Ma
 chine 10 Further His Ow Ends
 E]1MHE IF,
 Progressive Republican Club
 Backs Him up in His Efforts
 For Clean Politics
 New Haven. Nov. 2-Delivering a
 scathing rebuke to Col. Isaac M. Ull- | man, whom he accused of manioulat- ing the Republican party machine to further his own ends, and stating that | 1t is a matter of common gossip and
 derlsion in the State of Connecticut | that the city of New Haven is run by Isaac Ullman, ex-Senator Franl. $. ButterwOrth Progressive Republi- can club last night, coupled this sur prising statement with an appeal for | politics clean and free from the in-
 fluence of corruption. Senator But terworth followed his address with the ] introduction of a resolution before | the entire club demanding a direct | statewide primary law and a new | Corrupt Practices Act
 New Haven politics have been low
 ered.' said Senator Butterworth in his | address. Politics have been lowered i witt. one man in power.
 | II am not confusing the organiza- ' yy-it ha | me to fight the Republican party. | There is something vitally wrong on l the inside e the Republican organi- ' zation and the ills will have to be cured. When I see the machinery
 placed into the hands of individuals | terests it is time for me to say that such a thing will not do. The great | problem in this Republican campaign l is how |, meet the evils grown up in | our own rarty. A voter will have to meet toe evils as a voter: a candi- l date as a candidate. stand for what | everybody accuses me of because l | have supported the Republican ticket. ! I am going to fight for what is right, | am going to help make the party l right.
 l ''The situation in this city is diff | ferent from many of the other places. | I certainly have feeling in the mat I ter. When I decided to enter politics IT went to the leader and accepted him and the sub-leaders as men of | merit. I began without any preju- dice. T soon learned to distrust the lt ader and soon discovered that by | manipulation he had secured his po- sition and remained leader through | the same manipulation. He had the | machinery in his grasp to register his own will. I cannot stand for that. | ''Col. Isaac M. Ullman is the man
 I mean. I do not want his backing 1 Whatever I did I wanted the backing l of the people and desired to repre- ! sent them We do not want govern incnt by private arrangement. Under 1 Ullran we have government by pri- 1 va,e arrangement. It\is a matter of
 common gossip and derision in this | State that New Haven is run by Ull- nal. We should have a leader of onr choice. It is a public question and . public issue. No other leader S'ould be tolerated.
 | "ke speaker then told of the pow | CT of man who controlled the in ] strunent by which the votes could be | dItkered with, which, in turn affect l ad the Senate, Congress, the State l Senate and the Board of Aldermen. ';It is entirely too strong" said the | Sc stor.
 He said he had attended the last 1 Der ccratic rally and that if the Dem | SI 1 Ii * us out Of our boots.' But they can't" he continued. We've got the | goods, but we didn't do the right l thing by the State of Connecticut. l This terrible weakness I speak of we | rust cure When a man has a weak | ness and corrects it, there is the man | to cotton to. When political party has the strength to do that never | leaves it, in spite of the bad eggs | we've got in it. We will have to use the instrument necessary for the cor recticn. We will not go back to the | traditions of the party and will endea- vcr to make ir clean and free from | the influence of corruption. The par | ticular problem is right here in New Haven. I am unwilling to have any one ask Ike U1lman where I stand. | I will not accept it, and I know well | that it wouldn't be accepted in Ohio. | This is a constitutional state, but | the west is growing much faster than we are. We cannot be an example | to the west if we are not clean our- | selves.
 Illinois is now having an examina- | ton of it's legislature because of the | buying of votes. We cannot criticize l because We are in the same box. It | is different out there, though; the I votc-b buying occurs every once in | while but here it occurs regularly | We mist cut it out!"
 | dress with the statement that this was "all his fight was.' He then | introduced the resolution alluded to | in. the opening paragraph which was | immediately accepted and voted upon by the club. The resolution follows: Whereas, We, the members of the Butterworth Progressive Republican club, believe that the present method | of selecting candidates for offices in the State of Connecticut does not provide a satisfactory means of evil | dencing the peoples will. but instead l affords a means by which the will | of few men is imposed upon the | many, accompanied by the corrupt use | of money, the maintenance of the power of the political boss and the corrupt lobbyist. and
 | Whereas, The present Corrupt Prac- | tices Act of the State of Connecticut | is and was intended to be entirely | inadequate to put an end to the cor ruption of voters.
 | Therefore, Be it Resolved, That we place ourselves on record as demand | ing a direct statewide primary law | and a new Corrupt Practices Act, and, | fn- the purpose of formulating defi-
 l. ,ite plans for the enlisting the ser | vices of all good citizens to carry out | these ends, we hereby authorize the | president of our club to appoint. a | committee of five members, said com | niittee to take such steps as may in their judgment be desirable and with