The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-05
 ARGUMENTS BY
 JUDGE BALDWIN

him the information he asked for But I cannot undertake, should he be elected our next Governor, to stand behind his chair and give him similar information, as to the measures of legislation, which will be submitted for his approval. Who will stand there? Some one evidently must. If one who was lawyer by profession, after examining our Corrupt Prac- tices Act, could find himself, nothing to criticise in it, when it is simply full of obvious defects, it is plain that if such a man were made Governor, he could not, himself, detect defects in the legislative bills that would come before him. Who would stand behind his chair? Which of the Re- publican State Committee? Which of the Republican political agents?" Who will assume the task of guide?
 He seems to be disposed to be a contented follower. He finds no fault with the Republican legislatures for the last few sessions in not passing any of these measures that the people clamOr for; measures that you want and I want. He finds no fault in the Payne tariff. He shows no sympathy with the work 'ugmen, pinched by the high prices which the tariff has brought. He gives no credit to any of the reports of corrupt practices on the part of his Eeutenants.
 Who would be likely to be his guide, philosopher and friend in the Executive Chamber?
 Who. more likely than one of those identified with the practices, by which, of late years, Republican par ty nominations in Connecticut have been bought and sold?
 Fellow citizens: What sort of a Governor do you want?
 A man who thinks for himself; or a man who relies on others to do his thinking for him?
 A man who thinks statute is known by it's title, and that law mak- ing is nickel-in-the-slot process, by which, if you put into box some thing labelled Public Utilities Com mission Bill. and turn crank, a good Public Utilities Commission Act will come out? A man who swallows a bill as you swallow a pill?
 We hear from the Republican platforms much of Mfr. Goodwin's qualifications for the office, from hav- ing been executive secretary.
 I have no doubt that he can fill, and has filled, a clerical position we'll. But has he been out in the wide world, and mixed with men who are doing the work of the world, on equal terms?
 When he resigned his position as Executive Secretary, the Governor an- nOunced that it was unnecessary to | appoint a successor, as there was nothing to be done that could not be taken care of by the executive clerk. l Under the executive secretary is an executive clerk. Under the executive clerk is stenographer. How much of the strenuous task of a Governor, in times like these, is to be learned, under our system of office holding, by an Executive Secretary? I am even disposed to wonder if the duties of Executive Secretary and executive clerk, or of executive clerk and exe- cutive StenOgrapher might not be combined, when the legislature is not in session, as Governor Weeks, with old fashioned economy seems to have begun combining them now.
 | No doubt an Executive Secretary gets many opportunities to become ac- quainted with members of the legis- lature. Probably also, like the Gov ernor, he sees and has to see more or less of the third house.
 And there is a thing particularly want to speak of.
 | I think two houses in the General Assembly are enough. The custom has sprung up under Republican rule of adding third house. It has been a third house partly of strikers and partly of promoters. It has been well organized. They say it has had, on occasions, a sort of Speaker to head
 it. and it was very, very hard to get through any measure that this Speak | CT did not want to go through. He was worse than Cannon.
 The members of this third house make politics sort of profession, or rather a sort of trade, or rather, a sort of trading. They are apt to turn up as political agents'' under the Corrupt Practice Act: sometimes as political agents for better men than themselves: sometimes. as political agents for men no better than them selves.
 l Part of the house cleaning, that the Democratic party is hoping to have a chance to do, is to sweep such men l out Of the capitol: to drive the money changers from the temple of liberty.
 The fact is that the people of the
 United States are satisfied that it is time to change the party in power.
 If any party reaches a position
 where, in the ordinary course of
 things. it has an assured and large
 majority and has had it for a long
 period of years, it is a sad fact, es-
 tablished by all human history, that the purposes of its leaders and man.
 agers seem to change. Once they
 were busy in winning the public con-
 fidence. Now they are busy in noth- ing but distributing the offices, and
 doing favOrS to those who favor them Once, when they were trying to gain
 public support, the nomination sough: | the man. Now the man seeks the nomination, and each nomination is sought by a good many men. Next