Norwich bulletin., 1910-07-07
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Seed Fell on Stoney Ground.

| Mr.. Editor: In a letter to The Bull
letin soma days ago l suggested, that
| those who are making fight against
Senator Buikeley should try and be
as honest as they could. am afraid
| the good advice amounted to nothing,
In yesterdays Sunday Herald, Trum-
| bull after practically accusing Senator
| Bulkeley of defeating j. Henry Rora-
back when he knew the latter had
| fagrantly and with a blowing of
l>trumpetS violated an established rule
| of the post office department., adds
| this: There are postmastefs and fed
eraI oficeholders by the score who are
as busy as bees in the different sec
tons of the state doing just what
Postmaster Roraback did only their
| efforts are against Mr.. Mclean and for
| Mr.. Buckley"
If TrumbuIl can name a single fed
| eral officeholder, postmaster or other
wise. that is footing his horn over
Connecticut, proclaiming himself and
daily mentioned in the newspapers, as
at the head of Bulkeley's campaign /
will acknowledge that Trumbull had
| little something to base his statement
on The statement sent out from
Hartford as to Mr.. McLean's ideas as
to Senator Bulkeley's promising to
step down and out in the formers ia
who has not read Mr.. McLean's rec
elections would Infer from these Hart
ford amateurs that he had actually
asserted something instead of giving
what he thought about conversations
that occurred when Bufkeiey was
candidate. When the Wilson tariff got
into operation and it seemed possible
to elect republican congressman In
that stronghold of democracy, the Sec
ond congressional district, N. ID. Sperry
was picked as likely to win He had
DOUBTS and, among other precautions,
sent me up the Naugatuck valley to spy
out the land. l found but one republic
can that objected to his nomination.
and his objection was that, in by-gone
ages. Mr.. Sperry has been a Know
Nothing. I reported that l considered
his nomination and election sure. He
was in some doubt as to whether the
democratic majority OF from three to
five thousand could be overcome, and
urged me, if was SO cock-sure that
a republican could be elected, to take
the nomination myself. 1 wonder what
people would have thought if, two or
four years later, had set up a whine
that Uncle n. ID. wanted me to be
candidate years before and ought to
step down and out for me. Mr.. Nc
Leans graVest charge seems to be
that Buckley thought he (McLean)
was more likely to beat Sam than
were not so different. As a big head
ing of one of the Hartford yarns in
a reputable paper / see rCIaim Con-
irmed by Editor Clark" and editor
Lean Buckley bareback E1dftor Ozark
of The Hartford Courant stands by
Mclean. Mr.. Clark has distinct re-
collections of Mr.. Bulkeley's alleged
to say he cannot understand how
Buckley can have forgotten what
seemed to him (Ciark) to have been
! a deliberate statement of purpose"
/ wonder if Editor Clark is standing
by Mclean as he stood by r. j.. Hill
when that gentleman was. pushed into
q fight TO down Senator Brand egee,
and as he is standing by Mr.. Good win
after that gentleman has been lugged
in to beat E. J. Lake. Some of the pa
tinet recollectipHs" as to what he
heard or overheard ought to settle the
whole matter. 1t is not so very long
ago that The Hartford Times pub
lished a portion of speech by the late
Senator Q. H. Plstt and called atten-
ton to the fact that The Courant had
published a twisted and garbled ex-
tract of the same speech that appar-
emily made the senator say the oppo-
site of what he did say. The Times
mildly suggested that, while in pofi-
tbs considerable license was allowed,
it was hardly proper to misquote a
dead man. OF course there were mitf-
eating circumstances. Theoretically
free trade may be discussed in an edi-
flying manner but, when 1t comes to a
facts, the free trader must be allowed
unlimited license or he might as well
say nothing. II. as I have heard. it
limited, Morgan G. Buckley believes
In tbs principles Of the republican par
ty the late Charles A. Russell did
while living, and my friend ". d.
sperry does now, It is possible that
the ends viii justify the means neces-
sary to his defeat. [ do wish. however.
for the credit of Connecticut that his
opponents could be honest.
r. y HINMAN
Fishers Island, July 4, 1870