The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-02
C0ODWIN'S SINCERITY IS
 DOUBTED BY GEO. |. FOX
Incapacty of Candidate to Protect States Interests Against Power Controlling G. o. P Machine
 Claimed
Father of Corrupt Practices Act Wants Clean Politics and He Says If "Cousin Charlie' Was In Earnest He Would Tell State Attorney Alcorn to Go Ahead

New Haven. Nov. 2-George L. Fox has addressed another open letter to Charles A. Goodwin of Hartford, the Republican nominee for Governor. in which he doubts the nominees sim cerity Of wish for the purification of Connecticut politics. The letter is pretty warm and shows that Mr. Fox is quite nettled at MT. Goodwin's query as 10 his earnestness in his work of fighting corruption. MT Fox remarks that the meanest politician he ever fought cast that slur upon him. The letter in full follows:
 November l, 191O
 MT. Charles 4. Goodwin,
 My Dear Sir
 Your letter in reply to my open let ter is exceedingly unsatisfactory and gives me strong ground for. believing that your offer to Judge Baldwin of a sympathetic desire with him to puri- fy Connecticut politics and reveal the interruptions men who bought votes for your nomination was not a sim cere one. If it was. you would have said to MT. Alcorn. Do your duty at all hazards and spare no one. Follow every clue of vote-buying at the State Convention where I was nominated, and punish every guilty man. Ask MT. Fox for any clue to evidence that he has, and help him in every way as some other States Attorneys do."
 Instead of that you try to call me off from Ti1y pursuits of the three un- scrupulous managers of your canvass and that of Mrs Mclean, by asking me the silly question.
 Don't you think that prevention, is better than cure? Go out over Con- necticut and organize in a. few days citizen committees. I will take care of Hartford" That letter shows that in fighting the devil in politics. you are little better than a child. utterly unacquainted with the methods of pol iticians. and easily hoodwinked by any shrewd politician. Your incapacity to handle the interests of Connecticut against the powerful interests that rule the Republican machine is clear ly shown in that letter of yours by this stand you take with regard to the ulcer of political corruption that has eaten at the vitals of this com monwealth for the last twenty years and especially so, in the campaign two years ago and in the present campaign eliminating in your nomination.
 Has it never percolated through your brain, what most intelligent men knew, that for the last fifteen years a publican nomination is equivalent to an election in Connecticut? Con- sequently the great dehauchery of the voters has been in connection with caucuses and conventions, more than with elections. It was much easier and cheaper to buy the balance of power in a convention numbering six hundred or more than in an election where two hundred thousand votes are cast. The interruptions managers that secured your nomination know that perfectly well. and after the nomina- ton feel secure that party solidarity and loyalty will carry the election.
 Another thing that you seem dense ly ignorant about is the axiom that the best prevention of future crime is the prompt detection and rigorous punishment of recent crime. When you appeal to me to stop pursuing the men who by corrupt means secured