The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-06

tirely just to Senator Bulkeley, when he took what might have seemed tc some people an independent stand This was in connection with the Brownsville affair. when he was one of the minority members of the Senate committee on Military Affairs who re- ported against President Roosevelt's treatment of the negro soldiers. But observation of Senator Bulkeley al that time did not yield ground for any large belief that his opinion was the result of appropriated or creditable reasoning. or that his position mer- ited any respect. His relations with President Roosevelt had been well known to be exceedingly strained Persons who had access to the White House thought they had excellent req son for believing that MT. Roosevelt, proved of the Connecticut Senator. It was generally accepted that MT. Bulkeley reciprocated with equally kind feelings in regard to Mr. Roose- welt. Reduced to something like syllog- istic form, MT. Blllkeleys mental pro- cess in regard to the Brownsville case appears to be that inasmuch as he hated Theodore Roosevelt, it was there fore, in his eyes, a proven thing that Roosevelt's treatment of the negroes had been unjust.
 If judicial consideration were to be
 
 the Senate is the least effective, seri- ous attention would apparently have to be paid to Senator Bulkeley's claims to that doubtful honor. Senator Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania and certain others who might be mentioned, are undoubtedly given such attention as he is upon the national stage. But it must at least be said for Penrose that he is active in the committee work and V1gllant in looking out for what he conceives to be the interests of his State. AS for Senator Bulkeley, he as he is capable of to local affairs, that is to say, to the interests of Connecti- cut. The desire to maintain his ma chine in working order by the judic- ious bestowal of patronage and the se- curing of appropriations for local needs, would alone dictate such a course. But it is a self-evident prop osition that in the long run the Sena- tor who is most effective in caring merely for what may be termed local interests. is the one who can best count upon the good will and cooper son 6f his industrious and intelligent performance of the fair share of work which should fall to him in his com mittees.
 As a partial explanation of Senator Bulkeley's failure to take hold'' in the Oeudte IL Us T0cOSnlZ6Q I1dC ne was un- der a handicap in not taking his seat until he was in his 6Sth year A thor ough1y fair minded consideration of his case necessarily implies certain amount of attention to this fact, and the further fact that if he should be reelected as he aspires to be. he would be in his 74th year in beginning his second term. But it is also true that during the period of Senator Bulkeley's s own service there have been older men in the Senate who have asserted them selves with vigor and force of intel lect in marked contrast to his undis- tinguished performance.
 While unwilling to have their names drawn into the contest in any way, some of Senator Bulkeleys colleagues who have no personal animus what ever toward him have nevertheless been much interested in the word which has come from Connecticut of the fight being made against him by MT. Mclean and of MT. McLean's re- ported qualifications. If the reports of MT. Mclean as a clear-cut thinker and a speaker of both force and grace are accurate, it may be said with assur- ance that his appearance in the Senate would be welcomed among the Repub- lican Senators, especially at a time when the party will clearly need all the intellectual as we'll as numerical strength that it can muster