The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-12
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
(New Haven Union.)


 The Union desires to endorse the nomination of Judge Baldwin for gov ernor, and to express our hearty ap- provaI of the action of the Demo cratic convention in naming candi- dates for other state offices and III adopting a platform.
 The platform is clear: candid, pro ton, even if they have the disposl- ton to do so, cannot draft better platform. That they are able, con con sideriHg the alliances and the 1nflu- Aences that dictate their party policy, to put themselves on record as the Democratic party has done, is doubt full. Even if they. do so, history and experience teaches that their living up to their campaign pledges is more than doubtful
 politically, the Republican party will probably be willing to promise any thing in the way of proposed state legislation in the corning campalgn. We expect their platform and their candidates to make in the coming canvass all those pledges of reform that they have broken in the past. We expect them to promise much in the way of new dodges to placate the citizens of this state who are dis gusted with Republican aduninistra- ton of state affairs.
 For sixteen years the Republican n party has been in complete control of every branch of our state govern nent to say nothing of it's dominance form proposed 4in the Democratic platform and pp reform that the Re publicans can declare for in their own state platform which these Re publicanS could not have -promulgat- ed and put into force if theirs had been the dispositions so to do- In stead of their disposition to reform things in the last sixteen years hay ing improved, it has stea di1y, with few exceptions, gone from bad to worse Now and then, as in the case of RoIlin S. Woodruff, there have been slight flashes of the reform spirit; but generally without appreciable eff
 The history of Republican rule in this state for. the last sixteen years is not one of real progress in good governm ent. The cost of governm ent has been nearly increased three fold Willfu1 extravagance is apparent in state expenditures. Politics plays the cardinal role in the administration of state affairs. Economy and merit have been forgotten. The arrogance of powerful interests has been in- creased rather than been curbed. Equal rights to all have entirely been lost sight of in a mad scramble to get and to give special privileges for and to certain politicians and inter ests. In short the Republican party in Connecticut is condemned by it's broken pledges and it's paucity of performance in improving the gov ernment of the state.
 Against tIgnse sixteen years of Re- publican misrule the Democrats offer a platform of pledges for which the Democratic minority in our general assembly have vainly striven. The united Democracy offers a state tick ct that must mend itself to the intelligent and patriotic voter. Not a man on it sought the nomination In every case the nomination sought the man. There is not one man on the ticket who has not by distinguish ed services and ability proved his fit ness for the office for which he is nominated. The Republican press to- day are disarn@ed by the character of the Democratic ticket. They cannot utter one word against his personnel
 There is today no more fit man for. the goVernorship of Connecticut than Simeon k. Baldwin. In his election and that of his colleagues the state will be insured an honest, fearless, progressive, economical administra- ton. These men have not had to make compromising pledges in order to get their nominations. They are a platform in themselves. We. can not too heartily commend them to all the independent and patriotic voters of the comm onwealth.