The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-10
Hartford Tines.l

| CHartford Times.)
 There is something like consterna- l tion in Republican newspaper off1ces of Judge Baldwin's speech at New
 Haven Thursday night in opening his
 campaign the Democratic nominee
 for Governor. Nothing more unlike
 the aged recluse they have repre-
 scented him to be could be imagined
 It is the speech snS oa,e6ga of man 0f With Hlo sense of humor and with knowledge l of politics good and bad. He knew
 the subject before he began his 1 During these twenty years a sense of 1 propriety kept him from public dis
 appear in campaigns, but did not pre- vent his observing what went on. When he retired from the bench he
 was better equipped than ever for
 just such task as falls to him now .in the campaign. For the governor
 shir to which he is probably to De | as well equipped as any man III the l state.
 This one speech is more than a sufficient answer to all that has been ] suggested of tempera mental or other
 the the papers which have implied a. speak by the book. When, for in | stance, one says that as to public
 utilities he "is for something but he l is not specific,' it confuses a matter l that is perfectly clear He covers al! ! the substance of the case when he
 says: "They dhe people,, want the | best pra ctfcable organization, through
 which the power of the State to
 watch-and where necessary, control
 the doings of public service corpora. | tions can be effectual1y used" That power to watch and control covers in l brief the whole demand. There are
 honest differences of opinion as to | details but Judge Baldwin is willing
 to leave these, as long as they do not l hamper the main purpose, for future
 agreement Yet he is careful to ada ona
 that the report on the subject in 1903 l and the bill accompanying 1t must
 be the starting point. That bill is
 the most drastic yet proposed It is l in the public interest, which is just what the corporations affected most l dislike.
 1 This public utilities law was the 1 second as he arranged them of four | popular demands which he says must
 be met The first was a new cor | rupt practices act, to which he 1 said: ''They want it strengthened
 They want it made plain, and strln- 1 gent. They want to put an end TOT 1 ever to this odor of corruption which l has come to surround the larger Re
 publican nominating conventions or
 every kind.'' The third one was the | Employers Liability Act. He said:
 .tI believe the popular demand for 1 better regulation of this subject is
 right More in detail he said: | have been for some years. by
 appointment of the American Bar | Associa tion, at the head of it's | bureau of comparative law l The business of that bureau IS | to keep track of the changes ln
 law and legal forms generally, III all civilized countries of the world | and to publish a yearly report up 1 on them. This has made 1t my | duty, and it has also been my l pleasure to keep to some extent, up with the progress of law Tn
 the world, in recent years. It
 has shown me how far removed | Connecticut statutes as to Elm 1 ployers' Liabilities are from those | of other countries generally l As to the $5o00 death limit he said | it must be removed, and he polnteo l out that as it stands it affects every l man. woman and child in the state, l since it does not work simply agalnst
 employers of labor put IS e1I9eIiNe 4cl 11, IT,
 any suit against any one who may | other This applies for instance to | automobile killings.
 l cent Republican Legislatures have
 been aware of tbe popular demand in | these matters and have always oelay- | ed or refused the Legislation sought | He noted also that although the pres | ent Republican platform asks for the | other three it is silent as to cor 1 rupt practices law.
 Only a few of the important fea- | lures of his address can be consld- cred here now, but particular atten- l tfon should be called to the admirable reply to MT. Chand1er's Torrington 1 sneech to the discussion of the fail 1 ure of the Republican party m the 1 co1ntry to do justice to the people, l and especially to the tariff, of which l he said in conclusion: 'sThe .Republ1-
 can party can never reform the tar 1 if. They created it, but 1t has got l to he too strong for them" And or I another most important subject he | saide ... 4,1 | moi go to destruction this year | whichever party wins
 l But the country. will go to oeS- | truction eventually. if this steady 1 inroad by the federal power upon | inc field reserved by the founders | of our government for the states 1 directed by the Republican party: l It is the wonder of the world
 that we have stood so long; With l growing wealth and populate r The whole secret of our stability is that until the Civil War the | exercise of the Federal power was l kept within narrow bounds. The | whole danger to our stability now
 is that since the Civil War the
 party which has generally been I1l power has tried to push and has pushed the exercise of the t Federal power farther and farther 1 into fields which Washington and
 Jefferson and Hamilton and Jack 1 son and Webster thought ought
 to be kept purely under State con 1 trol The Republican party has l found it's interest in forwarding 1 this movement; the interest, that 1 is. of party. not of the country.
 It has used the tariff one in strument. It has used the cry of l tnew nationalism' as another
 ! The speech closed with the declara- 1 tion that the place to put on the l brakes is in Congress, and an appeal 1 to elect here five men who are on this | point for the true interests of the nation and of the State alike. He
 told his hearers to vote they like 1 for Governor. "Governors have Httie 1 influence at washington.'' but to vote for the Democra tic Neandidates for Con ] ....ae..,,aara have a solid DemOcratIC