The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-02
WHAT THE OUTLOOK
 SAYS ABOUT BALDWIN
Theodore Roosevelt's Maga- zine Prints An Editorial on Democratic Candidate for Governor.

In view of the recent controversy between former President Theodore Roosevelt and Judge Simeon P. Bald win, Democratic candidate for Cover nor, the following editorial from the November Outlook, the magazine of which MT. Roosevelt Is one of the edi- tors, is of interest:
 If MT. Bass is the youngest, the old est in point of years of this autumn's Gubernatorfal nominees is Simeon Eben Baldwin, Democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut. He is 70 years old. Mr. Baldwin is a Yale grad uate, and studied law at Yale and Harvard. He has spent his life as a lawyer, pure and simple, and not as a politician. Tn his profession he has attained an international reputation. He is one of the first jurors of our time. He has risen to the highest ju- dicial dignity in his own State, hav- ing been for a long time associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and since 1907 the chief justic eof that court. For many years he has also been professor of constitutional law at Yale. and his reputation as a teacher is hardly sec- ond to that as a jurist. His various works have also acquired great re- pute; his Connecticut Digest, his 'Cases on Railroad Law. his ''Two Centuries Growth of American Law, his American Railroad Law, and his American Judiciary" He has been president of the American Bar Asso- citation and of the International Law Association. Because of his States constitutional provision that no judge may hold office after attaining the age of three score and ten, Judge Baldwin now turns from expounding the law to become very probably it's inistrator-certainly to dignify a political campaign. He is thus strik- ing example of the man who first attains great distinction and long ex- perfence in his own profession before going into political life. In that life, however, he should have equal suc- cess. His course as lawyer and as business with him as Governor at Hartford, the Connecticut capital. In- deed, one might safely predict that, if he is chosen Governor, any Hartford lobby will be driven from the halls of Legislation, as the money-changers were once driven from the Temple at Jerusalem. It may also be predict ed that, if Judge Baldwin becomes Governor, the great railway corpora tion which gridirons Connecticut and the other Public Service Corporations will be paying their just share of taxes, whether they do now or not.
 Simeon Baldwin is an old fashioned Democrat. He belongs to that tpye made illustrious by Tilden and Cleve- land and is not in the least sugges- tive of Bryan rhetoric and famboy- ance In contrast, he is rather aus tere and cold. But he inspires iD- stant confidence and respect. Should he become governor, it will be inter- esting to see whether he will give the state the kind of administration given by his father, Roger Sherman Bald win. Roger Baldwin also represented Connecticut in the United States Sem ate, Going back another generation, we find Judge Baldwin's grandfather a Justice of the Connecticut Supreme court, and his great grandfather, Rog- CT Sherman, signer of the Declara- tion of Independence.