The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-09
1snecia1 to The Farmer,

New Haven, April 9.-Politics makes queer bedfellows. George B. Chand- Ter, the champion of the utilities bill who was, in the last house, as nearly au anti-railroad man as anybody there, is now in almost open alli- ances with Charles A. Goodwin, who is seeking the Republican nomination for
 governor and George P. Mclean, who
 desires to succeed Morgan G. Bulke-
 ley in the United States Senate. Just
 how far MT. Chand1er's ideas of what
 a public utilities bill ought to be have
 been modified, since his new friend
 ships have come into being, remains
 to be seen.
 It is certainly the fact that he ob-
 jects to a, bill under which a comm1s-
 sion will be empowered to fix the rate
 which a public service corporation
 may charge. Yet this power is a. fun
 damental necessity in a bill with
 teeth in it."
 The reasons given by Chandler s
 friends, for his adherence to the idea
 that Mclean and Goodwin will make
 excellent candidates is said to be based
 Goodwin, in which Goodwin has said
 that he favors some kind of a bill creating a commission to regulate corporations.
 question? A public utilities bill is
 merely a name, unless the legislation backing it grants real powers, such as are given to some extent in the New York state law, and to a greater extent in the legislation of many western c0TnmOnweafths-
 MT. Goodwin, was secretary to Gov ernor Li1ley. Mclean was active in the Lilley campaign. Unquestionably the railroad interests were opposed to Lilley.
 identical railroad interests should now be the power behind a boom born of 8 night-or was 1t of a talk with some Influential financial personage-for,f wherever one looks, one sees that the men behind Goodwin and Mclean are 'tthe railroad crowd" No doubt about 1t, whatever.
 everywhere. and not a single one whom the people trust. It is of the very nature of morals as applied to man goes into the business of influ- encinga legislation for hire that the people cannot trust him. It is an axiom. of government that such a one should neither be elected to any Of fee, nor have any voice whatever in the conduct of primaries, nor any part whatever in the control of the ma chinery by which nominations are made.
 whatever the rule ought to be. the fact is different.
 McLean's boom is being conducted by U. Henry Roraback, who was lead er/of the railroad lobby, at Hartford. in the last session of the General As semb1y. Roraback's Ientenants are: Col. Bob Eaton, Andrew Shepherd. and George I. Allen all gentlemen whose business in politics is perfectly well known to those familiar with the ypoli- tica1 game in this state
 Ex-Governor Mclean himself, in his day, was leader of the railroad lob by, and one of the most competent men in the business.
 The principal argument that will now. be made in his favor is that he made a good governor. It is unde- rliably true that he undertook to over throw the rotten borough system which in Connecticut and to sub stitute therefor the system of popular representation which prevails in the United States. He called a constitu- tfonal convention for this purpose, Tor it to be called. But nothing was actually accomplished, and he has not since urged this reform, or any other.
 Goodwin is said to be related to J. Pierpont Morgan, who is a director of the New Haven railroad. He is a young man of most engaging per- sonality. But he is absolutely un- 1 known to the people, of the state. His | candidacy is something in fact with | V hich the people, which includes the | rank and file of the Republican party,