The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-10
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 Harmony dinners. no less than three were given last week under Republican machine auspices. are the latest politi- cal fad to strike Bridgeport. The first and biggest was engineered by Col. Matt Rogers. secretary of state. chair man of the Republican town commit tee, supervisor in general of the auto mobile department of the state. presl- dent of the Paving commission and de- clared to be by no less an authority than Ebenezer J. Hill of Norwalk and Washington, the only simon pure un- adulterated candidate for nomination to the office of secretary of state on the Republican ticket. For all other offices on the state ticket there are said to be candidates galore but for secretary of state only one. Matthew, the great harmonizer of multitudinous office holding ability.
 They do say that at Matt's dinner Congressman Hill was guilty of the most unkindest cut of all." On the authority of a grey haired Young Re publican, The Farmer has it that Eb- enezer when his time came to Join in the harmony chorus deliberately and with malice aforethought ignored S1d, the high sheriff, even to the extent Of turning his back on him. There were paens of praise for Matthew but not one word of consolation for Sid. Oh. Ebenezer how could you when you must have known what was expected Of you. Did you not catch the cue from the sweet notes so affectionately rendered by that sterling young political warb- Ter Loren Delbridge who certainly did his part in trying to sing you into sweet forgetfulness of what may have been.
 But you didn't seem to catch on though you must have known that the heart of your own Billy Marigold was throbbing, gently throbbing at the time in the hope that from your lips would fall something beside statistics about the tariff and such mush in which no one was interested save your self. If you only knew how much Billy would have given to have heard you just mention in some term of en- dearment the familiar name of Sid the chances are that you might have been tempted and relented.
 But you permitted the chance to slip by thereby bringing to the defense of TY,dc fro foreign fields where he was pictured, if Louis Richards Sunday paper is to be relied upon, coddling a flock of doves, emblematic of purity. an at tribute which handsome Stiles. the re- former, has ever personified. in things political For the nonce as Stiles arose to shed his pearly drops of harmonic ing wisdom there was a cessation of the changing glasses and in truth as Bob Eaton's sings Thigh balls were indeed rolling on the ground"
 Then Sid came into his own. If there exists in any hamlet remote or adjacent to these parts a personality so gifted in the art of persflage as the gentleman from Stratfor&' it is hiding it's light behind bushel. But why absorb space. What Stiles said about Sid may not have been as con- vincing as what Ebenezer didn't say about the same person but it certainly listened we'll. Even Judge Nobbs nodd- ed approvingly though this should not be deemed an admission upon the part of the judge that he does not consider Sid's prospective nomination inimical to his own scheme of self perpetuation in the lucrative sit which he has held so long.
 And through it all minus his gold trimmings sat demure Elmer F. Ha- vens cogitating upon his chances to continue his sartorial splendor at the social functions of state. For be 1t known that Elmer and John T. King have decreed that Bridgeport Repub- licansism must. shall and will send forth this fall a delegation that will stay put for Charley Goodwin. To King will go the credit for being the first localite to introduce the pet can didate of the Robbins-R -Roraback-Eato political Skln01caIe 10 Sneu ms IulSOIne ray upon a Park City feed-fest. Elmer in event of the success of Charley may continue in the governors staff and thereby get his moneys worth out of his nabob attire but John T.. ah. leave it to him, Elmer may be safe Haven for Charley but John T.. is surely King, and from the immemorial has it ,ot boa, writ that .aThe KiDD Can no No Wrong.'
 Can Paige Come Back?" Very pretty interrogation this yet it had its birth out of the mouth of Allan at Matt's fish-fest. Primarily it is an ad- mission that the once foxiest of the political foxes in Connecticut has tenn 1an ril1z 1t least heen SaiQurnine with