The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-09

have nothing to do. It is handed down to them.
 | be nominated, too. But the rank and file of the Republican party will have nothing to do with that nomination.
 Under the abominable rotten borough system the next Republican | state convention will be dominated
 by the very little towns.
 The cities will send few delegates,
 and those few will be the choice of
 city conventions, in which from 30 to
 so men, representing all grades and kinds of local bosses. will exercise the
 So the outlook, so far as the Chandler Goodwin McLean-Roraback- Eaton-Allen. coordination is concern
 be confessed that the rest of the out look is no brighter.
 If you don't get Goodwin, you do get Lake. Of course. Lake has the advantage of being known and liked. He is very wealthy man, and can be depended upon to be just as con- servative in the future as he has been in the past. He never yet has been caught either as a senator, or as the presiding officer of the senate, break ing his neck to speed legislation for the people.
 Apparently he is not backed by so many of the men who are. or have been engaged in earning living, forts to- influence legislation.
 Yet some notab1es of the third house are warmly supporting him. In the number is included, Allan W. Paige, who from his place in the sen ate, or from his activities outside the Senate has brought to the statute tfon that brings a sheer to the lips of men in states where the people have some actual voice in the gov ernment.
 There is the chapter given to the Connecticut Railway and Lighting Company for instance. To read it, is, for those who know even a lit tie of such things, a whole history of the legislators whoEmade it, and their attitude toward their fellow citizens, and the good faith that they brought to the duties of their offices.
 The New Haven machine-the Ull- man machine-wil1 be with Lake. This machine has been at feud with the New Haven railroad for some time. It has hitherto dominated that city. It is pretty well understood that Bulkeley and the railroad inter- ests have not been on pleasant terms for some little time.
 Yet BulkeIey must not therefore be considered a force making for popu- lar government, or a man who would United States senator were submitted to the people, as such nominations ore submitted in about a third of the states.
 Cautiously enough, arrayed with Goodwin and Mclean, are number of reformers who have hitherto been S1nC0fGly opposed to the TdlITOdQ pre- tensions in the commonwealth. Such 3 one is Ex-Senator Butterworth of New Haven. The policy of these men is, in many instances, the result of their hatred of the local machine, l } ga inst which they will generally have 1 bee14 in opposition. When it comes | to a choice they find that they hate 1 the opponents in their own dooryaFd l worse than they do the railroad.
 The situation in Bridgeport will l disclose the same peculiar alignment l of reformers, or pseudo reformers | with the railroad movement. The | reason is that already given. All of these men have been trained in poi- 1 ties by opposing the crowd that has always run things. That crowd is with Lake and Bulke1ey; hence the other crowd is with Goodwin and Mclean.
 The railroad interests, parents of | 1i1ley's martyrdom, inherit his pres .ige and his toga.
 The stake to which the martyr. li1ley, was made fast, is become a flagstaff, from which the gonfalon of privilege is Tapping merrily in a kindly breeze.
 Forward, soldiers of martyrdom. Let every friend of Lil1ey's do his l pest to restore the right of loot which le tried to destroy.
 It's a strange situation, isn't it?