The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
LDWlN DECLARES BATTLES AGAINST INTERESTS MUST
 BE FOUGHT IN CONGRESS
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 State. for the limit is not as some times supposed, imposed simply in suits against employers of labor It is applied in any suit against any one who. may negligently cause the death of another.
 Now on three of these points both parties in their platforms demand the same kind of legislation On the fourth-improving the corrupt prac- tices act-the Republican platform is silent. It is silent and I know why They do not want it improved, and their silence confesses this.
 notice that our Republican friends seem to avoid any reference to the fact that they have had every opportunity to pass all these measures. and didn't do it. They are in the position of the defendant in criminal prosecution, who was asked by the clerk the usual question, Are you guilty or not gull ty. as charged in this infornation ?'' f1 should prefer he replied. ito dis miss the subject altogether
 cannot be dismissed; some questions that have got to be answered. The republican party is being asked by the Amerisan people to give an ar to be given, And the only one which it can give shows liabilities over as- some laws; CT. by nothing in that line that is worth the entry.
 ; The Connecticut Legislature, under republican rule, has come to point
  government of the&state is farmed out to commissions. So with the business of the state offices. It is done by deputy.
 During the Civil War there was great influx of ex-slaves to Washing ton. One of them, a middle aged planters household, applied at a house for work as "a domestic servant. Well, said the lady of the house, what can you do? Gan you cook?''i ATs . 1OIrs Can you wash and iron ?,' ''No, Mis- sus Sally always washed Gan you wait on table?" *@No. Mfssus. Jim all ways used to wait on table Gan you take care of children?'' ~No Mis- sus, Nanny took care of the chill dren." Well. what did you used to off Missus with a fan Iike.''
 The Republican party is in a sim iliar condition. If you want work done by it; you are always referred mission, perhaps. Let them take the responsibility, they say, but keep their report secret till after the election. Shove over the public utilities bill to the next Legislature. Shove over the employers liability bill to a more convenient season. Let us divide the offices, and get the salaries and keep the flies off.
 It is time for the people to clean house and put men in power who are doing something and who know
 
 The opening gun of the Republican campaign was fired at Torrington on September 23 by George B. Chandler. a member of the House from Rocky Hill The Hartford Courant'' printed his speech in full, striking what will be the keynote of all speeches a criticism of myself. MT. Chandler says that he has looked over three volumes of papers and addresses of mine which he has found in the State Library, and he doesn't think I have made a good choice of subjects. They are behind the age
 Here, he says, is the first of them. It is on Law of Roads and Boun- daries." He can find nothing in it about public utilities commissions. Here is another on John EIigginson; Who is John Higginson anyway? At all events in this sketch of him, there is nothing about the employers lia- bility bill. Here is another on Judaic Christianity. Where does removing the 5000 limit for causing another's death come in
 Well, gentlemen, when the state to Winsted, and speak on the Law of Roads and Boundaries" I confess that I did try to stick to my text: When the Massa chusetts Historical Society asked me to go to Boston and tell them about John Higginson, a Guilford school teacher. who be- came Salem minister. it did not oc- cur to me to tell them abQut the movement for public utilities coInrnjs- sions. In fact, have felt for nearly twenty years. shut out from talking in public about such subjects. They are questions of present politics, and Judges should, in my opinion keep clear of making public expressions upon any subject of present politics If I had written an address on er1- pIoyers' liability acts, for instance, I should have had to say, that while almost the whole civilized world had changed their law as to these ques- tions during the last quarter of a century, Connecticut had not; that Republican Legislature to be sure had appointed a. very competent conTnis- aion to study the question. Competent