The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-25
1.-THE PUBLIC BE DAMNED"
 xildHE, WARNER-KING POLICIES


 De Yer H. Warner. vice president of the Bridgeport Gas Light Conn pany, vice president of the Bridge port Hydraulic company, represents tive of family deeply interested in The New Haven Railroad and in the Connecticut. Company.S. crossed the rubicon on, the first stage of a poli- tical campaign, last night. It is a campaign which this interchangeable servant of public service corporations hAs conducted with singular auda- city, boldneAs and contempt for pab- lie opinion.
 The nomination of Clifford B. Will s6n contributes nothing to the pres tike of a gentleman, so versatile i5l making and changing his political friends
 1t is not Mr. Wilson with whom the people of Bridgeport are dealing in this campaign. He is the passing shadow of a more fnasterful man, who. has read the life of the late MafH HannA. and has fAiled only in efnulating too late the example of that once influential politician.
 Not to this newspaper are the citi- gems indebted for their knowledge of the figure that moves between the light and the screen.
 MT. Warner placed the screen. Himseif he set the light, where # would make just a properly heroic shadow of his own person, whenever he shou1d choose to walk between.
 He has chosen, and in the columns of newspapers, serv7fffe to the rich, he has been presented az "Tne Big Man whom the organization will select for mayor" and then, as the task upon near inspection looked too big for a .sbig man he was presented as .'the great hand." which it was said would write the policies upon which the organization. would stand some oti1sr pig haH" atts aSpeared. how ever. that no '.big man. willing to ] go in leash and collar could be found,s and so the announcement was {. changed to read that the '.fnan' would not amount to much. that no attention should be paid to the man. but that the eyes of all should be fiveted upon the policies , And so it is. Mfr. wilson, in ana nouncfng that his. head has been thrust through the collar at the end of the cord leading to the masters hand, felt obliged to declare that he was not the '"big man" who had been promised. He Is not.
 ,..nps,a nnas ;ss|1 rg!i lS 1psa prsn,,s sns feared that there might be poison at the bottom of it, and decided to trust the job of tasting to somebody ' else. The custom is old. ;Monarchs formerly had their cup, bearers whose duty was to drink first of sus. pected potions. Mobiles had their whipping boys, who took punishment in place of their aristoeratfc masters.
 So Mir. Wilson may be dismissed from the center of the stage. shab- by figure, from the various parts of whose person the stringA too visibly run to such hands as have been noted.
 ,sS9a 3ee may be dismissed the ''iead- sftea&k6eHa 'd6ife abroad the work planned by keener mind.
 Mf. La~srys one leader, is but a servant of one of the public services of which Mir. Warner is chieftain.- Mir. King. another leader" is a political mereenary, who is, or has been in the service of another of the great corporations in which MT. War .ner is interested. Their tenure of authority is like MT. Wilson's. It's sorigin is not different. Its future is not different. They too are small stage figures that move with strings.
 MT. Warner has arrayed his pup pets. taught them their lines, in- strueted them to his purpose and elected them to stand or fall upon his "policies"-upon the policies" which have his approval. These policies should be considered impar- dally for what merit there is in them. They come from a s ource that ought to be capable of good things.
 But upon inspection these "poli-- Ea'' are seen to be as shabby, as hopelessly forlorn, as cruelty disap- pointing, as the rest of the shabby drama The play is no better. than the mathematics.
 The crux of the policies are to be found in paragraph ten.
 We realize that our opponents in the campaign about to be launched win argue for municipal ownership of public utilities. We are OPPOSED