The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-01-31

with one or two hundred registere voters sends as many representatlVe to the lower legislative House as NeS Haven with her 133,o00; and thre or four such towns as many as Ne' Haven's State Senators and Repre- sentatives combined. Ergo, 1t Is tn country towns, not the cities, tha Senatorial aspirants work"
 They were worked in the late cam paign up to their full Senatorial val ues and the corrupt practices act mutilated by the politicians In tn Legisature-seems to have beer absolutely ignored. George l.. Fo2 whose brave and persistent work fo the civic purities of the State shine radiantly through the stream D ity or the statement that both can didacies are tarred evenly by tn same fiscal stick-and he is in a DO sitiOn to know better than any maj in the State not corruptionist him sel. Bracketed closely with the Sen atorial campaign has been that ,, fo the Governorship and its sub-cli max in the Hartford convention with it's reeking tales of bribery though in justice to MT. Goodwin the defeated candidate for Governor it must be said that all reports agre that most of the moneys expended for him came from outside quarter and were kept from his knowledge. The New Haven Railroad Part.
 Much speculation. has been waste' on the position, acts and inf1uenc of the New Haven Railroad Com pany in the Senatorial conflict. Bulk eley some years ago wanted badl. to become director in the corpora tion, but was denied on prudentfa grounds connected with his politica activities. His appearance as critic of the company at stockholders meeting and his sales of severa thousand shares of stock held by the Aetna Life Insurance Compan! followed.
 Such acts of the Senator wer, hardly of nature to make him per he had friends as well as foes in it directorate, and the outward evi dence as well as inward testimon, goes to show that the corporation! influence was not, actively at least thrown against him. The compan. would probably much rather havt him at Washington than at Hartford The real force major in Mclean! victory has been the shrewd ant shady activity of his chief manager Roraback, the new Republican "boss," and more dangerous than hi predecessor, Fyler, because nor, subtle and more ingratiating in man
  porters of ex-Judge Baldwin noted not with poignant regret, last cleo tion night that North Canaan, Rora backs home town, in a total vote o 438 turned a Republican majority ol Governor of 69 two years ago into { @ compliment for the king of tn, lobby.
 Mclean As Senator.
 No citizen of Connecticut seeking the vivid signs of political virtue will, in the Scotch verb, feel lifted over the States new Senator. Hi record as a whole. with its begin nings in the lobby and the canpaigr methods by. which he has risen. for must concede certain good traits. H. is but f1fty-three years old, youns enough to aspire to new reputa tion and not so old as to be dull tt the future; a good speaker, a maker of epigram and metaphor, though rhetorically a bit too f1orid. ant graceful in bearing. These are no the indices of a deep and strong character, but, remembering how h, took bold and advanced ground ol constitutional reform as Governor there is well-based hope that-may be in 8 mood reactionary on his pas he will demonstrate courage in tn,
 
 tiOns as the tariff. Certainly few il a fair comparison with Bulkeley vii question his superiority over both th' man whom he succeeds and his col league, Brandegee-the latter keel disappointment to those aware o his natural gifts and who recall th great speech which all but stamped ed the hostile Republican State con vention in the spring of 1900. Nor as ,servile followers of Aldrich, ha. either Bulkeley or Brandegee made record to admire. By the retire cut team" breaks apart, and tn, State, in the Federal Senate has rep resentatives of hostile factions, witt acute possibilities of trouble in tn, matter of patronage and foreshad owings of new Senatorial contes resentative Hill may emerge as Bran degee's successor.
 The final exit of Senator Bulkele, from the field of Connecticut polite, also brings up sharp memories of tn; man and his picturesque career. Or public liberality. his business energ, and acuteness; on the negative sid, his personal fai1ings, his cynical view of political methods, his partisanshiy h7esting more on interest than or principle. No one can doubt tn, sort of impress which his career Ina, left on the political morals of tht State; yet, unlike other leaders il politics who have loft much the sam. impress. he has not played the Phar. isee. The political fates made hin a hold-over Governor during tht deadlock twenty years ago which threatened chaos in the State. Ii one could but eliminate the belief that Guring a part of that hiatus c. legislative action he played for hi. own continuance as Governor, ont could record his otherwise goot steering of the ship of state witt well-nigh unqualified praise
 c. D