Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-21
EX-GOVERNOR WRITES
 TO CANDIDATE JoDolN.
Thomas M. Waller Holds Out Hope and Encouragement in Congressional Contest.

Ex- Governor Waller has addressed the following letter to Raymond Jo- doin, who has again announced him self a candidate for congress from this district, says Saturdays New London Globe:
 Dear Sir: I have received your cir cular letter in which you announce in frank, manly way your commendable ambition to be again the candidate or your party in this district for con gressman.
 And as know of the energetic and almost-if not together-successfu canvass you made when you were a candidate before, I think you ought to be, and l hope you will be. the candi- date again, for you deserve such party recognition, not only for your own sake but for the sake of the party as well.
 For while you received the full support of your own party in the last campaign-and you would again-you had the support of many hundreds from the opposition party because you l especially represented as a candidate the interests of your fellow working men of the district to whom you are | closely related.
 And although the prospect of demo- | cratic success is now much brighter | l it is not so bright even now in this ] district as to justify or invite the ex- pertinent of offending any class of our voters, and especially the class MT | Lincoln used affectionately to call the | common people--Or working people so many of whom came over from the 1 other side to your aid in the last cam | paign and who are more likely if you are the candidate to come over again. Besides, it is bad party policy to l nominate good men who will honestly | command the most votes when the l chances of success are more than two | to one against their election; Ignore such men when it is thought anyone can be elected-for such deals give the game to the bosses.
 To express myself ~uore strongly, If possible, against such dangerous ex- periments, let me remind you that I 1 was a candidate many long years ago for congress when the republicans held | control of this district by a majority of many thousands, and of course was badly beaten, though I had more democratic votes in my favor than had been polled for years before.
 | Now, since you have almost, if not entirely, wiped out that formidable majority, I think I might possibly like
 
 and have another as good a time as
 had before in canvassing the district
 and with better results But 1 would not accept such a nomination, in con.
 necdon with your worthy claim. if fl
 were rendered me-not only because
 should think 1t unfair to you to do SC
 but because l should fear such an up.
 rising of the thousands of the work ingmen who stood by you before ire
 spectfve of the wishes of their bosse, in the mills and their bosses in thef party, against me that I might b,
 beaten, and might deserve to be beate, even worse than I was beaten before You must remember. of course, if tn other counties now included in th district control the convention an, nominate some other candidate vol and your friends may feel disappoint ed, but you cannot complain. Fo
 such is the fate of war.
 But if the delegates from the tw old counties ignore the claim of yo, and your adherents and desert VOL t you will only have to regret, as mos r good democrats do, that the peopI
 have not the right and privilege vet q
 primary election, as they soon wi
 have, and as they would have now btj g for the opposition and intrigue of th
 party bosses and the party lobbyist a Inside and outside of the late but no lamented general assembly.
 THOMAS M. WALLER.