The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-01
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Nomination For Sale.
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(EKCnanS9.)
 We, are mot certain but this would be good year for a poor man, or at least for a man of ordinary means to run for governor on the Republican ticket. A great deal has been said in years past about the gubernatoriai candidates buying their nomination and then buying their election, and this allegation has been especially fitted to the Republican candidates. Governor Baldwin showed two years ago that it was not necessary for a candidate to spend fortune in order to win an election. He stated at the opening of the campaign that he would limit his contribution and expenditure to a, cer- tain amount, which, if we remember rightly, was s4.0O0; and his statement of campaign expenditures at the close of the campaign showed that he had kept very near the figure he set for himself earlier in the game. We be-. lieve it would be far better for the Re-. publicans this year to head their tick has the confidence. respect and adm1-. ration of the party and of the public in general than to accept the poodle of a self offered candidate.
 We do not offer any excuse for this comment, but if one were wanted it could be found in an editorial in last evenings issue of the New Britain Herald, which said in part: 'It seems difficult for the Republicans to get together on any candidate and about the only man who openly expresses desire to run against Governor Bald win is Lieutenant Governor Blakes- lee, and the leaders say they wont have him. There seems to be a fear among Republicans that no one can beat Baldwin and that accounts for. the scarcity of satisfactory material. Judge Studley. of New Haven, has been considered a strong candidate. He has carried New Haven so often that some think he could carry it against Governor Baldwin and that if the Republicans could get the vote of the Elm City they would stand good chance of carrying the state. Judge Studley, however, is not anx- ious to run. He says he is not f1nan-. cial1y able to stand a state campaign, and there the matter rests.''
 While it is fitting to state at this point that Judge John P Studley is by no means a poor man, the fact that he does not feel financially able to stand the expense of a state campaign for the gubernatorial nomination and for the battle which would follow such a campaign should make him none the less acceptable to members of his party-unless they are looking for po- IiticaI pap for themselves. The time has gone by when the Republicans of Connecticut should seek to nominate a man solely because he is able to spend $30,O00, $40,OO0, $5O,O00 and even s6O OO0---and one candidate confessed to having expended more than the largest of these amounts. This would be a good year, we believe, for the Republicans to choose without any particular regard to the wealth and selfish generosity of their candidates. The average voter of to-day does not. and should not, gauge the worth of the candidate by the size of his wal let. On the other hand, lavish ex' penditures by any candidate to fur ther his own interests are marked down by the thoughtful man as both -debasing and disgusting. We hope the Republican gubernatorial nomina- tion this year will not be offered for sale