Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-01
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Stand Together for Taft, Progress and
 Prosperity.

MT. Editor: It may be all right to en- close yourself in an T am holier than thou'' robe and howl yourself hoarse about political bosses as some, goody- goody ones are doing now, but in or der to keep regular and keep people thinking you mean what you say, it would be well not to try the boss gag on others yourself.
 Now, I am not one of those kind of fellows who throws fit over political bosses; in fact think bosses as rule are pretty handy fellows and can not be easily dispensed with. but when a man of the Woodrow Wilson type howls about bosses it may be well to ask why he was so willing to secure all the help he could from Boss Jimmy Smith in New Jersey when he ran for governor? Why was he so anxious for William Jennings Bryan to boss the Baltimore convention? And he certain ly did. Why was he so pleased at the help given him by Boss Taggart of Indiana and Boss Sullivan of Illinois
 He doesn't even object out loud to Boss Murphy of New York; but I am leading up to another 'holier than thou' fellow, who kicks at the bosses and then goes to bossing things him
 self l refer to Hon. Herbert Knox
 Smith of Pennington, the progressive
 candidate for governor of this state.
 1 have in my possession letters writ
 ten by MT. Smith that prove conclu-
 sively that he and other leaders are
 nothing more nor less than bosses of
 another kind.
 I was jumped upon by him personal
 ly and others also for daring to say
 thought it would be well to indorse
 the republican state ticket. Now there
 are thousands of men in Connecticut
 who like President Roosevelt, but don't
 like the idea of helping elect demo- cratic set of congressman this year. Not only are these men republicans, but some of them democrats.
 I think it was August 22 that MT. Vt: Taft is dead issue. Either vote We: "Taft is dead issue. Either vote for Roosevelt or Wilson" Now, if Herbert Knox Smith honestly desires the election of Roosevelt, why tell his hearers to vote for Wilson?
 Is it fact that the progressive party of Connecticut is> being run to elect Wilson and the democratic congress sional ticket? There are a great many
 thoroughbred Roosevelt men who would vote for Taft so quick your hair
 would curl. MT. Herbert Knox Smith, if they could only see the light a little
 clearer, as they perhaps will before
 election day.
 At Hartford last Saturday it was boldly shouted in the convention: Let the democrats win if they can" Now | if that is the policy of the progressive party then the quicker the voters who desire first the defeat of Wilson, second 1 the defeat of a free trade congress third genuine progress and a continu- | ance of prosperity, take a tumble tc themselves and crawl on the prosper | ity band wagon driven by W. H | Taft and drawn by the old battle l scared elephant the better.
 No one who pretends to know any | thing about politics will for moment doubt that thinking men all over Amer | ica have in the last few days come tc l sudden halt. No more ardent ad- l mirer of Roosevelt lives than a dele 1 gate who attended the Hartford con- | rention Wednesday and Thursday anG 1 came home determined to vote fol | Taft. I won't give his name here. Ht will do that himself at the right time l The men who sc boldly show that theil ! desire to elect Roosevelt is second tC | their desire to defeat Taft, and thus
 endanger the prosperity of the natior