The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-09
DANIEL DAVENPORT
 IS PREDICTING 4 REPUBLICAN VICTORY
(Courants Special Letter From Wash.
 ington,' July 7)

ington,' July 7.)
 Few. if any people, have watched the national conventions and the sub- sequent developments with keener in- terest than have Connecticut people in Washington.
 Connecticut has not gone democratic at a national election since the days of President Cleveland.
 Representative Reilly of Meriden is enthusiastic over the democratic pros poets in Connecticut as elsewhere MT. Reilly attended the. Baltimore conven- tion with regularity and kept in touch with developments there.
 Another prominent democrat from the state, Daniel Davenport of Bridge port, is freely predicting Republican victory According to MT. Daven- ports view, the democratic platform Is too radical, especially in the blanks providing for trial by jury in con- tempt cases, exempting labor unions from the Sherman antitrust law, and attacking the industries of the coun- try, to commend itself. to the sober second thought of the American vot- CTS. Davenport might be called a Cleveland Democrat At least he has been out of tune with his party lead CTS most of the time since Cleveland administration.
 There has been very little talk about
 
 as related to Connecticut. It is not believed that the Roosevelt indepen- dent movement will cut much figure in the campaign in Connecticut.
 An interested observer of political events is Herbert Knox Smith, of Pennington, United States commits sioner of corporations. As a personal friend of Colonel Roosevelt and an of ficial of the Taft administration, MT. Smith occupies an interesting posi- ton. Up to date he has taken no part in the campaign except to state certain facts when called upon by the President and the ex-President. It has been rumored that MT. Smith might resign his present position, but the best information is that he has no in tention of doing anything of the kind. He says he is carrying on his official work and vii, not talk politics.
 FREED CANAL TOLLS.
 Close students of the canal legisla- ton situation in the Senate believe tolls for American ships using the canal. That opens up the possibi- ity of complications with Great Britt ain under the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, in the opinion of Senator Brandegee and other senators learned in the law. It is believed also that the Senate is apt to accept the provision of the
 
 owning vessels that may compete, with the rail lines. whether they use the canal or not. If that provision is en- acted into law it is believed it will ser .ously injure the transportation bus mess of this country, especially by separating the. New Haven railroad system from the New England Navt- gation Company, and the Pennsylvania railroad and other great railway sys- tems from their connecting water transportation lines. The effect of such a law will be far reaching. Whether the President would sign a bill con- taining a provision of this sort is not known.
 LORIMER CASE.
 Senator Brandegee will vote in favor of Senator Lorimer retaining his seat in the Senate it is understood. He believes that MT. Lorimer is the vic tim of a conspiracy and. that all the corruption that is said to have exist ed in the Illinois Legislature for years has been laid at MT. Lorimer's door. It is not known how, Senator Mclean will vote on the Ltoriner case. His predecessor, Senator Bllkeley, was a member of the committee that in vestfgated the charges against Lori mer and voted to exonerate the Illinois man.