The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-11
coy. BALDWIN
 ON BIG WASTE
 OF STATE FUNDS
SAYS TT Is OUT HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS BY MACDONAID'S IGNORANCE-MAI HIT
 AT EATON, TOO.
WHY REPUBLI- CANS FEEL RULE OF PARTY BY HIM AND RORABACK IS
 INTOLEF4ABLE-

Gov Simeon F. Baldwin. in the course of his address at the Demo- cratic rally held in the West Haven town hall last evening, made pointed attacks upon State Highway Commis sioner James H. Macdonald, Col. Rob- ert O. Eaton and J. Henry Roraback Governor Baldwin declared that as result of his lack of engineering knowledge Commissioner Macdonald has wasted hundreds of thousands or dollars of the states money cover TOT Baldwin said in part:
 If a Dem ocratic president and con gress are elected you may be pretty sure of more economy r Tn our naconai 1nacronaI from the time of Tn omas Jefferson down, has always been the party of economy. The last Democratic house of representative saved the country millions which would have been spent by 8 Republican house. Over SlOO,00O saved, to begin with. by cutting out unnecessary policemen ana per- quisites at the capitol
 Twelve million dollars for instance was. saved by cutting out one battle ship; $50O,000 by cutting out the tariff board.
 '"rhe fact is that the whole scheme of the tariff board was wrong They should have been made agents Of congress. They should have reported to congress. Then the public would have known what their conclusions were. They IGpOTL0O OIly u I1AS P4 0o- ident, and he pocketed their final re- port, in 1910. until after election, be- cause, ne said, if he had published it before election, the voters might not have read it inpartially.
 This kind of guardianship of the people on the part of the president, in. It believes in publicity as a prin- ciple of public policy. 4It believes in turning on the electric light, espe- ciaIIy in dark corners. It believes in n nation 11ikRs-
 We have not always had enough of that in state affairs. Let me give with a $5,OOO salary, called high way commissioner. He does what in other states is done by an officer call ed a highway engineer. We don't call ours an engineer, and we don't because he is not one. Highway Com missioner Macdonald has had compe- Ht1cal manager but not as an engl- neer. For want of it, he has wasted hundreds of thousands of dollars of the state money.
 Governor Baldwin alluded to the progressive party as follows: tI have been about the states quite little this fall and find the same story every where: The Roosevelt party is almost entirely made up of those who have heretofore been Republicans. +t,r. why no not more Democrats join party has. always been the party of pfosress-the party of the people. It has been doing all that Is worth doing of what the Progressive party plat form contains. Democrats do not need to change their party lines. They are all right as they are mended several things that the pro gressive party have copied into their new platform, and some of them were carried through by the Demo- cratic members of the assembly, aided by some of the better sort of the re- publican members.
 
 ator Woodruff of Orange, but I did get some from other Republican sen ators and representa- ves-men like Senator Brirsmade of Washington, welt camp, because he could not stand the tone of the Republican party any longer.
 q do not wonder why men like Brinsmade- have grown to feel it in tolerable that the councils of the Re publican party should be ruled by men like J. Henry Roraback and Rob ert O. Fla ton.
 'I wonder, by the way, why Colo nel Eaton has never found time to stop the collection of the internal rev. enue of the United States in Rhode l Island and Connecticut long enough to i start a libel suit against George l.. 1 acter sketch and historical tribute l which MT. Fox wrote a year or two 1 ago on Robert O. Eaton? It seemed | to me to call for 9 reply at least, but 1 public spirited, high minded citizen. He feels profoundly the duties of cit 1 izenship. He is ready to do his full l share of them. Words from such al man-words of accusation and exco- riation, mean something.
 T do not hold any party responsi- | ble for the character of all it's mem l bers, but I do hold any party respon- l sible for the character of it's chosen 1 and leaders
 ''The people this year are with the l democracy of the United States They | believe that progress-progress in the | right direction, can be more safely l counted on from a party that has 1 stood for progress year after year, and l achieved progress, whenever it at 1 tained power, than from any person 1 ally conducted party, the momentary growth of disappointed ambition, or i any stand-pat paFty which has long had power, and has steadily gone back ward instead of forward
 Albert B. Stewart, foreman of an ice house the Kennebec RIver says: ''I have used FToley's Honey and | Tar Compound personally for a mum Der of years, once for severe cold | contracted while working on the Ice. Two bottles completely cured me-" F. B. Brill. a1 5
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