Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1912-03-01
Mayor Thayer CritiCises Roosevelt
Declares There Danger When ExPresident Attempts to
Disrupt the Standards of Forefathers = Big Time at
Smoker of Foresters.

The first public expression of opin-
ion locally upon the Columbus speech
of ex-President Roosevelt was made
Thursday evening by Mayor Charles
+. Thayer, when he spoke at the Court
City of Norwich roll call and smoker,
in Foresters' hall, laying emphasis up
| on the grace danger when a man of
Mr. ROosevelt's ability and influence
assumes, as Mayor Thayer put it, to
lead the country away from the fOun-
dations upon which the constitution
of this republic were laid.
{. T. Burke Presided.
Past Grand Chief Ranger Edward T.
Burke who presided as chairman for
the evening, opened the way for May
or ThayeT's words, when he referred
in his Introductory remarks to the feel
ing in some mems minds at the present
time that there were indications that
we were drifting away from the first
principles of the republic. Chairman
Burke made an eloquent but brief ad-
dress upon the principles of Forestry
and the grand record that Court City
Of Norwich No. SO. could show in its
20 years of existence.
Close to 200 men, including the For
esters and their invited friends, were
in the hall when Chairman Burke es-
corted Mayor Thayer in, while the
crowd present stood and applauded.
Chief Ranger George +. Dolan called
the meeting to order, and the roll of
215 members was called by Financial
Secretary T. A. Carey, the last name
on the list being Captain Daniel Muir
ply of the worlds champion Philadel-
phia Americans.
Mayor Thayer on Politics.
Chairman Burke concluded his re-
marks by introducing Mayor Thayer,
who said that he felt like endorsing
what Chairman Burke had said along
patriotic lines, and he welcomed this
| opportunity to talk politics to this
gathering of men, because he sought
at every opportunity to correct the
wrong idea that was prevalent, that
politics is some sort of a scheme that
the grafters are in for what they can
get out of it. 1t is the part of all good
citnzens to study politics, he9said, and
to be good politicians, and we ought to
take an interest in local, state and
national politics, for it is for us to see
that the foundations and the structure
of our government remain the best in
the world. as it was intended to be in
the beginning.
We have departed in many ways
from the standards of 100 years ago,
and from a recent announcement mad
at Columbus it seems that we are pre-
pairing to drift far from the founda
tions in government that our forefath-
| ers laid. 1t is much more to be dread
ed when an eX-president departs from
| the old standards, and when this
| occurs it is time for you and me to
| think and keep on thinking. Several
years ago in Kentucky this sort Of at
tempt to overrule the highest court of
! the state was tritd and went so far as
| the election Of a legislature which at
| tempted to put in new judbes aud turn
out the old ones, bbut the old judges
| refused to recognize the authority
when the new court attempted to do
! business in that state, and in that
state there was anarchy for a time.
| 1t took year or two for the people to
| come back to their senses.
Danger in Leaving Old Standard.
| This effort in Kentucky hadn't the
| leadership such as Roosevelt can give,
| No man can deny the ability Of Roose-