The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-13
JUDGE MATHEWSON GIVES
 REASONS WHY HE'LL VOTE
 FOR GOVERNOR WILSON

Ex-Judge Mathewson of New Ha-
 ven comes out in statement printed
 below, giving his reasons why he in
 president, and why he can't vote for Taft, and why it is impossible for him to cast his vote for Roosevelt. He also calls attention to the activity of J. Henry Rcraback, chairman of the Republican state central committee as a lobbyist, and cites case in which MT. Roraback figures prornin- ently in the passage of a bill through the Connecticut General Assembly not long ago. Judge Mathewson has a word to say about Col. Robert O. Eaton of the internal revenue depart fnent, and refers also to other prom inent Republican workers. He also declares that very soon he will have something for publication about the Republican county machine. His present statement follows:
 The question has so often been asked ane during the past month why [ had deserted President Taft and stated that I planned to vote for Woodrow. Wilson, that think am stition in the premises. 49d@.,
 Tn the first place . feel that President Taft has failed to represent the people of the country, that, Wheth- CT consciously or unconsciously, he has been under the control of interests which have been ihimical to the whole people of this country, that he has surrounded himself with men who have proved faithless and self-seeking ad- visers, and finally that after the peo- pie had expressed their disapproval as fully as they had opportunity to ex- press it, he was nominated in disre- gard of the peoples wishes. This k4~~n <& Ha fea nominating vote, which was only N more than one-haIf of the total con vention. Nearly half of that vote came from strong Democratic state from none of which could President Taft expect a single electoral vote; and out of 17 Republican states in which primaries were held having total of 479 delegates he only receiv- ed a vote of 75-and out of these were six delegates from Ohio, where the people said they did not want him, two from California, cast contrary to the state Jaw, and two from alter mates in Massachusetts, voting while their principals sat in the convention and refused to vote. It was evident from the expression of the Repub- lican states, even conceding that every thing was legal, that the Republican electors did not want President Taft re-nominated.
 7 "T have always been a. ndTQ WOIh- ina Republican, and for S2 years have voted nothing but the straight Repub- Iican ticket; but believe that, the conditions that confront us to-day de-
 nand that men vote for those who represent the people and not the Ia vored classes.
 ! q believe in many of the principles which ex-President Roosevelt has ad- vocated, but I have lost faith in the man. If he had gone into the Re- publican convention and worked as he could for those principles and for good. sound nominee, he would have succeeded and either been on the throne himself of been the power be- hind the throne but his whole course was too much tinged with selfishnesS
 T believe Woodrow Wilson is man of courage, as shown by his repudia- tion of Parker and his whole course in New Jersey legislation; and that ne is an organizer and a. man who can accomplish results, and that is the kind Of a man we need in the pres ident's chair at Washington to-day.
 eve cannot vote for men whom we love and esteem (asIwe all do Presl- dent Taftl but we must vote for men who will accomplish what the people | or there will be an explosion | If nIIl,lic indignation which will be ev- en greater than the agitation which | nfronts us to-day. The people are | dema ndina services from men not be- cause if ministers to their selfish pur- | noses. but because men are willing to | sacrifice themselves for the public | good