Connecticut western news., 1912-06-06


 the candidates candidates, how shall they dare to look Colonel Osborn in the countenance while eating turtle soup and salted almonds when he comes up to enliven the Business Mems banquet next winter? Wow And what will the Colonel say to them on that occa- sion? Again we repeat once more, Wow
 The lukewarmness thus far manifest ed here at home, toward the afore- mentioned boom, does not necessarily bear out the axiom about the prophet in his own country, but it comes pretty near to establishing the fact that the people not only do not know what is best for them, but they don't know what they want, and don't even know what they think they want. They don't know which side of their butter the bread is on. The candidate isn't ham, pered that way. His hat is in the ring and there it stays. There will be no compromise, but if, at the primaries, the vote of the rank and file is caIcu lated to thwart the will of the people, there may be bolt.
 The Waterbury Republican admits, editorially, that the candidate
 {" will come as near to qualifying 2 in all the offices he announces he will run for. as anyone Canaan can produce. And with the entire state press behind him he ought to pull some force in put ting that town on the map so that it will stick out Besides that, he is sus- pected of being strongly in favor of suffrage for wOmen."
 The Bristol Press helps the movement along. It says:
 Ut was supposed the accomplished editor of the News was immune from the bite of the political bug, especially since he was Governor, an office held by unanimous favor of the Laurel club. We hope that his appreciative fellow townsmen at least bestow upon him the honor of chief justice of Canaan. It would be worth while to see him per form the marriage ceremony"
 We confess to 8 feeling of uncertainty concerning the attitude of Editor Troup, of the New Haven Union, toward the ndidacies-whether he's wid 'em or ag'in' 'em. But Troup is a politician as we'll as journalist, and knows how to make his language conceal his thoughts when that's more desirable or more ex- pedient than disclosing them. Some of the things he says about the candidate are {:
 |" With him it is whole hog or none.' If he can't get what he wants when he wants 1t, he doesn't want it. That's plain. Personally we think Canaan is gong to swap a good editor honest. What chance has he then in politics? * He does not state on which ticket he is to run. Evidently he is holding out for the highest bidder. or unanimous consent, or something like that. He is probably willing to run on any or all tickets-the more the merrier. Johns newspaper experience has given him some idea of politics as it is now played, but the handicaps which face him in the political arena are insur mountable. 1t takes a lot of money to work politics successfully. and Johns been 8 newspaper man all his life. Perhaps after all this is merely Johns original method for striking for more pay. If so, The News had better come to speedy terms. We trust that he will confne his politicalizing to the Wurra Wurra Club, and dedicate his rare talents to the paper which is today the pride of Litchf1eld county and the delight of Connecticut newspaperdom. The best of it all is, that John is prob ably not serious about joining his fellow townsman. J. Henry Roraback, in the futile pursuit of political will-o'-the wisps."