The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-02-12
Senator PeCk's
Ringing Speech
For Caldwell
REDDING SENATOR REFERS TO
MAHAN A THE LITTLE CORSI-
CAN INTENT UPON HIS OWN
ADVANCEMENT.

Redding in the Senate yesterday just
before the vote on the highway COM
mission appointment of Gov. Baldwin
was taken.
ct have listened with much interest
to the arrangements of Governor
Baldwin's nomination for high high
way commissioner. All of the unsub-
stantiated charges have to do with his
being a remiss book keeper. and an
inefficient yard master of supplies be-
longing to the City of New Britain.
There comes rushing to my mind the
memorable words of a campaign some
distance back, when we, the Demo-
Gratis aggressively proclaimed We love
him for the enemies he has made.
And SO today, I approve the Cover
nor's candidate for state highway
commissioner in consequence of those
Democrats that are opposed to him.
The senator from the 9th district
(Senator Isbe1Il has declared that
Mr.. Caldwell is a man not with out ma
tive ability of class, that there is
not the slightest evidence of dishon-
esty in any part of his career that can
be discovered: but that he is not quail
fed for the state highway commission,
because there is no evidence to show
that he has executive ability sufficient
to master that important office. Mr..
President and senators, do you take
that expression seriously? Do you
believe that Senator IsbeIPs judgment
is superior to the Governors? Do
you fancy for one moment that public
sentiment is not clam oring for an i'm
mediate successor to Mr. Macdonald?
Are you not conscious that the senti-
ment arraigned against Mr.. Caldwell is
geographical, that it emanates from
the eastern part of the state, where
the little Corsican by the sea through
revenge, or actuated by motive un-
known to us, is exerting itself against
decency? viii your mind not take
you back to the last session of the
General Assembly? Did this little
Corsican recently arrive at a state of
rectitude and public veal for the
honor and glory of the state? Is he
SO concerned at this particular time
for the fair name of Connecticut that
he is lending his energy to defeat Mr..
Caldwell? Don't you know last year
he voted, he worked against the Pub
lie Utility bill with all his zeal.
These charges against Mr.. Caldwell
recall the words of the poet: T shot
an arrow in the air, it fell to earth I
know not where o, the pity of such
a spectacle, when we men here are
son almost, of eliminating the present
Mr.. Macdonald. o, the
Nominations gave Mr.. Caldwell. Is it
to be wondered at that he inquired
if there was to be any investigation
as to his ancestors? And all this
CALDWELL Don't you know that Mr..
Macdonald used to be a gardener?
forgotten that art in his highway con-
struction, and that we the people of
Connecticut are ridiculed, and when
you ridicu1e the people you bring
humiliation and shame on the state.
Mr.. President and Senators imagine
this arraignment. The Senator from
the 9Th district (M:r Landers) ap-
pointed that committee on Executive
Nominations. And you know that he
appointed himself chairman of that
committee even after he had advised
US senators that under no circum-
stances would he vote to confirm the
governors selection, Mr.. Caldwell.
He (Cadwell) was tried on his quail
f1cations by a packed jury. The min
ority report sustaining the governors
choice comes from the senator of the
nth (Senator Mccarthy the only fair
unprecedented man on that committee
of three, as Senator Isbeu is Repub-
lican and co-operated with Senator
Landers.
Senator Isbe11 states that the Sem
ate is a check on the governor but
don't be unmindful that the people
there will be missing ones, that are
here, when next the election comes
around. You know that Caldwell is a
wharf development, and let me tell
you that he has not been suppliant to
the little Corsican, and that Mr.. Cad
well and Gov. Baldwin have held the
helm. Are we to participate in the
destruction of the Democratic party
for the aid of the Corsican, he who
will sacrifice his senators. those from
his Congressiona1 district for the
achievement of his chosen fancy.
"Are we children without purpose
or intent. or are we to be relative
puppets, to those that already dance,
when the little CorSican pulls the
string? The Committee on Executive
Nominations claim that Mr.. Caldwell,
has had no experience in public road
building. Let me tell you that Mr..
Caldwell is an educated gentleman an
experienced civil engineer, and has
Constructed some three million dollars
worth of work for private parties A
sad contrast to a gardener that the
Pan 1irra1 al Hn1 to off az
the state highways of Connecticut |
spending millions of dollars of our
tax payers money Mr.. Caldwell is at |
present the engineer for the gas works |
at New Britain. and his employers .ap-
preciate his work And that ex-gard- |
ener has held office for about g |
to keep him there through disagree
ing action of this supposedly fntelli- |
gent Senate. But there is a roll Of
honor in this Senate, and public opin- |
ion is a pitiless task master.
Eyes, I love him for the enemies |
he has made. What greater compli- |
ment could be conferred on him, than |
to have the arch conspirator against |
the Public Utility bill opposed to him. |
ground, with his satellites, his auto |
nations to do his bidding.
THE Committee on Executive Nom |
nations, that is Senator Landers and |
Senator 1sbe1l, for anything I can see |
may keep Macdonald in office as long |
as they are in the Senate, if you are !
determined TO I1IO an experience road ]
builder that will pass muster on the |
construction of roads, the candidate to |
success Macdonald may have. There /
is no one in the state save a first Sc |
lectman of a country town and Mac |
donald that have had opportunities to |
build roads, and you know that, and /
so does the lamentable Committee on |
Executive Nominations, fashioned by |
the president of the Senate. reserving
for himself the craftsmanship of it.
with announced avowaIs that he would /
not sustain the governor in naming
Mr. Caldwell, and telling US this morn
ing that he would not be bound by
any caucus rule of the Dem ocratic
CARD OF THANKS.