The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-05-28
RYCE STRONGLY
 CONDEMNS PARTY

I cost those who profit by them notl1- ing. beyond the effort to keep seem ing defeFence and delft hattery re- acting upon gullibility, vanity and pre- judices.
 s@The people have the right to rule, but they cannot rule without parties and leadership. A party always has camp followers and suffers and is apt to have a canteen, but the world is indeed topsy turvey when they turn leaders. What can a. party do under such, leadership. except disintergrate? Is not that the very thing now go- ing in this state under our eyes?
 'SThe need of the hour in Rep1b- 4iean politics in Connecticut is a nlu- | tiny before the rank and file have all struggled or deserted. If some politicians should be made to walk 1 the plank, if the canteen, the pro- curerS, the camp followers and the s1t- lers were sent to the rear where they belong as party hangers on, if party managers and operators of machinery were taught to keep tl1eir plaeess to obey orders and not to give them. if we could have a tribune of the people conducting an organ of publicity Tor l the party in Hartford If we should find leaders, who, besides brains and i instinct for politics, had some even moderate asp3ra tion to serve the pub 1 lie interest, I think the rank and file that once made the Repubican party
 
 would rally again; but admit it all seems as likely today as that the mil lenfun will burst upon us tomorrow.
 II do not believe this thing that happened to me occurred without the prior permission of those to whom the clerk of bills looks for future pre- ferment Mir. Blodgett is a Republf- can lawyer from IitEf6eld county m | intimate association with the House leader. He did not speak to me in  efve the episode whatever sfgniflEance l it has, and its significance 1s wlaEally
 THE cIERK
 The clerk of bills Of this General Assembly Is WfE1an IF. Blodgett, Of l Winchester He is attorney for the boroq1xh Of Wansted, and condacted ] the hearing before the msuranee com l rnittee on a bill to bring about some sort of an Investigation of the ire l insurance companies. He had been assistant clerk Of the Senate in E9a1- In the usual routine distribution of Republican patronage the Senate clerk | one session is clerk of bills the next, and then engrossing clerk two years | later.
 MT. Ryee was elected Representative as a Republican, after a hot three cornered f7gEt in West Hartfcrd. He voted for Colonel Ea1f fin the ca1zcus and for Speaker Webster in the House. He pointed out gaps in the repors oA | the conference committee on organ1za- l ton. and he1ped largely, with Colonel Hall. Senator IsbeH and other FSepup- 1 Ii<sare. to perfect the plan for organ l izfnz the General Assembly with joint l staudfrrz co1nuitSees, in wlach Nrae lT1ernocraffc party has equal repFeseEH- 1 tatioar. He spoke eonvfHcingly for the plan in the caucus of Republican Hep treaerstatives. which fndorsed the plan after Leader Healy had spoken twice 1 to defeat 1t Chairman HdOraback 3 orsposftion to it was we'll known MT T7vce.s letter to the epeaIer about communities assignments has been pub l Iashed. Named as House chairman af | the insurance committee he refuseo I at once to serve, for reasons ysn1cn i he fold on the floor of the House I Later he called the attention of the | House to the failure of Colonel Hall, ttre 1-7uuer-up for the speakershlps 70 Il get the chaiFmanship of the excise lcornmibtee he had asked for and invited Fl Colonel Hall to tell why he had not H nl1tadned that cErairu1ans11ip i'm 1911, and I the speaker to tell wl9y he had not It given it to him in 1918, E1rnnfs1ng tlraf H if both would answer, 1t would be Il found that the same cause produced \ the same effect in both cases When |f the speaker did not uazna "a new Fl cha1rn1ar for the fnsurance committee, MT Ryce wrote him, insisting that he do sos
 .sFf 1t could be supposed tl1at the ! 1utfernent which guided the speaker in | making up the committees, was exer- cised in the interest of the state or | of the House, should deem it pre- sI1naptuous to refuse to serve, Tn any place allotted to me.
 s~ro protest against the continuance of a practice, which is no less irfde- fenSfpfe because 1t has become usual in our state, and which, in it's causes
 and consequences. is one Of the plague lepots in Republican politics, to which | the party here owes the increasing de- fections among its rank and file, seems
 to me a. service to the party but
 regret of course, any discomfort I may Ihave caused you personally
 THE CHArGE IN BTL4s.
 Mir Ryce spoke and voted against
 the Evarts bill to keep Highway Com | missioner Macdonald in office perpet- ] ua11y, that Is to say till charges not
 then presented should be tried by ths
 court Thereupon John Buckley as- 1 sistant clerk of the House, led an ] abortfve movement to take away from ! MT. Ryce Lis aisle seat. On May z the attention of the House and o1 the public was called by the West
 Eartford Representative to the re- I writing of bills and to the reSuItinS
 changes in the meanings of sorrs6s He
 drew from Leader Healy the point od
 ordeFs which may become classic, thai a Representative offering an amend
 r1ent which completely rewrftes and
 changes tf1e meaning of a. bill, is out
 of order in presenting, by way of ex- planatfodf of the need Of the amend
 ment, facts about the cendue6 of the
 clerk of the General Assembly be-
 cause the clerk could not reply on the
 floor, because he was t'tl1e best law
 yer we ever had on the Jobs" or be- cause he had the governors confidence.
 MIR. RYCEas LEETER.
 His clear analysis of the United
 Electric Light and Water company
 Ida,tfeIs on fF1e floor Of the House lasi
 Thursday. and his successful fight bt
 7Sssrstsst ft,*,f tst,Tr,rva1lv aaaifast what he