Norwich bulletin., 1914-08-21
Political Gossip
Norwich Democrat. Puzzle.

It isn't up to the Commentator to tell the Democrats of eastern Connecticut where they are at in connection with their party affairs, but from the side lines there are some things that strike me as curious and as well worth talk ing about as the weather or the war, even the beauties of the street car service-almost. I should like, for in- stance, to be able to understand why group of Norwich Democratic pol iticans should be endeavoring to steer the election of delegates to the state convention in the direction of the nomination of Governor Baldwin.
 As considerably disinterested spectator to the activities of the Dem- ocratic party this attempt to make a Baldwin town out of Norwich has, for me, the interest of a queer kind of phenomenon. I have never under stood why there should be such thing as vermiform appendix or wisdom tooth. I do not understand why there should be any Norwich sen timent for the nomination for Cover nor Baldwin to the United States sen- ate.
 I can understand a Hartford senti-
 ment toward Baldwin or a New Haven entiment-because Hartford has a lot of people who have the Baldwin viewpoint and New Haven is always tickled when any New Havener has a chance to go somewhere unusual, even | if 1t be the gallows. But Norwich | that's a different matter. Everybody knows that Norwich and New Lon don are in the same boat when it
 comes to their dependence on eastern Connecticut growth, and that the in terests of the two cities are. bodnd up | in the commercial development Of the | Thames. Also pretty much every | body knows that every move in the | direction of that development has | hanr Gfa aY1d GfnhhnrnlU =
 ized by the governor-that it was only | by the utmost endeavor and the ex-
 ercise of the keenest fnesse that Con- | gressman Mahan succeeded in over | riding the governors opposition to the | New London terminal project.
 Why there should be the least
 chance of Norwich Democrats align
 ing with Baldwin, when the latter has
 shown himself opposed to marine de- velopment with the fixed opposition of | the confirmed railroad sympathizer, | when he has figured as an "ultra-con-
 servative" at time when progress | iveness was almost lshriekingly de- manded. and when his entire policy has been directly contrary to the pol icy of the whole of eastern Connecti- cut. is something that have not been
 able to get through my head
 The Commentator is not out to pro- mote the candidacy of any particular person LOT Lne OcIllOSEdl4S oCAAdbOAA | nomination. I don't even know for sure that the issue is between Baldwin and Mahan alone. I am simply struck by the utter incongruity of an east ern Connecticut community having
 within it even the possibility of 9 Baldwin delegation. The only basis
 for such a possibility that I can con
 ceive is that there must be in Nor wich an element that does not want
 this section of the state to get any where And I certainly give. Nor
 wich credit for far too much enter
 prise and clear sightedness to admit
 that such an element can be anything
 but small.
 Il As to the Comstock .gubernatoria
 candidacy, everybody knows that fol Il joke albeit joke with joker 1T it-the joker being an expected turn , over of Comstock delegates to tn, Baldwin senatorial candidature. . wonder whether the Norwich Demo crats will fall for Baldwin, when the1 stop to think what it means to mak' a senator out of a very old man con , additionally opposed to everythint 1 their town wants and needs for it development. I have about as mucl notion that it will as that Wilhelm Poincare and King George will si down together tomorrow to clan , chowder.-New London Day.