The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-16

4s dinner of the Denocrats at the Hotel Taft last night Secretary of State Al bert Phillips exploded quite 3 sensa- ton when he said that not many years ego when the Republican lobby was in charge of the legislature at the cap 55ol corporation in the state had been eornpeIIed to pay 1,590 to the lpbhx before it could get a favorable repde#$ MrqRh the comTnittee on incor- $ porations upon petition Tor an m crease of it's capital stock. He men rsoned no names in connection with the charge. He had been talking about the lobby and the charged connection gef J.. enry Roraback and Robert O.. 1saton with that lobby just 2 few passages beferes 4i.a #s
 After the dinner he was asked to go little further into particulars Eut he said that he didn't care to e1aborat te upon his speech but he add cd that the corporaticn in mind was a Naw Britain u1anufactnTing concern and that he had been told the story hy man who ought to know. He wosala not say in what year the trans- action took place
 Senator John K. McDonou gh, who IS the candidate for attorney general evening when he replied to a state 1nent which he said he understood had been made by one Willard e. Ffsh- er, the candidate for governor on the
 
 Ptof. Efsher. as he understood It, was ta the effect that he Senator McDon- 91gh as chairman of the Judiciary eomnittee having in charge the pass agA Of the WaTkmenss eompensatfon Set had been trieked in passfng IL cd to appreciate the gravity Of Prof E%sfaefes charge iT.aSxnuch as he as Chairman of the committed ha1d turn ed pyer to Prof. Fisher all the ma terfaI before the lcommittee and had paid Prof. Fisher $500 for drs wing up *he bill which was later passed with only two slight changes from the draft repared by the gentleman from Hid- dletown.
 There were oyer 300 diners in the bfg dining room of the Taft when the 1rst course was served shortly before o'clock Most Of them were New 11aNAners and as the state commit tee had just finished it's meeting the rpo1a buzzed with talk Of the nornin- alton of Representatives Bree in the Eleventh district It was we'll after g o'clock when Chairman Fitzgerald of the state committee trapped for order. and introduced John J. Lane as the fuastmaster The latter got down to irss speaker Gov. simeon D. Bald
 sssverusor Baldwin spoke in part as fellows:
 ia one Of the good things belong 1nE to . small state that party leaa- CTS can easily get together In friend " way to talk over matters of com mon interest-to talk and to pIan
 Iet me mention two things only out of many
 y . Democrats find ourselves thIs 6an II in. a positIon which we never con- 4emplated and nobody. contem plated. Halt a4rope Is as The natural markets for our exports are obstruet ed or cue off. Misunderstanding has stopped n Europe except Of munitions of war anufacturers here are busy in some 3nes and blocked in other lines There has been no fair opportunity to test he Ind erWood Tarln Act of 1s13 The
 astl talFFl pset@,aIl Ecal lc1elations as to lis working eFs4 rs4tas
 We know that some things we can buy cheaper for 1t, and that some Eth asngs we can make cheaper for it EWsorked in all respects if tllere had gbeen no war We do know, However Mat the old Payne tariff worked bad ly The American people pronounced on that in no uncertain terms The main issue in the pe1iticaI campaign kof two years ago waa tariH. Should it be reduced. or not? The people said dt should and must be reduced. They ptn the Democrats in poEEar for that purpose We did it. We executed the znandate of the people. We did what they told us to do. think it was a good thing think that, had there been no war. there would have been a great export trade built up by this s4me~s greater than ever before in the History Of the country. Let us as we Malk with the people in this campaign Keep these facts before them
 Every law, farily passed Is enti- &led to q fair trial. The Underwood zarif Act needs just thask ard has not esad it. Even now 1t has done much good In ordinary normal circun- stances 1t would have done much more good
 Now as to state issues, Do not let us forget what we have done to bring our state roads to a. proper condition.
 We promised to do it. if we were put in power. and we have done it.
 pr Love Of Hartford has recently published a history of the town in old t1nes, and tells this story Of the bad ness Of the roads there some eighty years ago:
 ssA A man passing along Asylum street near the old State house saw a hat in 3E1e middle of the road. He wa1ded out Tn the mud to pick 1t up, and found a. out2' he asked No. was the cheery answer, have a good horse under xue and I guess can get through.
 was not quite SO bad as that un- der the AFcDonald regime in the worst esese of neglected repairs Fhe travel leris hat was never quite down to the street level. The horse showed through xhe mud above the launches, if he did not above the knees, though in the early spring some Of the roads came pretty nearly going fairly to pieces.
 We have put them under the care Of a competent engineer who Knows h4s bzrslness. The first thing he did was to ask the board Of control to talke or a million dollars from the an- pxopaiatfon for new roads and devote kE 60 rep4ars Of old roads We did as Ae asked. and it saved an immense
 rskch o9 highways that would other