Connecticut western news., 1914-10-29
THE FINAL WORD.

l bugle blast, and the whole state IS aroused to such pitch of enthusiasm over that paramount issue that there is grave danger that the other issues of the state campaign, and the interests of the other candidates on the state ticket, will be lost sight of in the over shadowing importance of the justice of the peace situation here in North Can- aan. AS illustrating the tenseness and strain upon the public mind resulting from the local. situation, we cite the timely, appropriate and altogether just editorial pronouncement of the dis | tinguished editor of the New Haven Journal Courier, Col. N. G. Osborn, who quotes, entire, the candidates s "platform, '' printed in The News of last week, and rightly terms it an ''ad- mirably expressed battle-cry of political freedom, compared with which Magma Charta, the Bill of Rights and the Dec laration of Independence take on the appearance of the piker,'' a character ization which we could not criticize if we would. Concluding his well-con- sidered editorial, the Colonel says:
 We cannot vote for this candidate of candidates We live in New Haven, where others, less worthy, have their claim upon us. We wish however, to have it known that our heart is in the Rodemeyer campaign not only to the end but beyond the end. So uplifting m foy-ri al prejudice. It belongs to every tongue and every voter. National bonds should be issued against it, children should be | fed upon it, breakfast foods made from it, and college students trained ill it. l Not in full century or more has any thing occurred to equal it in righteous fury or titanic purpose. Is there a | falterer in the Bald Head Club? Is there voter in the town of Canaan who is not ready to go to the polls once, twice aud three times for this uplift? Not one" ;. The New Haven Union, too, is anx- iously watching the outcome of the struggle that is being waged here. It says, editorially:
 | tice of the peace in North Canaan, is putting up glorious fight for the op- portunity to serve the people. In brief he says he stands for the principles of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Cleve- land, Mckinley, Bryan, Connie Mack,
 Tingier, Holcomb, Davy Fitzgerald and J. Henry Roraback. John is well loaded down with principles, and if he isn't swamped by them, we think he will be elected. He deserves to win in spite of his principles. y
 And so, like band of music, or a conquering army with banners, our candidacy is sweeping over the state and even Altering through the boundary lines. The New York Herald, of last Sunday, devoted nearly full column to it, in that analytical style of A. F. Howe's who has an established reputa- 1 tion for accuracy as political prophet. In his analysis, however, he goes wide of the mark in one essential particular, by intimating that the editor had him. self nominated for justice of the peace, ," in order to be qualified to preside over a prospective judicial tribunal to adjudi- cate an action brought by George O. Woodruff of the Litchfield Inquirer, to crowd him out of the B. H. Q. of A. because the hair is growing on his bald spot. This needs some slight correction. l While it is true that he would fight to the bitter end against expulsion from the B. H. O., on any hair splitting pre- text, it is none the less true, and sus- l ceptible of incontrovertible proof, that so far as the nomination is concerned, it was a case of the office seeking the man. I The justice campaign is waxing hot as the end draws nigh. It's going to have hot waxed-end. We have turned Ford s right wing four times and are now pounding away on his left flank. A ratification mass meeting will be held tomorrow night, when gentlemanly agents will pass among you with cam paign buttons bearing our photograph with gilt halo around it, and a marching club will be organized to walk around in the middle of the road, nights, wearing blue capes and soldier caps, carrying odoriferous torches and holler- ing Hooray for the Man of the Hour With these final stunts, the preparatory work of the justice campaign will have been completed, the last gun fired, and the issue goes to the dear peepul, in whose hands we rest our case, with every assurance of serene confidence in their wisdom, discernment and love of justice, and the further assurance that we have never said mean thing about any voter in this town. ..I
 The Thomaston Express pointedly says: ''If you do not like this town we'll enough to speak well of it and boom it at every opportunity, get out