New Britain herald., 1914-07-30


 It. Is extremely doubtful, however,
 if he can be nominated He is a dem-
 ocrat of independent thought He would notsuit the party machine or the
 men and corporations who have here- tofore run the machine. And we also doubt if he could be elected if nom- mated under existing conditions. There is a large eleiuent in the democratic
 party which uses it only when the rep4Altcan party shows signs of being of fsI& Sswice to the people. ssRrof. F FisleTs can&pt secufe ,sthis support. He knowsSits As his strong attacks upon the party ma chine inaie4te.
 This element in thelde1&ocr party dcess not want men like Professor Flsheit former Mayor Thayer.of Nor, walk pr 9ornaer Mayor Halioran of New .BritAin. The kh of ffaefhsuitable to the corporation pad of. thit4element is. represented W a-#BaldMks or a Robertson Aor a Carey. Tn entbo, there is large republican factions Which will Back this latter breed wheyNt is dis closed that the repub1icanfrang and file has taken hold and is insisting upon keeping faith with the people. as when Lilley and Gaadwin were named The Baldwin era in Connecticut affairs has been the most subservient to corporations in the States recent history Where the governor has disappointed has been in his failure to meet the demands of party leaders. He Was trying to build up machine of his ow n which SsWould in part in- olude- pss.Ards forsAHe republicans who secretly helped ths machine. This ans some 'offhH democratic sup ], ssiHe of the..verN worst nominations eyef made in the sstate history have thus Fept. compafiy with some of the 1est. fThere are now scandals hinted " sudh as the<State has never known Before and it will mot be Surprising if @ rigid investigation is in. order when fhe next general assembly meets
 " II is a party machine divided in fashion that Prof. Fisher faces i.fa1Hs contest for the democratic nom- ination. That machine is divided now IL will be, united against MT. Fisher. One half wants to have Connecticut represented at Washington by man whose. every thought almost is reac- tionary. The other half is working for those who have no intention of keep ing faith with the people if the voters al e fooled into choosing them. Prof Fisher would try to keep faith if dominated; so would Judge Walsh, so would former Senator Halloran. But i, is doubtful if any one of them could get fifty votes, at the very most one hundred, in the party convention to assemble in September
 aThe condition in the democratic ranks finds some counterpart in the with this exception, the republican leaders have recently suf- fered terrific defeat. They now want victory and they are looking around for some one who will inspire confidence. Then, too, the party machinists have discovered that the corporation Mach iavellis from whom they took orders Were always willing to throw them over for other party men who would be more subservient. This fact has come home strongly to many repub- l;cans of the machine type and 1t has brought them to the point where vice | is willing to pay tribute to virtue, to some extent. at least. " "
 Were it not for striking economic conditions such a situation would be favorable for a third party. But the trouble is that there are so many in 10th the old parties who vote by rote This fact leaves only a small indepen- dent element which has little or no in- fluence on nominations. It can, however swing elections between the old parties.
 Thus it Is that the political situation in Connecticut presents situation full or strong possibilities and were it not For theeconomic issue sur etc be fore 10 ost in the campaign, almost anything oh