Norwich bulletin., 1914-02-06
NOTHING FROM PIE COUNTER
 FOR CONNECTICUT.
Postmasters Expected Shut Out Sight
 of Diplomatic Posts.

John Lorance writes from Washing ton to the Boston Advertiser:
 Are you going to get any of the diplomatic posts for Connecticut an interstate commerce commissionership, & federal reserve post, any of the good things in the gift of the general gov ernment serving the whole nation, a very few of which are still left?" was asked a democratic member of con gress from Connecticut recently. They number five.
 70, bless your soul, I should say not" was the reply. We in Connecti- cut cannot look that high, or, at least, see them. for the postmasters we want appointed. We do not aspire beyond these until after we have got them high federal jobs will be gone"
 That has been characteristic of Con necticut for some time. Connecticut got no more when the republicans were in power, it being thought because Senators Lodge, Hoar and Crane were to everything in New England. It would seem that sometimes the worm would turn and the hegemony of the Bay State be overthrown.
 Apparently Massachusetts has noth- ing to fear on that score. Former Senator Morgan G. Bulkeley of Con necticut was once asked why he did not get something at the pie counter for his Connecticut constituents
 We are too busy making money" he replied. What do we want with these measly federal Jobs?"
 We are dreadfully snug in Con necttcut," said another Connecticut critic. We are without ambition"
 The great late Senator Orville H. PIatt of Connecticut used now and then tinidiy to approach the pie coun- ter. He did not get far into the hun gry crowd of other senators.
 Nice, white old man." Theodore Roosevelt used to say, as he sent him away from the pie counter, always empty. The venerable senator was impotent because Connecticut was without ambition with pep" in it.
 Connecticut expected much from William Howard Taft, whom it looked upon as foster son. It thought it would not even have to get up from its lazy chair to take the plums; so none came. Them that hasn't got don't get" is another way of putting It. All that Connecticut got was the forester of the United States, Henry estry school, who obtained that job because Clifford Pinchot became in 
 Although Woodrow Wilson carried all the New England states but one, and although he was at one time a Fl OAcSSot III AOHnecIcC, ana ms sum- mer residence is in New Hampshire. he has not favored the section with high honors What little there has been Massachusetts M got-note simply an as- sistant secretaryship in the treasury and minister to Greece.
 Ex-Senator Gardner of Maine ob- tained one s10,000 plum, but it is not a place of any high honor. Of course, Little Rhody did not get anything, and perhaps never will. The distribution of great public plums in the United States began in 178s, and in all that time Rhode Island has not received one of them.
 New Hampshire became a little as piring this year, but sold it's chances at the diplomatic counter for an internal revenue collectorship. Getting a local job seems to be worth ever so much more than a great post refecting honor upon the state and enhancing its prestige.