New Britain herald., 1914-07-30
Candidates for Governor.
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 (Farmington Valley. Herald.) Up Sto date there seem to be four | candidates for governor on the dem ocratic side of the house, with only 1 two of them .,rnaking any stir. s
 Professor Fisher has started an aggressive, campaign, and is likely to have considerable support in the larger cities and villages of the state l and so far as the writer can learn, no support in the country towns of Con- 1 necticut. The average man in the country town, who does more think ing than his brother in the larger places, because he has more time and spends less time on diversions, does not take kindly to the radical theora les of Professor Fiser. He is liabi3 also to remember, that when tlh8 former mayor of Middletown failed to get the nomination of his party; for mayor at the last election, in 1 fairly conducted primary, he bolted th& ticket, and ran independently, and made the defeat of the regular r& n rn-' mated man a surety and put into l.Sf- ice his republican opponent
 That sort of thing does not go good with the average man in" the uI.s ernor Baldwin is pretty well thought of among democrats in country towns. and they have not forgotten the hostility of Professor Fisher to the present governor of Eonpect- icut r
 Lyman T, Tingier, of RUckvillcy ' the present lieutenant governor of. Connecticut. might be regarded. as the logical candidate of his xD4rAy for governor. but not mucH is Sheard of his candidacy. Thosk who are ,ac- quainted with the genial gentleman from Rockville, speak-in very thigh terms of him as a manss but ,theE do not say much about hH aIUity. sHe seems to be well thoughtAm Nh fhis own city, and probably EpHd !snet, make brilliant governo& fbAt. would be safe man to have il the office.
 Of Charles Comsto&k, }yg Sthefe lis but little to say. exceptNthaf all the newspapers in the stak seem ito ire- gard his candidacy asga joke. The man who is chairmanfof the demo- cratic state central Committee /! for years is supposed toy havs been paid agent of the Consolidated Rail- road. and of every other organiza- tion that wanted legislation secured by devious methods does not take we'll with democrats in country towns. It doss not seem tp the writer as though Cdfnstock Was Ito be taken seriously be ahy pnef rIN .s
 That leaves aGsorge M. Landers aof New Britain. Two years ago when he -aspired to& the nomination of congress there t1was no sigh in the country towns ofF Hartford county that they were ,W4lling to, haxeF ~him receive {nomination for any office. He was hoT11inated , and elected State senator 3nshig own rcity of New Hritaing and fraEed. tei e an inde- pendent senss5 apihty and a man s son and ys tssh shat W. was fo,lns found x |gtth jfhtH4 l4 J M His opposition to AhI on the matter ss0 g)s s11Tst Q&dwell' of New
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 Senator Landers first came to the political game as a candidate for councilman in one of the two strong democratic wards in New Britain and running as a. republican was elected.
 He served his term in the coun- cT and was the candidate of both parties for mayor of New Britain l under the revised charter. Apparent ly Mr.. Landers has been pretty much 3 democrat in all but the name all Of his life. N In these days of transition in pol- Mics, and the new alignments of | parties, the fact that a man has not | been long in a certain party will not l count against him as much as form i eriy. It is the man that must be considered rather than the political | party name that has been his.
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