The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-15
rof. Yanden Henderson, Tn Interview, Says Roraback Machine Is As Culpable As Directors of the "New Haven" Lines.
Charges Proved By Xvi
 dence Before Federal Boards of Inquiry, He Says - Calls w or kin g Agreement Nefarious. .
Special to The Farmer.)


 New Haven, Oct. 15-That J. Henry Rorabaek and other G.. 0. P. leaders interested in the inefarious alliance between the railroad officials and the Republican machine are equally culpab1e with the rail- road directors for the footing of the New Haven system, is the substance of a senatorial inter view given out today by Prof. Yandell Henderson, Progressive town chairman and candidate for Congress in the Third dis- trict
 In plain language, Prof. Henderson, lays the wrecking l Of the New Haven system to the corrupt working agreement between the road officials and ] the Republican lobby at Hart ford. His charges, he says, are .substantiated by the evidence l before several Federal investi- Egating bodies.
 Isn't it a little unfair, then" he asks, 'now that the nefar- ious alliance between railroad officials and the Republican machine has been exposed, that the directors of the railroad should be threatened with criminal indictment, while the men through whom they work ed-name1y, the members of the Republican machine are ex11ting in the hopes of going back into control of the state ?"
 Mentions IAghs's Case l Prof. Henderson also mentions At i torney General Lights charge that thu governorslaip was made the subject of 8 proposed barter for appofntm ents on railroad comxn1tteee. Prof Hend- ersou1s interview, which created a real sensation among politicians here, fol- lows in full:
 s'I have been asked whether I really think as T charged in a recent inter v3egSs that to a large extent, the blame foe tho financial wrecking Of the N F., RT. H & H R. R should rest on the shoulders of J. Henry RoEahacl, recently re-e1eCted Republican state chairman, and upon his associates in the Republican machine.
 s.In reply I would say chat this ap- pears to me to be mot matter of be l lief, but -sonIethfng gswhfch has been ab- sC1zxtefy proved And if the Repubdi- l cans get control of the legislature again, they wdH certainly regard it as i a license to renew that combination Of which has already cost the people of EConnectic1t millions of dollars and made our state an object Of scorn for other states where such combinations have been overthrown.
 There is an investigation under way down in New York which the peo- a T,le of Connecticut should take into ac- count before deciding how they will vote at this election The investiga- tion is before 2. grand jury, and is to Isdecide vNt1 ether some of the old (and now ex-1 directors of the N. Y. N. H 1 6 IT. R R. can be indicted crinina11y doI1ars belonging to the stockholders. That the money is gone is certain. That the people of Connecticut have got to pay the piper for years to come Is also certain.
 ssNow we lu5ow by the testimony of C. S AEelIen already published that an essential part Of the processes by which these funds were gotten away 5. from tfe stockholders was the manip- uIatfon of the legislature to 1ega1fze the footing of the railroad We have
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