New Britain herald., 1915-07-17
'SOUR GRAPE" ONCE
 MORE ON WARPATH
Courant "Scooped' Again and Is
 Very, Very PeeVed.

A certain professor in the Yale law school while in a jovial mood was wont to give this advice to his class: When you have no case abuse the witnesses"
 The esteemed Hartford Courart. known in the Connecticut world as the Hartford Sour Grape, when it is scooped on a real news story, lav- ing no case, abuses the papers which print the news One of the bitterest pills the Courant has. been forced t., swallow was rammed down its euliAt last evening by the New Britain Her. ald, which printed an exclusive story regarding two plots to blow u:' Copr necticut factories, among them North & Judas in this city and the Coies Patent Fire Arms in Hartford. It n said the auth critics in charge or the Courant raved and tore their naar threatening to discharge the entire staff and hire corps or real news papermen who are not perpetualiy wrapped in the arms of Morpheus an q who pay. more attention to getting the news than to cultivating fncipi- ent moustaches and keeping a ibgh polish on their walking sticks. Scooped on the biggest story of the year! That was the decision ef t4'e public, in regard to the Courant. The Sour Grape, being in a state Of con- tinual peevishness. had 10 make good" in som manner. As the Her ald had given all the facts IT. the case nothing was left for the 'Courant but abuse and being past masters Tn this respect the paper set most or It's staff to work. Judging by the prod uct of their pens the few good men the Courant carries are on their yaca- tion and the corps of correspondence school graduates was forced to think hard, which accounts for the nunier- ous headaches in Hartford toeay.
 Mayor Must Appear in Print, Too.
 Tn it's abuse the Courant was aided by George A. Quigley, the ". k. may or of New Britain, who was awed ty the spark he had furnished for the explosion. Mayor Quigley, in order to square himself with his oficinl organ, told the local reporter for tDe Courant that the person who h. formed him of the New York plot to dynamite Connecticut manufacturing plants, was accustomed to permitting his imagination to wander indiscrim- inately. Tn telling the Herald re- porter of the plot, Mayor Quigley lad special emphasis on the fact that his informant was trustworthy and COZ servative. But as the chief magistrate of New Britain is used to blowing hot and cold with alternate breaths ti7is will not cause the Herald to waste more than a few lines considering it. Maybe the mayor is afraid that the local correspondent of the Couraut will not invite him for a ride on the new trolley line up to the Farming ton foothills.
 As to the breach of confidence" :" Mayor Quigley did not want the in formation regarding the plots publ iished at first but when it was pointed out to him that warning to manufac- turers all over the United States could be given by the Associated Press he expressed the opinion that such a course would be proper. There was no clear through" spells when his off1-
 The Courant neglects to tell It's readers this morning that the federal government was sufficiently interested in the report of the plot to send rep resentative to Eugene Davis or Farm ington to interview him regarding his knowledge of the affair. Said repre- sentative also paid visit to the pow der mills at Hazardville, presumably to learn whether any explosives had been sold.
 Wanted It Flushed Up."
 Tn the story sent to the Courant by it's local correspondent, it is said: The the manufacturers put the story down as product of the silly season and let it go at that That IS not quite correctc According to a state ment made yesterday by the ". k. mayor,e Herbert A. Johnson superin- tendent of North & Judd's and a d1- rector in that corporation was entire ly opposed to having the story appear In the newspapers and wished the af- fair kept "hushed up." The same ar ticle also says Mayor Quigley was mad clear through" but as his hon. or has had several of these mad clear through" speels when his off cial organ has been 'scooped" it is not necessary to comment on that situa- ton.
 Mayor Quigley has his eye on those German votes in New Britain as 1916 is beginning to loom large on the hoizon. So he lays stress through his mouthpiece on the fact that the Ger mans are his best friends and he should be the last man to cast a siur on them. Hooray! the campaign is on. Pull the first lever.
 The Courant also tells of a trip paid to MT. Davis in Pennington by Detec- tive Samuel Bamforth, crook catcher, and Superintendent Johnson of North & Judds. According to this para graph they humored the old gentle man along and left his house feeling