New Britain herald., 1916-05-10

propriate legislation should be pass 1 ed for their protection.
 1 Of course, I do not mean to Ih- 1 timate that John T. King or J. Henry l Roraback requires protection llo'h l any carnivorous hawks. Qnte the l contrary. my friends, quite the con- 1 trary! I am more concerned as to 1 the safety of Charles Hopkins Clark and the other members of the dele gation. What will they do when they 1 get to Chicago to save the nation l from peace and prosperity and Will l son.
 The world is full of perils, especial 1 Iy to the distrought politician There 1 is no telling what the day may bring ] forth and they may return from 1 Chicago as enthusiastic patriots sup l porting Roosevelt and war. or high
 minded idealists urging the election | of Henry Ford on a platform of uni- versal peace.
 Of course, it is impossible to ha' gard a conjecture on any basis Of reasoning or logic as to the next candidate of the republican party or the principles upon which he Will De put before the nation, for that party has neither an available candidate in sight nor any discOVerable prlnclples. However, I hazard the prediction that the nominee will not be eHnry Ford. His machine has no self-starter and MT. Ford has exhibited tendencies indicative of so much benevolence and so kindly a feeling for the under dog in the struggle of life that the stand pat republicans would not tecl happy in supporting him.
 However, I must not worry unduly about the fourteen republican dele gates to the Chicago convention, be- cause, after all, they will not have anything to say about who the can
 didate will be and so they are spared good deal of the worry which Will have to be borne by Penrose and
 Barnes and the other elder statesmen
 of the party.
 Republican Principles. The question of republican princl-
 ples will also be a source of en-
 barrassment. Some republicans
 think the president has gone too fast
 and others that he has gone to slow
 It is going to be difficult to harmon
 ize these divergent views. but the CO.,
 hesive power of public plunder Will
 work wonders and the call to the
 standard of the party will bring many
 a doubtful patriot into line. When
 that time comes we shall have np
 more exhibitions of statesmanshlp
 such as those indulged in by our old'
 time friend, Ebenezer. When the Me-
 LemOre resolution was before the
 house and four of the republican,
 congressman from this state voted to
 support the president, Ebenezer vot-
 ed the other way. Now Ebenezer is
 a great statesman, who knows al!
 about the tariff; and he can rattle the
 dead bones of moribund issue even
 more vigorously than Senator Me- Lean himself, and in addition to that, Ebenezer has discovered a new me- thod of running for office. The law limits the expenditure of a congress- man to s750 or whereabouts. The statesman from Norwalk devised plan by which he could run for congress and get the benefit of an expenditure of nearly $10,000 and avoid unpleas asant contact with the public statutes. This is statesmanship of a high order and. therefore, it was to be expected that when Ebenezer was called upon to explain why he voted against the president he would give forth a sapient reply. He did. Tie Sa1Q IndL He lldu SOOl ltoSOllS--- but that he would not divulge them to the public for fear of embarrassing his four republican colleagues who had voted the other way. That was not only statesmanship-it was self abnegation, amounting, almost, to "something heroic.'
 Peace and Prosperity.
 Of course it is to be expected, as the campaign progresses. that we shall hear. from time to time, archaic and provincial arguments concerning the tariff. Senator Mclean pursues 1 this obsolescent method and closes his TX Keynote' address with an allltertlve | epigram, as follows: Preparation and | protection will bring peace and pros perity.''
 This is the summation of his argu- | ment. Is it possible that the sen 1 ator has been slumbering and that | the world has passed and he knew 1t not Peace and prosperity are here. They are with us now. It is not question of how to get them-but how to retain them. The out or | touch with events. It seeks to turn back the hands upon the dial of pro gress and to restore the regime Of privilege and graft that America has l put behind her forever. It is party | of opposition and not of achieve ment. If the democratic party Wer2 in a similar condition of mental col lapse and moral bankruptcy with 1 nothing to offer but incoherent words of unpatriotic protest what would l our republican friends say?
 I fear that they would be unkind i enough to suggest that we were in~ ca pablo of managing the complex i affairs of government and should not i l,o o,,tr,,ct with mower