New Britain herald., 1916-09-11
THE COURANT AND THE
 COLONEL.
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Looking through the ultra-Repub- lcan lens of its speotacles, the super Republican Hartford Courant finds solace in the silence of Colonel Norris G. Osborn of New Haven who IS be- ing tempted with the Democratic nom- 1nat1on for governor. Our Hartford contemporary gloats over the efforts of democratic newspapers to groom the Colonel for the race and finds greater joy in noting that the New Haven newspaper man is emulating the example set by Charles Evans Hughes prior to that candidates resignation from the Supreme Court. The silence of the Colonel is becom- ing oppressive, remarks the Courant. the harder 1t will be for the disap- pointed, and, if by any unthinkable change in his policy, he should not put 1t off at all, then the disappoint- ment will not come until November and he will get it himself"
 So the Courant, which always has @ hand in such things, firmly believes that when a Republican state con-
 vention assemblies 1t not only selects the candidate but 1t chooses the next governor of this commonwealth This is the only logical interpretati ton that can be made of the Courant's
 1C EIo win 1CCn n1 iy,
 New Haven on the sixth day of Sep
 tember, in this year of our Lord, the
 Republican State Convention, con-
 sistfng of some five hundred delegates.
 chose Marcus H. Holcomb as the next
 governor of Connecticut It was by the veriest luck that Frank E. Healy did not garner the Republican thunder or Dennis A. Blakeslee get the nomination. But 1t matters not who got the nomination, the mere fact that 1t Is given by a Republican con- ventfon insures a tenure of office for the fortunate recepient. This is the Courants' way of looking at it. In warning Colonel Osborn of the fate that awaits him in November should he adopt an '-unthinkable change In hts policy" the Courant extends ad- vice to an old friend to hold off and
 not spoil the plans. It likes the
 Colonel and looks upon him as a can didate too formidable for the Demo- 1 crats to foist upon an unsuspecttng | Republicanism. The truth of the matter is: If the Colonel should run, | the established Republican order of | publican instead of the Democratic 1 candidate might realize the disap- ! pointment. And this would never do. | For, Is not Connecticut in the mouth ! of the Republican party, hook, line | and sirker? The Courant thinks so. It believes the state is owned body and soul by the Republicans. But l since when have the people renounced all ownership of state government
 and placed it in the hands of a con-
 vention that meets under the banner
 of any one political party?
 | However rosy the spectacles of the l Courant may picture the political view
 to those behind the spectacles, and 1 however sad and dreary the picture l is made for those on the other side
 of these same spectacles, we, among | others, are not willing to believe that | the people in this commonwealth have given up the struggle. We are opti-
 mstfc and mayhap foolish enough to
 trust that the men in the ranks have
 not as yet surrendered bag and bag | gage to the political bosses and lead-
 CTS of the Republican party. Our l people have not yet reached that par
 ticuIar condition of servitude where | they must bend the knee in blind sub-
 servience and obedience because the
 editor of a Republican newspa per
 points the way or Republican State
 Convention whirls the whip. They're