Putnam patriot., 1924-01-25
Hartford, Jan. 22. 1924.


 Major John Buckley renders the Republican party positive service when he emphasizes that he favors the nomination of John Nj. Wadhams. of Goshen. for governor, even though Mir. Rorahack. the state chairman. representing the organization. advises the nomination of Lieutenant Cover nor Hiram Bingham. Major Buckley makes it clear by his attitude that the Republican organization is not the crushing juggernaut that it is some times represented to be. but that 1t admits of the widest possible differ ence of opinion on candidates and pol icies. That glorious privilege of be- ing independent" which the poet Burns extols. is enjoyed to the fullest extent by every member of the organ ization and the sharpest dissent from the opinion of the state chairman, or of others high in the councils of the party. are not looked on as an abuse of the privilege. The present differ ence between Major Buckley and the state organization is not the first time that the major and the state chairman have been in discord. In fact the ma- JUL III HIS NlitNldl NAfttit ldN ly encountered the hostility of the or ganization to his ambition. The hos tiluy has never succeeded. however, and 1t has never left scars. It has nev- CT impaired the friendship between him and Mir. Roraback. No one more than the major has higher opinion of Mir. Roraback as political leader and, personally, as a man who deserves the confidence which he inspires and the friendship which he enjoys. It is well known that the chairman appre- ciates the political wisdom of the ma- jor and admires his political sagacity. l. is noteworthy fact that Frank r.. Healy in the early years of his politi- cal activity experienced the hostility of the Republican organization to his aspirations for public office when the organization was led by the master full O. K. Fyler. to whom Mir. Rora- back was a devoted lieutenant. Of course there comes time when dis cussien must cease and acquieseense prevail. and that time is when the convention speaks. The convention is the court of last resort and there is no appeal from it's decision. The state or ganization exists for no other purpose than to see to it that the decisions of the convention are ratified at the polls and it's platform approved by the elect ors.
 Keep Republican Record In Mind
 The Republican campaigners this year should keep before the minds of the people of the state the success which has attended the administration of the governmental affairs of Con necticut since 1915, when the Republi- cans resumed full control of the gov ernment of the state. At the session of 1918 there was a divided responsi- bility. The executive offices, including the governorship, were filled by Demo crats, and the senate, by a majority Of five, was Democratic. The house. which was led by Frank II. Healey. now attorney general. was Republican by majority of two and a plurality of ten. The work of the legislature showed the usual result of divided re- sponsibility. Bills were ill-considered, and sincere interest in legislation lan- guished. There was regular grab bag for appropriations. for this. that, and t'other. appropriations for sums amounting to a million dollars were voted and no provision made for their payment. It required the intelligent vetoes of Governor Baldwin to save the state from financial disaster. The finances of the state were in a deplor- able shape when the Republicans re- stunned control of the state govern