1‘.
‘ announcement"
grantee anions his close drlonds than .
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SIAII PUSIIIISIIIIS Sit
NU IIHAIIIII Hill RllllSillIlI
James Hague ct Torrington is
Elected President —~Congress
man E. l. itllll Present~Poli-
tical Activity is Denied .
dithering of the mem-
Association
‘I The annual
‘bers of the l’ostmastets'
at the Hotel Tait, Xe“ Hnten Wetl-
ncsdny afternoon was purely a busi-
ness session and political matters were
:tnboctl.‘ that is, if the statements of
seine ot‘ the members are to be accept-
ml, lt 111113 be so that at the dinner
early in the afternoon and the business.
meeting which followed there was not-
cven 11 wheeze on the political situa-j
lion in this state as between ex-Presi-I
dent Roosevelt and President Tait,'luti
after the business titeeting.
experts, got together.
or less talk turned loose of things
political in this state and nationally.
As a matter of fact.
cal topic of discussion among some of
the members was the candidacy of
(IA-President Roosevelt for the nomi-
nation, but of several postmasters
:.poken to. not one of them expressed
the thought that the
iia3~ had the ghost of a
landing any of
Sage of Oyster
chance ol’
convention. And it was confidently
stated by oue postmaster. whose name
oi" course tannot he used, that the
lonnocticul deletrotion would so to
the convention instructed for IPl‘f'til-
(lent Tat‘t,
\‘(Il'y excellent reasons
this to be true. .
So far as this state is
‘llte postmasters who were willing to
express an opinion of the matter.
always with the proviso that
names be not used. say there is noth-
ing to it but 'l‘at‘t.
ers of the association of some poiiti~
sol shrewdness was asked it‘ he
thought the Roosevelt charge
for
tires to bolster 11p his campaign for
rc-nomination would hurt his chances.
Replied the interviewed: .“Well, it
won't hurt Taft among the office-hold-
ers. Understand. while they are
barred from pernicious political no
livity.’ federal office-holders have more
or less influence in their districts."
At. thebusines’s meeting in the at-
ternoon these officers were elected:
Prinsitient—dames Hague, 0f 'l‘orU
rington.
ViceIPresldent—nlatnes H. Filling. of
Water bur3. ‘
Second VICBPIPSILIUIII —.latne.< Dry.
l1111',st of Meti' len
Setretau anti 'l‘rcusurer-.lan1es 1)..
Glynn, ot‘ \Viutsetl.
The speakers at the dinner earliet
in the day were Congressman E. J.
Hill, Postmaster James T.iio1vartth,
of New Haven, nPstmaster Haggerty,
of Hartford, and Major .lohn McGinley,
of New London, former president of
the association
”L...”
ROOSEVELT FOOLED MANY.
(Ansonia Sentinel )
Others besides the leading politi
~cians in Connecticut were entirel3
fooled by Colonel Roosev’Ielts change
of front Even so prominent a man
as Senator Lodge, who has been in:
close. cmmunion with Mr. Roosevelt.‘
was entirely unprepared for the she Ik-
of his announcement; and Henry L.
Stimson, secretary of war, and George
won L. Meyer, secretar3 of the cabi-
net, both of whom have been personal
“friends-of Roosevelt. had become so
closely allied with President Taft and
. this campaign for u renomlnation that
2 may could act decently withdraw and
Change their tactics in favor of the
colonel. They are even said to have
taken the pains to ascertain from
Rosévelt that he was not going to he
, a candidate. hetero they took a stand.
for Taft. The surprise and .astonish.
heat which followed the Roosevelt
I‘Iwae probably even
among mapyrotbera who, were less
"expdséd" to him. ‘
‘ 11 31,5
ThiiTgbveraons who got: theIcolonei
into the ring certainly slipped an ac!
contrtev—Iflouston Poet.: . . 53 . I ‘ I
COMMENTS ON r01 ITIOAI.’ SITUATION As
CLEANED FROM NATIONAL AND STATE ‘ .
PREssr............. T
W
when:
ilnll'lo oi the members of the assocln-'
lion who are not unknown as political,
there was more:
the chief point."
the, it Connecticut
delegates to the lltpublieau untlonnlI
and this man said he hn'l‘
believing;
concerned]
titeir‘
One of the lead-I
t.hat I
President Taft was using federal of-‘
T. R. IS ANGRY.
tht-w Haven 'l‘lttIeE-l.eade1'.)
as Itdispatcltee tell 111-1 that T. R.
is angry " because Secretary Stimson
Iha: declared that Mt. ’l‘ttt’t should be
Isupportetl for the presidency instead
'0! Col. Roosevelt.
in a statement prepared for publi»:
cation the Colonel says: “Lenders
tale managing the campaign against
me; and it they wete deliberately try-
,lng to Iwreck the Republican party
Tthey wottld follow precisely the too-
Tiles thc3 have been following, tactica‘
iwhich make. it seem that they would
I'rathet see the Republican party de-
feated titan see. it reetoreti to what it
Inns untiet Lincoln and see it became
again the genuine party of the people.
theI party that stands for real popular
.rule and for the highest ideals of
sorta] and industrial justice, to be
achieved through popular rule."
Without uttering an unkind word ot'
Col. Roosevelt Secretary Stimson gave
strong and unanswerable reasons Why
lillr. '.l‘r. 'l‘nl't should be rcnominated
and re-elected.
In this city, in this state, all over ‘
the nation, it‘ the press reflects publicI
sentiment, the prevailing opinion isT
that Colonel Roosevelt‘s attacks upon!
the president his attempt to win tlte‘I
nominaion and send Mr. 'l'ait back ln-I
to private life, is causing the people;
Ito study the public work of Mr. Tutti
‘Inoreu ndersttmdlIIgly than ever lie-I
low is causing the people to get a
close. less prejudiced and decidedly
I more t'uvmablc view of their president .
than they have ever had before. I
The opposition of Col. RooseveltI
has made Mr. 'i‘nt't stranger Ill" Con-.
’neeticut titan he ever was before. Al I
no time ill his :ulminiatratiun couldi'
Mr. Taft have commanded the. popular
’support in this city and in the state,
that would go out to hint today iii
the polls were open and be. was there!
opposed by lIis once staunch support»I
Tet-wand “dear friend Theodore." .
The. New York Times sums up theI
situation very concisely as follows: I
, "Secretary Stimson sums up in four i
words the efi‘ect of Mr RooseveltsI
,wedging himself into titcp tesitientiul‘,
contest. "The result will be the intro-I
.tluction of
'IIew anti personal issues.:
:which are quite foreign to the great:
progressive policies for whit h the ile- I
,publican part3 stands, and to tlrugI
:tltem into thcc.1111p.1ign cannot inil toI
weaken 111111.11etcr candidate in (uten—
tually nominated in June.‘ .\'e1v,~in-l
deed. these issues are. and not only;
new, but alarming. full oi” menace,I
revolutionary. That the] are foreignI,
to all that the Republican party hasI
achieved and stands for is, 01‘ courac,’,
perfectly true. That party has neverI
espoused the policy of tanking judges;
and theit decisions subject to instantI
o1cttitto11 b3 the Ctowd. That the is-i
sues are personal has become onl3i
.,too painfully apparent. Whatever is-'
sues .\ir. Roosevelt may raise, what-i
Ievcr principles he may proclaim, men;
feel that he is himself the issue it isI
trathet of him titan of his principles
Itlttt tl1c3 axe afraid. There is anoth-
Ier and sinister sweet of the personal
I‘isst In that his tight for the nomination
Ipresents it is his bittei hostility to
IPresideut Taft. He has not sought to
Iconceal it he has seemed rather to
take pains to make it known.“
. The New York Evening Post says:
I "W110 shall say'that the cause or :1
the. Progressives has not been thrown
1back throughout the length and
Ibreadth of this state?
‘So it will be in greater or less de- ';
gree in other states as the Roosevelt
:eandidacy goes on. The issues will
.disappear behind the man. ‘Llntp the
ranks of the conservatives will he
I'driven thousands upon thousands who
two weeks ago would not have dream-
ed of supporting Mr. Titft. Every-
where the president goes he will
ceive the same marked sympathy, as
a man grievously wronged in the»
house of his friends, that was so strlk- ‘
ing at the dinner to Mr. Howells on '
Saturda3 last. And thoughtful .Pro-
greasives everywhere must he 1111111.,
log, b3 contrast, of what Mr. Roche 3
volt might have done had lie-throw-
himself unselfishiy into their mum
3ear ago and stuck to his. Ioltfionylnl
i
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IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII. ‘
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Salmon and Albin Named asyDel-
cycles to the State Convention
Which Will Select National
Delegates
WI‘CS'i‘POR’l‘, March 8.~—--lI‘ranltiin M.
Raymond was chairman and George
A. Darrow clerk of the Republican
caucus held Wednesday evening in the.
town hall for the purpose or electing
delegates to the stat(.IoII1etttiott to be
held at West Haven, April 2. Two
Taft men were selector], viz: F‘. iii.
Salmon and William E. Albin.
Tito meeting was most harmonious
and these two gentlemen were nom-
inated by acclimation. They will rep-
resent the Republicans of \Vestport
in a most able. manner. Mr. Salmon is
chairman of the local town committee
and a more efficient man could not be
found. Mr. Albin is a former repre-
sentative, and besides doing valiant
work in the lc'gislatlve bails iniiart-
ford tor the town of Westport, has
also worked earnestly for the party.
In their selection two workers have
been sent. The admirers of William
H. Taft, who desire to see him re.-
nominatcd for the presidency. will
be pleased to learn that these two
Westport delegates are strong, support-
ers oi’ Tait and will vote for Taft
state delegates to the state convention.
The nominating of a town‘committee
was the next 'question brought before
the meeting and brought forth a great.
I
deal of discussion. ilr. Thomas c.,
SteaI-ns was of the opinion that .\ir.f
Salmon“ should again be elected theI
chairman and that he should “have thei
support of the committee that would:
work under his direction and for tth
general welfare of the party He was;
{of the opinion that l‘IlG Republican,
T’l‘own committee ,should,af1e1 due
. iconsiderattott and deliberation select;
Ithe nteu whom they thought would beI
“the best to till. the. various t‘own omens;
and after their selection, they shouldi
be brought in to the caucus who
Ishould endorse them. I
I Mr. Salmon scauewhut disagreed;
with Dr. Stearns on this questioni
stating several times this plan had
been followed and that the caucus had i
lolalmcd that the town committee.
Iwcre atomptinn to run things too}
Imuch and that it was said it was thef
many in caucus which should be heard
instead of a few who constituted the:
town committee. lie stated illnl manyi
Etimes such and such it man had becni
Isuggested and that after he had goncj
,t'urth 115.11 candidate int the oflicei
.fhad iouutl that his support was too}
iweak and be had withdIawn at ittnes'
Itoo late and new material had to be
Isupphed.
I MI. Salmon stated he “as 1end3- to
Ita‘kc the port of the chairman of the
Iiown committee, but he wanted men
,on the committee who would work
ifor the best results for the party. He
Isald be had tried it. several times,
Innd while, their inclinations were of
ithe best, many times they found it
Iimpossible to do much work at the
polls.
Mr. Albin was of the opinion that to
a committee should be appointed, one
from the. East District, one from the
West, one from' Poplar Plains, one
Itrom Cross Highway and one from the
I These men would know which
was the best in these. districts and
they could get together to tulle the
matter over and select their best man.
He suggested that the chairman
have the better to appoint a sub-com-
mittee of three and if found them
wanting to have the power to depose
them as well as appoint. and thus weed
out whatever dead wood there was.
A great deal of discussion was
brought forth upon this matter of a
I committee and it was finally left with
the chairman to select a, sub-commit-
tee of three to act with him in the se«
_ lection of the full committee. This
committee to be elected at a coming
caucus. The committee appointed D.
B. Bradley, E. C. Nash and W. E. A1—
bin.
-Contlnulng further on tht.r subject of
how the committee should pick out
the man, E. C. Nash was of the opin-
ion that for several weeks prior to the
election, the town committee should
pick cut that man for this or that;
office and that in the selection of him
or so far in advanCC, gm public would
have a chance to be suitable for the
position, he would find it out and go to
the committee and say his support.
was not strong enough and withdraw
.in favor of some'stronger person.
If such a pldn asthis was followed
but it would put politics in Westport
‘ i‘on a little different basis than it le‘
at the present‘tlme.
center.
"The Springfield Republican in the
centre of some remarks entitled “Can-
,dbr wnn‘ a String," dips into history
little and ends a text. in this i!
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i
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the President to two terms regards
thesubetance and not the form, and
under no circumstances will I be a
candidate for or accept another nomi-
nation." Nearly eight years passed,
and everybody said ‘How noble!‘
T‘henvit became known that this Pres~
ident had really meant a consecutive
third term, but had not felt at liberty
to 'say so. The man who wrote the
pledge of 1904 not to accept another
nomination, and also the letter or
June, 1911. announcing that he would
not be a candidate in 1912, and not
oppose any ether candidate—this man
was the sworn toe of deception in;
whatever form, and the only liars'
club known in history was formed un-
der his inspiration in order that he
might emphasize his hatred of the peo-
I'e who deviated from the straight
lines of truth and candor."
The Tribune anewersa correspond—
ent who aaks why it is opposing Roose-
velt now, after all the nice things to
. said about him in the past or words
“We are forced " says
the Tribune, in reply. "by his own der
liberate and reiterated utterances to,
recognize the fact that Col. Roosevelt;
to that effect.
is committed to at least one 1101le of,
momentous consequence, which is not
Republican and not American, which
ti carried out would no the develop-
ment but a revolution, and which
3‘ would indict incalcuisble mm on all‘
ies of (the park. is to be thinned
I widely useful for all the people.
stone on questions of constitutional lu-
terpretation should be referred to pop—3
uiar vote as irrational, dangerous and“
demoralizing, and, so far as it were
capable of being executed, capable on
ly of doing wrong and harm. we
plan of Mr. Roosevelt we utterly d ‘
approve and resist."
IMPROVING CENTRAL PARK.‘
Plans are under way 101‘ rejuvell
ating Central Park, New Yol‘krclty
The dense shrubbery on the boundfi
so that people who walk on the
decent street—who, it is said
outnumber the park’s visitors-Hm!
have a glimpse of the green iandsco
and the growing things inside. ' T'h'i .
is in line with the new movement“
for making municipal properties on 1‘?
Gov. Baldwinsays that the Romans;
had what. theycallerl the “damnoee.
hereditasl.’ ‘They are a long. lived.
animal and some oi them are still oc-
ceslonally reported running wild in the
Litchflold Hllls.—— New London Tele-
Smith:
Theia‘verlrge young girl doesn't cutie
how many dishes her mother has
wash on the Sunday nights her
heart comes to supper. -—Detrolt
Press. ,
Norwalk Chronicler