ต THE HARTFORD DAILY COU could be m It is ne any one of en the con for a gene Following high in republican ranks, George I. Lilley and Orsamus R. Fyler. The inauguration parade of last year was quickly followed by the funeral dirge and for the first time in ninety-six years the State was called to mourn its Chief Executive. administration of the state's business Bryan Pedlar of Political Nostrums. affairs and general welfare, it pledges Stop and think, for a moment, what Itself to that prudence and economy in would have been the financial and inexpenditure which is consistent with Its thoroughn dustrial Governor Frank B. Weeks, Republican Record and Achievement. Let the record of the past sixteen cervea in good road construction. The work votes of more than six millions of cannot be pressed, too vigorously for our people and yet has thrice led dewith the enormous increase of motor mocracy to defeat, Bryan the peddler vehicles for pleasure and business pur- of political nostrums who prescribed poses as well, all highways connect- the free coinage of silver as a remedy ing towns, have long since lost their for an inflated currency, Bryan who local character and should be con- would have substituted government structed and maintained by the state ownership of railroads for federal and at large. state regulation of them, Bryan who The movement for federal highway proposed, to regulate monopoly on a improvement is strong and vigorous, percentage basis fixed by a party conbut it is a dangerous one for the East-vention, rather than to have the funern states with their small areas and damental rights of the people heard large taxable resources. The construc- and determined in the supreme court tion of highways is purely a state of the United States, Bryan who in function and in no sense a federal work which Congre a farce. If all Federal officials were has the right man, in the right place laid down as the tr chosen throughout the union at one and at the right time, to meet any tection which sho and the same time and on a day sep- emergencies. It had him on the all tariff legislatio In 1895 when we took over the state arate and apart from state elections, Fourth of March, 1909, and in eighteen between the cost administration from the democratic not only would the solid South be months from that time by calm per- reasonable profit t party, the treasury statement at the instantly broken, but the problem for end of that fiscal year, showed a net the voter in the Northern states would suasion, infinite patience, and un- tries." William H. debt of $2,721,445.51. For ten years be far less complicated. failing tact, he had hammered out of accord with that de out of the next fourteen, the expendiOur city and town elections are held the white heat of popular passion, in a week after his tures were kept within the income, separately from the state and national, more corrective law and constructive ed the republican until in 1907 instead of a debt, a net in the interest of what we believe to legislation than has ever come from and gave them his ways and means surplus of $265,470.36 adorned the be good local government. But with any other Congress in its entire exannual report. During all of this the rapid enlargement of the powers istence. His name is William Howard Attitude of New time no direct tax was laid against the towns, and yet great expenditures modern construction of the constitu- Sworn to obey the law and with a The overwhelmin for state betterments were incurred. tion, and its gradual assumption of judicial mind to comprehend it, he has manufacturers and For the policy of State development the functions of the states at the de- followed those policies of his prede-kind who appeared thus begun there can be nothing but mand of the people, if the federal of- cessors which were endorsed in the commendation from all of the peo- ficials were chosen separately, and platform of the republican party, just ings, clearly under ple, for it has received the votes of state and town elections joined, good Then he the rule laid down both political parties in the General business management and fidelity to as far as the law permitted. Assembly. Like the questions of con- local interests would be the deter- came to Congress, the law making and frankly ackno servation, irrigation, reforestation, mining factors in the peoples choice. power, and asked for further authori- rates could be red and canalization of rivers, and even Now, a man's views on the tariff, or ty, and waited, but worked while he to their business of of supervision and control of inter- the national currency, or foreign re- waited, until he got it. To him the promise in a party show why it shou state commerce under the general lations, practically determine his vote government, which have long since at the polls for governors and other platform is as sacred ms the ten Esperdalond b ceased to be issues between the state officials, who have nothing to commandments. N TUG I teso |