Show THE connecticut PLAN utah to la not the only commonwealth whose political experience has hae supplied the world with new condi and strange precedents the state elate of connecticut from the days of the blue laws down to the present ti occasionally engaged in a performance embracing all the phases of a modern me lc drama being inconsistent nonsensical seu un unusual urmal peculiar novel strange startling hi amorous and pathetic the legislature which recently adjourned fluellie ellie has to its ito credit if that is the proper word the feat of having set out a full term without pawing passing a solitary act or doing anything whatever except seesaw see saw dillydally dilly dally and defeat all proposed legislation at the late election the man who was elected go governor vornor of the nutmeg state m borri was chosen by a decided majority and to la now administering he functions of bis hi office he was 61 I 1 elected acied two jo years before but was wag kept out of the place until bis bin recent inauguration through the political maneuvers man euvera referred to Dur during ingall all that time one Bulke bulkeley leybas has been holding the office and the strangest part of the whole story to ia that he was never elected nor yet a candidate tor for the I he had bad held the position of lieutenant governor and entered into the higher office upon the death of the incumbent at A t the election following another republican had bad been nominated for governor and morris by the democrats the latter got very verv many more votes than the former but it was not an absolute majority and thus the choice was thrown into the legislature legle lature which has been wrangling and doing nothing ever since whereby bulkeley has been holding over and enjoying the spoils and etceteras of an office which as stated he was neither elected to nor a candidate for at the late election the people who had previously expressed their desire in the premises with seem beem bingly sufficient emp haals decided to add enough stress to their mandate to make it respected and so gave governor morris a complete majority over all while at the same time electing a republican legislature he now recommends mm ends an amendment to the constitution sti ution tation regarding elections changing existing conditions so that a plurality as well as a majority shall elect as Is ie the rule in every state in the union out sile of new england and not u nan otherwise there the bugge su suggestion gge is ia echoed by the independent press almost without exception and there are fair prospects that the agitation will at last result in the adoption of the amend amendment men t asked for |