Litchfield enquirer., 1865-01-26
nominations at the polls, and the great Union
 party of Connecticut will continue to hold its proud and bene6cent ascendancy in the State.
PACKING, cAUcUsEs.


 sral towns in the County, for the purpose oi selecting delegates to attend the various Con ventions, will mostly be held during the com ing fortnight It has come to our knowledge that a certain class of under ground polili- clans are endeavcring in some localities to secure the coutrol of these caucuses, and there by the control of the Conventions, for the furtherance of their own private schemes. or course th SC schemes arc to defeat the will of the people i6 the nominations to be presented by those Conventions t
 We all know who these men are. and more than that. we know who their leaders and in-j stigators are. There are some twenty men in the State who think they ought to be m ade Governor. and it is said there afes even some who would be willing to take up with lower positions on the State Ticket, and others who have Congressional aspirations. The misfor- tune which these aspiring politicians labor ul- der, and which no one perceives more readily than themselves, is that the people soiV not sup- port them. Hence they fall back upon the ser vices of a certain class which we have denomi- mated underground politicians" in the hope that they may do wire pulling and pipe laying and back-biting and caucus packing enough to pull down those whom THE PEOPLE desire to honor, and set thsm up as candidates for office in their stead. ,-.t- s{as-a. e.. ? 
 There is only one point further which these pipe-layers do not seem to consider,-and that perhaps, is because they never reach it-which is, simply, that tbe people scouzd not cote for those who are thus put up for office by party managers in opposition to their wishes. Nor ought they to do so. Our system of free ballot is a farce and failure, if we are given l only the choice of those who are nominated by | such means or are nominated by our oppo nepts: No party organization is or ought to be strong enough to cram such nominations, conceived in rascality and obtained by fraud, down the party's throat Nor. if, on the other hand, the schemes of such men are successful in defeating those whom the large mass of the people desire to vote for, wil the people be submissive to such reckless and abominable dealing. The mass of the people cannot be deceived, nor can they be bought and sold like cattle-or trading politicians. l We have, indeed, no great fear that such schemes will prove successful in their incipi- ency in thls Congressional District or State They have been tried over and over again be- fore now, and failed ignominiously. The great conflict which is raging now in our land, is in defence of, and to preserve the dignity and purity Of the BALLOT BOX, aud We do not believe any trading, underground politicians can invade i i it's purity here, on our own soil, without re- | eeiving the quick unearthing of their schemes and indignant rebuke of the people. And, to nip such incipient frauds in the bud. the peo pie have only to attend closely and watch nar rowly these little Town Caucuscs."
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