The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1868-04-09
CONNECTICUT.

The radical Rim Union continues to re-
sort to the most fragrant falsehoods to bolster
up the falling fortunes of its party. The
perfect avalanche of democratic victories
and democratic gains in all parts Of the
country so overwhelm and confuse the edi-
tors of that sheet that they resort to down
right deception and falsehood to try and
keep their followers together. The morning
of our election it refused to publish
and absolutely suppressed about half
a column of election news showing
democratic gains in various parts of
the country. This we can prove by the
files of the Union and the Davenport Ga
zette, published on the same morning. The
dispatches sent to both these papers are
precisely alike, and sent at the same time
and copied at the same moment of time
word for word. The Union meanly sup
pressed half column of kilograms showing
democratic gains and victories, because its
readers would get the paper and learn the
news before they voted that morning! How
small must its faith be in members of its
own party to thus withhold from them the
news of democratic gains for fear it would
influence their action that dayl And what
must democrats who take the Union think of
a paper that thus wilfuIy and meanly sup
presses the news from them This fact,
which cannot be explained away, shows the
small guage on which the Rim Union Is run.
It is fair sample of the paper generally.
And now, this morning, in pursuance of
the same game of falsehood, deception and
suppression, speaking of the Connecticut
election, it says:
I" But there is evidence of q reaction" in
favor of the democracy. On the contrary there
is large republican gain local and Iegisla-
tive officers. Last year there large demo
cratic majority in the Legislature. This year
there is a republican majority of twenty three in
joint bal lot. !"
Now, the editors of that sheet must either
be so stupid and ignorant as to be unfit for
their positions, or they must be arrant
knaVes and liars. They say, "Last year
there was large democratic majority in the
Legislature y This is an absolute and un-~
qualified falsehood. The democrats did mt
have even one majority in either house.
Both houses were republican, and the re-
publicans elected Gen. O.. S. Ferry, radi-
cal, to the United States senate.
But why is it, some one may ask, that the
democrats can carry the state and not be
able to carry tie Legislature? 1t is because
representation for the legislature is based,
hr4
This was the old colonial method, but has
been done away with in all the states blu,
Connecticut and one or two others. Origi
nally, every town was entitled to two repre-
sentatives, no matter what the population.
In the earlier days, this was not, however
wrong In principle, so glaringly unjust as
now, inasmuch as there were few, if any,
large cities. But, during the last fifty years,
dozen considerable cities have grown IN
IN Connecslcut,-among them, New Haven,
with nearly $4,000 population; Hartford
with 10000; and Bridgeport, Waterbury,
Norwich, Naugatuck, and New London.
with populations ranging from l00oo to
l5,oOOi besides large number of maaufac.
turing towns nearly equal to these in popu
iatlon Aside from this, the large towns all
over the state have grown larger, while the
onia''er ones have grown smaller. Yet the
same ratio OF representation prevails. New
maven with her $4,000 people, and demo
cranc majority of $500, still sends her two
representatives; while the little, antiouated
burg of Union, with 600 peonle sond. ar
same number. But the matter is even worse
than this, in consequence of the formation
OF new towns out of old ones. In all s,ot
cases, the new town was allotted one renra.
sentative. Among these new towns are
bridgeport Naugatuck, Waterbury, Sey
"0uF' and Others, each having one represen