Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-05-28
The Connecticut Senatorship.

The Democratic members of the Con.
nectcut Legislature met in caucus yester.
day to agree upon candidate for the
United States Senate They having a
clear majority in that body, the nomina-
ton was equivalent to an election, There
We're three candidates and only one ballot.
The trumvirate consisted of William w.
Eaton, William A. Barnum and Gov. In.
gersoll. The real contest lay between the
first and the second. Congressman Bar
mum was supposed to be tie coming man,
but he received only forty-siX votes to
ninety-one for Eaton, Who was therefore
declared the unanimous choice of the eau
Gus.
The selection was an eminently fit one.
The Senator whom Eaton will succeed is
Mr. Buckingham, better known as Gov.
buckingham. From 1868 to 1866 the lat.
ter was the head of the State
Government and he ranks with the
other great "war Governors" An.
drew, Yates, Morton and Curtin. He
was placed in the Senatorial chair
as a reward for his services to the coun-
try in SURPRISING rebellion. During the
same period Mr.. Eaton was the leader of
the Democracy. His copperheadism was
intense and extreme. He made no con.
cealment of his undivided sympathy with
the South. He openly espoused the rebel
cause and denounced the Union soldiers
of his own State as hlrelings and cut
Threats. Many in his own party regretted
his course and tried to curb his tongue,
both for his own good and the good of
his party. And yet, AS soon as the party
comes into full power in that State he is
honored with the highest office within its
gilt During the campaign he took a
back seat. The reason is obvious. There
were a good many Republican soreheads
and malcontents who wanted to form a
new party, but would not nave trained
under "Bill" Eaton, as he is familiarity
called.
The new-par,y faction can no longer
claim the Connecticut election as their
triumph. IL was rather their capture.
The Democrats sought and won their
alliance by pretended new departure,
and then on the very first opportunity
went back to "the Democracy as ii was"
1t has been so in every instance, and will
continue to be 50 until the end. There
are only two parties in the country, and
so long AS the Democratic organization
tAlSlS tiitiJ thli pC Io lllild party. Df
whatever name called, the anti-Republican
forces will be under the control of the
Democrats. 1t would be idle to expect
anything else in any State. The choice
of Eaton for United States Senator should
serve as warning, and cannot fail to
have a very wholesome general influence.
Some men are so constituted that nov
city attracts them, and the tried and
true" is to them the "trite and stale" To
that class new party name commends
itself. No doubt there are a good many
citizens of Illinois who would prefer a
new party if only they could feel assured
that it would not be the Democracy under
new title. There's the rub" The de-
feat of the Republican party " ould be the
triumph of the old enemy of the party,
and the victors would shower their hon
ors upon the very men who had been most
conspicuous in war-tlmes, when to be the
enemy of the Republican party was to
oppose the perpetuation of the Union.
There is no sense in blinking the issue,
What has proved true in Connecticut
would prove true in Illinois or any other
State The caucus which nominated
Eaton yesterday deserves the thanks of
the Republican party for showing up the
true nature of the new.party movement
Chicago J0uT7tal.