Litchfield enquirer., 1878-11-28
THE sENATORSHIp

great sharpness and truth regarding our Sena
 torial controversy
 There may be some republicans in Connecti
 cut innocent enough to believe that. if Ger
 Hawley had not been elected to Congress. he l would have met little opposition as candidate 1 for the United States Senate But the fact is | the men who have hastened to rule him out ot the list of candidates, nominally because of his election to the house, are the same who have followed him with a malignant hatred for years. The campaign of 1874, when senate. rial election was involved, was begun and prosecuted by bitter attacks on Gen Hawley. He was accused of having made an alliance | with William W. Eaton, and the lying accusa- ton was taken up and magnified by precisely the same newspaper syndicate that has now come to the front with the watchword, 'sHaw- ley cannot be a candidate" Had Hawley refused to be candidate fer the House, these same writers would have condemned him as un willing to help the republican party in a hard fight for fear of injuring his senatorial chances. And the while he was hard at work Tn the campaign doing his utmost te help the cause and making splendid fight these men in different parts of the state were at work trying to pack the Legislature against him. The New London Telegram, winch has be- come the especial champion of Gov Jewell Tn gratitude for favers received by it's editor, is making special campaign against Gen Flaw ley, who the editor (Collector Tibbits) an- nounces ''cannot be nominated for senator. !" few weeks ago the same paper was cer- tain that Mir Jewell was the only man who could carry the first district for Congress.
 The Palladium seems not only earnest for Harrison, but earnest against Jewell It an- swers doubt of ours, last week, as follows: The Enquirer may be sure that Henry B. Harrison's name will be earnestly urged. He is New Haven's real candidate, first, last and all the time and we are in position to say, without fear of contradiction, that no New Haven republicans are thinking of supporting Marshall Jewell The slanderous rumor our contemporary alludes to, is lie invented by democratic organ and endorsed by others for the purpose of making mischief. .
 The earnestness of its opposition to Jewell appears sufficiently from the following: a. Connecticut does not desire to be represented at Washington by tricky politician, no mat ter how adroit he may be in his business of politics. Connecticut does not ask for re- publican senator who shall be to the republican party what the defeated Barnum has been to the democratic. The state needs no political manager whose energies will be devoted to so arranging matters within the party that it can oA Woy Q W ucOd " Pl0uiOOC u1p pCt6Oudl 1uJCE- ests. Nor does Connecticut desire to be repre- sented in the Senate of the United States by man who has sought political preferment with uncommon anxiety and is willing to achieve it by being all things to all men, by personal solicitation, by dividing that he may win, and by sending his runners from one end of the state to the other seeking pledges from mem- bers of the General Assembly and making promises of what he will do for them. Not such the man whose election would honor the state, and ftly represented her at Washington. The Springfield Republican, the New Haven RegistereQd the Bridgeport Farmer all favor Hawleyf t is a little remarkable that. the iplependeqt and Democratic papers should takdshfs Side while the machine Republican journal is bitterly opposed to Hawley's election. Is is now pretty evident that certain shrewd senatorial aspirants urged Hawley's election to the House hoping thus te shelve him fer the Senate. They now unite in mag
 nifying his popularity in order to make it ap- pear that no other Republican couldbe elected in his place. They even suggest to the De- | mocracy the name of Gov. Hubbard as man that would surely sweep the District with Hawley out of the field To these journals we suggest the name of Marshall Jewell as the man to meet Hubbard in that arena. MT Jew ell is man of more popular manners than Hawley. If he is as able 8 man as Hawley, he can meet Hubbard successfully in District that gave 1900 Republican plurality in Nov ember If he is not as able a man as Hawley, It would be better to lose a two years term in Democratic House, than to get weaker man in the Senate for six years.
 Referring to the long list of Senatorial can didates that have come forward since the cleo tion the New Milford Gazette remarks: The only men of this number who were willing to accept nomination at the last cleo | ton with defeat staring them In the face, were | Gen. Hawley and Chas. B. Andrews The | former accepted the nomination of his party as | Representative in Congress, and led his fOrlorn l hope to victory. The latter cheerfully accep- | ted the nomination for Governor at time when success seemed impossible. It seems to l us that if any one should be honored with the l Senatorship it should be one of these two men
 who bore ''the heat and burdens of the day" | and who were willing to sacrifice prestige for party interests, instead of those who kept in l l had been won Either of them would reflect honor upon the State.
 l A New York statute makes landlord, rent
 ing buildings to be used in the sale of liquor,
 liable for the damage done by any person who
 shall become intoxicated with such liquor. A case under that statute has recently been deci-
 ded in the Court of Appeals and the constitu- tionality of the act is affirmed Our liquor
 law provides an effective remedy by making
 every licensed dealer liable on his bond for
 damage done by persons under the influence l of his liquor. Sec. 9, of Part I, of our Stat
 ute, regarding Intoxicating Liquors (Rev.
 Stats, page 269) is as follows: .e&s
 Sec 9.-4Whoever shall sell intoxicating liquors to any person who thereby becomes
 intoxicated and while so intoxicated l shall, in consequence thereof, injure the person or property of another, shall pay just
 damages to the person injured, to be recovered in an action on this statute and if the person
 selling such intoxlcating liquor is licensed, the
 recovery of judgement for such damages
 shall be conclusive evidence of breach of the bond. -
 Each bond given by the person licensed re-
 quires, that, among other conditions, he
 ''shall pay all damages which shall be recover
 ed from him under and pursuant to the provis-
 ions of said act," referring evidently to the section above quoted, The bond is for $1, 900,
 and would seem to give even 8 better remedy
 for wrongs of the nature complained of, than
 the New York law.
 We have known of no cases arising under
 this statute but we do not see why this section
 might not be made effective, especially in
 cases where licensed dealers sell to persons
 who get intoxicated on their liquor.a
 LITTELL's LIVING AGE FOR 1879 The ex-
 tra offer to new subscribers for 1879. and the
 reduced clubbing rates, are worthy of note in the DroSDectus of this standard peri0flical n,,h