The New York herald., 1878-09-16

NEW YOR
his glasses)-No use at all. What's done can't be un-
done, ana the least said the sooner mendsd.
The reporter OF local paper had little different
experience. and shall just gives brief extract:-
RxroGrrR-The question is whether will stand
Governor iscrssoLI-I don't know wha. you mean by
the platiorm Aud
demaad the repeal OF the Assumption sct legal tender
Governor IscERsoLL l.voiding the contingency of a
direct answer)I haven't changed At all.
Governor ISGExsoLL qnterruptnr) What am going
do Is not the business OF the public yet
vIRws OF KEPUBLIcAN
This matter is now the talk OF the town. Talking
lawyer OF this town he sald referring 10 Ingersol:
at Is about time that family did thing the
democratic party IL has been providing them with
local and national offices time out OF mind aud elected
Charley four times Governor, ana now, wnen II hap
pens that half the democratic party OF this state
beeye in this greonback affair." he mas sympathy.
ADVICE or encouragement to give them. / 90
think you viii see~ any such landslide here as IN
aine rhe democratic party OF this State is held we'll
in hand aud has its ran ks seldom brokon except
where some personal feeling Or prejudice enters INTO
vote hero when English was defeated for Governor,
but tho Irish split from personal not political. mo-
democratic party OF this state rs fully hfy per cent OF
the whole organzaton."
coNsDERsD.
MIR. j. d. Punkett, another prominent lawyer said
that he had just written letter the Chairman Of
Ss
Brown, representing the situation III New Haven aud
urging the policy OF concession on the managers OF
the coming convention, 30 as not TO provoke large
and growing element in the democratic party into a
declaration Of open revoA he pointed that there
be wen TO take into consderaon To-: Idle ragged and
hungry, who looked fondly IN retrospective to the
days OF the war when hunger was stranger TO their
doors, and work was plentiful and SO wero
RreenbacKs; another class who had seen
their a., homes ,,.. swallowed val & Up ey mortgages
less they have become objects OF charity, and
longer look 10 the democratic party for relief A
third class are the business men, many OF whom
talk reason ana argue for green money and un-
dor all these considerations ne thought would be at
least prudent Tor the convention to modify its plat
form.
Lieutenant Governor Loomis. who has declared his
democratic platform, tho cut and dried programme
adopted at Hartford being TO renominate all the pres
ont State officers thinks that the greenbackers viii
hold The balance OF power IN the next Legislature.
THE SENAToKsHP.
Mr.. E. NJ. Graves, candidate SIX years ago tor Sec
rotary Of state the labor reform ticket, says"If
succeed in securing the balance OF power in the
Legislature we shall 60 against tho election of Will
would favor Judge Phelps or Lieutenant Governor
LOOMS. Barnum was elected by the Legislature the
May following Orris $. Ferry's death TO fill his
pirod term, and he wants TO succeed himself
To do THIS he is willing, understand, to put out
where money goes along way, and where tho rotten
borough representation prevails Barnum says that
rather IMAM see republican elected he'd 20 for a
greenbacker. He IS u hari money man himself. He
Is actively at work now and keeps racing through
the STATE all tho time
STRENGTH OF THE GgEENBAcKERs.
ST." continued Mr. Graves, 1--WE pollsd 1880 voice
at the last election in this county and 900
told IN this State, what may not do this time with
everything possible ID our favor2 The total
New Haven was ,000 and OF that six y.hvs per
was democratic. We expect to draw largely this time
that democratic vote ana to considerable extent
on republican n the'ast spring town elections
calculated that outside OF New Haven there were
5000 green oack votes poiIed You see the Register,
the uemooratc organ here, has already changed It's
tone suce the ews from Maine struck H. II appcars
DIV fQ ghak0 n wit fha
that II has been denounciug SO long, ana wants
modification Of the democratic platform last year,
win over 10 the reg uar organization. Al
together only two gresnback conventions have been
held, and both Of these in one year--1S76-in which
change in the Election law. Knowing Mr.. Cooper's
election to De impossible good many OF the green
the present moment there OF greeu
back voters at New Haven, Msriden Naugs-
Is1 and a hs '0SSO at
Burnside, Burlington, CoIlInsvslie, Windsor
Locks aud Warehouse Point. 10 Hartford county;
Bridgeport, Danbury, Easton, Trumbui, Gresnwicn,
Sherman, south Norw.lk an1 Stamford In Fairfield
county; New London, Norwich, Stonington, Mystic,
Bozrab, Baltic, Voluntown, Jewett City, Hamburg,
Colchester and East Lynne in New London county;
MiddIctown and Chatham In Middlesex county;
Brooklyn, Putnam. Willimantic and Columbia IN
w,ndham county; winsted, Barhamsted, Warren
and Coiebrook Ia Litchhcld and Ellington and
Stafford springs in roiland county You may not DO
aware" continued MIR. Graves, "that there IS a town
in the State called Sprague and that Ex-Governor
spraeue OF Rhode Island has lurnIsned a nall thore
for ommodxton OF q green back club, taxes
the deepest interest n lis welfare and proceedings
The depth OF this movement is not understood. Why
at Waterbury the other evening there a greeL.
back meeting ut which there was an attendance OF NO
lever than hiteca hundred people. Buffers speech
publican ranks, and merchants and business people
havo discussing ana taking to heart of tne
remarkable things he said on that occasion,
CONGRESSIONAL PROSPECTS
'We expect TO carry tne Third district
is talk OF running Ex-Governor James T.. English Tor
Congress as hard money democratic aud republican
candidate. The republicans are anxlous Tor IT. It
woua make split IN the democratic ranks. Tns is
democratic state and but for the rotten borough repre-
sentaton onailowingrepresentatiyes from without
regard TO population, so that town $40 people has
much representation as ono Of 10 900 the
would also have tue Legislature every time ihey
elected their STATE ticket We expect confidently 10
elect Representative Branlloru ana we hav.nt
the slightest doubt but roll up vote from
this town OF $500 1t IS reported that arc Oilers
Of q trado on Barnum's behalf, but they can't DO
traced 10 any reliable source. There something
markabie N the number OF applications that we
Ccive every cay from the country districts asking
for speaKors 10 DO sent out 10 eniighten
tho rural mind on the greenOack issue Our meetings,
large aud enthusiastic. Mr.. Troup is out every
day and his audiences are larger than any other
political speaker can command"
All the foregoing goes W show that the greenback
Ieavcu Is ut work In this State and that u will make
OF phenomenon that State ike this should allow
Itself to be nocuatcd with this disease. The margin
OF living among these people is very small Five
cents 10 Connecticut man OF woman Is a serious
consideration, anda proposition ike what tho green
backcrs give out OF Initiating the currency
$500 900 900 and driving the prices OF every con.
sumaDls aud wearablc article without furnishing y
corresponding means Of buying strikes with horror
al the hearts OF this staid sober and saving
people, and yet thousands of them are led away BY
tie igais fdtuus cIamor Tor this changs-change Is
the Keynote Of tho whole agitation .Giye us apy.
thing, the Gull oil Avornus, II nothing else, out let
escape from this awful stngpation,n are ABOUT the
words OF the multitude OF this as we'll as other
States cbalDg against the iron torture
OF circumstances. THIS STATE from the outlook,
seems bound to follow in tho footsteps OF Nane not
SO emphaiicaily, perhaps, but yet sufficiently SO TO