Connecticut western news., 1879-11-26
< ."..:.s--. CANAAN. CONN.
 WEDNESDAY, NOV. 26, 1879.

@ =. of excitement for fear the Board will count ,p. .aopt. enough members of the Legislature to - give the. opposition, consisting of | ..s. Democrats: and Greenbackers, a major ';i !r ivy and thus secure the election of :. .asuan opposition Governor. The ghost of the a.i murdered Banquo will not down. In New s, .@ York there are charges and counter charges nof fraud and corruption and there is no man. ,sag psr of doubt that in the charges and counter ss. exchanges there is more truth than poetry. Elections are fast becoming miserable farce sIxsnd the great question is Where is it all to r. 6answsrs Where? There is one ray of. hopsA Asust ohe-which penetrates like 8 sunbeam the Cimmerian darkness. There :aReiadieations-smaH ones it is true-that the indepsadsntr, voters are awakening to a sense of the situation and are disposed to as- 'sss saseft tReif independence and manhood, They ,sz.lase getting tired of running with the "Ma- sheen. ">' They begin to see that while the Machine is pasted all over with platforms and resolutions and vehement protestations of good intentions, it is only intended to gather *Ts fn the spells a Buckeye reaper gathers in the harrestj' and empty them into the pockets ofthe politicians, and why should they tug at the ropes year after year, to aid in such a..work as thus. The independent voter is not pol- .tieian, he wants none of the spells. All he s.siwaass is honest government honestly admin istered in the. interest of the people and of the -1s whole: country: Why then should he be hood : wiaked and humbugged and led around like SFa Msry's; innocent little lamb. But the great ss. problem for the independent voter to solve is |: H.. L. renee felt. The difficulties in the way are great and numerous He has doubtless been brought up in the faith that orthodoxy is my doxy and = .heterodoxy is your doxy-that "my party" is s:.sss party, possessing all the honesty, inteli
 Renes and responsibility in the country and <.4that :your party" is all that is bad and des- perately wicked. He must disabuse himself of such narrow minded foolishness and under stand that ia man is a man for a that and a 1A shat, @ne matter what party he belongs to. He must understand that the object of the machine of ''my party" and, 'your party" IS the same-the spells, and that party platforms 4s and resolutions are generally intended for but ;. one pdrpose-to catch gudgeons. It is the char : aeter of the man not of what he stands on that is the vital thing An honest man on poor platform is a great deal better than dis -sshouest man on good platform. Here is the only hope for. good government Another great difficulty is the want of organization and consequently of concert of action, An army without organization and discipline is simply mob. It may have the power within itself to strike decisive blow but it cannot effectively deliver the blow Then again on 'sthe othsf hand if an organization should be effected there is danger that the designing .xand ambitious might seize upon it and convert ..n into another machine as bad as the one it is desired to smash. These are some of the difficulties the independent voter has got to overcome. ,, But if he has the courage of his convictions .heaoan do much by his individual efforts with out the aid of a party organization. He can at least exercise the Heaven-born right to "scratchn This "a right possessed by every voter and if he will faithfullyand honestly ex- ercise it he can do much to cure many oi the political evils under which we are now sdHefing The duty of the independent voter in this respect well put by that great seratcher, George William Curtis, in the late famPaign in New York. "The duty of an siectof concerns his country and his party as the means. When, therefore, in his judge aehhithemanagement of the party or the reg uiara recommendations of the party imperil the paaEposes and the supremacy of the party, he must decline to support it. If it be answered thstithe only practical method of managing politics by party is the rule of the majority, we reply that the only way in which major ityY when, it; cannot enforce it's re- commend datons can be taught to re- commend what will be always unitedly and vigorously supported, is to refuse to sustain uHworthY recommendations" The greatest evil lin the politics of this country is the tyr apnf Of King Caucus His rule has become desposc and it has degenerated into such cor ruption and demoralization that there is dan gegyof the.people rushing in sheer desperation and despair from one extreme to another. They are. already beginning to calmly contem- plstethe possibility of the 'strong man." and are asking themselves "Under which King BenzoSian 7'', But there is no necessity of surf desperate remedy even if the remedy wsfA Ane4 worse than tie disease. The mde- pendent voters. .ars 2 vast majority of thevot- erS pf this coaatrya. They have the power in
 
 thas dsfn hands: All it IS necessary for them to ap,is to put down King Caucus and scratch. WhSsasonld caachses be tolerated? Their onfyy Use is to enable the minority to rule the maiority-to enable a few of the worse sort to control the many of the better. Why shoulda voter be; bound by caucus nomi- nati6a4 aSPfiere is no law nor amendment to the constitution yet requiring it. On the con- trary his duty and his conscience in very many cases require that he should not be- Then down with King Cauous. and long live the scratcher! Let every man vote for the best man according to the dictates of his conscience, and let every mansrpp for an office who thinks he is quali- fed for il, and can get elected. Then we will get the:bsst men and the real choice of a ma icrity of the yoters-and then we will have repuhafcAs government in fact, not merely in name, and have an end of boss rule and ring rule.%aisdt machine rule We have faith yst.in. the honest independent voters and hope of the country. But, Oh for Moses to lead us out ofsthe land of Egypt, out from thehouse of bondage.
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