Connecticut western news., 1879-12-10

-Connectlcut has got Doom ana lC ap- pears to be the real genuine article, too. The New Haven Register goes in for it strong, and the Hartford Times seconds the motion. It's entitlement' is s'Engish, the joiner." It would be rather strange if the chief competi- tors i1 the race next year should be English, the joiner" and Jos Hawley, the printer, but why not2 The Hartford Courant has inter viewed the Hon. James Gallagher of New Haven in regard to the English boom and this is it's account of it:
 MT. Gallagher remarked that he had had a long experience in politics and had observed that it was little things which made men Pres idents rather than transcendant services. "1 was in Baltimore in l839," he went on to say, and paper there wanted to know who Har- rison wasf All he amounts to is to live in log cabin, filled with coon skins, and drink hard cider. That elected Harrison. Van Buren had knocked h. out of hlm in 1886. But they came around with cabins and every thing else, and it was all Harrison. So it was with Lincoln. The man who made him Pres ident was the fellow-I forget his name-who said he used to split rails with him. It was the rail-splitter Abe-that did the busi- ness"
 ''You think then that MT. English will run in in the same way ?"
 II know if our folks aint-fools they can do it. There is 8 great opportunity. The common people don't stop to inquire about a mans great services ordinarily. Some little thing affects them, and they turn out and vote. You see that English was joiner and work ed at the bench. can show you man here in few minutes that he worked for. There s- IA 1Aaa1 g<la D0 was joiner and is now worth three millionsI I' united upon him 2"
 o yes; that will be fixed all right. Of course they'll support him. We've got to be united. There's the Greenback crowd, and a lot of these ng-haired fellows who want something or another, and we can bring them all m on English. They will go for man on some little thing"
 II see the Hartford Times last night copied what the Register said about himP"
 "Yes, yes, I only saw it little while ago. That's right, that's rightl"
 q didn't know but it would be good thing for Mir. Eaton to get Mir. English out of the the senatorship."
 "Well, I don't know about that have been friend of Eaton. Why, they said the Union was my organ, and that was the only paper in the State that supported Eaton for senator in 1874"
 Mir. Gallagher's idea seemed to be that the nomination of English would be secured if the joiner business could be handsomely worked in the national convention. He advanced no 1. claim for him on the ground of special fitness intellectually for the place. Indeed he did not mention the subject But he failed to express his opinion as to what particular invention pertaining to joinering would be the taking thing, and that is, of course, important. liar, rison had his log-cabn, Lincoln his rail ; and it is necessary that English should have a symbolic attachment. This seems to have escaped the attention of the gentleman man. aging this csstle-building affair: but perhaps they only expect to call him English, the Joiner," or English, the Plane Swinger:" At all events they are determined to push his claims, and MT. Bayard, General Hancock and other candidates must think of something light and airy to rest their claims upon, or they may be sacrificed by splinter or some thing.