Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-04
THE SITUATION IN coNNEcT1

THE SITUATION IN CONNECTICUT.
 We are not hearing as much and as often as
 we did about the 5000 or 10000 majority
 which Connecticut through Hon. James Gal
 lagher, of this city, Senator Eaton, of
 Hartford, and others, is said to have promised
 Hancock and English. And there are very
 good reasons why this alleged promise is now
 kept in the background, prominent among
 which is the fact that if Connecticut has
 made any such promise she will not be able
 to keep it, as those Democrats who have as-
 sumed to speak for her very well know.
 Even in the widest moments of the Hancock
 boom it was preposterous promise for Con necticut to make or for anybody to make for her, and now, when that boom is rapidly sinking into an early grave, the utter absurdi- ty of such promise becomes more and more apparent.
 When that promise was said to have been made by Connecticut, there were predictions of 'tgreat popular uprising, "a tidal wave" and sundry other things which would make it easy to keep it. All the veterans were for Hancock, or would be after they had thought the matter over. The laboring men, who wanted change from the abundant work and good wages of to-day back to the short hours and low wages of five years ago, were all for Hancock, or would be as soon as they understood that the free trade doctrine of the Democratic party would bring about that change. The business men, who wanted to see the mischievous and bIundering fnan- cial theories of the Democratic party tested, o,1,, fo-s H. And all who wanted to see the Presidential chair occupied by astatesman would presently fall down and worship the inspired author of General Order No. 40.''
 Unfortunately for the honor of such prophets and pronisers as Messrs. Eaton and Gallagher, none of the changes they predict ed has happened f'The veterans'' are not standard. The 1aboring men are afraid, and justly afraid, that they would not be well off under Democratic free trade administra. tion. The business men are Areading and protesting against a change. Jesse H. Lord, associate editor and business agent of the Boston Journal of Commerce, who is an ex- perienced observer and who travels all over this State, informs us that he finds every where among the business men of Connecti- 1 gut an aversion to change. Last week he l was in the office of manufacturing estab- ishment in the western part of the State and the three members of the frm-an Dem l ocrats too-declared themselves opposed to | ! change. From all quarters of the State, 1 similar testimony comes. Business men and | manufacturers feel like letting well enough 1 done. And as to Hancock's alleged states were not enough samples of it available to an opinion concerning it. T
 Naturally enough, while this has been hap oening the Republicans of Connecticut have 1 been growing more hopeful and surer of vic- 5ory in November. The party has not been 1 more thoroughly united at any time in ten l years than it is now. In most of the towns of | 'he State the work of preliminary organiza- 1 ion is under way, and in many places four shing clubs are in existence The Republi- l ,ans believe they can carry the State with 1 proper effort, and they are heartily making l hat effort
 In 1876 Tilden carried the State by a plu- | 'ality of 2,90O, and therefore the Democrats { profess to believe that Connecticut belongs | o them and that they can carry it in 1880. l t must, however, be borne in mind that this | vas the only time out of six presidential | elections that they were victorious in Con- lecticut, and that in five previous elections | If @ President the Republicans carried the | State by an average plurality of 6,2s3. l Moreover, the 1876 Democratic vote was | wollen by fraudulent certificate voting in he two principal cities of the State under aw now repealed. New Haven gave Ti1den
 1875 plurality and Hartford gave him 988, a otal in both cities of 2,s63, or only 37 votes ess than his entire plurality in the State There will be no such vote for Hancock in ither Hartford or New Haven this year. In 878 the hottest fight was in the compression l districts and the aggregate Republican plu- aGty in the four districts of the State was 1858, and the Republicans had majority yer the Democratic and Greenback vote nited
 A fair consideration of these figures and f the present situation shows that the Re ublicans of Connecticut have abundant req on for confidence, and that the Democrats eed to whistle to keep their courage up. ye believe the Republicans will carry the tate for Garfield and Arthur by plurality ! f at least ,5O0.