New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-04-27
CANDIDATEs AND BLOOMS.
POLITICAL GOSSIP APROPOs OF THE COMING cor
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., ENGLISH, EATON, JEWELL

iFRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
NEw-HAvEN, April 25.-Connecticut has TOO
many great men to be perfectly happy. They con-
tinually jostle each other. You run against
them at every turn. If one goes round CUT
nor on n windy day. tanning on his hat and push
inc ahead without looking-as they habitually do |
in Buffalo, where they have lake winds 1t Is TWO
to one that he puts his head against the stomach Ol
a q dark horse for President or NiCe-fresldehG vi
the engineer of BOOM" Since 1852, when
Franklin Pierce-the darkest kind Of dark horse
was nominated by the Democracy, there mas Deep'S' |
ouadrennial delusion in Connecticut that on one |
side or the other or BOTH the candidate for Pres-
dent or Yce-President was liable to be one Oh TINS
Stote,s fayorite sons" The favOrite sons are
usuaIly men who have bar'ls"; and the bigger the
aborl the more the favOrite. There is tradltlon
among the older politicians that Connecticut mlghU
have had the Presidency in 1852 had 1T not Deeh or
the jealousy Of Hartford toward New-HaVeh' III
that year. as told the late RalphsI lngeisoil'
father of Ex-Governor Chas. L. ngersOl mght
have been nominated by the Democrats IL GENERA.
James r. Pratt and other delegates from Hartford
Comfy had consented to the unanimous presenta-
+ion of his name at the time when the proposition
WAS made to compromise on New-England cahul-
| date. The division in the Connecticut delegation
defeated Ingersoll and made Franklin Pierce Fresl-
| dent The State came so near being STUCK py
lightning that year that once in four years ever
since both parties have gone out with Kites anu
other appliances in the hope to catch thunderDolt'
| In 1850 the Democrats worked up Doom -
| Though that blessed word, without which the poll
| tics Of TODAY would be desert waste, was not
| then invented-for Thomas II. Seymour, who had
| inst returned from Russia. 1t was said and be-
| lieved that il he could be elected Governor IL
| would be received by the South as evidence that
the solid front of the North against slavery extern
sion might be broken; that the projects then ma
| turing for disunion would be abandoned ana the
party, uniting on Seymour for President wouid ell
deavor to elect him. II was the hardest battle ever
fought in Connecticut, but it ended in SeymOurs
defeat by narrow majority, and the boom" there
mon ended. In 1865 another boom" was worked
ND for Ex-Governor English, who had pursued an
independent course Ms n war Democrat in Congress,
voting for several Administration measures on tho
| slavery question, and had been elected Governor
| by the Democrats at time when the North was
pretty soIidly Republican, thus breaking tho sue
| ccssion of Democratic defeats. His name was pre-
| scented in tho National Convention OF 1858 by Mr..
| Eaton, the present Democratic Senator from tins
State and his claims were urged on The ground
that his election rs Mr.. Eaton elOqucntly put 1t.
was the first rift i'm the clouds" Dut Senator
Eaton was and is Hartford man. and the Now
Haven supporters of Governor English allego that
| his advocacy was half-hearted and insinccre, and
that though nOminally supporting English no was
really OpnOsed to his nomination. There were those
who said thatf choice were to to COnnccti-
cut Mr. Eaton had two or three preferences
ahead of English, one of which was himself. How
ever that may be, the Connecticut delegation nado
very little Roadway with their BOOM" and Gov
ornor English was never above scattering " in the
long ballotng which ended with Horatio SeymOurs
nomination.
On the other hand, there has been no lack OF Con-
necticut candidates for Republican favor, though
their ambition has usually stopped at the second
place on the ticket. Their desires have not been
entirely unqualified; for Senator Foster was actlng
Vice President during President Johnsons term.
| might add that the Senate never had more accom-
plished presiding [oicer rs this State never had
. more able or honest representative. Connecticut
Republicans had strong desire for the nomination
. of the lato Governor Buckingham-whOm they held
I'm the highest regard for his services during tho
war-as Vice-P President the ticket with General
Grant, but seeing the improbability Of success In
securing that place abandoned tho effort before the
Convention met in order to make General Hawley
President Of the Convention, in which they sue
, cceded. -Four years ago somo Connecticut Repub-
licans Thought it possible ON tho strength Of the
reputation which Governor Jewell had made ~ n
Rcformer in the POst-Oice Department to put that
gentleman on the track as a Presidential candidate
Some other Connecticut Republicans laughed of the
suggestion and said that IL Connecticut to
have ANYTHING it ought to DO the icePrcsidency
for General Hawley. and they accordingly sup
ported BrstOW for President, with tho understand.
ing that Bristows friends would 90 for Hnwloy for
the second place. So in that Convention the little
State had one candidate for each place, and the del
t egation was divided. 1t is not impossible, OF
course that if the delegation had been united they
might have carried both points and had the whole
0 ticket taken from Connecticut. But there is SO
much of the prejudice of locality in politics. and SO
little genuine desire to get the best" that deem
it hardly probable. Both these gentlemen are again
reckoned in the field by their friends, though this
time think IIawley is moro to ked of for tho first
place and Jewell for the second. II is disrespect
to either to say that both are dark horses" Cen
@ cral Hawlcy however, is believed by his friends
to have reasonably good show for the second place
8 in the event of Washburnes being taken for the
first; and this perhaps may account for the swing
ing over OF OF two delegates to Washburnc who
t were counted for Edmunds.
It Tho Democratic Convention to appoint delegates
to the National Convention ut Cincinnati, meets
of Hartford on Tuesday, and again there is talk OF
J.: Ex-Governor English as tho choice of tho party III
" Connecticut for President The present i" boom
, In his behalf was started few months ago by the
u publication of biography inlthe local Democratic
newspaper and it has been reported that Mr. James
Gallagher, of this city, has visited washington
o and other points recently in the interest of tn,
p, movement. The New-Haven delegation to the STATE
COnventiOn-Of whom Mr.. Gallagher il One-wil
undoubtedly do their best TO work up the COnyen
ton to the point of instructing in favor of English
~ failing that, TO carry majority of the delegates
Here the old rivalry comes hup again, and HartforC
Il is expected to oppose and use all its influence to de
m feat the ambition Of tho w-Haven statesman
" Democratic leaders lin Hartford do not hesitate II
speak disparagingly OF lGoYernor EngIisrs ability
say Sg RaE mas sSyed S9G 5o m @
o, Eaton and ex-GOvernOrs Hubbard and IngersOll
be either OF whom as can an. would 10 much NOR