Morning journal and courier., 1880-05-26

InG LOCAL fOl1UKCSb1 N 1C1Ns
 n,.,a eaD+r.l Deu,ocrmtfc Club-The May
 orally and the Congregational Contests
 How 1t Appears to 8 Locker On-Too
 Much Harmony.
 The present status of affairs m the neV Democratic political organization, the Gen. tral Democratic Club, has resulted in com- plication which creates considerable comment about town. This state of affairs recalls the oft-quoted adage that '"The best laid plans of mice and men aft gang aglee;" or, to descend to prescribed quotation,
 ssThings are seldom what they seem,
 Skim milk masquerades with cream"
 The strife within Democratic party limits for the spoils caused the erection of the new organization. It was started, as IS an open secret, for purpose by some of the party Titans. The result is that instead of boom in the interest of the gentlemen who were It's founders, it has proved @ sort of boomer ang, and the opposition, by which is meant the Jeffersonians hold the fort. This unpal- atable state of things makes chapter of po- litical interest to all Republicans. The new organization is composed of men of weight and is possible consolidation of elements hitherto discordant. The indomitable gentlemen among the outs buried the hatchet and dropped old issues, which were principally on paper, and united to start ! the new political engine and inspire the | faithful with an enthusiasm in the new move ment which should tend to produce towers \ of strength" and-nominations. Unbounded l faith was felt in the movement Of sudden | the gentlemen engaged in this scheme opened 1 their eyes in astonishment. Things began to | look like the baseless fabric of vision. The ! gentlemen could not try treason, for It was all | loyalty. None could be prescribed for was ! not the meeting open to all loyal Democrats Hence there was private council of war. To \ retreat was impossible. To go forward was defeat Nominations which had appeared assured with wise management and due fore cast, began to assume a dim, hay outline | If the mountain does not come to Mahomet | Mahomet may come to the mountain But the end is not yet The battle is not over ! and some sacrifices may have to be made | All is not serene in the Democratic camp, although tonight the Jeffersonians will un- I doubtedly triumph The party move, how ever, as it results, adds undeniably to it's local strength, and if it embroils new strife, Re publicans will still have prospect of more united Democratic front than heretofore to ! oppose them. The new club is in the hands of able leaders. The Hartford Posts New Haven correspondent thus -agossips over the situation
 With them were the s'cranks" of number ! of political bodies, among which the Social Democrats or Communists have been some- what famous, locally. Of the sixty-nine per sons who signed the roll and agreed to the constitution, thirty-fve were gentiem en be- longing to the Jeffersonian Club, the very 1n- l stitution that the promoters of this assocla- tion expected to squelch by the more recent establishment The reason that officers were
 not elected according to programme was not found in the fact of want of harmony but rather in the circumstances that there
 was too much harmony. The committed on permanent officers, composed some
 what of the friends of Judge Bradley, who
 wants to go to Congress, and William R
 Shelton who wants anything in the way o1 preferment, thought best to postpone making ' their report until the members could have { ! week to dream over the situation. The lief 1 fersonians and anti-Jeffersonians were afraid of each other, and they sat and looked a ' each others faces, each crowd waiting fol | something to be done. The Shelton ant \ Bradley men tried to bulldoze the committee ! into reporting list of officers, but J. U l Plunkett and others on the committee resent I ed the attempt at dictation, and the meeting \ which it was desired should be very enthusl \ astic had the character of Quaker confer
 ence to disinterested people present. Anum
 Der of politicians who had expected to talk part in out-voting the Jefersonians wer ' prevented by the regulation which made tn payment of one dollar initiation fee impel
 ative for each member, and at present tn Jeffersonian element in the infantlle club
 rejoicing in the idea that nothing can be at ' complished without consent of the paren ' body.
 This is confusing to the candidates for o1 ! fee, as they want the united strength of tn Democracy in their favor. In the meantim
 there is 8 contest in progress betwee n tn | friends of ex-Mayor Henry G. Lewis an Samuel l.. Bronson for the Mayoralty, an
 also between the supporters of Judge Bradle ! and Hon. O. B. Bowers, who are both talked ( | for Congress. It now looks as though the orls
 inal plan, making Bradley president and She ton treasurer of the Central Democratic Gu
 (so the new organization is named), woul have to be changed. It gals the gentlem ! whose jealousy has been aroused at the succel
 of Editor Parsons and his Jeffersonian bacl ing. It is believed that Bradley will be u Democratic nominee for Congress, becaus
 Eaton likes him to win, and Eaton has zoe
 deal of power in Middlesex county as well {
 in some of the country towns near New H
 ven. The Greenback friends of Jude
 Phelps have good deal of business on har if they intend to push him for another Col
 gressional term, though their adherence
 the Democratic system gives them some poI
 CT to forward Phelps affairs.