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labor ticket. DEPEw, at Chicago, said he
had hopes of Connecticut unless the DEM
ocrats could explain the situation before
election. DEPEw gave the snap away"
Republican hopes in every State are based
on the expectation that Democrats viii
not have time before election to refute
this free trade" absurdity. We don't
think the workingmen of this country
need to have the subject explained to them.
The demagogues have appealed to them so
regularly before every election and showed
they lied to them 50 regularly sstfssssr sysfy
election that they have studied the sub
ject for themselves and the sophistry Of
the politicians has less effect this year than
it ever had before. Here is how they look
at the election in Connecticut thus early
in the fight. There are other causes at
work that make Connecticut doubly sure
for CLEVELAND, The Hartford Times says:
Connecticut is sure to vote for CLEyE-
LAND and THURMAN. HARRISON cannot
draw away so many Democrats as BLAINE
did four years ago. The Independents
are as numerous as they were then, and
we think more so; they are in favor OF
CLEVELAND. The financial and business
men of the country have confidence in
CLEVELAND His administration has not
disappointed them. CLEVELAND will get
more of their votes next November than
he did in 1884. The workingmen have no
cause for voting against the Democrats;
but, on the contrary, they have unusually
strong reasons tor voting with them this
year.
The PrOhibitionists are very active,
and intend to double their number. They
draw the most recruits from the Republi-
cans. Indeed, if the Prohibitionists are
able to defeat the Republicans on the pop
uIar vote and in the Legislature, their
work will have been so far completed that
they can dictate terms to the Republican
party, ana turn that party into the Prohi-
bition ranks. The Prohibitionists see this
point, and they appear to he acting with
reference to it. One of them said in their
convention on Wednesday that the Demo
cratic party could not he killed-it would
not die. 1T is founded upon the Consti-
tuition, and will of course live as long as that
organic law of our Government survives }
But all other parties, founded upon
moral or temporary idea, spring up, thrive
for time, and then die with the passing
away of the side issue which they make
The speaker claimed that the Republican
party. founded on moral idea, the aboli-
ton of slavery, now accomplished, 10 be-
coming disiutegrated. 1t will soon pass out
of existence. Next comes the moral idea
of temperance and prohibition, and the
men and women who rallied to the support
of abolition will follow their instincts and
support the party of prohibition. The
Republican party, he said, must die, and
us voters viii luoh JUN tho iOhAoASAOA'
party. The Democratic party is the only
party that they will then have to fight
We may add that just so soon as the Pro-
hibitionists are able to hold balance Of
power and place the Republican party In
Connecticut in minority, not only in the
popular vote but in the Legislature, they
can consolidate with that party on Prohi-
bition terms.
The Republicans (who are in tine mi.
nority in the popular yote) depend upon
the Legislature to carry in their State
ticket, the County Commissioners, and
other officers, and to control the State.
The Prohibitionists are learning something
every year, and are growing stronger.
But they have never acted upon the idea Of
defeating the Republicans in every town
where they are strong enough to defeat
them in the election of Representatives to
the Legislature. When they get fairly rous-
ed to that idea and its importance, and
when they act upon it in their full
strength, and in way that will tell the
most etfsctually in the accomplishment
of their object, they will have reached the
goal for which they are contending, and
add the Republican votes to their own
party organization, by forcing the Re
publicans to adopt their platform. The
Prohibitionists have the Republican party
in their power; and they have only to
make their power felt by holding the Re
publican party in the minority at the
point where they are the tenderest, and
where all their hopes are conferred, viz,
in the control Of the Legislature Of the State,
and the Republican party will fall into
their arms, as readily as the child goes to
it's mother for sustenauce.
Briefly summed up, as the political
situation appears to-day-the Democrats
will carry the popular vote on their
Presidential ticket in Connecticut, and
give at least q plurality for their State
ticket, while ths Republicans will make
special efforts to carry their Representa-
tives in all the Ose towns and TO control
the Legislature where their hopes are CEN
tered. But efficient Democratic work will
do much to stop their success in this mat
ter"
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