Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-01-21
"DON'T WANT CONNECTICUT"

"DON'T WANT CONNECIICUI! Up to the present writing we regard l that story of the New Haven Morning l News of yesterday lie and a ibel-a 1 lie as graceless it is grovelling-a libel without a shred of truth to hold together l the infamous Justification. We most will l lingly absolve our contemporary of any blame, beyond want of due consideration in the publications the story was a sensa- tional one and most tempting to an editor; but its innate improbability should have suggested caution, and the caution would in all probability have saved the News from regarding "the professor, just re. turned from Washington" as entitled to the distinction conferred on the story teller of old ''Ferdinand Mendez Pinto wes but type of thee, thou liar of the first magni- tude."
 We referred briefly in our editorial notes yesterday to the cock-and- bull tale of our contemporary; and unhesitatingly pro- claimed our disbelief We had not heard of any delegation to Washington in the Troup case having actually proceeded thither-we did not know that Cabinet officers had been approached with demands for the Collectors removal from office we were not aware that the alternative had been presented of the official head of the delinquent or the bolt of the Irish -Ameri- cans of Connecticut from the Democratic ranks in this Presidential year; and the' e. fore were unprepared for the circumstan tial concoction of the most learned pun dit, the professor of the Elm City. All these things, we admit, may have occurred; but nothing can induce us to give credence to the sequential statement that a, member or members of MT Cleveland's Cabinet could be so grossly insolent and so ungrate fully unj ust as to snub the representatives of great element in the Democratic party in language coarse and contemptuous.
 No, no. We do not be'i it Accord ing to the veracious Mendez Pinto of the New Haven News, the spokesman of MT Cleveland's Cabinet, said curtly to the al legged deputation: "Gentlemen we can't dismiss an efficient officer to gratify party spite, and as for Connecticut we regard it as of no importance in tho coming Presi- dential election. We can do without it.'' There is falsehood on the face of it. The Cabinet knows-every member of it from the President through all the department al bureaus-that the next Presidential contest cannot become a victory without the aid of ma jority in the Electoral Col lege; and that Connecticut cannot be dis regarded as again a probable constituent of that ma iority. The Democratic Presi- dent will need Connecticut; and without that access of madness which heralds dis truction no member of a Democratic Cab inet would dare to express himself as re- ported by the professor: ''Quos Deus vult perdere prius dementat ;"-but Democracy not doomed to destruction and the mad ness has not developed itself as the pre- cursory condition.
 There is not in the Presidential mind-in the opinion of his Cabinet Council-in the estimate of any loyal Democratic commun- ity, the idea of regarding Connecticut as of no importance in the coming Presidential election. The Democracy will want all it can get in November next; and instead of repudiating aid should endeavor to win it. "We don't want Connecticut" may be at this distance 8 matter of proud boast tc the incumbents of power; and it may be deemed safe experiment to uphold MI Troup in his anti-Irish and anti Catholic exhibitions preferring, as it were the indi vidual interest to the sensitiveness to injury of a large and powerful voting contingent Let it be remembered that this same sensi tiveness of the same voting contingent de feated Blaine and elected Cleveland 9Th apt alliteration's s artful aid' became, with eff feet opposite to it's design, the decisive facto in Blaines failure; and Dr Bnrchardt's thre R's "Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" s effective in turning the tables for Cleve land, may find 8 companion indiscretio1 at the other side, and with similar results in Troup's three Ts-'Irish Insult and In justice"
 Let it be remembered that this is mat ter which extends beyond the boundarie of Connecticut. If Troup as an official o the government will belittle the Iris Catholic element, and if the Cabinet vii sustain him in the ill-conditioned demons tration, this Irish element all over tn country, in proverbial clanship, may mak common cause with co-nationalists in Con necticut; and if the Cabinet does not wan Connecticut in the Presidential contest i may find that it will want other great cen ters of Democracy as a sequence.
 Still, we put no faith in the professor paper.
 HYPER-HUMANITY AND HANGING
 ''This,' says Byron, ''is the patent az of new inventions; for killing bodies an for saving souls"-The sopl-saving proces has every day some new developmentS