Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-16
LOCK ON THAI, THEN ON THIS.

The local Outras grinder comes cut this morning with brand new, gilt-edged, double back action, warranted o-convey-a- political lesson murder ill Missouri. which it thinks lis in all probability repuhli can state on anything like a fair ballot" Embellished with all the lurid rhetoric which bla2es from the narrowed mind of the editor this warranted-tO-scare outrage wrings from the depths of an alright ed and lacerated soul the swe-inspiring con clusion that "evidsntly Missouri stands in the list of states to which the federal con gress should guarGntee republican form of government unless she can herself pun ish the murderers of Macon county
 We truly grieve that our contemporary should ba tortured by such cruelty terri wing mental phantasmagoria. Ii is an awful thing, this weird. horrifying, ghastly spectre that has come with itE gorgon touch to fright the dreams of a morbilly timid mind. The picturesque landscape of the sunny south, dotted with shotguns and weapons of Ieath, red with the blood of politica! victims and leeki:}g with the gore spilled by political assassins, is n weirdlv terrible picture when 1nirrored to the mind that is truly devoted to ''a re- publican form of government" That our contemporary may pnss safely and speed fly through the waters of Il pr!itjcal ex- i orcism which slial! wash forever from it's morbidIy vivid imagination the welrd phantasms of d &i+ordered brain is the hope we extend as We inti>. j; to look on a picture that may ho drawn He&ter home. l In Connecticut the land Of steady habits, the home of intelligence and the shrine of in<!.s,ea<}ent manhood, repubh- can employers compel tkeir workingmen to receive their weekly wages in lying envelopes aud when. as in the ea,6 sf young HilderburSar at Bridgeport, a pro- test is made. they arc paremptoriiy dis charged. And right here in Connecticut is the greatest conceivable abortion of ''a republican forn: cf government" Here we are and have been living under a government chuar.l bE a minority of the freemen. witt. h. will of the majority defeated as etfevtuAiy as ~,s= ever done by the blood-red band of tha political assassin. Here We lave OFT cites ruled by haysecd legislature that represents but small fraction If the people. Home rule taken away fgor.; ns, and our boards of selectmen. our municipal com missions, our county commissions, our courts and juries filled with men who are in political minority. Where is the republican form of government" ill this Is the government under which we live i'll Connecticut truly a government of the people, by the people and for the people:
 Our contemporary need not harrow its soul with southern outrages it can see right at home the greatest outrage ever perpetrated on civilized and intelligent people. When it locks on it's picture of southern outrages let it look on the less thrilling but more substantial one that is presented right here in Connecticut. Let it tell its readers, what it has not vet had the courage {" do, on what grounds it excuses the contempttble forms of intimi- l dation and minority rule that are psaGticed right here in our own little state.
 First look on that, then on this.