Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-13
ANANIAS EARLY ABROAD.

As might be expected, when the name of Hon James F. Pigott was brought forward ill connection with the congressional nom inatiOn Ananas lost no time in opening the valve and getting his engine to work. And Ananias got up very early and dressed him self in his Sunday clothes too. He ap peared in a Sunday sheet ill New Haven, but the sheet was an old friend and Ananias needed no introduction to it or it's readers. We are told by this old friend of Ananias that Pigott's candidacy is a bluff, that he is not actually ill the field at all that every one in the district except a handful of men is dying to have Carlos French run again, Gin the best interests of the democratic party at this time" (Ananias is great for "the best interests" where those interests concern Troup); and finally Ananias tells us, what will be of most interest to our Waterbury readers, that Pigott's candidacy is being engineered in this city by repub- licans. A good many other statements ap pear in the article but the trail of Ananias is over them all.
 It might be interesting if Ananias Troup would tell us just who the republicans are that are engineering Pigott's candidacy in Waterbury. For really this seems one of the cases where it is necessary to go away from home to hear the news. "Re publican engineering" is one of the arts with which Ananias Troup has a perfect acquaintance-he has curried good many l +1 Ananias Troup that while he may be lineal descendant of Judas Iscariot, James r. Pigott is not built that way. And we can ass1re him, too, that if Pigott's candidacy is a bluff, he will find on con vcntion day that it is the biggest one to which he and his understrappers were ever called to throw down their hand. MT PigOtt is very much in the field for this nomination, and he is not to be hunted from the track by any threats of bolting which Ananias Troup may throw out. The lesson of the last shrievalty campaign has not been lost upon Messrs Pigott and Reynolds, we hasten to assure Ananias; neither has it been lost upon their friends, and they propose now to place themselves and the democratic party, in this district | beyond the reach of another lesson of the same sort. The nomination of James P. Pigott may prove to be the needed sword of D0mocles to keep Judas Iscariot Troup and his undoTstrappers ill line on election day, and that ia one very good reason why he is seeking it. If, as Ananias seems to fear, the election of MT Pigott might bring memories of Belshazzar to Troup's political board, his success would be re- | gardcd as none the less desirable on that account by straightforward democrats who believe that Troup has fed too long on the husks that his treachery has brought l him.
 | Mir Pigott, We believe, will secure the nomination for congress despite all the grist that Ananias Troup can turn out of his big-mouthed hopper. He can be elected, too, ill spite of the knives that Judas Iscariot Troup and his satellites carry mp their sleeves. And his name on the ticket will be very powerful influence to bring back to the ranks the hundreds who are, unfortunately for the party, silently waiting for election day to set Nemesis on the track of Ananias Troup and the men who eXalt him to the scandal and the ruin of pure and honest democ- racy.