Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-16
TELL THE TRUTH. FRIEND.

A letter is said to have been received in New Haven from Congressman Carlos French, in which he declines to be a can didate for renomination. It is probable that MT French is unwilling to enter into a contest with those who are ready to sacri
 fee party harmony for the qualification of personal spite. He prefers to remove, so far as he is concerned, from the coming election, all grounds of bitterness that would injure the interests of his party. Besides, he is not politician and labors under disadvantage, i'll contest within the party, as against those who are politicians anda who do not hesitate to subordinate the public and party interests to their own ends. In other words, he knows that those who are opposed to him, supposing he should obtain the nomination, would carry their hostility to the polls and, even if they were not able to defeat his election, would seriously impair the strength of the ticket, both state and national, and in their desperation very likely defeat it. He is not the kind of m: Il to take the responsibility for such a pos sible disaster by contending for a nominu- tion which another man wants more than he does. MT Frenchs offense consists in refusing to use his influence to induce the | president to remove Collector Troup. This | is not a very serious offense in it's general | aspects, but it has angered lively section of the democratic party in this district and
 MT French withdraws lest they tip the party kettle over. It may be necessary one of these days, as it was several years ago, for the people of the district to take the matter of their congressional representa-
 ton into their own hands, and, regardless of party, teach the politicians that they can only control the matter when they act in | the public interest," Waterbury American
 The above is fair sample of the methods that are being employed to place obstruc- tions in the path of Hon James F. Pigott
 From 8 journal which professes te deal fairly and justly with affairs and with men, and which many believe would not stoop to mendacity and meanness, NIT
 Pigott and his friends have right to expect fairer treatment. Unfortunately
 however, it seems that our mugwump con
 temporary prefers to take its cue in this
 matter from the galled Ananias who winces
 under the candidacy of Mr Pigott than
 from its own sense of justice and truth
 When the American states that MT French
 ''knows that those who are opposed to hin
 would carry their hostility to the polls" il
 shoots very wide of the truth. Mir Frencl
 knows very much better than this, for les:
 than two weeks ago he received in person
 from the one who could best give it, tht
 assurance that the only opposition to hin
 would be in the struggle for the nomina
 tion. Had MT French remained in tho :: field and had the nomination come to hin
 he would have received no heartier nor,
 earnest or more united support than would
 have come to him from Mir Pigott and hi,
 friends. The element ill the party that i:
 behind MT Pigott is made of far differen
 stuff from that which has foisted republi
 can sheriff on this democratic county. Their grievances are expressed in the party con
 ventions when the nomination is fairl, , made their opposition ends and at the
 polls they are united, honest and straight forward in support of the nominee This MT French and his friends understand and it was through DO fear that he would
 meet with opposition at the polls from NJ , Pigott or his friends that he voluntarily withdrew from the field.
 The American's vaporings about politi
 clans and their methods might perhaps con
 vey to the antiPigott element of the part, ! in New Haven lesson that the histori t injunctions concerning "pernicious activ 8 ity" have utterly failed to impress Ananias Troup knows, from continued : and continuous practice, what tn i. methods of the politician are. o f course, if we were to believe Anunias n we might think that Mr Reynolds worked |, 8 defeat himself two years ago when he ra : for sheriff. Ananias dilates with hi e peculiar loud-mouthed brag and buster o . the fact that MT Reynolds ran behind il > his own ward, while he fails to note tn l. fact that men who feed on governmen v pap and who are the bosom friends and stoo r pigeons of Ananias were very active i If br52-e -eing about that result. Some thing y may fail to enter the thick wits of Ananias It but when it came to getting the reward c > his own treaehery and that of his unde, l, strappers Ananias had wit sharp enoug @ to stagger even the open-handed and sell j. possessed Sheriff Gates. The cunnin + and the perfdy of Ananias Troup coul n win no more magnificent tribute than