Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-07-24
rO-MORROW,s CONFERENCE.

rO-MORROW's CONFERENCE. Pursuant to the call issued recently by Chairman Davis of the state committee certain democrats will confer together to- morrow at Hartford, to the end that plans may be devised for more united and effective organization of the party i'll the state. Though the meeting, as the New Haven Register remarks, "is open to the suspicion of being factional gathering" it's proceedings will be watched with ln- terest not unmixed with a certain curios- ity as to the details of the plan by which 1t is proposed that the democrats of Con necticut shall "get together" There will be no lack of material to engage the most serious attention of the conferees, and 1t will be interesting, and possibly instruc- tive, to see just how this material is handled.
 Anybody who has watched the course of democratic politics in Connecticut during recent years will not seriously question the need of new blood in the counsels of the party or innovations in it's methods. Why certain individuals whose personal 1 ambitions have always exceeded interest in | the general party welfare have reached positions that give them prominence in the party has never been explained on any ground other than the suspicion that the marketable character of their principles suggested the choice of two evils. But why these individuals should feel it their privilege to ignore the voice of democratic conventions and knife their candidates who were not personally pleasing to them has never been understood on any theory of political gratitude or party discipline. As an illustration of what we mean we would suggest that the conference might proftably study the condition of affairs in the city, town and county of New Haven. It might inquire why it is that, with normal democratic majority of 2 2,500, New Haven county should have
 elected republican sheriff for two suc-
 cessive terms. It might inquire why it is
 that certain so-called democrats are hold ing office under republican sheriff whose boast it is that he has never failed to re-
 ward his political friends. It might in
 quire why it is that in democratic New
 Haven, which furnishes the majorities nec-
 essary to carry county, congressional dis trict and state, there is now republican
 mayor, republican common council, a re- publican town agent and a republican board of selectmen And it might, with a propriety whose results would warrant it's exercise, tell the democracy at large what it thinks of man who, while enjoy ing one of the fattest offices in the gift o1 the party, could reconcile with his polit ical conscience the most shameful treach- cry to its candidates It might go ever farther and tell the democracy why it is that men have been invited to to-morrow's gathering who are not themselves above suspicion of having participated ill the treachery. Truly, there is need of new blood in the counsels of the democratic party of Connecticut, though good many democrats will not be disposed to approve of the way it is being sought.
 There is room, too, for very profitable innovation in democratic methods. Be | Io1O PAuShAIlo eIC IuluOLlGJ representation beam out of the republican partys eye ii might be we'll to remove the mote from our own. It might be well to provide for a representation of democrats rather than a representation of towns in democratic conventions. Perhaps then such towns as New Haven and Waterbury-which latter, by the way, has been entirely ignored by those who called the conference, though ii gave the largest mai jority for Cleveland last fall of any place in the state after New
 Haven-would enjoy their proper influence
 in naming candidates for the various cleo tive offices. The conference might tell the democrats of Connecticutwhere equal rights are considered in the nominating conven
 tions of the democratic party, or why it is
 that little obscure town like Chester in
 Middlesex county, with it's go democratic votes and almost two republicans to every ) democrat, should have half as many dele
 gates in democratic convention as New ] Haven with its g, ,95S democratic votes and
 ?, ,403 democratic majority. And the con
 ference might tell us why it is that the | 1CGAo 1oWA OA NAl1lOHu, Wltu US SS demo : cratic majority, should be asked to send te
 to-morrow's conference a representative who holds an office in the gift of the re publican party, while Waterbury, with its
 74S democratic majority and plenty o1 democrats who never bartered their politi l cal principles, should be left out in tn, cold. Perhaps the men who are responsi ble for to-morrow's conference have de
 sired to be fair in their arrangements, bu
 the whole scheme has at least very quee, look.
 ! We hope, however, that tomorrow.
 conference will meet with abundant sue
 cess, and that it will make subjects of in
 quiry some of the points suggested above
 The democrats of Connecticut certainl, need to 'fget together" and anything that