Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-11
GROWERS DAYS ARE OVER.

The New London Telegraph, with the outspoken fearlessness that is charac- teristic of all its utterances, rises to 'the philosophy of defeat" and scouts the idea of committing the democratic party three years in advance to a shattered idol. It regards as entirely injudicious and presumptuous the efforts that are seemingly being made in certain quarters to folst on the party man who was beaten when the conditions were un- usually favorable to success, and rightly declares that, "when democracy allies itself with principle and principal not thoroughly in accord with popular senti- ment, the state of Connecticut will en- phasize it's gumption by refusal to assist in the sacrifice of the party
 The Telegraph is right, and we con gratulate it on reaching the position already taken by the DEMOCRAT and a few other democratic journals that are not disposed to cleave to a man who has shown himself unequal to his great and glorious opportunities. If ever man had it i'll his power, by the exercise of Jeffersonian and Jacksonian democracy, to perputrate the power of the democratic Had he made declaration of lndepen- dence against the mugwumps, as he stupidly and obstinately did against the democrats; had he placed the admins tration of the civil service in the hands of democrats who were neither re- caIcitrant greenbackers nor outcast re- publicans had he deigned to counsel with democratic leaders who had fought the battles of the party when he himself was in the leading strings; in a word, had he given the country thoroughly democratic administration and the dem- ocratic party the place 1t had won in the control of the country, we would not now be living under republican presi- dent. There are some things the dem- ocratic party is always ready to forget, but it is not yet prepared we believe to forget that Grover Cleve- land led it to defeat when of
 
 best chance to be successful at the polls. Nor is 1t disposed to regard the efforts of certain men to make Grover Cleveland a candidate for a third time in any other | light than that in which the Telegraph sees it when it declares that "this at. tempt of faction of the party or certain men in that wing to force the whole party to take an iron bound oath of ale glance to a certain candidate is pre- sumptuous folly. Assumptions be- cause it SavorS too much of dictatorship and the desire to have the belief accept ed that there is but one man worthy ot honor ill the party, and folly since il tends to obtrude one man into promi hence and obscure others who may be more acceptable candidates to the whole party" And few we believe who study the logic of events will question the truth of the Telegraph's remark that ''it requires no supernatural knowledge tC predict that the days of the democratic party may be over if it sticks to Grover It is not a case of Siamese twins. Truly, it is not. The democratic party is pretty big organization, and it is not likely to be dwarfed by the proportions alone of Grover Cleveland.
 It is we'll that the democratic party has organs that in the hour of defeat are not afraid to lift their voices against a blind devotion to the causes that encompassed the defeat. Devotion to principles is one thing and is quite apart from devotion to principals The democratic party is not likely to recede from the former while it is always ready to bid unsuccessful and dangerous principals to stand aside. We do not think the party will again take up Grov. | CT Cleveland as a candidate for the pres l idency; if it does it is very likely to in l vite defeat at the start. We believe tha
 Growers days as a political leader ar,
 over, at least to that extent that he vii
 ever again be called upon to carry ths
 democratic standard in a contest for the presidency.
 | It needs no straws to point the direc-
 tion of the wind in the case of Grover | Cleveland. Hereafter for him the,post oi
 honor is the private station.
 There Is No Doubt
 l That certain stores in each line of busi