Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-21
NOT FOR BEN,

NOT FOR BEN.
 That Ben Harrison is an old bird and is not caught with chaf was shown when he adroitly refused to be Burch- arded by the Patriotic Order Sons of America. Whether or not the chief magistrate has any soft spot in his heart for the know nothing sentiments of the Sons as voiced by their president, Geo, ge F. Smith of Chicago-though, from his past record, we might guess that they are not wholly offensive to him-he IS fully aware that this country owes too much to men of fo eign birth and alien strain to allow the head of the nation to officially endorse the sweeping libel put upon them by an minimizing zealot.
 Benjamin Harri on has learned wis dom from the experiences of MT Blaine. It has always been popularly supposed that the Burchard episode had much to do with the success of Grover Cleveland certain it is that it brought to him votes of foreign born citizens whose previous affiliations and preferences had been republican. Unre- buked insult and scurrilous libel are al- ways offensive to manly men; and per contra they have an unbridled admira- tion for man who will refuse, either from honest impulses or interested mo- tives, to be used as the medium of in suit to large portion of the body polite. We imagine that President Harrison will suffer nothing from his refusal to wear the badge of the Sons of America as incorporated in the Patriotic Order, and that he will find favor therefor in the eyes of that larger body of sons of America whose devotion to the constitu- tion and the stars and stripes is founded on the true American spirit rather than bigotry, zealotry and race hatred. The nineteenth century ia not the time and the United States particularly is not the place for sentiments such as Mir. Smith declared to be the guiding star of the Sons of America.
 l It may be pertinent in this connection for the people of Connecticut to learn from Senator Hawley, who in his capac- ity as a member of the Patriotic Order Sons of America introduced his asso- ciates to the president, how far he sub. scribes to the sentiments uttered by President Smith that "there will not be in our western country lampposts, tel egraph and telephone poles enough tc hang the organized bodies of foreigners who have been permitted (sic) to become citizens of this free America" The constituency of Senator Hawley have q right to know whether he endorses sen timents that are as foreign to the soil o1 Connecticut as George P. Smith is to the instincts and principles of true Amer ican citizen. They have right to know whether they are misrepresented in thu senate of the United States and whether they are honoring man whose highest conception of American citizenship is t< heap insult and contumely on the head. of men whose citizenship and whose patriotism yield not to his own. They Hawley as Patriotic Son of Americ. harbors ideas and hopes that are essen tially and directly contrary to the letter land the spirit of the American constitu tion. In word, they have right t. know whether Senator Hawley endorse the utterances made by President Smitl on Tuesday when he gave voice to a fou libel and bigoted islander on large an, respectable portion of our body polite A question club could find very inter esting field for work in ascertaining an, making known to the people of Connec ticut the position of Senator Hawley. It looks very much as if the Burchar,
 that was not for Ben is emphatically fo Joe.