Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14
THE NIEA NNESS OF TOWER

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 The people of Connecticut have had many opportunities to see the most con- temptihle side of the republican party exposed to view. but never we believe have they been furnished a more glaring instance of the meanness of power than they beheld yesterday when the republi cans of the house almost to man voted to deny the people of this ancient common wealth the right of government. In rejecting the bill to so amend the con- stitution as to place the election of state officers on plane with other elections the republicans showed that they were willing. for the sake Of the power they wield under the present system, to deny the Fundamental principle of American liberty-the right of the greater number to rule.
 There Is no argument of fairness. justice or propriety on which the action of the republicans can be defended. and to their credit be it said that only three of them had the unblushng etfrontery to raise their voices in favor of the dis franchisement of the majority. These specimens of humanity ought to be pickled-they were by Mir Wolfe of New Haven-and preserved as rarities of brass and shamelessness even in the home of such monstrosities, the republican party of Connecticut. The argument used by MT Garrigus of Wolcott - this town ought to feel proud of its representative-that the perfect enfranchisement of Connecticut voters would turn the state over to the rum power, was an insult to some of the best men that ever sat in the gubernatorial chair and beside whom Mir Garfigus would look like a flea beside an elephant. MT Garrigus, and MT Dimock and MT Hill who with him raised their voices in defence of the present unjust system, can hardly be said to shine even along side their brother republicans who at least had the decency to understand that nothing but the greed of power could be urged in favor of the minority system | that now prevails. When history writes the death of the present injustice, as it surely will in time, the names of this trio ought to be inscribed high on the scroll of eternal infamy that tells the shame of the republican party of Con- neCtiCut.
 By every sense of justice and fairness and equity, by every conception of Am erican equality and freedom, by every sacred right for which our forefathers bled and died, by every tie that binds us to revolutionary times, by every de- sire that Connecticut should stand with her sister states in the enjoyment of free and righteous self-government, the peo- pie of the state ought to be given the right to choose their officials The pres ent system is rotten relic of times that should bring the blush of shame to every son of the old commonwealth. It is a relic of the monarchies against which cur an- cestors protested by force of arms, spark from antiquity that should rankle in the heart of every true and honest American in the land. It is the foulest libel on American institutions that has ever reared its noXious head on Amer can soil and not until it is unsigned to the everlasting perdition that must vet overtake it can the freemen of Connecti- cut stand up before all the world and say they are free indeed.
 We will continue to hear, as we have in the past, wild harangues concerning l so-called outrages in the esouth-outrages that are the birth of republican night mares-but we need not fear that we manly protest against the greatest out rage that ever was perpetrated against free people, this minority system of state elections in Connecticut. The republi- can party has lost all sense of decency. all sense of honor and manhood and jus tlce, all consideration for the rights of others ; hereafter let it hide it's dimin- ished and diminishing head in the in- fanny that its representatives brought upon it yesterday by their disgraceful exhibition of the meanness of power.