Morning journal and courier., 1889-04-18
A Fine PFOgramme or Easter Music as
 Trinity M. E. Church.
DRRRY,s DIsMEmBERmENT.

Will Not Quietly Accept the Town's
 Division - The Town Dlsmember-
 mens Quession-The Seeeders Hauled
 over she Goals.
 To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 April 17.-Ordinarily after 8 measure had passed both branches of the general assembly the surprised or grieved party would let go . continuance of the fight and accept the situation, bitter as might be their reflections or uncomfortable their prophecies of the sure outcome of the 1egalized step. Not so this time. The town of Derby is to be dismem- bered or cut in twain and there is no alterna- tive, but that the decidedly misused and un- fairly whipped majority of the freemen of the old town of Derby will quietly submit to the inevitable, and forget the sayings meth ods and animus of the Ansonis seoeders, is by no means probable. It is not to bs as- stunned that the Birmingham people who strove SO valiantly against division are pos- sessed naturally of any implaeable rancour or SO relish the sweets of a rich revenge, that the late affair cannot be erased from memo- rvs tablets, is the way that the successful party arrived at the goal that frets them. Had they been beaten above board there would be to-day scarcely dissenting voice.
 
 preferred purpose, or from choice of even 8 bare majority of the people, the war would have ended long since and the cuts that are now deep would have been healed. As it is, the will of the majority has been driven under by the sagacious and nicely conducted tactics of half dozen Republt- cans in Ansonia, who have for years fancied and acted as though they had their end of the town and the party in their vest pocket. Division has won the day, and hard knock has it been to the Republican party. For the past five years the Democrats have been wise Iy handled, and steadily have their inroads on the "G. O. F." been sadly watched. A break in the Republican ranks is just what they have been expecting, and it is now ush- cred in after fashion they hardly dreamt of. That the recent agitation of town segre- gation will hurt the Republican party in the lower end of the Naugatuck valley is not mootsd point, not possible marvel. It is Q verity, and the figures two years hence will justify to the full the announcement. Call it retaliation, spite, indifference, or foolish alienation-this disgust with party machinery now exists and will not wane. The Republicans here have rod in pickle and it will take several judicious strokes to make the fur lie the smooth way. It has been a matter of amazement that the Dem- ocrats have been SO slow to compre- bend the situation. Fortunately for their party's interests enough if they in the house orasped the possibilities of the state of tur- moif and clasping hands with tho thoroughly lobbied and weak-kneed Republicans, neatly felled blow at the future growth and har- mony of their political enemy in old Derby. Two years hence Democratic senator and four Democratic representatives will be the unwelcome and yet normal fruits of sec- tional fracss, uncalled for from the start, tinged with revenge throughout and seen at the finish.