Morning journal and courier., 1889-05-02
ANsoN1A,s LATE ELECTION.

-Unheeded Prophecies and Warning
 Voice5-Bissat1sfled Republicans Fro.
 test in vain-A Political Revo1utfoR-
 Legislators Upbratded.
 BIRMINGHAM, May In an issue Of the COURIER few days before the General As- sembly decided to halve the old town or Der
 by and cater to the sel6shness and jealousy
 of few ascetic Republicans in Ansenla, the
 prophecy was made that division" meant a
 row in the Republican camp, and that such
 a bill as was proposed-and at last was
 victory-would be fatal strike at the har-
 mony and future growth of the party in this locality for some time to come at least. A gentleman in close relation to the leaders of the party, and prominent ofhcenoldsr at Hartford, remarked to the writer that let ter in a New Haven Republican journal auguring bolt in case secession prevailed hurt the anti-divisionist cause in that the old liners of the party disbelieved the threat and were irritsted by it into punlsh1ng the Republicans of Derby for such contemplated behavior. The inference from the poltl- clans talk was that those who spoke defiance did not mean it, would soon forget the grievance, and that the snarl, or minacious teeth, belonged to only few. In full face of protest signed by at least one hundred active, clear headed and long loyal Republicans without pretext of necessi- ty, with no concern for the feasible and ln straight conflict with the powerfully pre-
 vailing sentiment in every part of the origi- nal town of Derby against disunion, these wise lawgivers in assembly convened gave way to peculiar persuasion and dissected the town. The bill once passed was rushed 1T railroad time to the Governor, and the remon strants were virtually notified to swallow the Iv1SI1 aIynf &hnIr FvNTn nnd
 These astute potentates of the :'Grand Old Party" who had forsoott on other occasions lashed unwieldy at taches of the party into passive and peace- full submission to the dicta of the Caesars made merry of the temper of the flew" who "downed" by strangely proper expedients
 But the little cloud that marred the horizon was to grow and on Monday last in Ansonia became transformed either into Georgis cyclone, or a Samoan typhoon. The new town of Ansonia celebrated it's natal hour in a manner not on the programme. A voting district which in the past ten to fifteen years had rolled up savory majority for the Re- publicans, and which in the last or fall campaign, showed a net vote of one hundred and twenty-five, takes another tack and buries the Republican Rajah with his suite under pile of thirty-fve to forty votes. At the hour of writing no explanation of the why or wherefore of this discontinue has been put ia print. It is to be hoped that as soon as life returns to the prostrate frame, CT reconstruction of the shattered pieces is at- tempted, report of the velocity, extent and probable recurrence of this political tornado will be mailed with ten cent stamp to the sagacious and unbiased politicians at Hartford who would not hearksn to the notes of warning or pay decent courtesy to the wish of the majority. The election on Monday was @ test. The Repub- lican ticket represented the Divisionists' fae- tion. Every candidate favored the bill and act. At the polls, where the issue ought to have been met, without forcibls and sense less adjudication of the ease by a legislature, the two tickets last Monday heralded the strength of the two sets who had been at variance in the recent contest at Hartford. A better ticket was never printed in the in- terests of the Democrats. Every man was an enemy to segregation and many had been prominent in defending the town at the
 hearing before the committee. It was 8 winning card and a full vote on both sides was inevitable. The ex- cirement moved the two phalanxes to deter mined work. A foolish scratching" of the Democratic nominee for town clerk urged on by the pique of a saloon-keeper whom Camp had offended, allowed Tucker to slip in as by the skin of his teeth. Nine majority makes sure but empty the honor of the town clerk uAt1k OCGOD6E. DhEIluk UAc AC4C0o OA Nt0u4 RJ the Democrats gave to the divisionists a Waterloo sluRging that will not be forgotten. The same medicine will be administered next fall in doubly potent doses, and two years hence quartette of Democrats will, unless sentiment changes, carry the news to Hartford of Derby's popular veto on partisan legiHlation. To say that the coterie in Ansonia who have for months zealously worked the lobby at the capital and plead their cause lustily with wine suppers and button hole promises is in the valley of despondency and munching on the crusts of chagrin is a mild way of tormu- lating their disgust. They have failed to de- liver the goods they promised. If the auto
 crats who have boastsd they could tuck away in their vest pocket the Republican forces of Ansonia to use at leisure or convenience could have carried the new town after the manner they plighted to their fellows in the halls of legislation they would have become Solons in their party. The converse is and will be history's verdict. There is a new town; it has been baptized, but not in smooth water nor in the current or a winning wave, rather it is just now bathed in the tears of despair. The Republican chiefs, who have tickled 8 few but have in
 suited the bulk of their party at the lower terminus of the Naugatuck valley, are satis- fed with the returns 50 far and the outlook.