Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-07-15
THE RorrENNEss IN CONNECTICUT.

The open letter addressed to the edi-
tor Of the Hartford Post, who was
member Of the late Connecticut LegiS-
lature, by Judge LYNDE HARRISON, ex-
Speaker of the Republican House, lets
in little light on the noisome frauds,
by which the State government has
been brought to its present disgraceful
condition.
Mr.. PORTER, the editor in question,
was member Of the House committee
appointed to investigate the election re-
turns for State officers, and to report to
the House. He accused the Speaker
with attempting to sell out his party.
Judge HARRISON replies by lifting the
lid off the political pot so far as to re-
veal some of the secrets of the plot by
which the people of Connecticut we're
cheated out Of their rights to determine
who should be their State officers. There
is a great deal more yet to be shown,
but when one of the most influential
Republicans Of Connecticut turns States
evidence to such an extent. there, Is
hope that the eutlre villainy will yet be
brought to light. There never was
known, since the stealing of the PreSi-
dency, in 1876, such an audacious rob-
berry in the political field as that perpe-
trated by the Republicans of Connecti-
cut.
Judge HARRISON distinctly states
that every Democratic candidate on the
State ticket received a clear majority,
with the exception of Judge MORRIS,
for Governor. The plan of keeping
those candidates out of Office, until the
Democratic Senate should consent to
agree that Judge MORRIS was defeated,
was discussed in council OF the leading
Republicans Of the State, at which Gen.
MERwIN, the Republican candidate, was
present and was rejected. Then a re-
port was adopted by the House Commit
tee in favor OF seating the Democratic
candidates, and an entirely different re-
port was submitted to the House by Mr..
PORTER, which Judge HARRISON char
acterized at the time as dishonorable
and a cheat. Here is an unmistakable
denunciation of the fraud perpetrated
on the Democratic State candidates, by
one of the leading Republicans Of Con-
necticut. He charges Mr.. PORTER, and
through him the Republican House
which accepted the report, with viii
fully cheating the people out of their
choice at the polls.
1t was patent from the beginning thai
fraud was at the bottom Of the present
Republican usurpation in Connecticut,
and here is testimony from a hostile
source, which cannot be charged as be-
ing influenced by the Democrats in any
sense Of the word. The usurpation o
BULKELEY and the chaotic state of tn
government may yet be explained frou
the same quarter. How can the Repub
lican party expect to win in any portion
OF the country when such is it's policy
The conspiracy in Connecticut
sufficient to diScredit the party every
where. 1t is of piece with the fore
bill, and makes mockery of popula
suffrage, and to convert free election
into farce. Judge HARRISON says tina
the honor of the party is at stake
There is precious little of the honor o
the party left after the proceedings O
the usurper BULKELEY, and the revC
lutionary, unconstitutional course pur
sued by the Republican House in tn
Connecticut Legislature.