New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-03
IN THE NUTMEG STATE.
TUE LEGISLATURE MEETS AGAIN IN HART
FORD TO-DAY.
DEMOCRATS SEEKING A COMPROMISE IN VAIN
REPUBLICANS STAND FIRMLY FOR THEIR
RIGnTs-A SILLY CALL FOR NORRIS
TO ASSUME POWER"
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Hartford March 2.-To-morrow the Legislature meets
nd To- night the city is filing with members and poll
scians There are talks of compromise, some OF the
democrats being willing to establish moduS vNehu
Nv which the Legislature carry on the business OF
ho STATE provided the Republicans will agree to inc
.unr of a convention to amend the constitution. lh'
,ot IS however, entirely confined 20 the Dcn'ocrdVS'
The Republicans stand on the same hrm ROCK uIo"
rich they placed themselves at the beginning u'o
right of every legally qualified elector to cast MS po
and have it counted. Partisan hatred, VltnpeId'o"
and Misrepresentation have beaten upon TINS lOCA III
vain Tie action Of Governor Hill has opened uo
.ves os the great mass of the Democrats TO the AoS
,bcne for setutnC control of the state ana man! VI
the Democratic Senators, hearing the OmlhouS soui
arising from their constituents. are no douD' roO'
abandon their false position But thOSe WIN JILL
about the present state of affairs here "erc S'I
enough to foresee that the time might come "iO'
stripped of all falsehood and misrepresentation INV
tre merits of the contest would stand naked before W
rooDle In such an event they foresaw that many
honest Democrats would place truth and justice aoo'0
marty and the failure of the carefully concer'cu p".
IN nsce mower in the hands Of ID. j. Hill be piousn'
naught .o;rcin
This was the reason for the precipitae sWeaFiIsi"
NJ the Democratic claimants for Office before 'iro ~ ~
The constitution provides that State officers Sn'i-
sworn in before both houses. The swcarlnglh o mo-,
legally This they knew. The problem ""S' nv,
ever. so to commit the senate that there Sloui1
be no retreat for that body. with oehaVo " A.
ably committed 10 the plan for the capture "a .
State Offices and with minority IN 'hc iiouso
spectabIe in numbers it hoped TO coercc the heP
licans and wiring from them large snare al le's"
of the loaves and fishes of power Taxing advances
Of the heat and confusion of the early stages OF uo
contest in the Legislature the managers oil the scco
persuaded the Senate to swear IN MT MolrlS an" "
fellow. claimants. This act Of course as was ih'o'
burned the bridges behind the Democratic Se""'o9
and irretrievably committed them to ire plans Vi ''o
schemers time foreseen by few has come ana
what hope is there for the Democratic SVHd"IS
Their noses are held 10 the srindstone and Mr. Hlh
turns the crank That the Democratic scheme TO capture
the state by which on their face were uhtnse
worthy or fraudulent or both failure withouf
saving The that the people understand 'he truo
situation the more remote such possibility becomes
The people of Connecticut are thinking, reasoning
peope. not accustomed to be led blindy by political
bosses but accustomed to 90 to the bottom OF things
and rest the result of their investigations on soId
principles OF justice and right The scheme so art
fully prepared and for time successfully carried
out might in communities have accomplished
its purpose Here il never could have done so.
The enemies of Governor Buheey, disappointed
and chacrned at the failure of the Democratic scheme
have of late been talking widely Of using force One
OF these freeaters will as type OF the Others
There is a man in New-IIaven named Davenport
who in a paper which he edits there calls upon Mr.
Morris to order out the militia and assume power
In the same amusing editorial he says:
Controller Staub, backed by few determined men,
could clear the Capitol OF Buckley and such rubbish
in short order"
This man who counsels force and breathes ont his
wa-ke threats has been before the public before and
the last time it was not in such warlike guSe lie
was a newspaper correspondent or commissioner
as he called himself, once in the Indian country ana
Captain Charles King in his book Campaigning with
Crook" devotes several pages to him. one OF the
most amusing stories the Captain has written is that
in which he tells Of how Davenport was primcd into
writing iour-column dispatch descriptive OF INC
camelque ar animal which existed only in the I'M
arination of an officer who catching Davenport pry
ing into confidential matters and taking notes OF con
versations, spun him a yarn by way OF revenge
Captain King says:
In the campaign OF &c Mr.. D. again made his appear
ance as commissioner, started with General CfooKs
staff but ere long called upon to find new accommo
datons elsewhere IL all about never cared
N know but after unpleasant experiences with first one
set and then another he gravitatcd eventually TO the
hackers who made him do guard and herd duty lie
pushed ahead with Major Mss command, and stumbled
with them into the morning battle of Slim Buttes This
he witnessed in abject and then. when
the danger over. wrote most scandaious account
accusing Major Mills OF all manner OF msOehaVor' his
PAPER published had TO cat humble pie and make
spOndent
When this was first published Mr.. Davenport threat
ened TO bring suit against Captain King. captain
King in reply promised to give some more interesting
information about Mr. Dav import If he dared 10 BRING
suit and also stated that when he revised MS lam
pa-nng with Crook" he would astonish the "eXconl-
IN ana interesting nctdli@.
SIt II the who is cOunselNng force 10 Iest
state Of Connecticut OF like unsound and worthless
Timber are too many Of the Democrats who do IIlPs
bidding here and who have committed their party 10
coup uh can a
10 the respectable element of the Democracy.
The vapOringS of the men who brought about the
situation can no longer blind the people. and 10.
morrow when Mr.. Walker shall, the mOuthpece OF
those Democratic members who signed card ind0rSS
the insult Of Governor Hill To the state of Connecticut,
deliver of his Gharact eriSc speeches on the moor
OF the House, it will not find an echo In the hcart
Of one Of those strongly conservative and upright
Democrats upon whose simplicity the liill schcmcrs
have been playing Democracy in this state has In
deed fallen upon evil days and evil times.
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