Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-24

easily proved oy honest printers to have
been in their origin accidental. But, for
fear that their too simple plan would fail
by reason that no man, unless q conspira-
tor, would be fool enough, or wicked
enough, to claim that such specks may be
identified in such a manner as to indicate
who may have cast the ballots bearing
them agents were employed to go
about wherever ballots were accessible in
the hands of the confederates, and actu-
ally to make peculiar pencil marks upon
packages of Republican ballots; so that
on the final scrutiny by those Democratic
moderators who were themselves in the
conspiracy, ballots for Merwin and other
Republicans were rejected by scores, with
evident intent to elect Morris and his
confederates by wholesale fraud which
it was hoped and believed would not be
discovered, or if discovered, could not be
remedied or brought home to the actual
perpetrators. Hence the great distress
OF the criminals when they found that the
majority of the house had determined to
gather all the intrinsic evidences of fraud
which examination of the returns would
afford; and the examination did afford
abundant proof of most deliberate and
extensive fraud.
Is any one of the conspirators bold
enough to affirm that this charge Is falsei
AOco any o4c VI lutIu, great or SInall,f from
the editorial chair in Hartford down to
either the senator from this district or the
representatives from this town, dare to
deny the statement of one of them on the
floor of the house that 1--WE know the bal
lots were so marked and we know who did
it!' What they have said is laid in as evil
dence and cannot be recalled. 1t will surely
return to plague them.
Besides all this there is at hand evidence
enough to convict beyond all reasonable
doubt the entire gang of plotting traitors
If the statutes had ever thought to take
cognizance of a crime against the state so
ingenuously simple, yet so alluringly easy
to perpetrate, so innocent in external feat
| ures, yet so Internally hideous in its pur-
pose, so fearfully destructive in its effects.
So sanctimoniously plausible was it, vet
so diabolically demoralizing to the souls of
| men, that it is not believed that a crime so
peculiar could ever have been originated
| and successfully worked in any other spot
than at the capital city of the State. One
of the most astonishing things con-
nected with these criminal proceed
ings is the fact that the perpe-
traitors of the crime-the coparcenors
| in guilt before and after the act-go about
| uttering maledictions against all and every
| officer of State who obeys the law and re-
| fuses to abdicate until their legally-elected
successors are legally qualified and in
augurated.
Another surprising feature in this new
exhibition of political deviltry is the reck-
less indecency and impudent assurance
with which the Democratic members of the
senate, with their party press generally,
speak of Governor Bulkeley as acting gov
ernor, when they know that so long as ex-
isting circumstances continue, he is and
will 1sza =,
cut as he ever was. If the conspirstors
and those who claim office under the
fraudulent operations possible under Dec.
of the election bill of 1889, are disatis-
fed and refuse TO be comforted under the
defeat of their scheme, let them apply to
any competent court for redress.
When We inquire for what purposes
''our friends, the enemy" have put them
selves to all this trouble and defiled their
hands with criminal acts to no practical
purpose, and have spent their strength for
| naught in their attempts to defraud every
citizen of his civil rights, we may say that
| fraud so easy of detection is like a poor
counterfeit of good money-capable of
| working harm and fraud for a brief period
but when nailed to the counter or
branded across its lace, its power
| for mischief ceases; it serves then
only as the awful example, and for
comparison with other counterfeits.
So with our friends the conspirators.
They had great xpectations-with Morris
for governor and Alsop as lieutenant
with certainty of controlling the senate
and almost majority in the house; they
were looking forward to a winter of active
| campaigning and abundant increment; a
senator of the United States in place of
Mr.. Platt; good prospect for displacing
Senator Hawley later, and all arrangements
made for q successful raid on the chartered
companies of the State that paid dividends
and a general gobbling up by the cities of
every profitable private enterprise. Here
was richness.
Under all the circumstances perhaps we
| cannot expect the accused to behave amia-
bly, toward those who differ with them so
widely in opinions, but it pains us to feel
obliged to concede that they are forfeiting
all claims to the respect of the community
Ito say nothing of the loss of self-respect)
by indulging in such low and abusive
language respecting the governor of
the State. If the claims of Judge
Morris and of DIR. Alsop are well
founded, they are now in the best possible
position to sue out q writ of quo warranto
and compel the ''mon they call Bulkeley," j."
las one of the senator's styled the govern
orr and the other hold-over officers of
state 10 give way to the noisy swash-
bucklers about the capitol, or to show
cause why they continue to occupy offices
to which they have been duly elected.
Why will not the claimants do this.
We hope the house will soon offer to the
recalcitrant senate another opportunity
to take joint action as the general assem-
bly,, but in case of its further refusal,
let the house adjourn sine die and go
home.
Long live Governor Bulkeley of Con-
necticut! TEEoPHILUs EATON