Morning journal and courier., 1892-12-29
Senator HawIey.

Isaac H. Bromley in the New York Tribunel
The control of the legislature this year
was unusually important, as a United
States senator, to succeed General Hawley,
is to be chosen. No little dissatisfaction
is expressed by ambitious democratic lead
ers over the loss of the Legislature at a
time when they carried ths state for local
and national tickets by the largest maiori-
| ty they have had for many years. They
say the state committee had abundance of
money, and could easily have carried the
legislature with proper management.
They recall the methods of the late Will
| liam n. Barnum, and say such thing
could never have happened under his
| Management This may be 80. The late
Mr.. Barnum not only had very clear ideas
| of what he wanted, but very full knowl-
edge of means and instrumentalities
| whereby to get 1t.
| There seems to be no doubt that General
| Hawley will be his own successor. L am
told upon good authority that upon a can
vass of the republican members elect he
has majority in every county in the state,
and will have two o-thirds of the votes In
| caucus. It was not to be expected that he
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opposition. If the question were to be
submitted to popular vote of the party
there is no doubt that his majority would
| be overwhelming. He has been before the
| people of the state in some public capacity
for more than a quarter of century, and
during the whole time has not only done
nothing to forfeit their confidence and es
teem, but has been constantly growing IN
breadth of view, in capacity for public
| service and the higher qualities of states
| manship, Sc that he stands today among
the Ave or six foremost men of his party
, | ia public life. He represents the genera
+ zion of republican statesmen that presided
Z at the birth of the party; In fact was re
publican before the party was born;
. free Soiler," waiting for the riPening o
0 events that should make 1t possible, In tn
early fifties, when the Whig party had De
gun to fall sere and yellow. He edited tn
first republican newspaper in Connecticut
| and was In the thickest of those hot earl
| fights on the skirmish line when the al
| | was full of political discussion, and a.
| | things were narrowing down to the hns
issue at muzzle of gun and point of bayc
| net. It's a generation, to be sure, that
! thinning out pretty rapidly with the hu,
rying years, but there are some thousand
| of them yet left who recall that perio
with feeling of profound gratitude thf
they lived 10 1t and were q part of \
And not least among their priceless MI
ruoirs of it Is that when the crisis of wf
| was reached and the call for troops can
| | upon q people 80 rooted In the habits
peace that they hardly knew the use I
arms, the first man who stepped forwal
i to enroll his name as q private soldier va
| "Joe" Hswley, the editor of "The Har
ford Press" They remember how
stayed through, and how they hastened
show In what esteem they held him
making him governor In 1855, the fir
year after his return.
There have been periods of hot polite
of personal ambitions and rivalries, ar
intestine feuds in the republican party
the state since then, and Connections b
4 state, 80 that his political career has n
been one of unvsrying good fortune; b
he has been in the public service In one
It. the other branch of Congress most Of Z
IT. time. and the old-time republicans remer
10, ber with satisfaction that under all oi
nd cumstances and on all occasions he
of been the same; an enthusiastic and unit
re ing worker for the success of the part
se. More than that, he has always strtven 4
rat whatever was best and highest and pure
of In its aspirations and its aims. The whc
d. generation of republicans with whom
ire has grown up and whom he has led 10 We
ed proud and very fond Of him, and 1t is
Is gratifying circumstance to them that
to return to the senate seems beyond gu
I'M tion. Aside from all other consideration
he it is felt that IL would be mistake at
ke present time, when the party In the nad
30 needs more than ever statesmen OF expo
an ence, ability and integrity, who are th,
I'D ouehly trained and have been thorough
lth tested, to guide its counsels In the senats
he AZ such a time TO set aside Q statesman
to aanator Hawlsy's experience aud inhuer
es, for any new and untried man.