The Press., 1893-01-05
BROMLEY ON HAWLEY.
Q.H. B. in the New York Tribune,

q. H. B. in the New York Tribune.)
 There seems to be no doubt that Gen.
 eral Hawley will be his his own success
 or. am told upon good authority that
 upon canvass of the republican mem-
 bers-elect he has majority in every county in the state, and will have two- thirds of the votes in caucus. It was not to be expected that he would be re-elect- ed without some show of opposition. If the question were to be submitted to a popular vote of the party there is no doubt that his majority would be over whelming. He has been before the peo- pie of the state in some public capacity for more than quarter of a 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, so that he stands to-day among the five or six foremost men of his party in public life. He represents the genera tion of republican statesmen that presided at the birth of the party; in fact, was republican before the party was born; "free soiler,'' waiting for the ripening of events that should make it possible, in the early fifties, when the whig party had begun to fall sere and yellow. He edited the first republican newspaper in Connec- ticut, and was in the thickest of those hot arly fights on the skirmish line when the air was full of political discussion, and all things were narrowing down to the final issue at muzzle of gun and point of bay onet. It is a generation, to be sure, that is thinning out pretty rapidly with the hurrying years, but there are some thou sands of them yet left who recall that pe- riod with feeling of profound gratitude that they lived in it and were part of it. And not least among their priceless me- moirs of it is that when the crisis of war was reached and the call for troops came upon people so rooted in the habits of peace that they hardly knew the use of arms, the first man who stepped forward to enroll his name as private soldier was "Joe" Hawley, the editor of the Hartford Press. They remember how he stayed through, and how they hastened to show in what esteem they held him by making him governor in 1866, the first year after his return.
 There have been periods of hot politics, of personal ambitions and rivalries, and intestine feuds in the republican party in the state since then, and Connecticut has always been, even during the war, a close state, so that his political career has not been one of unvarying good fortune; but he has been in the public service in one or the other branch of congress most of the time, and the old time republicans remem- Der with satisfaction that under all cir cumstances and on all occasions he has been the same; an enthusiastic and untir- ing worker for the success of the party. More than that, he has always striven for whatever was best and highest and purest in its aspirations and it's aims. The whole generation of republicans with whom he has grown up and whom he has led is very proud and very fond of him, and it is a gratifying circumstance to them that his return to the senate seems beyond question. Aside from all other consid- eratious, it is felt.that it would be mis- take at the present time when the party in the nation needs more than ever states men of experience, ability and integrity, who are thoroughly trained and have been thoroughly tested, to guide it's coun- sells in the senate-at such time to set aside a statesman of Senator Hawley's experience and influence for any new and untred man.