Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1893-02-17

popular sentiment. If there is any one |
word in the vocabulary that the people |
are sick to death of seeing and hearing |
and having thrown at them, it's that |
hackneyed, threadbare, meaningless
| dissyllable, Reform Now, while
| we mean reform all right
| enough, we haven't paraded it before
the public during this campaign; but it
| has been the tail-piece of every other
| political kite that has been set flying
| for years past. There's old Wymer's
| party, for instance, going to revolution
| lie the world by it's reforms in the labor
and capital muddle. Nobody knows by
| what peculiar handling of problem
| that is and always must remain simply
| q question of mutual forbearance be-
tween the two classes they propose to
| adjust matters 50 as to benefit the hui
man race in general, and the working
men of Y in particular. Didn't gol
to their meeting last night, did you?
| Well, went, and got enough of 1t.
| Fairly sicllened me to hear Rochester
| Spouting about the accumulation OF
| wealth by the few as n direct robbery
| of the masses, and so on, and advocat-
ing q system of division that would give
| the worthless loaier, who was too lazy
| to earn n crust of bread, the same
amount of this worlds goods that was
| allotted to the Industrious hardwork-
ing man. That wasn't the way he put
it, of course, but it's just what the con-
founded rubbish amounts to. And,
what with holding up working mems
unions, and organized strikes, and all
that sort of business as legitimate
means of resisting the tyranny of capt.
49, md M
Socialists of Germany and the Nihilists
of Russia, and the whole crew of
rampaging law-defying anarchists
the world over, he succeeded in
stirring up a spirit of dissatisfac-
ton and lawlessness that needed
only the provocation to develop into
riot and bloodshed. Now, am by no
means alarmed for the results in this
present contest, for foresee that Roch-
ester, Bingham ct al. are going to be
pretty thoroughly eXtinguished; but
can 1t be that such doctrines as they are
promulgating are gaining ground
among the lower classes? If so, there
will be bitter fruit in the future. We
must look to our free school system and
the liberal education of the masses to
deliver us from the threatened danger.
| Our children must be taught from their
youth up that in this republican coun-
try the higher order of intelligence and
morals must rule and ignorance and
vice keep .thcir proper subordinate
places. l heard n rumOr this morning
that Tom Chelsea was going to flop
Know anything about it, North? Don't,
eh? Then perhaps it isn't true. l sent
Warner around to sit down on him if it
was. The doctor has been around all
morning."
1.-The doctor?"
Eyes, Warner" explained the colonel,
, with an inquiring stare.
"Oh, to be sure! Warner, of course!'
and North made a hasty effort to re-
, deem himself by this animated assent.
: ''Out on his professional rounds as
/ healer Of political dissensions and SO on
| --fccling the pulse of the public, you
: know"
And what does he report?"
- "Well, he makes cautious diagnosis,
but I've given you the substance of il
S already. lie reports your popularity
. | on the increase, but he doesn't claim
r much for IIallccl1. Between you and
= me, North l suspect that Warner would
e about as lief see IIallccl< get left! Has
- he said anything of tho sort to your
Il and the colonel looked sharply at
Q North.
t The latter had confused recollcc-
$ ton of Warmers remarks on this sub
" ject in their conversation of the pre-
c vious erening His cautiousness, how
ever, prevented him from repeating
L them; he merely answered indiffcrently;
1t "No, he hasn't spoken of it, except to
{ repeat in u general way what he had
'' already said to you about his objection
to ualleclls nomination. l didn't
y gather at all that he felt any personal
III disaffcction toward IIalleck; on the
II contrary, l inferred that he intended
D. to work for the straight ticket, and felt
re very cordially toward all tho candi
IL dates"
"Oh, he'll work all right enough! I've
RI no fear about that. Warmers square
nj man, and all that, you know" the
r colonel FASTENED to rcjoin, with the air o.
lS rctreating in good order. by the way
> North, do you ever hear anything abou
Gus Thompson nowadays"
sr Gus Thompson? Why, no, not 1
Ut syllable" said North, with an air o
l le lively interest. What has become O
I'LL him?"
re "Must be prospecting the Salt rive,
, ne region, to see how his party friends ar
going to fare by-and-by, suggested
ID Clipper dryly. Its odd how that fel
X low has dropped out of this campaign
. &C Why, along the first, when we held ou
H. primaries, really thought his chance
d were as good as Browns; but all q
n once he disappeared, and since then NJ
~ one has seemed to care enough abou
le him to ask what has become of him
re His party haven't treated him right
after all the work he's done for them
81 o, If they had done the square thing b.
II him he would have been in the common
Id JOSEPH A, JACKSON, ARCHITECT
h LilleY's BLOCK Waterbury, Conn.