The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-07
TOPICS OF THE DAT,
Comments From state Papers.


 on the topic "An Ante-Campalgn ol
 Two" as follows;
 Straightforward, clean politics eai
 De made as practical" and as ''aggres
 siVe' ns crooked, dirty politics, and |
 heap more fruitful in satisfactory re.
 suits on election day.
 Committee ehnirmen whose first and
 last thought Is money, who surround themselves with rnbble of mercenary aids recruited from among the suffers and camp-followers of the party, md whose one plan for winning m election Is to buy up as many of the venal voi- CTS as possible under the thin pretcnse or hiring them for ticket-peddling pur- poses, are comparative newcomers in Conneetieut politics, wenrily familiar hs the type seems. Twenty or thirty years ago it WAS almost unknown. The republicans of twenty or thirty years ago went into the campaign with n zeal and vim certainly not exceiled by those Of to-day, but they did 1t out of love for their party, belief in It, desire to see 1t victorious, not for the campaign pick ings that might, by iudioious, manage meni, be slipped into their own or their friends pockets. Here in Hartford to take n home illustration--it was n common thing In those times to see leading citizens-men well along In years, too, some Of them-peddling tickets at the polls. To have offered pay To these men for their work for the party would have been 10 insult them To have asked them to contribute to a corruption fund for the buying mp of purchasable democratic voters would have been a mighty risky experiment for the solicitor. Yet the canvass was much more thorough then than 1t is now, and q much bigger percentage of the total party vote was out at the polls on election day. That is Il fact within the personal knowledge of hundreds of our older readers. ..s.-. II rests very largely with the young men of the republican clubs to bring those good times back again. They can II they will. They are brimming over With the generous enthusiasm of their years. They are not contented. either, with mere parading and speechifying they want to be doing something in a practical way for their party-some- thing that shall count in the result.
 Well, nothing is easier nor simpler. The two essential things. from the neg feet of which by those whose business 1t is to attend to them the party has been suffering for years past, are the preliminary canvass and the getting out Of the vote. The young men can compel radical reform in these par ticulars: nay, they can do better than that, they can make the reform them- selves. Under the direction of the town committee where this is of the right sort, on their own hook where it isn't. they can divide up the town among themselves, each taking definite dis trict and making themselves responsi- ble for it. Then every man of them can get right down to work of the kind that tells in the returns.
 The first thing to be done is, of course. to find and list all the rcpublican'ycoiers in your district. The next is 10 keep such vigilant watch on them as to be able to tell tine town committee or the club committee on the eve of election day just how many and who are at home, how many and who are away how many and who are indifferent and still need looking up, how many car ridges will be required for the aged and sick, to what houses and at what hours the carriages must be sent, etc. This preliminary work faithfully and l thoroughly performed, there will remain l only the much easier labors of election day itself. These should be carefully planned and systematized beforehand, leaving as little as possible to chance. System is half the battle, aud thor oughness is the other half. With every l young republican in his assigned place l next fall, knowing just what he has to | do and doing it with all his might, it | will be very bleak November for the | Connecticut democrats.
 That's what we want to see, ought to | see, hope to see. Work of the sort here indicated is more effective than votc- buying, it's surer work, and it's clean work. Vote-buying isn't. It is dirty, scoundrelly work. It should land the corrupt rascals who carry it on in state prison. One of these days, we hope, it will.
 THE RESTLESS wAGE-EARNERs.
 The Norwich Bulletin says on the tbove topic:
 The Review of Reviews for July contains a paper from the pen of w. T. Stead upon "Coxeyism" in the United States. He regards the movement as 'nly the beginning of an agitation which n future may assume more menacing dimensions unless the government pro- tides way to keep the workmen too 'usy to be organizing ~"petitions in ,oots'
 He says: "There is something so ab- orent to human reason in the waste f the labor of million willing workers n continent which has not yet made ecent roads through its most populous istricts, that everyone must sym athize with the attempt by pacific, al- | hough irregular, methods to force theil ubject upon the attention of the gov-El Coxey may be mad, and Kelly |' nay be visionary but America needs , ood roads, and the arid lands of the vest await irrigation ilt General Frye's demands are more ex-iI { ensive. He wants government employ