The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-15
ANOTHER TRIAL.

Some of our genial friends don't seem to understand what we mean. We will try again.
 This is Republican year. The sun is shining, the banners are waving, the bands are playing and the Republican hosts are marching on with gayety and confidence. But Connecticut is a very doubtful State. The Democrats of Con- necticut are as hard to discourage as the Russian thistle. They have no idea of being exterminated if they can help 1t, and they are already in battle ar- ray. The Republicans should take no chances. They should nominate their strongest candidates and then work until that sun which Senator Eaton used to own sets in the evening of election day.
 Is General Merwin the strongest can didate for governor that can be nom- | mated? We think not. He has been voted for great deal. Sad as it may seem, some are really tired of voting for him. He does not evoke the enthu- siasm he once did, and the younger Re publicans especially have not howled for him this time. There is no general call for him.
 If there is no general call for him he ought not to be candidate. The only legitimate course for him to pursue was to wait until the people had shown that they wanted him and wouldn't have the other candidates. He owed it to | the people and to the other candidates to take this course, for he had told them that he was not going to be in the race, and they had acted accord ingly. It was not fair play for him to struggle for the nomination against those who had treated him with all consideration and were entitled to sim liar treatment from him. The talk about fair play is not impressive when it comes from the friends of candi- date who has not played fair himself. It is true that among the most active pushers of General Merwin's candidacy are men who are known as lobbyists None know this better than the very ] ones who are trying to conceal it and its significance by raising a howl against the atrocity of mentioning such thing. It certainly Is awful that a man of General Merwtn's responsibility should have such men in his train. but they are there, and everybody who knows the situation knows it. And as we understand it, the party is not anx- ious to give those men further oppor- tunities for plunder
 If General Merwin is nominated 1t will deprive the Republicans of the Second congressional district of an op- portunity to vote for the man of their hearty choice. And there are many l "AAo hSASC "ASh sao III tillhlIlS5 LudL IL is more important that Connecticut should gain a Republican congressman
 than that New Haven should have a
 governor.
 l We do not think the Republican party
 owes General Merwin the nomination on account of money contributed to the campaign fund. If it does the nomina-
 tion is really for sale We do not think
 it owes him anything for often being its
 nominee and allowing it to vote for
 him. If it does he is of more account than the party.
 These are the main reasons why Gen. ral Merwin's candidacy does not seem to us absolutely necessary. Hoping that our genial friends will continue to show their kindly appreciation of our efforts to say what we think, we re- main fixed in the hope that the con- vention will look at the matter as we do.