Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-06

cd to me that l should have sOmc part In this great contest when it came. but il that Is not to be l still hope l may bc abl. to feel that have dono not much, il is true, but yet something to move my day and generation forward at least little and to potter the condition uf this com munity in which my lot has been cast.
 It might stop hCrc but if I did il would sccm to mo that l had left some thing appropriate unsaid in view of recent events. l am not without feeling and cannot refrain from acknowledging vi bration of pain that organizations avoN- edly working unscltishly for high politi- cal methods and for better government should aiiirmativcly refuse tn indnrsc my nomination in advance of my acceptance or refusal
 ''On the other hand. the wholly spon taneous manifestation uf the general Do moCrncy of tho state toward me, which l never expected to soc and which l car only interpret as a full approval of my past public conduct. has ma,!c upon me an impression tnn profound tO ho ever effnccd. Circumstances do not permit mo to accept the nomination they have ten dered to me. but my head and my heart go out to them all tho >au:c.
 It Is now nearly fiVo years ago that l openly objected as an individual CittzCn to political methods which I deemed low. base and unmanly, and to official acts which deemed hcartlcss crimes, involv- ing as they did spOliation of tho people, hard earned money for tho enrichment of a few who followed politics as n trade and made public officials their mere tools.
 Gross Wrongs [" the People.
 Il felt that l had a right to speak. for in the face of grCss wrongs tu the ICuple among whom I lived I had sat silent fut 1b years. and silence often gives the right to speak. but furthermore. from an i'm pulse which I cannot define or a rCa~on which Is too inscrut able tu assign. l found myself unable to sit silent lunECr The history of the four ycars nf effort which ensued by appeal to courts and Ia public opinion I cannot now even summarize but in this hour in which my name is lre ing tossed back and forth by cuntcntilnE political factions and in which l have broken asunLcr the bonds uf my pcrulcN ity and seen my duty clear bag tO say in justice to myself. and l trust with due mildn"S~ and without any eEuti>m. that throughout IL all was n,vcr hclprd in money or otherwise by any politician | or political organization or faction what. ever, and that If in tho end finally pro l vailed it was solely because tho people. honest and unseltiSh understood me and recognized that at all events 1 was trying to do right.
 Owing nothing therefore to politicians or political organizations. and remember ing that whatever little l have dunc tO lift government up was done as n private citizen, l do not valuc any office SO high as to wish to achieve it against tho OppO- sition of those whom l had supposed would be my friends
 If thought that tho withdrawal of my name would injure Senator Hill's canvass, would try to sec some way to allow it to remain, for his rccent develop ment in the national senate places him with the foremost public men of his day. Between him and his opponent he should, and trust will. prevail
 Though this letter takes mo away from n promotion in the line of my taste. I have written 1t without regret, for it keeps me in line with my past. l writc | it to the hurt of no man, but in justice to | all men, to truth and to myself. ''To thine own self he true.
 And it must follow. the day the night. Thou canst not ;hen be false io any man. .'W. J. GAYNoR"