I oil-'3“ .. .-¢.._.,_,_-- TE-lE EVENING GAZETTE. Emmi) AT run Posr OFFICE IN Noawanx as A NEWSPAPER. M 4.1L SUBSCRIPTIONS. Dam. one year. $3; six months. $1.75; three months. $1.00; onefmonth, 300. WEEKLY. one‘ year. in advance. $1.00; six months, 600.; three months. 350. TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 1896. Our State Candidates. That old campaigner the Hartford Courant, sounds the Republican tocsin for action in the selection of our various 'State candidates for the November election. It calls timely attention to the fact that the decision of the State Central Committee to have the Republi- can convention on the first day of September, leaves less than a month in which to hold the caucuses for dele- gates, for non}; can be held till the call appears and all must be held at least five days before the convention. The Courant then very wisely goes on to say that “this means that the time is here for public and general dis- cmion of the situation and especially of the vitally important question as to who shall head the ticket.” The Courant then, as is its privilege, soars into the realms of fancy and ex- presses its belief that “the drift of pub- lic sentiment is overwhelmingly strong in favor of nominating the Hon. Lorrin A. Cooke.” This utterance it supple- ments with these words ofconfession, if not of self arraignment: “These are s‘range times, crazy ideas are abroad.” Were the Courant as familiar with “public sentiment” hereabouts as it is in and about the Content office, it would not speak with such over confi- Hence. No one man at'this stage of the po- ‘iticall -outlook,is in overwhelming ascen- dency. No Connecticut republican can or will disparage the merits of Hon. Lorrin A. Cooke, yet he has no claims on the gubernatorial nomination in ex- ems of” several Oihcl‘ equally capable and de‘erving gentlemen in the state, whose earnest Republican friends de- sire to see their favorites honored. Then too, this is. seemingly a bad year for “machine politics.” The “slate”~ busi' ness, is not as popular as in some for- mer years. “Young America” is more in demand than heretofore in our statepolitics and came in the ascendant in popular ever. I In this section there is a very pro- nounced desire for the: nomination of Hon. John H. Ferris of Norwalk for Lieutenant Governor, a position he would abundantly fill if nominated, and his election would be without a ques- ‘tion. His friends have no feelings of opposition to Mr. Cooke, but they have the discernment to see that this Con- gressional District cannot claim both Governor and Lieutenant Governor, with any reasonable hope of success. In their case, it is not loving Ceres? less but Rome more, or a yielding to the immutable law of self-preservation. So, naturally, those especially favoring the advancement of Mr. Ferris, are willing to see a suitable selection for Governor, made from among those. named from without this Congressional District. Were Colonel Cheney will- ing to accept the nomination, he cer-. tainly would be a leading favorite here- nbouts. As it is understood that he declines the honor, we do not doubt but that the next choice would fall to Hon. J. Addison Porter, Editor in chief of the Hartford Post. ‘The people went to the editor’s chair of the Courant fJI‘ a Captain, a Colonel, a. General. a Governor, a Congressman, and an U. S. Senator, and made no mistake in so doing. Why should not the Republicans of the State, and es- pecially the Courant, be encouraged to repeat the newspaper-man selection? In high personal character, aims nd connections, in scholarly attain- ments, in fidelity and earnest work for his party, Editor Porter is certainly a poet of Lieut. Gov. Cooke or Generrl Hawley. Mr. Porter would certainly infuse more life and enthusiasm into the canvass, than any candidate. we have thus far heard mentioned. He would marshal the younger men of the party and incite them to greater activities for the success of the whole ticket, than any of the “old guard” could hope to do. As Attorney Judson of Stratford truly says of him: . “The active young Republicans seem hrgelyln favor of Mr. Porter. Mr. Porter has always been identified with. - Republican politics in this state and as the proprietor and editor of the Hart- ford Post, has wielded a very potent in— finance in the counsels of his party. “He is receiving enthusiastic support in the eastern part of the state and in New Haven county. It is likely that an effort will be made to send delegates from Bridgeport favorable to Mr. Por- ter’s candidacy. He was a prominent candidate two years ago, for governor, and received substantial support, but in the convention withdrew in favor of Governor Coffin, which resulted in the governor’s nomination, and it would seem as though this year Mr. Porter ’ was entitled to the nomination.” Another element of popularity and strength in Mr. Porter’s candicacy, is found in the fact that he was the "orig- inal”and as we think, only, earnest Mc- Kinley Editor in Connecticut, prior to that gentleman’s nomination for the Presidency and thus he proved his fore- sight and far reaching sagacity. It is no disparagement to Mr. Porter that he is a young man, for the reason that he is old in ardent republican effirts and service. ‘ There are very many earnest Repub‘ lican workers at this end of the state who will urge Mr. Porter’s nomi- nation for the reason that they believe no mistake will be made in his selection and election to the Governorship of this gallant and patriotic little state of Con- necticut. AAA v'v JUST PURE LUCK. The Story of an Insurance Adjuster Whose Folly Saved $180,000, 1 Charles Brewster Steele, in explain- ing his theory that pure lucx some- times disposes of human affairs, told this story. “In my business adjusters who go about the country looking over the risks assumed by the various agents of an in- ‘snra nee company are supposed to have a soft thing, and so they have as far as the traveling money and the other ex- tras go. They live high, but their em- ployers hold them to a strict accounta- bility, and whenever a lossoccurs they get all the blame. “Now, there’s where the majesty of luck 'comes in. A certain New York company sent a fellow I know down to Jacksonville, Fla., a couple of years ago to look over the risks there. He got drunk on the train, and had been steadily inebriated for twelve days when I met him in ,3 Jacksonville ho- tel. He explained his mission to me, and I asked what he had. done. Of course he hadn’t even been near his agent. “ ‘Look here,’ says I, ‘you’d better go and see your man, runk as you are. Go to the oflice, any way, and cancel. something just to let the home office know you’re alive.’ ' “I didn’t see my friend for several days after that, and when I did encoun- ter him in the barroom of the hotel he was drunker than ever. I took him aside and asked if he had followed my advice. “Why, yes,’ he‘responded thickly. ‘I went down there and cancelled every blanketty blank risk on the books.’ “I tried to reason with him, but he would not listen. I besought him, if he valued his place, to let me straighten things out, but he only leered at me and returned to his liquor. “Well, sir,’ continued Mr. Steele, with a deep drawn sigh, “that very night Jacksonville had one of the greatest fires in her history, and my drunken friend’s company was saved by my drunken friend’s idiocy from a loss of $180,000. - “They didn’t do a thing to him but give him a. fat job and present him with a magnificent gold repeater, in which was inscribed the glorious history of his shrewdness. “And yet I suppose some people wouldn’t call that dumb luck.” ALLIGATORS ARE COWARDS. A Louisianian Giver the Sauriah a Bad Reputation._ “The cowardice of alligators is well known by the people who reside along the bayous which were at one time fre- quented by the saurians,” said a gentle-I. man from southwestern Louisiana. "A great many persons who only know of the alligator by reputation swallow without a qualm the stories which are . so often told about the hairbreadth es- capes and remarkable adventures with these reptiles. The truth is that they do not possess sufficient courage—the alligators, I mean—to attack a mouse, unless it was chained to the bank and couldn't show fight. ‘ ~ “I remember crossing a stream in the Vermulon country a number of years before the craze for alligator hides struck the country. I entered a skiff, and when about half way over my dog, which I had forgotten, came bounding after me, and leaping into the water, began to swim across after the boat. Almost immediately several alligators lying with the tips of their noses above the surface began to move after the dog and soon came within a few feet of the animal. “The dog realized that he was being chased, and proceeded to turn the ta- bles by chasing them. He barked and turned to make for the ’gators, but they got out of his way. Well, the dog and the saurians kept this performance up till the former had crossed the stream. The alligators seemed to be afraid to come within biting distance, although it would have been impossible for the dog to have'injured them. They were simply afraid, that’s all, and it is al- ways the way with them. ..,I have fre quently swum after an alligator my- self, and he would invariably turn tail and get out of sight in a hurry. Cour- age—they have no more than a goat.”— New Orleans Times-Democrat, *\ VTHE‘EVENTNGgGEZETTEX TH E EVENING GAZET CHECKER-BOARD BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ~ E I . NORWALK Safes Eor Bent. E FII‘B Insurance to. 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