at: its one a on- of railroad employs .
\AVENhl‘Bept, 20.——in his
'. ii (Minutes to the Repubv
convention held at the Hy.
Third. last night. Congress-
go lu'. Lillay, of Waterbury,
=.~Ion ‘of the Convontlon:~—
, til must stimulate our
. . .asscmbie as Republi-
liis biennial convention. The
. i' ’i. ll great man who led. in
9%. of the last similar
9 it” well pause to
“he to him who
onwenith and to
1mm. that l acknowledge»
- odor’of succeeding to “the
‘ ltted to the distinguish-
q‘ryllle H. Plait.
olilbb is» that this is
year. of the Repulr
thin the summer of
.180: that our party
. ’ p a'oi national affairs.
. his 30‘ years of-us power,
amen in char e of the destiny
astyisgidfiof: he nationewere
Mill Slit gt 9 greatest and most
' “p obleins‘tbdt were ever forc-
_ not; political organizatidn-ihe
nap {on of the Union. the aboli-
, at ccn‘ational disgrace of. sla-
Veidiirilloor \‘ication of. the doctrine
0 session; 'IthoIi-estoration of the
,‘ . ywurti‘ Confederate states to.
06!}de ‘the Stars‘ and
"iii"tl‘iiniiforlnhtion of“ the fa
eat from a prevarious
an: indlssolublo and indest-
. station. How these grave prob-
”‘er‘ met and solved is a. matter
" orphan some.
. is a s
’ rest thing. gentlemen, to be
a humble private in the ranks of this
militant and successful or anization.
We may be pardoned for r calling in
this jubilee year a few of its great
‘ achievements.
Rspubliosn Achievements,
0st of these have been accomplislit
91.4 9 face of bitter and persistent
Democratic .ppposition. Some of these
achievements have been: The resump.
’tion ofispecle payment and the tester-
ation toits full value of every Ameri-
can dollar; the extension to the remo-
test Corner of the land, of\ our mail
service..now theIgreatast and meal of-
‘ ; ficipnt business organization on earth:
, ”adoption of the gold standard. and,
~s‘l ' s, since. the IMorill tariff of 1861.
the protection of our labor and indus-
idem/and, finally, the heroic and suc-
cossful grappling with the new prob
lem of trusts. ‘
" This latest work is as yet unfinisht.
.. There has not been time for the com-
plete solution of what. is a vast an eco-
nomic question as was slavery is social
and secession a political problem. if
the future may be judged by the past,
we may rest assured that the virile
and courageous Theodore Roosevelt
wi [not leave his once without as
lately settling this new issue as
Abraham Lincoln the great ones-
t“ for the solution of which an all-
iso Providence seemed to have cal-
od the martyr. president.
Thomonsiructivo acts of the Repub-
,pat'ty in the ilfty~ninlh congress
s: entitle it to the lasting gratitude
q fullest confidence of the Ame-
c it people. The record of that ses-
maidens of accomplishment never
on sliod in a like space of time. We
‘ l"clittlrionge successful contradiction
of 1i‘bp assertion that no session ever
. don t' affirmatively and constructively
» with as many matters of vital public
concern. ’
. accord in Congress.
Al lillf'a food law extending the po-
rfulit‘mbtection of the federal go-
. Mont into the home of every Attic—
, flesh citizen was enacted. and the
is ”are henceforth assured that no
lag and consciencelcss dealer of
s. doing an inter-state busi-
‘ ,. shall be. permitted by chemical
toration orsubstitution to endan-
"the health of our people.
boost “packing industry has
« . gilt under more rigid federal
Ii. and inspection—from the
, to the can", Both oi these
ares received the hourly support
tits vote of every member of the
tint delegation is both houses
”I. 3
glow, has been out rombving the
. privilege as a refuge for
silrosd violators of the
ranch offenders can now be
ifidusliy for crimes they
aim , a corporate
Mythic; «com:
l to railroad
and
,J
ill
ios '
‘ outflows: of disorina
s rs s ,itm lingo
ind tho Ilovorilllnontnow u
..........m......
. ’ oil tho. rights of tho
ifig' ”will“:
‘ without/ad Wills
union of powerful rail-
smi inlst for their set.
homunculus . s
tfllgt. tits ' 0i
the "its consonants.
~ bury, and that he. in common
acs'
. sit
assassin constant. nails
. ‘ protons. .
. stiona empvyars' liability act:
at important of lb
null ills'
" . its widespread an
1.. .
merlcsn worklngmen. .
2‘A More rigid steamboat inspection
l w followed the necessity tharfor as
d solossd by the Slocum disaster.
~ The vandal hand of surname wealth
that knew no sentiment and would do-
spoii our greatest national wonder has
been arrested by this session of com
gross. and Niagara Falls. will continue
to sweep majestically over their mar-
velous precipicea to teach us and our
children's children the majesty and
power of God's forces.
The president is it. longer forced
to accept favors from" ilwny corpora.
tions or to pay from hlsown pocket
the necessary expense entailed in vi-
siting among the people at their in-
vitation. a' fund of 820,000 having been
placed at his‘dlsposnl for this pur«
pose. ‘
The efficiency of our splendid citi-
zen soldiery was promoted by the. aid
of the first ”000.000 annual approp-
riation.
All of these measures wore heartily
supported by every member of the
Connecticut delegation in Congress.
The expense of public. printing was
out down one third and the' govern-
ment printing office placed upon‘ .3
. sound and economical basis.
A new star was added to the flag
by1 the admission of Oklahoma as a
state. . “
And. perhaps, most important of all.
in its influence upon the increasing
supremacy of the nation. the Panama
canal work. in spite of the combined
and powerful opposition of private
corporate interests; is'in full process
of construction.
The Nati0n's Prosperity.
Standing in this place two years ago
Senator Plait spoke of our then pros-
perity as marvelous; as having surpast
all expectations. as having challenged
.the attention and admiration of the
world. And yet. brief as in the time
that has elapsed the country has is-
kcn strides forward that even that
great Connecticut statesman didnot
seem to anticipate.
Our greatest danger now is that we
will forget the continued need of wise
legislation and permit ourselves to
drift luxuriously on the crest of the
wave; that we will take for granted
this national success and dessert the
watch towers. ,. . I‘
Maire no mistake. We have gone
on breaking all previous records be-
cause.wo have gone on striving. and
particularly because we have adhered
to wise laws and continued to choose
wise rulers. Remember. if you‘ are
tempted. by the cpeclous argument of
the S(H‘fllltid tariff reformer. Lincoln‘s
simple but lucid exposition of the pro-
tective tariff principle: “ we buy at
home. we have both the goods and the
money; if we buy our goods abroad.
we have the goods and they have the
money."
What is this amazing prosperity of
which we speak? From 1900 to 1900
the capital lnvosted in our munufactur.
ing industries incl-east from 85.150.000.
000 to 87.400.000.000; I give the figui‘»
es in round numbers; The numbers of
wage earners lncrcast from 2.800.000
to 3.300.000. The salaries and wages
of clerks and wage earners increast
front 81.400.000.000 to 31.900.000.000;
the cost 0 fmateriuls used from 84.000.-
0000.000 to 85.200.000.000: and the va-
luo of our products grew from 80.800.-
000.000 to 80.000.000.000. Mark that
this concrete evidence of our sipped
dous leap forward is only in manufac-
turers. The story of our forms and
their products. and of the mortgages
paid off. and of the homes built, and of
the public institutions multiplied and
enlarged would tell a similar story.
Prosperous Connecticut.
We do not need to go~away from
home for evidence of this prosperity.
Take the manufacturers of ConnectlI
cut. The increase in the value of our
manufactured products during the
same period. 1900-1905, was 844,000,000
nearly one~fourtb of the total products
of our factories as recently as the
year 1880. The average number of our
wage earners. salaried officials and
clerks in cr’oast 20.000. The increase
-—n sum one-half as great as the total
paid by all our factories in the year
1880. The increase in the capital-invest-
ed in Connecticut manufactures was
i74,000.000~moro than one-half the to-
tal capital of our factories in the
your of 1880. And note this: While
the capital invested increast twenty-
flve per cent. in this period. there was
an increase in the wages paid of
sweat per cent.
bar as the year ending July lot.
1905. there was expanded for new
factory construction in Connecticut the
sum of $1,700,000. and the financial
news of several Connecticut newspa-
pers recently stated that there has
been within the past your. chiefly in
our brass, hardware and‘ insurance
concerns an increase of capital of the
astonishing total of shampoo. Of the
outlook for the future the stats labor
commissioner says:
"The extraordinary activity in all
lines of manufacturing romfm to
continue in nearly all s industrial
custom and in the large:- oitiss plans
:31- proximal?u operations inhbnilddgs
rmsn Width woods on n
filled With wax! municipal bulld-
‘ Labor nupply Ihort. .
A law “contractor to lay horns city
of Waterbury tells me that within the
is: in has brought to that oily
more than too laborers' who tum left
him to go into the foam-19s of wast;
.most other om layers. is hardpmt to
locate the is or for his operations.
Those of us who are familiar with
business affairs know that this is
true; that the demand is not now. as
to
. sum”! ‘j V
t is from the employer sss
ital . . ,I
f . . tgs anabolic“ that than are sum: .
m‘i‘lthW
about. .upon many thouf .
. ed.
in salaries, and wages was $21,000,000
it was in the last years of Democratic 1
l administration. from 1m
d
yo; that i assume it.
. lips as an American
principle- _ :slu rupoa-lt as snob.
have practical y usual. li‘reo traders we
shall always have lvl 'us. but than,»
parlance of this farm . the worlds -
man. and the manufacturer is so was
better ,tbanthe hook wisdom of the
free trade dreamer, that he has a
least recognised the futility of trying
to change the overwbel ' lug sentiment
oi‘ the country to his v own.
And so he has adopted anew tuck.
He has set up a cry for tariff reform
by wiilchhhe hopes to accomplish cov-
ertly what he cannot do openly. Ho has
persuaded a few friends of the protoc-
tlve system that the present tariff
needs revision and they. seemingly
unwure of the dangers attending such
revision. are lending a sincere but mis-
guided assistance to the attention of
protection. by, taking part in the cry
for mohonge in our schedules. ’
The Dinploy Law.
Protoctionista do not claim that the
. Dingle-y schedules are sacred and no
changeable. like the laws of the Modes
and Persians. They do believe. how-
ver. that the so-cailed American sys-
tem of protection as exemplified by the
operation of the Dingloy law for nine
years. is sound and must be maintain-
A tariff law to be sucocssful must
be coherent. It. must. on the other
Iliand. necessarily embody some injus-
tices. for no tariff law is possible of
construction that will be perfectly sat.
isfuctory to all of the varied interest:
of a country so vast as ours. No tar
ifi’ law of any kind is possible without
concessions. The best that can be
done is to frame a law that promotes
the welfare of the greatest number.
and this we claim the Dingley law has
done more successfully than any other
statute over enacted. and in proof or
this contention. we point to the won
dcrt‘ui prosperity of the country dur-
ing the past seven or eight yours.
To "reform" the schedules to suit all
the demands of slight injustice would
be to leave the protection tariff r
thing of shreds and patches and would
result in absolute chaos in our tariff
laws or absolute free trade. in this
dilemma the great majority of the
American potmlo are. 1 am firmly cou-
vinccd. ill favor of adhering for tht
present to the protective tariff law ill
it stands today. and the prosperity it
has produced; they would rather hear
those slight ills they have "thus fly
to others they know not of."
Connecticut and Protection.
“What can the people expect from
the Republican party iowurd r1 (luv
lug those burdens?" sadly nskt the
chairman of the ihmiocrntir Rinle con-
vonilon a few days ago. What bur
dons? Does he dolly that every sec-
tion of the country and all classes oi
our people are enjoying the greatest
period of prosperity in all history? The
only conclusion from tho mournful ul-
terunco is that we are Weighed dofiwn
with the affliction of too much 3 mi
fillies.
in his argument for free trade lilt‘
same speaker urges that the protectivl
tnrlff has made Pennsylvania prosper
one at the expense of other states. inn
me tell him that. no stale has derived
more benefit from this Republican
policy than industrial Connecticut. and
that our people have many times
sci the seal of disapproval on uttuckt
that threatened to turn over lunch of
the work done in this busy common
wealth to foreign factories.
The Republican party welcomes the
tariff as one of the chic! issues of lhilI
campaign. for such it is. The Demo
crucy still slunds cmnmlttcd lo. fret
trade. and every encouragement given
to it is n prop knookl from under the
protective system which has lilililt
Connecticut comparatively iltiI richest
manufacturing community on earth. ‘
Tariff and Prices.
Let me point out in passing that all
thrncite coal. copper, petroloulu and
rubber. which are not protected by
our tariff. have incrcasl in price sluct
1896. whereas such commodities as
content. wire nails. stool rails and tin
plate. which are heavily protected.
have us steadily llocrcust in prior. The
protective tariff has almost invariably
lowered the cost to the consumer Illiil
ill those cases where the cost has risen
in the last ten. years. it has been duo
mainly to increasing prosperity and
demand. resulting in incl-oust wagon.
and partly to an artificial con-
trol of the market. which control Pres
ident Roosevelt and his party “in do
lernlinod lo brook up. it is an 3.:
new for tho thorn-ins of our Do
crntlc fi'eo trade friends that thd‘un»
protected articles. such as oil and am
tllracile coal. have gone up in price
without the help of any duty. and that
bituminous coal under the lust Damo-
cruilc tariff. the Wilson bill. which rel
moved the duty. want up to Ill/iii per
ton in 1903. the highest price in twelvu
Yours.
Mounties» Party and Labor.
Judged by bill floods. I‘rouillun
Roosevelt is the most slncoto fries
of the worklngmon and of union labor
that has occupied the executive choir
In generations. The Republican party.
judged by its. docdsmsnd the way to
judge a party is by its acts and not
by the verdict its campsi a slump;
era-drills fri lid of the wot i tilt
II. a.
ho i
it is the frienl . not of any porti
of 100 our cast. of the man it to
and when ii‘shspu legislation in that
behalf tidbits so on broad lliiss.’ . ' *
it 'sboilsitsll ’al:
paras or: are
n s. nr.~ sxou nsso
labor. it. has install all of
shop laws. with the view to main-
ln‘ing tits high standard of fourfold
living. it has shoilaht copy at labor.
in fodsrbl prisons. it com isd tile
railroads to adopt safety up lsooss
' Whom INN”
bar. legislation of pm Vurlmw‘iitqfeg,‘
I the state
. dress to make this liosaible has been
very, " ago and
m still
our Intuiti b.
. “it: what use whoproniiss a bond»
’ It‘singlsilingfio an
' iv lob to claim tho‘uiilolla situation of
tits. Margot so
to than»... , .
glance over the in-
And novrlotns
0t thathirbtdhroe sta maintaiulnlr
labor bureaus. twenty- vs are itopub.
linen and eight are Democratic. at
{having factory ins cation
service." ,wonty-uwo areI'nsp blloan
additive are Dam . 'at‘ich Of. those
maintaining free on: loymsnt bureaus,
eleven arc Repubi n and two Demo-
cratic. Of that: pibviding'bourda of
consultation and arbitration. sixteen
are .itapubllcau a u ilvosre Democra-
tic. Of those lmitlng the hours of
child labor. nineteen are Republican
and sight Democratic, 0f tbbse prohib-
iting the employment of children in
dangerous occupations. eleven are lia-
publican and two Democratic. Of these
enforcing laws for the protection of
fetnalo workers. twenty-seven are Re-
publican and eleven Democratic. Of
those requiring wages to be paid
weekly or by-wcckly fifteen are Repub-
licbn and six Democratic. Of those
promoting members of labor organi-
zations, thirteen “are Republicanism
two Democratic. 0f the states protect.-
lng the union label. twenty-seven are
Republican and eleven DellltMil'uiich
is notorious that the states which have
«lone. the least in behalf of labor. or-
ganized or unorganized. are those
which are considered safely Demo-
cratic. . .
1893 and 1899.
ill the your 1893 when the Demo-
crutic party was in command of the
affairs of government and the Wilson
bill had cast it blight over our indus-
tries. the president, of the American
Federation of Labor in addressing the
national convention‘of that body, used
these words:
"Since August of this year we
have been in the greatest. indus-
trial depression this country has
ever experienced. it is no ex-
aggeration to say that more. titan
three million of our fellow toilcrs
are without employment. in a
society where such abnormal con.
ditions prevail. there must of
necessity be something wrong of
the basic foundations."
in the year 1899. when the same
president of the Federation made his
annuali address. he drew a different
picture. From his many expressions
of congratulation to the convention. 1
quote these sentences:
“The revival of industry which
we have witnessed within the past
year is one for general congratu-
lation. and it should be our pur-
pose io endeavor to prolong this
era of more general empioyemnt
and industrial activity. it is be-
yond question that the wages of
the organised workers have in-
crcust, and in many instances the
hours of labor uiihcr reduced or at
least maintained.”
Mr. Gonlpcrs was right both in his
statements and in his conclusions.
'l‘berc was something "wrong at the
basic foundation." in 1803 the ileum-
rrulic congress had begun the destruc-
tion of tho protective tariff. in 1899
:he Republican pus ‘ hnd restored that
tariff. And. Mr. ompers was war»
'lusllngiy right or .n hd said that “it
should be our purpjpso to prolong this
era of more sandal employment and
industrial activity}
Curbing the Trusts.
in the last presidential campaign the
liomocrstic parly’ setbcd upon the
trusts as tho paramount issue upon
which to wage hauls against the ad
ministration. True to their habit, the
Democratic leaders. awoke to the ins
portance of a prrmsiug question long
lftor it had been taken in hand for
lettlemcut. and true to its habits as a
party. the [N‘fllill‘l'iif‘y conducted its
campaign In it negative and obstruv
live manner. which merited the rebuke
which it received from the proofs. who
showed by an overwhelming majority
that they had the fullest confidence in
Theodore Roosevelt and the Repub
llcan party's purpose to carry on the
warfare against predatory combina-
tions. .
There is no reason to bollovovthat
this popular confidence is any‘icss
strong or widespread today. in all.
more titan eighty prosecutions nguinsl
violators of our anti-trust lawa have
been instituted by tho legal depart-
ment of the government under the rul-
iulnistrailons of McKinley and Room
veil. and some of the most important
have been pusht to a successful con—
clusion. \ththqr surrm-dlng ad‘-
minisfrutloos hall be of flili' purty
faith or cool or. the way has boon
cleared for all time for tho punlshI
meat of monopoly and conspiracy on
the part of all concerns doing an in.
tot-state business. and the criminal
prosecution of individuals who take
part in such crimes. ’
Every one of the laws past by mm
..
post by Roptibllran voles and the great
majority of prosecution» hsvl,» lawn in-
stituted by the Republican presidents.
prison. McKinley and Rollscvnlt, in
pits of the saga conclusion of Presi-
dent Cleveland in his memorable moo
use on the subjoct of trusts Its the
your fails. when he said helpilvsly:
"The people can hardly hope for any
consideration in the operation of these
selfish schemes.”
“Int-shins tho Trusts."
How to deal with t a trust attention
without doing harm .0 those cob'poraa
lions. large and small. that obey the
laws is a difficult nd tarnishing prob-
lem. it roduir Iii. . man who di-
rects the lifOIiift ions fun out .of the
highest older. balance t it not
be shaken by in hunt public cursor.
"this work sun in be undertaken by
an executive ., hf : in those liars
outfitted but . old he done to
our splits ind trial and business
stnlctuto. Mile ismmt term
from the disastrous con latices
would be thew urnsnsad the
madman of s as. hard could
no sum way of throw! g the noun:
try into a panic than r so nudist.
or middle am noon orpomilans.
mod and bad. I the American actor
should look to it carefully that such
srsIof'prssscutloa m not out in
indigo business of
a
i.
“and oco‘nomy.‘
inanufsolurlns and ~
ifl'litllteil nearly one-half million dol-
‘ the New England station is as follows:
. ommonwoal
-witboat duo ragsg‘l‘i...m-nuadom. ..
They in n. of course,
the public service corporation for the
_ , . , . . ~ Mistrial
corporations are comp o the best
of our citizenship, are nthe very life-
blood of= our existsnces. and livers-
sponslhlc for the high rank ‘Ws live
maintained. the small in terrl cry.
among the states of the union,
‘ 1 hold no brief for the public ser-
vice companies: I am not even remote-
ly (zonaerned in their success, encept as
it may contribute to the general web
fare. But it is the simple truth to say
that Connccticnt gets more out of the
corporations than almost any other
state in proportion to the road mile-
age within its ,.,borders. Of the total
income of three and one-half million
dollars for the last fiscal year. no less
than tl.206.000 came from the coffers
of the steam railway (companies. Neur-
ly 0240.000 was paid into the treasury
by the street railways. This showing
is creditable indeed to“ the men who in
the past framed our laws so that the
big corporations might be made to pay
their legimltate share of the expenses
of_conducting the state government.
The insurance companies last year con~
iurs.
Railroad Taxation.
Not. only is the tax upon the public
service corporations of Connecticut
large in actual amount: it is also relay
tivoly large. and it is cause for satis-
faction to every taxpayer who wants
to see justic done in this respect. in
the figures given out. last year by the
Census Bureau at Washington con-i
coming the commercial value of the
railroad properties in the United
tatcs. it was shown that the percentage ‘
of tax valuations compared with the
commercial value of the railways ln‘
Connecticut. flint: Maine, Massachu.
satin and New Hampshire. 28.3; Rhode
island, 61.54, and Vermont. 73.3. i 11
other words. Connecticut received rel~
ativcly four times as much as Maine.
Massachusetts and New ‘Hampshire:
nearly twice as much as Rhode island:
and more than o no and one-half times
as much as Vermont. ,
So that it is not true that the cor-
porations dominate in the administra-
tionpf Connecticut affairs. and when
anyone intimates that they are allow-
ed to escape their just proportion of
the taxes. or are receiving. favors in
this respect. be either deliberately
misrepresents the facts or does not
know his subject. The incorntroverti-
ble fact is that almost slip! the money
collected to run our state affairs is
collected from the wealthy corpora-
tions and individuals, and that not a
dollar is levied upon the taxpayers at
“large for those expenses.
State Sspsnsss.
And now. it is true first the money
we collect for state purposes is not
cxpondcd wisely? The report of the
comptroller shows where every dol-
lar of the legislative appropriations of
1000 went. For the cause of educa-
tion there was appropriated ”20.06939
That is to say nearly one-fourth of the
entire revenue collected went to our
publi cschools and state coleges. For
charities and humane institutions
there was voted “39.089501; for our
judicial and court nmchin‘ery. 3443.153.-
98; for state roads. ”50104.01; for
public safety. $196,864.64: for public
funds and buildings. ”37.68434; for
public printing. 370.8312”; for expens.
es of the general assembly; 8191.277.-
ili'. for the executive branch. 848.601.-
Illi; for state‘s prisons and jails. 3142.-
237.43; for the bureau of labor sta-
tistics. $27,223.12.
These are the chief items. Above
their total remains the sum of a little
over 8100.000 for contingent expenses.
the shell fish commission. the fish and
gums commission. railroad commie
sion. insurance commission, banking
commission. building and loan com.
mission. and the numerous other bad
lea that are necessary to carry out the
details of our state administration.
Diminishing Btsts Dsbt.
like right of is
i b 6‘00?"
p vats plsnt the
suburbia-oi. Islet lssio- '
w“ )
unionism“
lature has
tan 2! ,
sis... . . ,
nepotism. I not persons Nam
of sit/in any «amniolpailty the broad-
est ul'iv age to doublet for liftoff by me»
jorlty of vote what it shall do at
this question. Aztfihouid always
they will do with their own money.
The Foo System, i
For the opmsltion to raise as an is-
iislooir Mo rillich a. .
. 3' ill t. ’r r and owed to ”"30“ it" m“ m“ m“
5" ” ”my ’ M ’3 yor lhree‘nor less than one 3'0”-
t a what his plea
syars o . y torney Irs,0
‘balter in th
the statemen. of ...torney J. 9. Pull-
man for the state. Blrdsall and-lid.
HM
(Continual-
lirdssil Muslin Guilt. .
John Birdsail. churned with outer:
ith ing the dwelling house of Jared Peck
be at Greenwich, April 15 last. changed
to guilty and his counsel, At.
Gregory. promised to do
in future. according to
sue the lee system is only to call at- McClosksy. a “condor-nothing follow
tcnlion to the fact that a‘joint commit- Musing around Port Chester Ibot
tee of the senate and house, appointed taped the Pack 110030 and 3
it our
uiu' m in
by the last legislature, was given WE gold besides some household articles.
subject for investigation and will rc- Birdsall admitted to a boy named
port. at the next session”.
doubt a bill will be introduced cover-
ing the matter.
ty favors reform in this respect.
and the pres's‘of the Republican parts.
Their continued agitation nwudses to
bear fruit at an early date. The be-
nlflcarles are not confined to any one
party. but are both Democratis’ and
Republicans, and the party now in no
wer has no special incentive, 'much
'less the purpose, to continue a practice
if it is found to be wrong.
Roosevelt the issue. i
After all. the supreme question at
this time is whether or not the people
can be persuaded to forget the splen-
did administration of Theodore Roos,‘ e
volt and fail to give it the viola of con-
fidence and endorsement that it deser-
ves: whether the purpose of that‘iead-
or to prosecute his'brave fight agoinst
corruption. graft and defiance at the
law. by high“ or low, shall be upheld.
Oregon. Vermont and Maine have spo-
ken. A divided party in encb quthese
state rent by local issues that exceed-
ed in bitterness all previous campaigns
threatened to blind the people to the
urgency of the larger question invoi-
ved in the canvass, But‘they rose
above the prejudices of local affairs
and returned to Washington by sub-
stantlai majorities unbroken delega-
tions of representatives to supper the
president in his great program of re.
form and pro ress. '
We have in onnecticnt a united and
harmonious party. No strife will he-
cioud the real Question of the hour,
and with confidence we look forward
to the popular endorsement‘not only
of an honest and capable state ad-
ministration but of our‘brllliant leader
in the White House; '
The best impulses of our manhood
call upon us to show in no uncertai
way that the moral courage and tire
less energy in good deedsembodleii
in his charact’er'nnd career are priz-
ed by the American people above all
Other considerations. Connecticut has
never yet failed in a serious national
issue. it will not fall now. ” ’
.4;—
CATARRH CANNOT-II CURE!) '
with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the seat of the disease.
Catarrh is a blood or constitutional
disease. and in order to cura‘it you
must take internal remedies; Hall's
Catarrh Cure is takonxinmrnsily. Tend
acts directly on the bloodiand mucous
surfaces. Hall's Catnrrh Cars is not
a quack medicine. it was prescribed
by one of the best physicians in this
country for years and is a. regular pro-
scription. it is composed of the best
blood purifiers. acting directly on the
mucous surfaces. The perfect com-
bination of the two in radiantsis what
produces such wonderfu
i‘nngeCatarrh. Sand for testimonials
' r. J. cnausr a CO¢rPropsu
olodo. 0
Sold by Druggists. price 750.
Take Hull's Family Pills for consti-
pation. so
WAPPING MEMORIAL LIBRARY.
WAPPING. Conn. Sept. 20.-'I‘hs
dedication of the Memorial Library. a
gift to this village by th late H. W.
Budd. took place yesterday with ap-
propriate exercises. Two interesting
in reality the item of expenditure for
public roads and buildings should a
about 3300.000 less than the figl as
given above because this sum went
for the purchase of real estate for the
new state armory. the value of which,
of course. will be added to our perma-
nent assets and ought not to be charg-
ed up the current expense account.
There was likewise paid the sum of
810,000 for state bond redemption. an-
other good lump clipt off the expense
column. Our state debt has been, redu~
cod steadily your after year until the
net amount is about ”43.01209. a me
rely nominal sum for a commonwealth
of our great resources und’tha proba-
bility is that within a few years this
debt will be entirely wiped out. and
Connecticut will be among the few
American states to be without a dab
far of incumltruncc.
it we! respect would our
politi-
cal critics improv
0 upon (hill expense
ncctitint‘.’ Would they spend less for
edlwntiou? Or for charities and hu-
mans institutions? Or for our state
roads? Or for the promotion of agri.
culture? Or for public safety? last
them tell us when they are irumping
up this absurd issue just whore they
would boiler the recent Republican
administration of affairs
The fact is, that in an age of graft
revolutions null shady trssnsactlons
by man of all parties in stations of
trust. not even a suspicion of dishonoo
iy has been hinted against the Ropub.
ltcsn administration in Connecticut.
and for this We have the tribute of
the chosen spokesman of the Democrsr
tic slate convention. who said! “illo-
bolly charges that our lists govern-
ment is dishonest or corrupt." We may
well hold our heads high and citations
the entire union of states to show on
the Whflld‘ a better. more honestly
«inducted and more economical admin.
tstrstlon of public affairs.
if this be manly admitted by
opposition. why than should a party
faithful to its trust bs deposed?
lllunlsippl Ownership.
The question of municipal condo
ship. which is s poroiy‘munlsipal bust.
sou matter. has been brought into
this on , ii. I , to so!
that 01??! a sale 1 a “ in inlay
Mliowjfl loss.
his noodmiaital initial spot;
ll
places supplied pnbll wants be
_ s blinithllif ,, id
WW_ and Wrm”
. 5*‘,k5‘
by
addresses were given. one by Charles
.D. Hino. secretary of the stat Board
lof Education on the subject. The
‘Crowth of Public Libraries in Connec-
ticut, and the other by Rev. J. F. Rob
.ortson on The Value of a Free Library
. to a Rural Community. The new
building cost 84.000. '
MIN PM? OIXTY lN DANG”! .
More than half of mankind over six-
ty years of age suffer from kidney
(and bladder disorders. usually enlarge-
.ment of prostrate gland. This is both
.pslnful and dangerous. and ‘Foioy's
.Kidney Care should be taken at the
first sign of dsn r. as it corrects in
regularities and as cured many old
men of this disease: Mr. Rooney
_Blil’lleit. Root Port, Mo, writes: “
{suffered with enlarged prostrsts‘ gin
and klclnsy trouble for years and ,
tor taking two bottles of lioloy‘s Kidé
nsy Guru l fool boitsr‘ihsn‘ i We for
twenty yam. although i sin new 0‘!
.yoars old." . Hoistsd's .Drng Blots
. said
i results in can- -
Without Mq'tt. who was a bright witness in the
lower court. that be robbed Peck’a
The Republican pan house two or‘ three. yearn ago. Not
it more than five nor less thati two years
has been persistently urged for have in ‘3 prison was the sentence of
rain year. and chiefly by the lenders court.
the
g Anothsr Burglary can. '-
The last. case of the afternoon.
wfiich wenttover'tohtizls morgngi at
8 Oil infill; .fl'! .. .u. .0 ll. fit"
bert an. clogged *wlth moving the
dwelling house obituary Grail-stew. -
at Georgetown, in the town of Wilton.
The first witness was Mr. Olmstenll.
an old‘man. who keeps a“ country
store in'thc building sdjoining‘his
dwellias 1.191189. He testified that at .
ter closing his store about 8 o’clock
on We nesdny evening. June ‘20. he
went to his bedroom and was ‘using
some iinament when a knock came at
his kitchen door. ‘ Hpnry Swan; the
prisoner, entered and hatred for twu
boxes of matches. but Mr. (ii-instead
remarked that the store. wss‘fl laid
and he did not care toopen it again.
‘About ten minutes later. the its
ness'said, Swan returned; stood in he
doorway of the bedroom andvrepoimi:
around took Olmstead's I‘pa‘ntal' .
containing 390. the stor’okey. pocket-
knifc and two barn lroys. *‘ The ”wits.
ness'wa‘s‘ inI‘bed?‘ at the time. ‘but‘be
he knew it was Swan because the
light? shone on the side of ‘hls-‘faoe
from the lamp in the kitchen. “
After Attorney Pullman had finish;
ed his examination of the witness
Judge Romhack remarked: ‘ "
“What became of the pants?"
”That's what l'd‘illfe to know," was
Mr. Olmste‘ad's quick rejoinder;
Oimstsad's Poor Eyesight.
Aitprneyirs. O. .Qregory.._ counsel
for the accused. put the witness
through a searching ' crossexaniina-
tion. The old man, admitted that his
cyesight‘was poor, and this fact was
fatally demonstrated for him. when
l‘ to Attorney Gregory's question he
said he recognized. gwanaitting beside
his counsel. and buta'short distance
from the witness stand. but he added.
"only he's taken off his moustache"
The latter statement caused “a look
of surprise among the court officials:
as the prisoner’s moustacher this
plainly discernible. , ‘ '
Jessie Batterson, daughter of Mrs.
Olmstead. testified to hearing a noise
about the house on the night of the
burglary and also to hearing her
father say: “Hold on there,I bring that
back." But she did not see any one
enter or leave the house. ‘ .u‘ ..
Her husband. George music Bat—
iersop. testified that'he started out
the next morning, to look for the
missing pantaloons, and‘he found Mr.
Olmstend's handanna handkerchief.
half way to Swan's house: 'On cross .
examination Batterson said that'llr.
Olmstead had trouble in recognising
people who came into his-store. »:
When Olmslesd was recalled to cor-
roborate Batterson‘a testimony about
the handkerchief. Judge Roi-abode rs-
mul'ykfld ilLIhiimr ,
” on s Mr. Swan s as-
tachs.‘ lips he one new!!!” N
"No." was the reply, "or only a lit-
tle one."
8w" Testifies.
The prisonsrin testifying regarding
his actions on the night of the bar -
fury said he left Fred Coloulsts
house. after a. visit there. at 1:26
o'clock. went to Diamond's four or
five minutes later ~for some matohos.
started for home right away and got
there at 20 minutes to 9. The state
tried hard to- shake his testimony Tin
regard to the time but he stuck to it
in eve particular. -
Mos a bovine. a psddlsr. corroborat-
ed the testimony of Swan. about loav-
ing the factory at .Gsorgsiown‘on so»
count of his lungs and getting. one
door work at Ridgsnsid. bovine oe-
curln the job for him. He also said
that wan owed him it for the suit
of clothes he on. ’ .
adjourned
At this in court was
to 10 o'cloc this morning.
Herman Gsu‘ out Over.
Contrary. to expspiattons. Alexander
Herman against whom a true bill has
been found. by the grand jury. was not
put to plea yesterday morning. as At-
torney l".- A. Bartlett. his assassina-
sd for a continuous until no it . so
dsy and the request was [rallied by
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