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' The 'issue'sinvolved in our next Tuesday’s
state election have not been more fairly,
forcibly. and tersely stated than in the fol-
lowing address delivered by Hon. E. J.

j - Hill before the republicans of Siratford last

evening: .

« The politica’pot is' boiling in Connecti-
cut ; the several parties have nominated
their candidates, and on next Tuesday, the
4th of November, the people: will decide as
to whom they will have to transact the busi-
ness of this State for two years from next

January. ,
Those of you who have attended party

conventions are perfectly aware of the free-
dom with which the goad and bad points of
the candidates are there discussed and how
the questions of locality, eligibility, person-
al fitness, social, business and political rc-
lations are all considered, with the single
end in view of making what will be deemed
a strong ticket.

It will not do to nominate a man because
of a peculiar crotchet or mental twist that
he may have, even if you agree with him
in that one thing. It is said that the tailors
of Laputa measured only the girth and
heighth of their customers and made their
clothes on mathematical calculations based
on these two dimensions, and when the gar—
ments did not suit, as they generally did
not, ascribed the misfit to the faulty and de-
fective figure of the man.

A political candidate must be measured
all around, for when, he comes to subject
himself to the keen criticism of the average
Yankee, his one idea, if he has but one, is
liable to become dangerous, and to leave
him very much in the position of a certain

”man who now lies buried in an out of the
.way Boston grave-yard, with his tombstone

bearing the epitaph, “Sacred to the memory
of Eben Harvey, who departed this life
suddenly and unexpectedly, by a cow kick-
ing him on the 14th of Septbmber, 1853.
Well done good and faithful servant.”

I have a democratic friend in Norwalk
who has recently been nominatedlas Senator
for this district upon the sole issue of a
parallel railroad to be built by the state.

It is an old scheme, resurrected for this
occasion, and was plumped squarely at a
convention that expected to make a platform
advocating free raw materials, opposing
honest election laws and denouncing in the
stock democratic phrases all forms of cen-
tralization and paternal government. It hit
them hard but it was a des ate case, and
as a child takes castor oil, they took it at a
single gulp. If that candidate’s political
epitaph is not yet written, it is simply be-
cause the vote is not yet counted. lie is to-
day where Frank Jones of Minneapolis was,
not long ago. It seems that Frank had an
old mare, so old that in that new country,
her youth was a tradition, so thin that she
was transparent, so weak that she could not
draw one foot after another and hence was
obliged to pace instead of trot. One fine
day Frank went out for a drive and return-
ing, home, as he alighted from his carriage,
the miserable beast just simply up and
kicked him and broke his skull. He was
carried into the house and a physician
called, who examined the wound and at
once advised that a clergyman be sent for to ,
administer the last consolations to the dying
man. “The doctor says you must leave us,”
said the minister “and I trust that you are

ready and willing to go.” “Well,” replied

Frank, “I suppose I mightas well be willing
if I have got to go, but I do hate to be
kicked out of the world by that confounded
old mare.” , .

'As a rule the party platforms are pre-
pared in advance by menwho feel that they
have a'special genius, and unquestionably

for year after year, the same persons will be
found with. pre-arranged declarations 'of
principles which are submitted to small
committees and after brief consideration are
adopted by the conventions as matters of
course. The trouble generally is to keep
certain things out of platforms, and in this
respect, the purpose of the party managers
is-directly the opposite to that of the Massa-
chusetts woman who said that in the mak-

ing of a particular kind of cake, she always

used one egg, and then if she: had another
that was a little doubtful, she put that in
too. .

The excitement and enthusiasm are over

‘the men who shall be named, not over the
,, principles that are to be enunciated. But
’let' the convention adjourn and at once a
- change occurs.

Issues are discussed and
men are practically ignored. ,

It is assumed that whomever a convention
nominates, he will fitly represent the party,
and that somehow, like the religious coun~
cils, conferences and synods, an inspiration
has come upon them, so that they could not
but do the right thing.

Suppose that just for variety, we change
the usual course and briefly consider who
the nominees of the two larger parties are,
what are the duties of their respective po-
sitions, and the fitness of the candidates to
perform these duties if elected. It seems to
me that this is cepecially' proper at this
time, as this is the first general election
with the secret ballot law, under the pro-
visions of which. the individual voter will

pass into the seclusion of the voting booth,

and “alone with his God, his conscience and
his pencil,” settle the destiny of the state

I ‘ and nation.

The supreme executive power in Con-
nectiout is vested in the Governor.
only qualifications required by the consti.
tution are that he must be an elector and at
least thirty years old. He is commander
in chief of the militia, is expectedtobe
thoroughly conversant with all state afiairs,

proves or disapproves all bills passed by

of four thousand dollars per year.

 

For this position, the republican party
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do have a special ambition in that direction, _

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promises to faithfully enforce the laws, ap-.

the general assembly, and receives a salary

has nominated Samuel E ' Merwin, a man
born, in ’Brookfield, in our own county,.fifty-_
nineyears ago,»bnt for the past forty-three
years, a resident of the city of New Haven.
A successful business ‘man with an ex-
perience in state affairs as senator and lieu-
tenant governor. honored and respected by
all _ who know him, 1er by the citizens of-
his own city for his unoste'ntatious charity,
genial to all but always dignified and cour-
teous, he will, if elected, recall to. the peo—
ple of Connecticut the years when William.
A. Buckingham honored the state and was
honored by it. I can give to you no bctter
characterization of the man than he has
given of himself in his speech of acceptance
of the nomination. He said:

I am a thoroughbred Connecticut man,
born and brought up on aConnecticut farm.
I love her hills and valleys, and honor those
who till her soil. I rejoice in the prosperity
of her cities and villages and sincerely hope

the wage-earner and employer may con—

tinue in harmonious relations for all time
to come, thereby insuring to honest labor
and industry justreward. I most fully ap-
preciate her schools and institutions of
learning. May they continue to teach the
young the great principle of patriotism,
love of country and justice between man and
man. 1 have faith in the future prosPerity
of our state, faith in our people, because I
believe their faith with mine is pinned to
the motto of Connecticut: “Qui transtulit
mtinet.” My life has been devoted to
business and I trust you will not call me
egotistical if I say it has been my endeavor
to deal fairly and honorably by my fellow
men. My politics will be conducted on the
same broad principle, and in victory or de—
feat I hope to retain the confidence, good
will and friendship of my fellow citizens,
and above all. my own self— respect and
honor.

You have placed me before the people as
a candidate for governor. If elected, as I
hope to be, I have but one promise to make.
It will be my earnest endeavor to serve the
interests of Connecticut faithfully and well,
thereby serving the interests of all her peo.
ple, trying to remember at all times that I
am their servant and not their master.

With this promise I go before them for
their sufl‘rages, and whether elected or de-
feated, they will find me loyal to Connecti-
cut ald all of those interests that have
placed her among the first in the great
sisterhood of states.

“Paint me as I am,” said Cromwell to the
artist Lely. “If you leave out the scars
and wrinkles, I’ll not pay you a shilling.”
It would neither be honorable nor profitable
for me to in any way misrepresent Luzon B.
Morris, the gentleman whom the democratic
party has nominated for governor against
Gen. Merwin.

He is a citizen of New Haven, sixty-three
years of age, a lawyer of high character and
reputation, a most excellent citizen, with
experience in legislative affairs both as
representative and senator, and was the
democratic candidate for gOVernor two years
ago, receiving in that election ninety-one
less votes than Gen. Merwin who led, as
lieutenant governor, all of the other candi-
dates on both tickets.

Judging from the result of the trial heat,
we have an idea that in the race to be run
on Tuesday next, Gen. Merwin Will be
found not only leading the democratic can-
didate, but actually leaving him at the “dis-
tance” pole.

The duty of a lieutenant governor is to
preside over the senate and fill the office of
governor, should a vacancy occur in that
position. The salary is five hundred dollars
per year.

For this position, the republicans have
named Dr. George Austen Bowen of Wood:
stock, and the democrats Dr. Joseph W.
Alsop, of Middletown. Both doctors, both
gentlemen of character, education and great
popularity, in the event of the election of
either, no ill will come to the state.

The secretary of state has charge of all,
public documents, records of the proceedings
of the general assembly and performs such
other duties as the title of the office indi-
cates. The salary is fifteen hundred dollars.
Ex-senator George P. McLean is the repub-
lican nominee. He is a wide awake, active
young republican, thirty-three years old. a
lawyer by profession, a hustler by nature,
and one who, if his democratic opponent,
Jolm J. Phelan of Bridgeport, does not
carefully watch, will go to bed Wednesday
morning, Nov. 5th as secretary Of state,
elected by the popular vote.

The treasurer superintends the collection
of the state taxes and revenues, has charge
of all public money, and acts generally as
the financial agent of the state. His salary
is fifteen hundred dollars and he gives a
bond of fifty thousand-dollars.

The democratic nominee is- Marvin H.
Sanger of Canterbury, a farmer, sixty-three
years old. and a . well known democratic
politician but one who is probably not deal
tined to fill the oflice of treasurer. for the
next two years.

For against him will be found on the re-
publican ticket the name of Hon. E. S.
Henry, of Rockville, the present treasurer
of this state, a man fifty-four years of age.

Mr. Henry has been treasurer for the past
two years and has made a' record in that
office which all of his predecessors must
envy, and every one of his successors will
accept as a standard.

Forty years ago, the state tax was collected
directly from each citizen in the same way
that town, city and school taxes are now col-
lected. ' _ ' i

To economize in collection and to dispense
with the objectionable features, it has since
been apportioned to the towns and paid by
them in one sum, beingqinclu‘ded in their
tax levy and drawn, of course as before, from
the individual tax payer.’

For the first time in the. history of this
state, the towns have been notified that the
collection of the entire amount of this tax
is suspended and the tax abated, being a
saving to each citizen of one tenth of his
tax bill on the list of 1889, or a rebate to
the town of Norwalk of about six "thousand
two hundred dollars and to the town of
Stratford of about one thousand dollars.

And not only has the ofice been so man-

 

aged as to dispense with the state tax and

thereby save three hundred and fifty thous-
and dollars‘to the people of COnnecticutjbut
in. addition Treasurer Henry’has'called, and"

thousand dollars of the interest bearing
debt of the state. _ ‘ .

This is the work and thisithe record

~‘which gave to him a renomination, and that
'work and that record will surely give him,
as it‘ Ought, a re—election by the popular
vote. I know that the financial condition
of this state to—day is due to the fact that
Treasurer Henry had a ‘ backbone, and hav-
ing determined what was fair and just
between the state and the corporations, he
was not swerved one iota from his course
by political blandishmenis or corporation
influence.
Let me give to you the estimated and
actual receipts of the state for the year
ending July lst, 1890. I quote from the
Hartford Courant:

uscsrm.
Estimated. Actual.

From tax on mutual in-

insurance companies, $230,000 $241,439 63
Non-resident stock, 76,000 84,781 60
Telephone and telegraph

companies, 4,500 10,225 00
Savings banks, 230,000 246,799 87
Railroads. 650,000 772,678 64
State tax upon towns, 350,000 ,
Military commutation tax, 108,500 119,691 80
Interest on cash deposits, 15,000 29,343 00
Miscellaneous sources. 101,650 125,279 72

slits-5:65 3138-5:026 91
FROM NEW SOURCES.

Investment tax, collateral inherit.
ance, etc., »

Total, , $2,134,552 46
Excess of actual over estimated
$364,896 46

receipts, 4
Balance in treasury, July 1, 1889,
not including trust funds, $530,372 25
Balance in treasury July 1, 1890,

not including trust funds, 897,674 26
Increase, 367,302 0]

The increase of the treasury surplus, to-
gether with the legitimate increase of rev-
enue during the current fiscal year, will,
in the opinion of the treasurer, not only
enable him to abate the state tax upon towns
and redeem $200,000 in bonds, but also
leave a balance in the treasury at the expir-
ation of the present fiscal year sufficiently
large to dispense with a state tax during the
next and following fiscal years, provided
reasonable economy in appropriations is
is} exercised by succeeding General Assem-
me.

When you consider that under the law of
Connecticut, the treasurer and comptroller
are constituted a board of equalization,
which practically makes them the assessors
of the taxes laid upon railroads, telegraph,
telephone and insurance companies you will
at once see the importance of choosing to
both of these positions men of character,
ability and independence of judgment.

That the Hon. E. S. Henry has all of
these in amarked degree, I know, and a
personal acquaintance of over four months
in theSenate of ’87 caused me tohonor and
respect him as an honest man. He was one
of six republican senators in the Senate of
’87 who stood up and voted for the compul-
sory free removal of railroad grade cross-
ings, when every democratic senator had
fallen into line under the crack of
the corporation whip and declared them-
selves in favor of imposing a burden of
millions of dollars upon this state. I say to
you, democrats and republicans, that he is
worthy of your vote, that he is a fair, hon-
orable, upright man, and in no way can you
better subserve your own interests as citi-
zens and taxpayers of Connecticut than by
re-electing to the position of treasurer, the
Hon. E. S. Henry, of Rockville.

The comptroller is practically ~ the ac-
countant of the state.‘ He reviews the
work of the tax officers, attends to all state
printing, has charge of the capitol building
and property, and draws a salary of fifteen
hundred dollars per year.

The republican nominee is Lyman S.
Catlin, of Bridgeport, a man fifty years of
age, the treasurer of the Mechanics’ and
Farmers’ Savings Bank, a faithful soldier in
the war of the rebellion, a former member
of the House and the present senator from
the Thirteenth district.

His opponent is Nicholas Staub, of New
Milford, who ran for the same position in
'88 and was defeated.

The party nominees for these five oflices
thus named, governor, lieutenant-governor,
secretary of state, treasurer and comptroller,
constitute what is known as the state ticket,
although upon that ticket will also be found
the name of the candidate for congress, state
senator, sheriff and judge of probate in the
respective districts in which the ballot is
used. , ' , -

To be elected open the state ticket under
the'law of Connecticut a candidate must
receive one more than half of all the votes
cast, and if there is no choice made by the
people the legislature proceeds to elect by
ballot upon the second day of the session. ,
And this rule is a righteous one. It is a
rule practiced by every convention, caucus,
church, lodge, in fact by every deliberative
body in the state, has been the rule for 72
years through all kinds of political control
and supremacy, and no party when in power
has ever desired to change it. It is right
that a candidate should receive a majority
vote somewhere. The constitution pre-
scribes it, and that constitution was adopted
by a majority vote under democratic auspices.

If that party were againin power they
would repudiate their own platform declare.
tion on this point just as unceremoniously
as their own state convention refused to
change its rule ' of representation at its
meeting a few days ago in Hartford.

But aside from the possibility of an elec-
tion of part or all of the state ticket by the
legislature, there are many good and sub-
stantial reasons for unflinching loyalty this
year to the party nominations for senatorial
and representative candidates.

' First, because the General Assembly of
1891 will have power under the constitution
to re-district the state, and if this is done by
the democracy with partisan ends only in
view, as has recently been done in Ohio,
they can so gerrymander the districts as to
unalterably fix the political control of the

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on November lst., will pay two hundred.

state senate until after the ‘ next census in
A. D. 1900. It does not seem possible that
any republican, who believes that the best
interests of the state and nation are con-
served by the dominance of republican prin-
ciples, can afford to take any chances in this
matter of the legislative ticket for any
reasons of friendship, locality pride or any
other temporary or transient excuse.

_ Again, the legislature. to be chosen will
elect a United States senator for a six years
term.

Presumably, because of the great improb-
ability of success, the democratic candidates
for this most important position have not
been announced as yet, but as in racing
ventures, this best horse is always pitted
against the field, so now the republicans of
Connecticut ask every loyal member of the
party to stand squarely by its nominations
and elect aGeneral Assembly that will honor
itself and. the state by returning to the
United States Senate the Hon. 0. H. Plait.

Last winter, when in conversation with
one of the most widely known and influen-
. tial members of that distinguished body, I
said to him, will you please tell me how our
Senator Plait compares in influence and
ability with the other members of the
Senate? His reply was: “You cannot name
the five leading members of this body with-
out including among that number the name
of O. H. Platt." A man of 63 years old,
with twelve years of senatorial experience.
familiar with every Connecticut interest,
too honest to become wealthy in politics,
too modest to push himself into prominence,
by sheer ability and conscientious devotion
to the duties of his position he has secured
the esteem and respect of his colleagues and
deserves every honor that Connecticut can
bestow upon him.

But questions, other than political, have
been flung into this contest by the candidate
for state senator on the democratic ticket,
doubtless thinking that by this course he
might, in this close district, draw the atten-
tion of the people from the more important
issues and thus secure his election.

I do not doubt that he is honest in his
convictions upon the “railroad” question,
and that if elected by your votes, he would,
as he Says, persistently push for the
building of a railroad at the expense of the
state from the New York line to Rhode
Island, and because I do not doubt it I am
opposed to his election.

We have altogether too much “railroad”
in our politics now for the good of the state
or any political party in it. Perhaps we
have not yet reached the point that New
Jersey did under the old Camden & Amboy
monopoly, when Wendell Phillips sneering-
ly referred to her, as “not a state but simply
a railroad,” but we should not be far from
it if this wild scheme were once entered.
upon. Think for a moment of the effect
upon Connecticut politics of an expenditure
of thirty to fifty millions of dollars, in a
public work of this kind under the direc-
tion of the legislature. Think of asking the
farmers of the state to mortgage their farms,
and the manufacturers to bond their mills to
secure the payment of a debt thus created.

I am somewhat of a so-called parallel
railroad man myself to the extent that I
would favor every legitimate enterprise for
the development of the railroad privileges
of this state, but I confess my utter inability
to see :m y justice whatever in taxing exist—
ing roads for the construction of competing
lines, or for paying interest on bonds issued
with that end in view.

I yield to no man in my love for Connec—
ticut. Born upon her soil,with 250 years of
honorable ancestry lying within her borders,
believing as I firmly do that it is the best
spot' on earth to live in, I long to see her

developed to its fullest extent, but I am
thoroughly convinced that such a result
cannot be brought about ' through the
sporadic virtue of 31. democratic state senator,
with his party in the legislature in the
minority, and, judging by the past, actually
opposed to him upon this very question.

For the good of the state then, I say to
every republican, vote the straight party
ticket. There may be names upon it that
you do not like; there always are names on
every ticket that some one does not like.
But. none the less, vote it. It represents
the party and you have but one other
choice.

If any question of moral principle were
involVed, if notoriously unworthy and unfit
men were by any strange chance named for
positions of honor and trust, I would be the
last man to ask that any sense of party
allegiance should over-rule your duty to

your state and your duty to yourself, but
what I do insist is that no feeling of simple
like and dislike should be allowed to influ'
ence‘ your action.

Rather let each republican go to the polls
on eletcion day deeply impressed with his
responsibility as a citizen, remembering the
solemn oath which he took when he was
made an elector, that whenever he should
be called upon to give his vote or suffrage
touching any matter that concerned the
state or nation he would give it in the fear
of God in such a way as he should judge
would conduce to the best good of the same
without respect of persons or favor of any
man.

Last Saturday afternoon I went with my
only son before the authorities of my town
to have him made an elector of this state.

As he stood there with bated head, and his
hand uplifted toward heaven, assenting to
the terms of this oath. there came to me a
new thought, and it was‘ this: When you
and I promised to be faithful to the slate of
Connecticut we not only agreed to the way
in which our vote should be given, but we
solemnly swore that we would give that vote
whenever milled upon by the state or nation.
‘ Have you been faithful to your promise ? In
1888, 601 republicans in Strstford cast their
votes for Benjamin Harrison for president

 

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every mterest, material and otherwise,

of the United States. Two years before, 446
only, voted for governor of their own state.
Tonight I ask of every republican here=
that he will make it his persOnal business
to see that those 135 men who did not you. '
in ’86, are at the pOIls on Tuesday next,
casting their votes for as good a man for
governor as the party has ever neminate'diil-
It is no excuse to say that it is an 60 year.
Let your opponent say that and stav- awayj I
' your duty is at the p0|ls. And not Only ark
the polls, but you owe it to yourself, you
owe it to your state, you owe it to the nation"
to give your active personal aid in all the '
preliminary work of this election.
I said that you owe it to your state. Have
you ever thought of the relative position
that Connecticut holds in this great family
of states? -
Standing in the list as she does, forty-
second in area and twenty-eighth in popu-
lation, she is 15th in assessed valuation of
real and personal property and 15th in ex
pendiiures for schools
But there are some things better even
than large territory, enormous population
and great wealth. She is indeed rich in:
her history, and iboughher area is email,
her influence is great.
First to adopt a constitution by which
the rights of the people were secured, first
to protest against English aggression, first
to engage in thelwar of the revolution, she
has been easily first from that day to the:
present in her patriotism and in her loyalty
to the nation’s welfare. In the hurry and
rush of business, in the almost frantic put-r
suit of wealth, we are apt to forget that we
owe it to the noble men'and women who

have gone before us, to develop ourselves.

our intellectual and moral selves, and then
by a personal participation in the politics of
the state, assist in maintaining the proud
ition which they secured for Connecticut
in the affairs of the nation.

They indeed wrought in faith for that which
we enjoy, little‘dreaming of the greatness of
their work.

Let it be ours to hand down to our sons,
the heritage bequeathed to us, greater.
grander, purers till. because in- our lives and
actions, we shall have shown that their
names and deeds are not forgotten.

 

 

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The Only Pure
Baking Powder.

(From Hall's journal of Health.)

We feel it our duty: 6"
state that of a number-oi
different kinds -- of Baking-
Powder purchased in a neigh-
boring city for examination,
the only one we found made of
Pure Grape Cream of Tartar,
and that did not contain any
Alum,AcidPhosphates,orAm-
monia, and that was absolutely
free from adulterations, was.

Cleveland’s Superior

 

 
 

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Rubber stoma... worn uncomfortably tight.
generally slip oilthe'feet. _ _ _ p " '1 "
THE “COLCHESTEB’? RUBBER 00.
makes“ their shoes with inside office! lined with
rubber. This cling-sew the shoe andyprevents the
rubber from slipp off. ‘ ‘

Call for the “Coichester” .

“ADHESIVE GOUNTERS.’

CAGE & C0. Boston, holds!” Wholesale Agent...

AT RETAIL BY
Ghovnn & OLSEN,
A. n. HOYT a 503'.
SMITH BRO§.,
TULLY a success- .-

 

 

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MODERATE PRICES
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l in Fifth Ave... nor. an 3"”!-
NEW Your: CITY. ..

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NORWICH LINE "

For: BOSTON. woucns'rnn and all points
North and East. Steamers leave Pier 40. North
River, next Pier above Dcshrosses Street Ferry.
.Daily, (Sunday excepted) at 5:10 p. m. ,
Tickets and State Rooms Secured at principal
ticket offices in New York. Brooklyn and Jersey
City, Pierdo and on Steamers. Special xcnr~
sions up Saturdays and‘downSnndays.‘ New
York to New London and returnya. Nerwich
and return. ”.25. Sunday steamer leaves Nor-
wich T p. m., New London, 9 n. m. -
amss ' G. W. slung, Agent.
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