The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-02-17
Connecticut Democratic Convention.

Connecticut Democratic Convention.
HARTFORD, February 16.-The Democratic
State Convention met to-day. David a.
Wells was elected president. In his address
he said that the Republican party had failed
to properly administer the Government and
restore peace and harmony since the war.
He, therefore, urged return to Democratic
principles, which, he stated, was opposition
TO Federal interference in the affairs OF the
States-that government being the best which
governs the least; equality of all men be-
fore the law; a better currency based on
bard money; and taxation for revenue only.
He thoughtit important that these principles
should be carried out farther than in express
sions and platforms. He denounced the
Federal interference in Louisiana as dictated
by vaga5ond and political adventurer.
The Convention unanimously nomipated
the old ticket.
The following are the resolutions adopted :
The Democratic and Liberal Republican
electors of Connecticut in convention assem-
bled declare
First. That free government derives its
just powers from the consent of the govern.
ed; that the Federal Government is vested
with those powers only which are granted to
it by the people, and as enumerated in the
Constitution of the United States.
Second. That the public welfare requires
the supremacy Of civil over military au-
thority, and the freedom of person under the
protection Of habedS corpus, and consistent
with public>Order for the State, se!fgorern.
ment, and for tue nation return to the
methods of peace and 10 constitutional limi-
tations of power.
Third. That we view with apprehension
and alarm, and solemnly condemn as sub
versiye of free government, the recent action
of the Federal Executive in interfering in
the States of Louisiana and Arkansas and the
ayowed determination Of the Administra-
ton TO disregard the will of the people of
those States in reference TO the organization
of their governments and the management Of
their local affairs.
Fourth. That the use of bad money im-
poses an unequal and dishonest tax, which
bears most heavily on those who work for
wages; that irredeemable paper currency, by
whatever name known, is bad money; and
that it is fraud in time of peace for Govern
ment to make anything legal tender except
gold and silver coin of fixed standard.
Fifth. That the Republican party has
proved itself unfit to rule because, with un-
limited opportunity, it has failed to make the
bad money which it has forced on the people
equal to the good money with which it pays
its bondholderS.
Sirh That it is no time when industry is
depressed and honest labor everywhere de.
plved of opportunity for regular and re.
munerative employment to increase the bur-
dens OF Federal taxation, aud that the pre-
sent acknowledged bankruptcy of the ma
tional treasury is conclusive proof of the in-
competency OF the Republican party to pro-
perly administer the fiscal alfairs of the coun-
try.
The remainder of the resolutions point to
the economic administration Of the State
Government during the past two years by
the Democrats, and point with pride to the
ticket presented, and approve of certain ac-
tions of The last Legislature.