The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-02-25
CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY.
THE ENTIRE STATE TICKET REA ONLNA-
TED-THE PLATFORM ADOPTED

and David A. Wells, of Norwich, Presi-
dent, and the usual officers and commit
tees.
Mr.. Wells, on taking the chair, made a
humorous speech, during which he re-
fened to the ten, long weary years during
which his party had journeyed over a
political waste seeking for peace and har-
mony in the country, for the abstinence
of the Government from further exer-
else of war power, for relief from taxa
ton, and for staple Government. For
six years the party had been passing over
the dreary plains of Grantism-(ap-
plause)-through Buffers Gulch-(ap-
plause)-Boss Shepherds Flats-(ap-
plause)-and Credit Mobiliers-(ap-
plause)-until at last in one glorious wave
in the late fall elections it had obtained
a bright prospect. 1t was for American
Democrats to say whether the movement
should proceed uninterrupted. The prin-
ciples of the party were, first, that
government is best which governs least;
government which does not interfere
with the rights Of States (applause);
which renders equal and exact justice to
all (applause); which advocates and in
sists on real money (applause). 1t is a
misfortune that the Republican party has
steadfastly kept war issues open. He
could never consent to Government Off
cials entering the stores of merchants to
search their books that money might be
extorted for the support of an infamous
detective system, If the guns fired in
Norwich mSrked the sentiment of the
great majority of the people, he should
fear for the Republic. The Republican
party had failed to make the bad money
they pay to the people equal to the good
money they pay to the bondholders. He
concluded by telling the story of GER
tain old deacon who gave out the hymn,
"Thy servant, Lord, with hyssop purge" "
but who was interrupted at the end of
the first line by a sailor, who, failing to
comprehend the purport Of the words,
sang out: IF hyssop fail to purge, why
try some other herb" In applying the
line and the sailors Interpretation, Mr.
Wells said fthe country was to be purged
of these Louisiana and Arkansas Difficult
ties, Democratic and no other hyssop
must be used. At the conclusion of these
remarks, .t...
The Convention nominated the old
ticket by acclamation, as follows; Chas.
r. Ingersoll, of New Haven, for Cover
nor; George G. Sill, of Hartford, for
Liutenant Governor; Marvin H. Sanger,
of Canterbury, for Secretary of Safe;
William L. Raymond, of New Canaan, for
Treasurer; Alfred r. Goodrich, of Ver-
non, for Comptroller.
The following are the resolutions which
were adopted;
The Democratic and Liberel Republi
can electors Of Connecticut, in delegated
convention assembled, declare:
Ftrst-That free government derives its
Just powers from the consent of the gov
erned; that the Federal Government is
vested with those powers only which are
granted to it by the people and enumera
ted in the Constitution of the United
States. .uaI. ..f'.. .........
Sec0nd-That the public welfare re-
quires the supremacy of the civil over the
military authority, and freedom of per-
son under the protection of the habeas
corpus and consistent with the public
order; for the State self-government, and
for the nation return to the methods of
peace and to the constitutional limita-
lions of power. E. rw't..l .
Third-That we view with apprenen-
sion and alarm, and solemnly condemn
as subsersive of free government the re-l
cent action of the Federal Executive in
reference in the States of Louisiana and
Arkansas, and the avowed determination
of the Administration to disregard the
will of the people of those States in refer.
ence to the organization of the govern
ments and the management of their To-
cal affairs. lna ,I...
Fourth--That the use of bad money
imposes 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 the Government to make
legal tender except gold and
silver coin of fixed standard. ..'
Ffh-That the Republican party has
proved itself unfit to rule, because with
opportunity it has failed to
make the bad money which it has forced
upon the people equal to the good money
with which it pays its bondholders.
Sixth-That it is no time, when
industry is depressed and honest
labor everywhere deprived of oppor-
tunity for regular and remunerative
to increase the bur
dens Of Federal taxation, and that the
present acknowledged bankruptcy ofthe
National Treasury is conclusive proof of
the incompetercy of the Republican par
ty to administer the fiscal affairs of the
country d
SeUenth-That the manner in which the
affairs of this State have been admins
tered during the past two yeers, the