New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-21
CONNECTICUT REPUBLICANS.

FAR FROM FULL CoNvENuON-FEw OLD REPUB-
LcANs AND MANY OFFICE HoLDERs-A FULL
| TICKET, LED BY JAMES l.. GREENE FOR GOV
ERNoR, NoMINATED-REsOLUTIONs APPROVING
THE PRESIDENTS LOUISIANA POLICY AND DE-
| EoUNCING THE DEMOCRATS AS INFLATIONIsTs,
ETC, ADOPTED AS PLATFORM.
| iFRoN A STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRmUNE.l
| NEw-ILvEN, Jan. 20-I judge from the calls of
the Committee for credentials from missing towns"
as well as from the scattered appearance of the dele
gates in the hall, that the Convention is very far
from being full one My impression Is that it is
the smallest Republican State Convention for many
years. So far it goes it has the character-which
representative bodies of the Republican party have
been gradually assuming of late years-of an assem-
bage of office-holders. There are very few Of the
old men Of the party here the men of '56 and go.
who laid the foundations and led the way TO the
| great triumphs it has enjoyed Abijah Catlin of
| Harwinton Is about tho only survivor OF
the prominent men of tho earlier days Of
Republicanism who appears in the Convention.
Even Gen. James T. Pratt, who for dozen years
past has made it point to be first the floor and
| move some sort of amendment to the resolution
raising Committee on Credentials, was conspic-
nous by bis absence, and an appearance of loneli-
ness stole over the Convention as his accustomed
Interruptions began to be missed. The managers Of
the Convention were mostly young men, and in a
| large measure supporters of tho Administration
upon the principle of reciprocity. do not mean to
intimate that the gentlemen who hold Office under
Government were out of place in such Convention.
BY no means. know many Of them to be very es-
Unable persons, and can readily understand why
at time when Republicans who do not
| hold Office are losing their interest In poll
| tics, and the Administration needs all the
| support it can get these gentlemen should have
been willing to make sacrifice Of the Governments
| time to come here and attend to the Administra-
| tons business. Only do seem to remember O
period when some Of these good people were greatly
scandalized because 0ifce-hoders under Presidents
Pierce and Buchanan left their posts Of duty to at
| tend Democratic Conventions. am quite certain
that the files of some of the newspapers which will
consider it impairment to allude to the number OK
oficehoders in this Convention would, if searched,
disclose an occasional of the Oiceh in
Democratic Conventions from, say, 1854 to 1880. 1t
Is all Irrelevant know, but somehow the COMPARE
son forces itself on my memory. 1t makes ever and
ever so much difference who holds the offices.
| The temper of tho caucus last evening made it
sufficiently manifest that the Convention would APP
prove the of the President in interfering in
Louisiana, without qualification reservation. The
tone of all the speeches was bitter to the point Of
brutality upon the subject of what they were
pleased to cafl the civil rights of all men" which,
so far as they were defined, seemed to mean the
right of the Administration party to count for them
selves all the negro votes. At time during the
war were the passions Of men so appealed TO never
! in an assembly Of intelligent men was a more
vindictiye and malignant spirit exhibited.
The White Leagues must be put down " was
the burden of almost every speech, aud
the audience cheered the sentiment to the
echo No ono undertook to say why or to give q
reason no ventured to defend the Kellogg Gov
eminent or talk to tue facts in the case. They
simply howled about Sheridan's great services in
the war ; said if 1t had not been for Sheridan
should not have had country kept repeating that
they were Republicans because they believed in
Republican principles and then in q wild burst of
such stump Oratory as would have put an idiotc
asylum to fight said, 1.-THE White Leagues must
be put down." Except for their malignity and bru-
tally the speeches would have been petty and con-
temptbe. There was just passing breeze of good
sense in Mr.. Simeon Badwin's speech. That gentle
man was too good lawyer to sit entirely quiet while
this caucus of Dead Sea apes was chattering such
monstrous absurdities about the right Of the Pres-
dent to Interfere in tho organization OF the Legsla-
ture. He mildly protested. say mildly for even
he did not dare intimate in that presence that
Grant could do any wrong. He only pointed out
the llegality of the whole transaction and submit
ted that the Convention might strengthen the party
by saying that Jsomebody, Gen. dc Trobriand or
some other military subordinate, had committed
thunder. The caucus received the suggestion In ST.
lenco the Convention treated it with contempt.
The Convention was much more likely to adopt
resolution urging the President comply with Sher
dams request and declare the Southern whites ban
ditti than to take any action which should in the
least disapprove anything that had been done.
As soon as the delegates had discovered each other
in the caucus and found how strong the feeling was
in favor of the President they began to canvass the
candidates 1t was short work. Mr.. Amos s. Treat
of Bridgeport had his local support and no more
Mr. James Lloyd Greene of Norwich had more than
that. He embodied the Conventions spirit. AS
Mayor of Norwich, he had ordered salute OF lOO
guns upon the receipt of Grants Louisiana message.
There was no doubt as to his position. de was q
Grant man without any qualification, and the IN
tense Grantism of the Convention crystallized
around him at once. SO after the Convention was
organized this morning, and Col. Hoyt Of SIAM
ford, the Chairman, had made a stirring
speech which had been left over from the war and
was quite sulphurous, the ballot for Governor was
taken, without go much as preliminary naming OF
candidates and Mr.. Greene was nominated tby 10
very decisive majority. He was Immediately sent
for and soon after presented himself upon the plat
form and accepted the nomination in brief speech
Mr.. Greene is q gentleman OF considerable wealth,
who has been several times elected Mayor OF Nor
witch, and once, believe has represented the town
in the Legislature In his own locality he is quite
popular outside of that he is not much known In
nolitical circles. He is thorough believer in his
friends and stands by them with stubborn devotion.
He is an enthusiastic admirer of Grant and Sheri-
Al nd hat ma ha