New-York tribune., 1876-10-26
4 pLSINGENrorS clNDIDlrE.

AT n Democratic mass meeting OH lit pipiiO
square at Ncw-I Haven, Conn, yesterday alter
noon, the Hon. Richard d. Hubbard, the Dem
ocratic candidate for Governor of Connecticut,
began his address with tie statement that the
Republican party had been in power upward
of fifteen years, and during that time had ex-
pended twelve thousand millions of dollars.
To make the figures more impressive,
and that they might be Inscribed upon
the memory of every man who heard
him, he went on to say that the Grand
List of the whole State Of Connecticut, the
aggregate value OF all the real and personal
property in the State. amounts to $780,
600, 900 so that, as he pat it, the Rcpubli-
cans have spent during their occupancy OF
power the state of Connecticut more than
thirty times over; or the whole State twice
over in each one of their fifteen years o!
"powcr." Now Mr.. Hubbard was introduced
to his audience by GOV. lngcfsoll as a
gentleman of the highest character and the
most unmpcachable integrity; sincere ana
truthful man. That is his reputation, and the
party which has put him III nomination IL
entitled to the credit which belongs to such a
selection 1t is not disputed. But was MIR.
Hubbard entirely ingenious and frank IN TINS
charge against his opponentsf No one more
than he dcprccateS the agitation of old issues
which were really settled 10y the war. No one
more than he rescnts the injustice and unfair
ness of holding his party and lis leaders and
statesmen to strict accountability for their
acts and policies during the war. Let
"A Il publican newspaper or speaker but
refer to the conduct of Mr.. lIubbards
party during the wal, and he and all OF them
cry out at once, "Oh. that is all gone by.
Lets have no more waving of the bloody
"shrt Let bygones he bygoncs. This
"contest is waginS on other and different Is
"sues." Are we 20 understand then that Mr.
Hubbard aud his Democratic friends may 20
to the people and demand that the party in
power he turned ont because it has spent 50
many millions, and that the party in power Is
eNoppcd from showing for what that money
WIS spent and whose crimes and io!lics com
PEELED the vast expenditure To show that
would be TO revive the issues and the anlmos-
tiles of the war, and Mr. Hubbard and his
friends would cry ont against il as not peril
ncnt to the present question.
1t seems to ,ls that the Democratic candidate
for Governor in Connecticut, with all his con
crded ability and high character, has dropped
into petiifoggiug a little in this matter. He
might have said with entire truth, and per
haps, had he been writing history instead Of
making reluctantly political speech, he would
have said "Thc Democratic party. now en-
gagged in frantic cndravOr To elect Mr.
"Tilden and recover power III the country it
failed to destroy, made it necessary TO spend
" the State Of Connecticut thirty times over
"In fifteen years in order that the country,
of which the State of COnnccticu is
ga very small fraction, might be saved from
"destruc ion and free institutions bc pre-
"scrved to the people" Mr.. Hubbard might
have said this and said it truly, though the
truth would hardly have been palajable to his
hearers As he did not say it We take the
liberty to say il for him and supply the Omis
sion. even at the risk of being charged with
rcyiyiug the memories of the war. The true
state of the case may be very briefly summed
up and with no desire to revive the memo
ries of the war but only to answer the qucs-
ton which naturally suggests itself in con-
ncctOn with Mr. llubbaId's statement, what
this vast sum of money was expended for,
we give the facts. Sixteen years ago Mr..
Iubbard's party was in power Il misbe-
havcd, and the people thrust II ont. Enragcd
at defeat, il organized rebellion, fought against
the Government, and was put down. During
the war and for some time aftcrward it APP
pcalcd continually to the people to be restored
to power upon the ground that 1t was entitled
to confidence, and the Republicans were in the
wrong upon all the questions out of which the
war arose and upon which it was carried on.
lt last thoroughly whipped-ye beg pardon for
saving so, but it happens TO he truc-Mr Hub
baid's party confessed Judgment, and sac
"cepted in good faith the results of the wal"
That is the way they put it. And now what
Why, simply this. The party is not now find
ing fault with the Republicans for putting
down the rebellion, nor for the conduct Of the
war against rebellion not at all but be-
cause it cost so much money TO do it.
How difficult it is 10 please these gentlemen.
First they threatened war in case of Lincoln's
election thcn they opposed the war; then they
demanded more vigorous prosecution of the
war; then they denounced the results of the
war; then they accepted them and now, after
they have been beaten OH every successive ap-
peal 10 the people on these issues they come
up smiling and say, "Fhe war was all right,
"and the results are all right: We accept judg
"ment; but look at the cost of it; we could
"haye done it for half the money! Half
tbe money! Bless their economical souls
they could have done it for half what the
fellows religion cost him who had been
"member of the church fifteen years, and it
"hadnt cost him but eighteen cents" But