Morning journal and courier., 1880-09-28

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 minutes later Hon. N. D. Sperry, accompan- jed by General Joseph R Hawley, came upon the stage, which was the signal for loud and | long continued cheering.
 1 The meeting was called to order by John ! s. Fowler chairman of the Republican com mittee who read the following list of officers: l President. HON. N. D. SHERRY. Vice Presidents.
 Thomas R. Trowbridge, B. H. Douglass, N Franklin H. Hart, Joseph M True, John WI AIling Henry E. Talmadge, George A. Butler, Frederick H. Brown, ' Alexander Emery G. Truman Smith, ! Major John w. DeForest Norton s. Bird, Il Henry F. Peck, H. H. Bunnen,
 Capt David c. Munson, F.w. Pardee
 | H. Bristol. EIlery Camp,
 \ Wm. H. Farnam, s. Arthur Kimberly, | Thomas Prior, Augustus E. Lines, \ Chas. B. Matthewman, Chas L. Ullman, \ John B. Darlington, Edward Gillette, Wallace B. Fenn, Wm A. Goodwin, 1 Dr. S. H. Chapman, A. Kelsey Jones, | Henry E. Marsh, Warren Robinson, I Ed. P. Merwin, Wm. Knold.
 Thomas Wall, Henry W. Crawford, l Frank W. Benedict, John Sloan,
 Andrew O'Neil. P. B. Beebe,
 Vim. O. Armstrong, Geo. w. Hazel,
 Ralph E. Barnum, Rev. I. c. Meserve, Henry 1na Kettendorf. Prof George J.Brush, J David Sharp Chas. Fabrique,
 ! W. P. stone, James D. Whitmore, ! A. G. Shell, Wm. G. Hancock, Franklin s. Bradley.
 l Secretaries.
 ! Frank s. Platt Clarence A. Smith, ! HI. StaQnard, Jonathan M. Capt. F. W. Tiesing B. H. Douglass jr., | James Bishop, Geo. R Chamberlain, l Joseph Kegelmeyer, Vim. H. Preston, l Louis s. Mason, Dr. c. A. Dorman, l MT. Sperry, on rising, said that he had presided over many important meetings in
 this hall during the past twenty years, which | had been occupied for most every patriotic 1 purpose, beginning with the rebellion and running through all the phases of govern mental matters to the present time. We meet tonight to consider whether the Re- t-publican party shall rule in the future or whether the Democratic party shall take the ,reins of government. ask your kind atten- 1 ton to the addresses that shall be made. In ! closing Mr. Sperry introduced the Garfield 1 and Bigelow Glee club, who sang a song set l to the tune of ''Bingo," which was received
 with cheers and an encore. The club re- l sponded with a solo and chorus, the solo be- 1 ing sung by Mir. Manross with excellent | effect.
 1 On the conclusion of the song Mir. Sperry introduced General Hawley as a gentleman well known not only in this State, but also in 1 the halls of legislation. (Great cheering. 1 Hr had ever been true to the principles of | justice and right, and New Haven Republi- l cans were most happy to welcome him this l evening.
 1 General Hawley on rising said he had come l to ask the audience to vote for General Gar 1 field, and he would give his reasons why he | desired that they should so vote. I will ad- l init, said the General, that there have been l individual mistakes in the Republican party. | I will say to you, however, that I am proud | to belong to party that put down one of the | greatest rebellions the world ever saw ; that l fFaA f1IIr T1lIlli of SIavaa aT6 | crat can boast of so great a work. What iS l democracy? inquired the General. Upon 1 the Republican party was put the task of | considering what a free people could accom- 1 plish, and foreign governments predicted ] that we should fail. What is democracy but I to set the slaves free and to extend the right l of suffrage? Was that not democratic | work? The public lands have been peddled 1 out at a dollar and a quarter an acre. sWe | have affirmed that any man wherever he was l born, whether in this or the old world, was | entitled to share in the public domain. Was this not democratic work? I am
 amazed when see so many coming from the l old world and changing their politics when l they arrive here. Yet men come here and
 are misled by name; they pass to a party l which is cheered on by the aristocracy of l Great Britain, and tell you am amazed at l it. The Democrats upbraid for talking on 1 dead issues, but you cannot keep the world 1 from talking about these things. We have l established union, liberty and justice so far | as laws can establish them. There is no Re- l publican but that is proud of every act of ! the Republican party since it's formation l Are the Democrats ready to sustain their acts
 at the present day? Are they ready to sus- tain their effort for the extension of slavery? !? l Are they ready to defend their opposition to l calling out troops to suppress the rebellion and for the many other instructions they l have placed in the way of the advancement of oEYaT lod otf ! to the fact that the recommendations of President Lincoln at the opening of the war we've opposed by the Democrats in Congress with but two or three exceptions Following this line of thought, he came up to the year 1864, when there were vital issues at stake in the suppression of the rebellion; when the Democrats voted unanimously against these vital issues Continuing, he said: I know
 there were good Democrats in the war, but
 they were ''war Democrats" We had to find name for them. Let us put the Dem
 ocratic party of Connecticut to simple test.
 In April, 1865 word came that Richmond
 had fallen, and in Wall street they fell on
 each others necks and thanked God that the
 clouds were rising and the war was nearly at
 an end. Well, that was on election morning
 in this State, and the Democrats stayed away
 from the polls and that great war patriot,
 Governor Buckingham, was elected by II 1000
 majority. Loud eheers.) Again, in the
 
 at the head of the entire army. (Great
 cheering General Hawley here paid a
 glowing tribute to Grant, and continuing
 said: Grant plunged into the Wilderness and
 Sherman began to close around the rebels,
 and then the Democratic party demanded an
 immediate cessation of hostilities Before
 this Democratic party dares to ask for the
 sufrages of the American people let them get down on their knees and ask God Almighty to forgive them for that act of treason. Then again, when Lee surrendered they demanded a restoration of political rights to all rebels Well, the war ended and foreign nations said let us see whether this Republican govern ment will sustain their credit and pay the bills they have contracted. During the past fifteen years we have reduced our national debt over one thousand millions of dollars. Now when General Garfield and his secretary of the treasury (great cheering) shall take hold the national debt will be more rapidly reduced.
 How easy it is for some Democrat to say that the Republican party have squandered hundreds and hundreds of millions of dol lars. But how foolish is such an argument. The General then took up the question of bonds, and said he was surprised that Sena- tor Bayard complained that the Republicans had delayed in the act of resumption, when the fact is that the Democratic party opposed every step to resumption, and at St. Louis they declared that fixing day for resump- ton was nlnQrance 10 It, ana they Still prophesied that we should have no resump- tion. The sun continued to rise and set, the first of January came, and no one appeared at the doors of the treasury asking for the 1 redemption of the greenbacks. MT. Eaton said it was an act of God. But we resumed and the wheels of industry were set in mo- ton and work revived. No man is idle to- day unless it is from some accidental or per- sonal cause We sent abroad $835, COG, ,OOO | of property last year to be sold. Does this 1 not show our prosperity? Again, emigrants | are coming to our shores at the rate of 6OO,- 900 per year, and then will anyone tell us | thaS we are not prosperous. tell you that l we are to continue to be great and pros l porous people, a country in the not distant | future of 0,Oo0, 900 or 12O, 900, GOO of peo- | pie. We can only judge of the future by the l past What can we expect of the Democrat l ic party if they come into power? We'll, we 1 may expect the abolishment of our national | banking system. simply affirm that in the | first history of our country we have a bank l system. few years ago a man l could not go to sleep with five hundred dol lars under his pillow and wake up in | fha k1,akT