The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-09-21
CONNECTICUT REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION.
Harmonious Gathering at New
Haven.
GEN. WILLIAM H. BULKELEY NOMIN.
ATED FOR GOVERNOR.

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Sept. 20-The Republi-
can state convention met in the Grand Opera
House tnls forenoon and was called to order
snortiy alter 10 o'clock by George M. Harmon,
chairman OF the State committee
Hon. Marshal Jewell was elected permanent
chairman. Alter thanking the convention for
the honor conferred, he said:
When we last met in convention we were in
the midst OF an active national campaion with
trusted, able and wise leaders and onnosed nv
unscrupulous, active and vigilant foes, who
resorted to every species of fraud, theft and
forgery known to party warfare to select their
candidate for President-who, it is but fair to
say, was much better than his party. RELYING
as the Republican party always did and al
ways can upon the intelligence, wisdom and
patriotism of the people, and thoroughly
arousing the sentiment of the American public
py means OF the printing press and the forum,
all their nefarions schemes came to naught,
ana we placed in the highest human attainable
positioh one model man and statesman GAR
neld,l whose brief and brilliant occupancy of
the Executive chair and whose painful and
heroic death mark an epoch in American his
10Y. Never was truer sentiment expressed
than this same great orator and statesman ut
tered on the occasion of the murder of The
martyr Lincoln, "God reigns and the govern
ment at Washington still lives" And so we
nnd t. The Chicago convention made no
mistakes. Our second choice was as good as
our first. President Arthur is winning golden
dom, modesty and dignity with which be is
administering the affairs of his Office. His
hands should be upheld by all honest and
patriotic citizens in his attempt to reform the
civil service, to reduce the rate of interest and
taxation and to check any unwise and ex-
travagant expenditures of public money Our
success in electing his successor will not be
doubtful If the people do their duty as well as
he ls doing his
At the conclusion of the chairman's speech
N
gen. Wllliam ID; Bulkeley was nominated for
Governor by acclamation
An informal ballot gave Lyman w. Coe of
TorriDgton, 1885, John d. Candee of Bridge
port, 222; Charles l.. Griswold of Essex, 8.
John ID. Candee was nominated by accIama-
ton for Lieutenant Governor Stiles T. Stan
ton for Secretary of State
julius Converse OF Stafford was nominated
Tor treasurer by acclamatfon and Frank D.
Sloat OF New Haven for Comptroller The
following is the text of the platform:
The Republican party of Connecticut re-afirms its
creed-all rights to all men.
TIL preservation inviolate of each and every con-
stitutional amendment.
A free and fair ballot and the enactment and en-
toreement OF appropriate legislation to preserve this
rests.
tariff reduced and revised not only for revenue.
but also for the protection of American labor
against the labor of the Old World.
The abolition of useless offices.
ments of the nation and the State
Ihe protection Of the rights and liberty Of every
American citizen at home anc abroad.
Education under the fostering care of the general
and State governments, which shall bring its ad-
vantages to the home of the humblest citizen.
nhe purity Of the ballot box and its protection
commerce. -
Reduction of the burdens of taxation, state and
national and limitation of expenditures to necessi-
ties OF the government.
judicial system of civil service reform by which
competent officers shall be secured for public SER
vice, federal, state and municipal and protected
from assessment and removal except for cause
The Republican party as earnest of its future
relers 10 the record OF its past service both in
and IN peace, TO the suppression of the rebellion
the abolition of slavery the reimbursement of race
@ the RESUMPTION s I'M OF specie payment the preserva
debts, Ihe universal prosperity at home and peace
1t reveres the memories of its martvred Presi-
dents, Lincoln and Garfield, and it cordially inders-
es and supports the administration of President
arthur who by his modesty, his capacity and his
haeIty TO the interests of the people and by the
wisdom and courage of his public acts and uteran-
ces has commended himself to the confidence and
approval OF his felow-citzens, without distinction
1t believes that all just government derives its au-
thority from the consent of the governed. 1t has
confidence in the integrity and good sense of the
people, and is not afraid to submit to them cues
1n '1s ~4sset tizefr pA~Sss.AtE end
1t therefore declares itself in favor Of submitting
to the people at special election to be heu for the
purpose the amendment to the constitution propos-
ed at the last session the General Assembly rela
tive to the prohibition of the sale and manufacture
OF intoxicating liquors and of enforcing by appro-
PIRATE Legislation whatever their will may be upon
that question. For the purpose of promoting e
economy and watchfulness in the expenditures Of
the state, we believe they should be regulated by
system OF annual appropriations. We declare for
the encouragement Of state industries the support
OF the public schools, limitation upon special and
private legislation and the passage of liberal gener
MI oil 4ff
shall have equal rights and none shall enjoy excu
sive privileges.
We declare that the growing influences Of the
great corporations of the country ought to be iea
ousy watched, that the assumption Of any undue
power on their part should be promptly checked,
and that the principle that the people must control
me corporations, and not the corporations the
people, should be vigorously maintained
We thank Gov. Hobart b. Bigelow and his asso-
ciate officials of the state for their efficient and sat
isfactory administration of the government and we
take pleasure in commencing to the voters of Con-
neeteut the nominees of this convention, believing
them to be fit representatives Of the principles set
forth in this platform.