The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-10
CONNECTICUT REPUBLICANS.
Phineas c. Loundsbury Nominated
for Governor on the First Ballot

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 9.-The Republi-
can State Convention assembled in this city
this morning with a full attendance. Senator
Platte was chosen the presiding officer and
made an opening speech. He sketched the
growth and work of the Republican party,
came into power two years ago national and
popular advancement had been checked. In
closing he declared that the object of the
Democratic assault was to carry the Legisla-
ture to secure Senator, but the people OF
Connecticut were not willing to be repre-
sented by William H. Barnum instead of
Joseph r. Hawley. Phineas c. LOunsbury
of Fairfield county was nominated for Gov
ernor on the first ballot.
The convention after recess nominated
James l.. Howard of Hartford for Lieuten-
ant Governor by acclamation. l.. M. Hub
bard of Wallingford was then nominated for
Secretary of State by acclamation. Col
Alexander Warner of Pomfret was nomin-
ated for Treasurer by acclamation. Thomas
Clark of North Stonington was nominated
for Comptroller by acclamation.
The platform refers to the record of the
Republican party in the past and its great
achievements for the good of the whole
people; favors tariff upon the products of
low priced foreign labor, justly distributed,
so as to protect the interests of the Amerl-
can wage workers without adding to their
burdens; condemns the Democratic party
for its persistent efforts to overthrow oper--
ative systems; condemns the Importation OF
foreign contract labor and the employment
of convict labor in competition with free
labor; deprecates granting any more public
lands to corporations and selling of land to
SyndicateS or to aliens; favorS the lncorp0r-
alton of organizations of workingmen, and
gives pledges to such legislation as Will tend
to restore that harmony which should exist
between employer and employed; favors the
establishment of a national department. OF
labor and industries denounceS the attempt
of the Democratic party in Congress to
change the tariff laws as an attack upon
American labor and calculated to reduce the
wages of the laboring man and degrade his
condition; declaresathat the traffic in intoxi-
eating liquors is justly chargeable with being
crime, and that the Republican party is
ready, as it always has been, for the enact
ment of such laws tending to eradicate the
evils of intemperance as may be demanded
by public sentiments favors generous
pensions to manned and disabled SOL
diers; denounces the present administration
for its indefensible vetoes of meritorious
measures for the relief of veterans and their
widows and orphans, and condemns the un-
dignified language in which said vetoes were
expressed; protests against the. remoVai
from official places of worthy and disabled
Union soldiers to make places for partisan
civilians and -Confederates; favors appro-
priations for the extension of coast defenees !;
endorses the principle of home rule for Ire
land; demands an honest and thorough en-
forcement of the civil service laws; favors
bi-metallism and equal circulating currency (;
declares the surplus in the treasury should
be applied to the reduction of the national
debt; declares that the sacredness of the
BALLOT is the safeguard of the republic; IA
yors the admission of Dakota as State, and
endorses the administration of Gov. Harrl
son. The convention adjourned at 4.3O p. m.