Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1886-09-10
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
Connecticut Republicans Nominate a
Governor.
HARTFORD, Conn, Sent. Q.

HARTFORD, Conn, Sept. 9.
The republican state committee assembled
Thursday A. M, with a full attendance.
United States Senator o. H. Platt was chosen
pre- sident and made the opening speech. He
sketched the growth and work of the republi-
can party and said the democratic party came
into power. two years ago, national and pop
ulsr advancement had been checked. In
closing he declared the real object of the
democratic assault was TO carry the legisls-
ture TO secure United States Senator, but
the people of Connecticut were not ready to
be represented by William H. Barnum in
stead of Joesph R. Hawley.
Phineas E. Lounsbury of Fairfield, was
nominated for Governor on the first ballot
After recess the convention nominated j.
l. Howard of Hartford for lieutensnt-govern
or by acclamation. L. NJ. Hubbard of Wal
lingford was then nominated for secretary of
state by acclamation. Col. Alexander War
ner of Pomfret was nominated for treasurer,
and Thomas Clark of North Stonington for
Comptroller.
The platform refers to the record of the
republican party in the past and its great
achievements for the good of the whole peo-
pie; favors a tariff upon the products of low
priced foreign labor, justly distributed so as
to protect the interests of American wage
workers without adding to their burdens !;
condemns the democratic party for its per-
slstent efforts to overthrow the protective
system; condemns the importation of foreign
contract labo- and the employment of convict
labor in competition with free labor; depre-
Gates granting any more public lands to cor
porations and the selling of land to syndicates
or to aliens; favors incorporation of organi
cations of workingmen, and gives pledges to
such legislation as will tend to restore that
harmony which should exist between the en-
ployer and the employed; fsvors the estab.
lishment 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 la
boring man and degrade his condition; de-
clares that traffic in intoxicating liquors is
justly chargeable with being the great cause
of poverty, ignorance and crime, and that the
republican party is ready as it ALWAYS has
been, for the enactment of such laws tending
to eradiate the evils of intemperance as may
be demanded by public sentiment.
1t favors generous pensions to manned and
disabled soldiers; denounces the present ad-
miHistration for its indefensible vetoes of
the meritorious measures for the relief of
veterans and their widows and orphans, and
condemns the ''undignifed language in
which the said vetoes were expressed; pro-
tests against the removal from official places
of worthy and disabled Union soldiers to
make places for partisan civilians and ex-
Confeoerates; favors appropriations for the
extension of the coast defences ;epdorses the
principle of home rule for Ireland; demands
an honest and thorough enforcement of the
civil service laws; favors bi-metallism and
an equal circulating currency; declares that
the surplus in the treasury should be applied
to the reduction of the national debt; declares
that the sacredness of the oallot is the safe
guard of the republic; favors the admission
of Dakota as State, and endorses the ad-
ministration of Gov. Harrison. The con-
vention adjourned at 4.30 z. M.