Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-08-24
MILFORD RRPUBLICANs AWAKE.

The Banner Raising Last NtgAe-R0u0a
ing AddreHses by l.. NM. Hubbard, H.
Il. Benton. J. p. GO0dhaRt and
James RIahOp-A Mig Attendance.
A beautiful Republican flag waves gently
to and fro among the leafY trees in Milford's
public park and last night the ceremonies of
unfurling this beautiful standard were car
ried ON amid the music of bands and the
brillianey of large lights.
The evenings programme was under the
auspices of the Young Mems Republican club
of Milford and a most marked and successful
opening of the campaign was made. The club
has eighty-five members and is daily grow
ing.
In the early evening body of fifty mem
bers gathered to welcome the speakers of The
occasion and marched from the hotel around
the park to q raised platform at one end
where lights, music, choirs and everything
were in readiness.
Besides the evenings guests there sat upon
the platform the clubs president, D. P. Ner'
win, and a committee of arrangements COM
posed of ]. F. Smith, A. O. Tibbals, E. e.
Bradley and W. Chadwick, with the secre.
tary, R. R. Hepburn, and the treasurer, Fred
Haywood.
The first speaker introduced was Lawyer ].
P. Goodhart of this city. His words were
listened to with great interest and frequent
bursts of applause greeted his telling hits up
on the present administration. His handling
of the tariff was masterful and highly appre-
,ciated by his hearers.
Mr.. James Bishop was the next speaker.
During the course of his arguments the facts
and figures of the past twenty years were ad-
mirably handled and the course of the pres
emit administration brought to light and con-
-trasted with its predecessors.
Mr.. 81. E. Barton was then introduced and
,Iokor pJo14
night, fellow countrymen, as the expression
of AN uprising and Indignation against the
government that has even in its short life
put our interests in jeopardy.
Tt is not a mere feeling of party that brings
us here tonight, but the broad welfare and
prosperity of our personal pulse and purse
that we are come to consult. The first tariff
act ever passed was protective and was for@
warded by George Washington.
The question early became one of section.
The politicians of the South combined with
free trade and those of the North with pro-
lection. "We want free trade as well as
slavery" cried Governor Hicks in '61 and on
that side they have always fought.
Now the war il gone, slavery abolished,
they find president in the White House to
back them in their struggle against the North
and with their majority in the lower house
they are waging destructive war upon north-
ern industry and welfare.
'fBut, say the free traders, "what does it
matter how much you get If you have plenty
of food and clothesa" God help the country,
say, when our government is given to those
who can talk calmly, syey sneering1y, of
workman getting fifty cents day.
Our candidate has filed every position hon.
estly-was he not fighting for our homes
when some others were in their law offices
with hired substitutes9-and he will fill that
Office honestly this fall.
State Secretary L. N. Hubbard then said
in part: The outlook is surely promising for
the Republican party and the Democrats are
already on the run. On the pivotal state of
New York there is q land slide and we could
carry it by 20, 900. The apostle of the red
bsndanna rants of wages and tariff. The
greatest tribute Of the American people is
their copnizance of facts sufficient to decide
this great question that is agitating the
country.
Take Worsted. In $50 there were but
three mills in the country; wages were low
and product small. In '63 there were 6,OuO
looms, a yearly produce of 10 million
pounds of wool and Of Is million yards of
cloth and the price is also greatly reduced.
Take cotton goods. In free trade times We
imported it at so cents q yard and now We
can export it at cents. What can be said
of these can be said of. numberless others.
France by prohibitory embargo and to-day
she supplies millions.
The great glory and power of this country
AZ tracable to the system that has uourished
its gir1ews. Free trade Ia the cause OF every
panic. Look ct France. Her industries
fave increased 200 per cent, while these Of |
England have 1anguished.
what did Frank Hurd, the brightest and |
brainest free trader in the country, say of |
ne presidents last messages That tho issue /
e free trade had at last been decisively pre-
Ieuted, and the press of England heralded It l
.. Il is the morning star Of free trade.
The meeting was very enthusiastical one 4
n an respects and showed that Milford Re
,ublicans are wide awake to the Issues ct
be hour. I