Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-06-21
OPENING THE CAMPAIGN.
An Enthusiastic Democratic Meeting
 Last Night.-The Handsome Banner Un- fur1ed.-Speeches by Messrs Pigott,

An Enthusiastic Democratic Meeting
 Last Night.-The Handsome Banner Un-
 furled.-speeches by Messrs Pigott,
 Boughton and Saxe.
 Carriages, horsecars and pedestrians had to give way to the crowd which gathered and filled sidewalks and street on East Main between Exchange place and Phoenix alley last night on the unfurling of the first democratic banner in Connecticut. The headquarters were filled with the representative democracy of the city, among whom were Hon Ellis Phelan, c. B. Webster, Michael Wallace, Michael Donahoe, Joseph B. -Spancer. John -Eitz= patrick, Thomas H. Hayes and J. w. Mcdonald. The American band had been engaged for the occasion, and about S:3O o'clock, amid the glare of red fire and the plaudits of the crowd the handsome ban ner was unfurled and was greeted by long continued cheers.
 Mayor H. I. Boughton then stepped out onto the temporary platform and after saluting the banner said: "Fellow- citizens-It is no new thing for you to honor the man whose portrait appears on
 the left of our banner, the man who as
 leader of the democratic party has given the utmost satisfaction to the people at
 large during the past three years. The
 man whose portrait is on the right you all
 recognize as staunch old democrat,
 whose management of the state of Ohio gained him reputation too well-known to need any comment. Our ticket is good
 one from the top to the bottom; reverse it
 and it would be just as good. There are
 no blemishes on it. It stands for honesty,
 honor and good faith" @
 l Capt John L. Sake, was the next speaker ! L>~ 4bo of hic peculiar catching manner, which makes his l audience his own before he has been speak l ing five minutes. ''Fellow democrats
 I am glad to see you all here, and glad to see the expression of interest on your faces.
 I see defcted on every face 8 joy that pre-
 diets a sweeping victory for our party, and but first propose three cheers for our
 new banner. The cheers were given with
 a hearty good will "New look at the ticket
 we present The first one on it could not
 be defeated four years ago even by the famous combination of the three R's, nor
 the scandalous stories they circulated
 against him. They are circulating these
 same scandalous stories this year. It was
 the balcony opposite and predict victory
 for our party. This year I predict long
 step in advance"
 Hon James P. Pigott was the next speaker. He said: ''The republican party has ceased to exist; it is passing away into obscurity. This campaign will be an in tellectual one. By the end of the present , fiscal year there will be $15O,000,O ,OO0 lying in the treasury, wrung from the pockets o1 the poor man. The denocratic party i' ; not one of free trade. It will protect the American industries. Free trade would
 mean the abolition of custom houses. Il United States high taxation is good
 why is not state and local high taxation :, good 3 Why not call town meeting ane . increase your town tax? Our ticket is z good one in every respect. Our delegates ? didn't need police interference to proven 7 a general brawl as did the republicans las . night. Our ticket is the unanimous choic
 of the convention. I asked citizen il
 New York the other day what was becom . ing of the Republican party. He pointed . out the marine column in the New Yorl z Herald and showed it passing soutl - through hell-gate. The republican part,
 is like hill of potatoes, the best part o
 it is under ground. The republican part, '- will make the campaign an Irish one + They will say that free trade ruined Ire ' land. My friends, it was not free trad g that ruined Ireland; it was seven centurie g of English oppression that prescribe, 2 education and every kind of home industr, that ruined Ireland. Don't be bamboozlet !. by this kind of talk. We are Americans o Let our American affairs be conducted il Q the interest of Americans. Ireland's ire e trade, indeed. No not Ireland's ire IT trade, but the Irishman's free passage t Botany bay. We have anothe T l.party with us, tho prohibitionists 2 They have tired of the unfulflled prom ses of the republican party, who pledget y themselves for years to try and prohlbi
 the sale of intoxicating liquors, and wha