Morning journal and courier., 1888-05-17
THE DELEGATRs TO OHICAGO.

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 Thursday, May IS. 1888.
 THE DELEGATES TO CHICAGO.
 The Work or She Republican State Com
 vention The Delegates-The Housing
 Speeches by T1bbitLs And Barbour
 The Platform
 The Republican State convention was call
 ed to order at 10:30 o'clock yesterday morn ing at the Hyperion Theater by the Hon. John A. Tibbitts. The delegates occupied the parquet of the theater and in the dress circle and galleries were large number of spectators. Secretary Newton of Walling- ford read the list of the names of the dele gates to the convention, the report of the committee on credentials. Chairman A. J. Beers of New Haven, of the committee on permanent organization, reported that the | committee had chosen the following officers: President, Hon. John A. Tibbitts of New Lon don; vice presidents, Joseph L. Barbour of Hartford county, Robert H. Curtis of New Haven county, Daniel M. Dexter of New Lon | don, George Somers of Fairfield. county, l.. | H. Fuller of Windham county, E. J. Steele of Litchfeld county, J. B. Wright of Middlesex A. F. Root of Holland county; secretaries, Wm. H. Newton, of Wallingford; George l.. Dick erman, New Haven; William J. McConville, Hartford; George A. Ross, Lisbon; George M. Southmayd, Middletown; Chas. H. Dim mock, Windham; Charles Phelps, Rockville; \ Wn. L. Ransom, Litchfeld; John E. Shell ton, Bridgeport.
 | The report of the committee was received | with great applause. President-elect Tibbitts made the opening speech. He was often in- terrupted by cheers.
 MIR. TIBBrTTs' SPEECH.
 We assemble on the eve of presidential canvass as the representatives of the Repub- lican party in one of the United States The result of the national contest in November
 may hinge upon the six electorab votes of
 Connecticut. trust that we fully appreciate
 the responsibilities that devolve upon us and
 are prepared to meet them.
 The paramount issue of the canvass has already been sharply defined. The Demo- cratic party, no matter what the evasion of it's platform may be-, must stand or fall by the free trade message of it's president. The
 national Republican platform, no matter what may be promulgated at Chicago, will be the response to the presidential message that came as quick as the electric wires could carry it across the ocean from the foremost advocate of the doctrine of protection to American industries and lapor-the splen- did leader of the Republican campaign-the greatest of living American statesmen-the man who is the most thorough representa-.
  been truly said that he always flies the'Amer- ican flag and the American eagle perches on his shoulders-the idol of the rank and file of the Republican party in this and every other State in the Union-James G. Blaine of Maine. Tremendous and prolonged ap- plause.
 The Republican party will stand to it's guns in favor of the protective tariff, which has made the prosperity of this republic since the
 days of the war unparalleled in the history of AI bat -sE s,& I1a
 and readjusted, as in the very nature of
 things it will be from time to time to keep
 pace with changing conditions, the Repubi
 can party demands that, in justice to the
 American workingmen and the American
 manufacturers, the revision and the read
 justnent should be made by the friends
 rather than the enemies of the protective sys-
 tenn. In Connecticut the Democratic party
 has in this canvass already stultified itself by
 declaring in favor of free trade president in
 enc plank of it's platform and going on record
 for protection in another. It's duplicity will
 not deceive. In this latter end of the nine-
 teenth century the American workingman
 reads and thinks for himself.
 The country has had more than three years
 of Democratic administration. What are the
 fruitsl The civil service reform which was
 promised in the Democratic platform of 1884,
 and fondled in Cleveland's letter of accept
 ance, has proved 80 transparent fraud that
 even the mugwumps, who flor while wor-
 shipped at it's shrine, feel sad at heart and
 sick at stomach. The surplus in the treas ury, which the average Democrat was led to
 believe would be divided per capita among the people, has steadily accumulated, and new vaults have been built in which to store the increase.
 The voice of TiIden has remained unheeded
 and the seacoast of the nation remains de-
 fencsless The State department has been
 dominated by policy as purely and exclu-
 sively British as if it had been dictated from
 Windsor palace. The Psn- Electric cabinet
 scandal is 8 stench in the nostrils of the na-
 tion. The postal service has reached a stage
 of demoralization unprecedented in the his-
 tory of the republic. The stay -at-home
 President of the Democracy vetoes the pen
 sions of the nations defenders in brutal
 words that are insult to every man whe | marched beneath the stars and stripes from Sumpter to Appomattox. From first to last the pathway of this Democratic administra- ton is lined with broken pledges and false pretenses The country is ripe for a return to the honesty, efficiency and Americanism that for nearly quarter of @ century marked
 the history of the land under 8 rule of the
 Republican party with Lincoln and GranG
 and Garfield and Arthur at the helm of the
 ship of State. Our party is rich in material to furnish worthy successor to these great
 leaders who have passed on to the unknown
 land. No pent-up Utica contracts its powers. Its success is not dependent on any one man. Here within the limits of our own commonwealth we can boast of two leaders of Republicanism who are worthy of the highest honors of the re- public. Should the choice of the Chicago convention fall upon that gallant soldier and honest man-the representative of all that is best and truest and most to be desired in the chief magistrate of this great nation, General Joseph R. Hawley, the Republicans of Con necticut can pledge to him it's electoral vote by @ majority which will take this State out of the list for all time. And if the delegates of our party, meeting in the State which gave to the country and to the world Abraham Lincoln, man of the people. greatest Of Presi- dents, emancipator of race, should seek for him who in statue and in feature, in quai- ties of head and heart, in sagacious statesS manship and sound common sense 50 resem- bles the martyred President that he has been fitly called the Abraham Lincoln of Connec- ticut, they might call to tue front Orville H. Platt sthe senior Senator from this State, and place in his hands the standard of the party which he would bear forward to overwhelm ing victory. In John Sherman, of Ohio, the Republican party has a statesman wide in experience and old in the service of his coun- try, whose administration of the treasury department at 8 critical period in the history of national finances was so able and far seeing as to well entitle him to be called the Alexander Hamilton of times. Coming | from the close and doubtful State of Indiana, whose vote may decide the presidency, we have Benjamin Harrison, soldier and states | man himself, and descendant of soldier, a statesman and president. And the Hoosier State can give another candidate who would | lead to victory in the person of Gen. Walter i G. Gresham, who has in the cabinet and on | the bench demonstrated his fitness for high | ofice The Empire State, which went to the Democrats by huke four years ago by 8
 beggarly majority of little more than ], ,0O0 votes, presents Chauncey M. Depew, against | whose candidacy it can only be aaid that he is the honest president of a great railroad