Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-10-19
HAwLEY BUBBLES.

Senator Hawley missed a great oppor to explain to large assemblage of Water bury citizens why he opposes free wool now when a few years since he said, in re- ferging to wool: ''If our manufacturers are to increase, to keep pace with the popu- lation and the growing wants of our people; if we al to have the control of the markets of our own country; if we are to meet and compete with the manufac- turers of England end other nations of western Europe in the markets of the world, We must have our raw III aterial ad- mitted free of duty" MT Mills never said anything stronger, more direct or more con- vincing than that in favor of the policy of free wool and no democrat plea than is contained in these words of Senator Hawley. The senator, if his words mean anything, is a free trader so far as wool is concerned, but those who heard him talk last evening came away with the suppression that his words don't mean anything unless it is utterly and shame lessly to misrspresent the position and intentions of President Cleveland and the democratic party.
 more bitterly partisan, constituencies quibble than ran through all Senator Hawlev's speech has never been exposed to an audience of Waterbury citizens. But he is not to be judged too hnrshly for that. His record had already been made sues of the present campaign, and the feet that the national platform of his party is diametrically opposite to that re- cord has put NIT Hswley in decidedly awkward position. He has no resource left, when he goes on the rostrum, but to quibble brazenly and shamelessly, as he did when he said that lit is base mis- representation to charge that the republi- can party favors free whiskey." That charge is not made by democrats, it is not made by those who are hostile to the re- publicans it was made by the republi- can party itself in national convention assembled at Chicago when it declared ''for the entire repeal of internal taxes rather than the surrender of any part of our protective system." And the republi- can senate, of which Mr Hawley is an hon. ored member, went so far toward bringing about this era of free whiskey and free tobacco as to report a bill reducing the revenues about $75,000, 900, nearly half of which is in internal taxes. If it is & "base misrepresentation to charge that the republican party tavors free whiskey," the republican party itself must be held accountable therefor. And n1 amount of quibbling, no skilful juggling of words by Senator Hawley can explain the fact that direct, unm istakable, un- equivocal promise of free whiskey is made rather than any, even the slightest, reduc. tian of the protective tariff. That the re- publican senate by it's tariff bill, and Sen stor Hawley by his speech last evening have rspudiated the Chicago platform, is only another proof of the desperate straits to which the party has been reduced.
 l We think his best friends will regre 1 tor Haw1ey made of himself last evening. It is not too much perhaps to say that his speech was the weakest tha has been made for the republican side il Waterbury during this campaign. It wa. very much in the nature of perfunctory and disingenuous apology, lacking spiri and enthusiasm and revealing in every sentence the white flag of beaten man Such drivel as he talked last night make, Connecticut freemen blush that such man is their representative on the floor O
 the United States senate. -
 His speech was shameless quibble iron the first word to the last, and it was relic
 to his friends when he got through.