Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-18
SENATOR PLATES ADDRESS
Delivered Yesterday Before the state Republican Convention-A Mastery Speech-Campaign and Presentation nf Renu hlican RrfncIples.

~>A~ = ~~>- Delivered Yesterday Before the state
 Republican ConventiOn-A masterly
 Speech-Campaigna and Presentation
 of Republican Principles.
 Gentlemen of the convention: Looking to-day | into the faces of Connecticut rePuDncaqs, can- not but speak words of congratulation. We have ,nrch to be proud of. The census reveals the tact that in population we are now the second | New England state; and in wealth and pros gtii egitizens, doubt not that we are first. There may be more wealth in other states but in none Is wealth so evenly distributed. There may be more luxury elsewhere, but not more Of aggre- gated happiness. There may be more brilliant and ostentatious scholarship in other common weaths put m moee n gaef asefage @ oI nse
 ment which contribute to the well being of all, we have, like Themistocles of old, shown how to
 The state is to be congratulated upon the re- publican management of its finances a manage ment successful and faultless, which compels the admiration even of our political enemies. How ever anxious our democratic friends may be to 5on a1o m e sne 11 of our state the last few years. Our people know when laws are % %isely Snaeted M ana az prndentiy ad- the public debt reduced without the requirement. of state tax and they will not change such wise and prudent management for one which cannot promise equal results. We challenge comparison and promise continuance in well doing
 You will nominate today state ticket, every name upon which will commend itself to the con fidence and support of all our people who desire public affairs, and clean and honorable record less; you will heed the demand, and the voters will ratify and confirm your selection. It quires little prophetic vision to assert that the state ticket which you will to-day nominate will be elected in November; that the next legislature will be republican, and will fully justify the con fidence which may be reposed in it by any class of our citizens who desire the enactment of wise But state election has wider importance than that of beneficial local government. A and it's resu ts. The battle is not over when a ppesy ppoS it's promses and pledges; sue cess comes only upon the fulillment Of it's pledges and the or its promises l tion came into power with a solemn obligation to put on parchment, in form of law, the crystal ized will of this great nation. It stood in honor l bound to the Accomplishment of great results for which the republican party had contended and against which the democratic party had l long struggled. It has performed it's work-not 1 fully, but in many important respects It has faith f bao o ss maT be read in its wider meaning on the pages of our | national statute book. All that has been accom- piished has been achieved against the most des- l perate opposition vituperation and obstruction of political foe. The march of the Union army than
 the peoples will by the national legislature Ev- result of a battle, in which the minority has de l iiberately endeavored to defeat the wifi of the
 And yet the republican party has made prog ress; it has advanced; it has conquered; and it | hats only to prepare for further progress The democratic party toierates no progress and no advancement; 1t fights for retrogression only; for forty years it has tried to stab our civiza- tion in it's heart; but it's vaunted boast that it wona o has ta S o s ness, and to record the will of the majority the l other branch, less quick perhaps to meet an butt, of tho dict of the people shall be sustained will learn how to do business and to register the will of it's majority. If this administration has not done all, To the honest politician platforms mean prin- Hpss professed Principles does net deserve to Ve | and it will not live.
 In sss the republican party 9nan the ad
 fitted for statehood, which had long been cruelty denied by the democratic party. To-day six new they are the symbols, furnish eight of the ten majority. we have in the senate, to which four aS o 9e sx to he ditions of their growth true to the free spirit of 1 the great northwest, are and will continue to be hi}ed fsRao''c"n' Ana so one p'eose nAS oesn lu'-
 In 1888, the republican party declared itself to | money" To-day there is a law upon our statute book, universally admitted to be wise and con- seryatiye, which has CT esnarged the use of silver which has appreciated the price of silver and lessened the gap between it's value and the value trade, which has enhanced the value of our silver | coin since the commencement of this session ns1 & 9t o | country-wheat, corn and oats-upon the basis of last years yield, have been advanced in price l is confidently believed, will finally bring about l the long desired parity. of value between the money metals of the world. Thus another pledge
 In 1888 the republican party declared that it's | pension system should be so extended "as to pro l vide against the possibility that any man who | honorably wore the federal uniform should be- | come an inmate of an almshouse or dependent l soldier of the Union army ,honorably discharged,
 has only to prove the fact of his disability in or
 der to obtain m @ 1 ana feef fst
 by it's disabled heroic soldiers. Others may count
 the cost-I count only the right. In this matter l of pensions nothing is extravagant that is right ' Another promise has been kept.
 In 1888 the republican party declared, eve
 05 of tSs laws as Vii tend to
 Ws pege be1e | tic cries of those who worship at the altars of manufacturers and foreign importers, witness Let us make no mistake about this. The repub-
 can party pledged itself eli to rc s1 revise the tariff ha
 our people. That is the quality of the
 protection that won for us the victory. A
 revise our tariff laws as not to check but to vast ly increase the importation of articles produced
 by our people. Shameless in misrepresentation | unceasng in vituperation, desperate In it's as | sault upon American industries and American
 labor tyrannical in it's treatment of the last fol
 lower of protection in it's ranks it has fully com
 mitted itself to the immoral policy of free trade
 For this alone the mechanics, the farmers, tht
 artsans the toers of this country should indig
 While so protecting our industries that brancl
 of congress of which am member, has pro
 means of steamship Communications with tht
 southern countries of the western hemisphere
 and has declared itself in favor of such reciproca
 trade with those countries as is consistent witl
 the protection of our homo industries; And
 think that the other branch of congress can bt
 safely trusted to concur with the senate in these
 respects, and that if it will find it's way to do st
 at this session of congress despite democratic | obstruction, delay and filibustering. The demo
 cratic party wants no reciprocity that consist | with and supplements protection but only tha
 reciprocity which is synonomous with free trade | In 1888 the republican party affirmed the ''su
 preme and sovereign right of every lawful voter
 rich or poor, native or foreign born, to cast on | free ballot in public elections and have that bal
 lot counted" To that solemn obligation the re
 publican party stands committed: The enact enact
 tutional measures that supreme and sovereigl
 right will yet be secured Factious delay ant
 fi the fuIIIment 'e of that pledge If understand
 threats nor falsehoods can swerve # from it
 vote everywhere in this broad land. Con
 nectieut is not to be cheated ou e | or US laW1ul power auu lnuuouct III tii
 national legislature by intimidation or suppress
 sion of the suffrage anywhere The ballot is thu | right ''preservative of all rights" Republican
 existence depends on the right of the majority t.
 rule and direct, and this people will not tolerat
 the rule of minorities when peaceful and consti 1 tutional methods can prevent it.. The question l of pure and honest elections, whether in Con | necticut elsewhere is a question higher thai | party or race or color. It is question that lie | at the foundation of republican government
 the republican party has one mission higher thai
 another to perform it is to preserve republican l government in it's integrity and purity, and | will defend it from every assault.
 l But time fails me to recount at length the worl l performed and to be performed by this admins
 tration. We have laid the foundations of a nav,
 whose ships, bearing our flag on all oceans, shal 1 be the pride of every American heart; we hay | provided for the punishment of unlawful trust l and combinations we have unfettered the state l and enabled them to exercise and enforce tn ! power of police regulation. If factious demo | cratic deliberation does not defeat our purpos
 we shall before the adjournment of the presen
 session of congress recognize the just demand of labor employed by the government, brand an' l punish the adu1teration of food products and pro tect the people from infamous lottery swindle l Great results have been achieved, great result | are to follow.
 When the history of this administration sha l be written, its most conspicuous feature will b | the adoption of great measures calculated to CT , nance the prosperity grandeur and greatness Q
 the republic and for the protection of all its cit kI-s. I~~ II II