Morning journal and courier., 1892-09-08

sft open. have for the past two years
ecome pretty well acquainted with the
luties of the Office of comptroller of this
lean idea of what the ability of the next
,ficer should be who fills that Office The
,nly fruit Of that Office for the past year
mas been Nicholas Staub, and only
when that gentleman was brought
face to face with the highest legal
power of the state were the wheels |
Of your state governments allowed to
run unfettered. It matters little to us,
gentlemen, who should be allowed to oc-
cupy this Office for that short time, but
1t mattered not q little to you and to all
whether the returns of the polls should be
tempered with by ignorance and vice.
Governor bulkeley then paid fine tn
butte to the gallant fight and manly course
of the republican minority in the state
senate in all the long drawn-out fight, and
added that now it is settled in Connecticut
that tho face of the returns in an election
cannot be conclusive to the defeat of JUS
tice. [Applause].
had hoped, and 1t was my Intention
when came to this convention, to present
the name of General Samuel E. Merwin
Tapplause1 as a candidate for governor.
But yielded by choice and now have the
honor to present as candidate for comp
troller and worthy successor of the gen
tleman who now occupies that Office
[iaughter], Senator George NJ. Clark.
Applause]. In conclusion he asked that
Senator CLARK be nominated by acclama-
ton.
Senator CLARK was nominated by &C
clamation.
SPEECH BY ExCoNGREssMAN MASON OF
CHICAGO.
Ex-Congressman William T. Mason of
Chicago was then introduced by Chair
man Russell. In trice he had the audi
ence aroused to high pitch of enthusiasm,
and his witty asides to his arguments kept
the audience in q continuous roar of
laughter. He said after some humorous
| Introductory remarks:
In the Madison square notification meet
ing the portrait Of Mr.. Cleveland was
| draped with the national colors. Now, ]
| wouldn't take issue with Mr.. Cleveland,
except politically. IT certainly would not
| architeoturally," added the speaker, who
is of short. stout and thick-set build.
| daughter At least don't have to turn
my back when knock at door.
Increased laughter]. Neither cleve;
land nor Stevenson has spent
one hour in defending the honor of hii
country. Mr.. Cleveland sat on his hobby
| of protection in the sackcloth of an Eng
lish blanket and, brandishing an Englist
| cheese knife, called on his substitute to e
to the front and fight. Laughter. 81
received sixteen balls in his breast, bu
every one was cod6sh ball. Laughter.
General Stevenson-when he was intro
duced he was called General Stevenson be
cause he had captained a baseball nine
While Whitelaw Reid was in the fore from
sending messages from the soldiers t.
their wives and sisters, as sacre'
q duty as carrying a musket, Gen
convention maintaining that the war wa
failure. When the democrats call thei
candidates patriots, I call on their two sub
stitutes to come forth and let you judg
who were the patriots. Applause. EV
cry one who voted for President Harriso
| in 1888, it seems to me, can have no reaso
for not voting for him this year. In tn
troubles with Chill and the disputes re
garding the Behring sea this countr
neither bullied the smaller nation nor wa
bullied by the larger.
) Mr.. Cleveland went to Rhode Island t
carry the state and he carried it-for III
He tries to build up two classes, the COZ
sumner and the producer. He tells the ma
! that raises thing that he sells it to
cheap, and the man that buys it that h
pays too much for it. daughter tt
''brigadiers were in the saddle" in tt
l democratic convention. They cut out for
b lines from the confederate constitutio
and put it in the democratic platform
: where it belongs. The democratic part
stands before the people without
principle. One-half are in Fl
vor of protection and IL
/ 1f h -Ju ne
party favor cheap money. Here is fiv
| dollar bill given me in the fifties. It rel
3 resented weeks wages in those days, an
when the man took it to the store to bu
l groceries with he found this democrat
money was useless for anything but gul
t wadding. Yet it is to this kind of none
t that the democratic platform urges US
0 90 back. If every bank cashier in IL
: country should skip to Canada every do
l. | lar of our national bank currency would
It | worth its full value.
e Still the great issue is the tariff issu
Q They told us we could not make iron her
We paid $157 ton for every rail put
l. the Union Pacific road. A tariff of $40
% ton was put on railroad iron and now '
:. have more miles of railway than any 9th
% country in the world, and railroad iron
8 bringing $50 ton. Still the democrat
l. leaders exclaim, 'The tariff is taxi" al
IL the gentlemen from Tammany echo, sT
tariff is tax, see" Laughter and a
J plause.
d have seen lia1s and liars, monument
l. liars and elastic liars, but the greatest
Il these is the tin-plate liar. They said
d couldn't make it. An Englishman COZ
over here and said: "You cont make
d you know. You haven't the atmosphe1
81 you know" and the Yankee said he won
t. make the atmosphere. Well, we put
II tariff on tin-plate and to satisfy the mu
It wumps we put in the stipulation that
l. certain number of pounds would have
p be made in given time or the law was
be repealed. ~
70 In the last nine months 6, 900, 900 poun
r, of tin plate were made. So in the man
r facture of pearl buttons-25, 900 mouths
as American people are being fed from IL
industry, and yet the democrats g
70 croaking that the tariff is tax and tn,
Tammany followers chime in the Choir,
X The Italians came down from Chicago
o the Fifty-frst congress and asked fo1
Of tariff on macaroni. Then there w
Q, a half-dozen factories, while now there 6
g. twenty-eight or twenty ninth.
You have heard the shout of joy that
j. democrats have set up over the troubles
r Homestead. Now, they say if there cou
a be q poor tobacco crop in Connecticut q
10 the country. The democratic party il
1e party of disaster and they rejoice ov
Of every disaster that comes upon the cou
OF try.
4 I congratulate you on the splendid CT
J. didates you have and that Connecticut
g. coming out of the doubtful column on t
g. Lords side.
es The democratic party is
best friend of the soldier
81 the convention, but very poor VIII
al they came to fulfill their promises. Th
i'd do not dare to come before the count
O. with their cry of ga billion-dollar ce
I gress'' and explain that the only extra 6
ty preparation Of that congress was for t
l old soldiers. I WAS not old enough
ne fight with them, but I am getting
O. enough to fight for them. would ratt
sec every dollar in the treasury expend
~ and Uncle Sans credit worthless in eve
ID country of the globe than that ingratitu