Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-11-03

puDllCan party, ana said that they stole
the country once, that they stole
Connecticut once, and they will again
if they get chance.
Congressman Vance of New Bri-
tain said: "Was it not said all over this
| town, and in every town in the state,
four years ago, that victory for the
democratic party meant ruin to the
| laboring men of the country? Well, the
working men voted in great numbers
against the democrats, because they be-
lieved those things to be true. They
were buncoed then, will they be bun
coed again? They promised; that is,
the republicans promised, if their party
was victorious that wages would be
higher. They said that high tariff
means prosperity and more wages.
Well, they won and what was the re-
suit of their victory? The passage of the
Mckinley bill" The speaker said he
protects. "There is not a republican
| that will not say that the Mckinley bill
was to protect the workingman. He
was promised more wages. Has he got
it? We know that the manufacturer got
his part. 1 don't believe in any pro-
lection that stops the profits in the
| office and doesn't let any of them get
| into the envelopes"
The speaker showed the benefits of
bill was about to place tariff of 81
pound on raw silk, a gentleman engaged
in that industry, and a republican, went
down to Washington and told the
committee that it would ruin his
| industry and deprive two thousand peo-
pie of work. That gentleman was Mr..
Cheney OF South Manchester, and he has
| the effrontry to come before the people
| on the platform which he repudiated,
nd ocl- 70 fNr lJoI1 tor
of this state. Mr. Vance then dealt with
the issues of the state, and appealed to
democrats to give victory all along the
| line all over the state. eve want" he
| said, two democratic representatives and
a senator from this district, and we ask
all honest republicans to unite with us,
and put beyond cavil, and to put beyond
doubt, and beyond the power of the
| crow bar the election of Governor Morris,
81 expect to hear on the night of the
election that Waterbury has aided in
giving Mr. Pigott the largest majority
that this district has ever given. l
want to hear on next Thursday that you
have rolled up a large majority for
victory and Grover Cleveland"
Chairman Grelle introduced Noble E.
Pierce as the senator from New Haven.
He stepped before the audience with a
Good bless, New Haven ! Let her have
|
she cannot have me. | am from Brls-
| toll" Mr.. Pierce went into the state
issues in detail and told his hearers about
the work of the republican legislature
in the last election. He referred to
| Lynde Harrison, who had left the re-
publican party because it was so rotten
i that he could not remain in it. He said
that the democrats were willing to have
their case settled by the courts, but they
| WIN office
| the face of the returns should hold the
office while there was any dispute about
| it. The democratic party in this state
is defending the rights of the people, and
appealed for votes to aid them in that
| position.
When the chairman introduced ex-
Governor Campbell of Ohio the au-
dience cheered loudly and long. He
ssid: "This cordial greeting is grateful
| to me, not for myself, but because it be-
tokens a spirit that will no longer allow
this manner of tritling in the election of
| state officers in Connecticut. 1t shows
| that the democrats of the state are alive
and aroused. l rather blushed as the
| facts were for the first time disclosed to
me how low my republican friends had
fallen in the political scale. L knew
that when they were talking to us of a
free ballot and fair count in the south
| they were deceiviug us, but did not
know how degraded they had become in
the north. When l go back to the
west | will have a new illustration on
the force bill. 1t is not necessary to
talk to the people of Connecticut about
force bill. You know that the repub-
licans are not to be trusted with any
such bill. In the south the force bill
Iconteplplates the bringing in of
strangers to control votes and the results
of elections. In Connecticut you do not
need strangers, your neighbors will do
it for you. Your representatives in the
next congress has we'll said that the re-
publican party is in favor of home rule
in Ireland; that is the nearest place to
Connecticut that it is in favor of it.
There is nothing that republican orators
grow more eloquent on just before pres
idential elections than home rule for
Ireland. They tell you of the evictions
in Ireland, with tears, but they say
nothing about the evictlons in this
country. They do not tell you that
there are more evictions in the city of
New York in one year than in all the
kingdom of Ireland. No, because that
would not square up with their theory
: of protective tariff.
1.-THE republican orators do not
agree" said the speaker, ION the ques-
ton of the tariff being tax. Tonight a
man comes along and says the tariff is
! not tax, tomorrow a second speaker
comes along and says the tariff is tax,
: but the foreigner pays it. The next
! night third speaker comes along and
says that taxation is lighter IN this
country on account of the tariff. Now,
; fail to see how taxation can be lighter
: on account of tax-taxing taxes make
them lighter. cannot comprehend it.
, fail to see how or why Mr. Cheney, the
Republican candidate for lieutenant
governor of Connecticut, can complain
about putting tariff on his raw ma
} terial if the foreigner pays 1T; and if the
tariff is not tax it is not burden to
anyone. When anything they want tc
use in manufacturing is to be brought
into this country though, it is
tax. That is recent discovery
that the foreigner pays the tax
The republicans had not discovered II
when they allowed all the building ma,
terial to be used in the rebuilding OF
Chicago after the great fire, to come in