New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-29
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"HOrSLNGr CONNEC7ICrT

II was given out several days ago that the
Democratic party in Connecticut was lacking
in enthusiasm \ prominent Ncw-llaycn Dem
ocrat was reported in local newspaper a,
saving that unless something WAS done 10
rouse" the party he really couldn't tell what
would happen. Following this, the ether day
our stirring contemporary 1.-The Ncw-l ork
World" announced, IN a doublc-eadcd com
munication from staff correspondent that
Connecticut wa, In Danger" and required
"urompt attention from headquarters The
Democratic managers" said thi, correspondent,
a. are torpid This, too, after Professor Bald
win had got the Monticello Club together ana
put them in n rollicking mood with one OF his
side splitting Jokes about tho discovery OF the
Democratic party by Christopher Columbus.
Even the Professors humor ribticklinS and
uproariolis ~ il was failed to rouse the party
70 n proper sense of the danger. Headquarters
had 10 be invoked.
Accordingly. Mr.. Stevenson. the candidate
for Vice Presidents was sent up 10 stamford
10 rouse" Fairfield County. With HIM went
Mr.. Clevclands intimate friend MIR. +. {.
Bencdct the millionaire broker who, when II
comes 10 a matter of rOnsing.' can probably
Grouse" Fairfield County with simple eN-
,ract from his check book 10 degree that
Rourko Cockran with all his oloqucnoe never
dr.,med Of On the way 10 stamford Mr..
Stevenson as We learn from 'Ihe World
:. sat in a prccccupied manner thinking deep
tariff thoughtS'--that il, they were not hlHh-
tariff thoughts He "alightcd" amid "tum'ilt'
at the same time gracefully dofllng his hat.
add q
Iungstorm arose" Which was COED sign.
I'm Stamford mngStormS' are always taken a'
al indication that somebody i ." roIScd' v"
the subsistence of the lungStorm Mf. steven
son started in with the speech now 50 iahlli'''
10 readers of Democratic newspapers which
opens with "A complimentary aIluSlon 10 Mr
Cleveland. Thcrcat somebody who was
rou>cd' said "Thrcc cheers for Cleveland
and somebody else, who evidently had not been
reused" but WAS waiting 10 be, sad ohut
up or get out :" At which Mr. Stevenson san
" All right there cannot be too much enihusi-
aSm' aud resumed his culogy Of CIe'eand'
whom he presently again called by name
"Thrcc cheers for Cleveland - shouted the per-
son who was " rouScd.' Put that man on
cried the man who hadn't been reused" Then
Mr.. Stevenson stepped aside and said : "lt i
never out of order TO cheer for Mr. Cleveland
Rcsumlng his speech after while Inc
World' says, he slapped the table with ale
sounding whack and the audience applauded."
80 the work of "rousng' the Connecticns
Democracy may be said to be fairly under way.
In closing his speech Mr.. Stevenson threw Out
some OF the deep tariff thoughts he had been
thinking " in a preoccupied manner on the
train. "They tell you" said he, with fine
sarcasm. that the county has grown enor-
mously rich. How much of it have you got1"
That was a corker" The audience was now
reused" to such pitch that they broke out
in " Uaughter." Mr.. T. G. Benedict and Gen
eral W. w. Skiddy, and other prominent local
Democrats who have been driving fourth
hands ever since the Mckinley bill went into
operation. and have not had tAeir wages raised
must have almost tumbled of their eAsars ID