Connecticut western news., 1892-10-06
THE POLITICAL BOOM.
NEW YORK REPUBLICANS HOLD A
 GENUINE LOVE FEAST.

Platt, Miller and Depew All Inside the Breastworks Together-New York Dem-
 ocratic Clubs Re-eIect MT. John Boyd
 Thacher as President of the League.
 NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-The first big Re publican meeting of the campaign was held last night at Cooper Union. The news that ex-Senator Warner Miller, ex-Senator Platt, Chauncey M. Depew and Whitelaw Reid were to speak attracted large crowd. Mr. Platt was introduced as chairman.
 MT. Platt, after the applause had sub sided which his appearance had evoked, thanked the audience for its kind reception and said he must protest against being stigmatized as a prodigal son. He was a Republican, and never expected to he any thing else He then referred to the lively contest which took place at the last conven- tion between the friends of the different aspirants for the presidential nomination, and continuing said:
 Only two conventions have occurred since the republic was founded in which the fercest strife has not been engendered, and these were the conventions which nominated for the sec ond time the Father of his Country, George Washington, and the savior of his country, Ulysses s. Grant [Applausel The Republicans who supported the different candidates at Min neapolis have nothing for which 10 apologize Any one of them is qualified to rule this nation in the darkest hour of trial or in the golden day of its prosperity. Applause.
 In his last letter of acceptance MT. Cleveland has been forced to wrestle with condition, not a theory, viz, he has been forced to spit upon the platform and to expect to rate as consist ent Democrat Again, he overlooked that em- barrassing condition which was embodied in xhar +Nft1 t1a+ official known as the commissioner of statistics of labor. He should have definitely settled the question whether Peck should be crucifed to appease the wrath of the free trade mugwumps and thus be put on the list of martyrs to the holy cause of protection. He has been driven to embrace the tariff ideas of his arch enemy and to humihatingly adopt the imaginary issue of the journalistic statesman who has stigma tized him "a stuffed prophet" In the ex- pressive language of that same Democratic oracle, 'The tariff part of Mir Cleveland's let ter Is full of carefully considered maxims and is as elastic as caoutchouc." Laughter and applausel Democratic newspapers have consistently for months past spread through their columns all sorts of incendiary appeals and bogus infor- nation in regard to this alleged force bill There never has been a force bill which was in dorsed by the Republican party, and the infor- nation furnished on that subject is of the same character as the cable dispatches of interviews Wlln blsmarck ana imaginary ulSCoVerleS lu the geography of Mars. The issue is forced, fictitious and fraudulent. The Republican par ty, however, believes in a free ballot and fair count, and that we will have [Applsuse.l
 In introducing ex-Senator Warner Miller MT. Platt spoke as follows:
 There is harmony everywhere, not only in New York, but all over the state. Applause ] This is g veritable love feast. Laughter and applause.l There is nobody tonight outside the breastworks. Laughter and applause.l was there myself and speak feelingly. Laughter and cheers.l The next orator of the evening is one whose name Is as familiar to you as a house. hold word. take great pleasure in introduc- ing to you the Hon. Warner Miller.
 Warner Miller spoke as follows:
 Ladies and gentlemen, I stand here as an- other representative of the class that has been described to you by our president. All differ ences in the Republican party ended when the convention at Minneapolis declared its choice. The Republican party has always allowed the greatest liberty in the choice of candidates but when once chosen every Republican has been loyal to the cause, loyal to party principles and loyal to party candidates. And tonight, in the state of New York, whatever differences may have existed have passed away, and the Re publican party has only one cause to command its attention and efforts.
 MT. Platt then introduced Dr. Chauncey M. Depew, who received his usual ovation. In part he said:
 came here for the purpose of convincing the skeptical Democratic newspapers that there is harmony in the Republican party. Applause and laughter.l Brother Miller and Brother Platt and Qaughterl got on the opposite side of the fence in Minneapolis, but we are now the friskiest lambs in the same lot. [Applause.l
 The Democratic literary directors are in debted to me. I have furnished a document of which they printing ln,000 copies where they print 100 of Cleveland's letter of accept ance. It is the alleged speech that I made at the Astor House dinner describing Mir. Cleve- land as 8 typical American.
 After reading Mir. Clevaland's letter of ac- ceptance want to say there are two things about that speech-one is, the gentleman de- scribed in that speech as the typical American is not the man who wrote the letter of accept ance [applauael and the other is that did not vo kaf fhata apaach