Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-08-04
YOUNG REPUBLIoANs BANQUET

One Hundred and Seventy-five of the
Young Mems Republican Club
Enjoy \ Dinner at HIPS Homestead
Able Speeches by Senators Plat
and RaWlcy and Postmaster Sperry
-Addresses by other Prominent Re-
Publicans-An Occasion Long to be
Remembered by All.
About 175 members and guests of the
Young Mems Republican club sat down to
a shore dinner at Hills Homestead, Savin
Rock, at o'clock last evening. Three
special cars took the party down, and
when they arrived they found the dinner
spread under white tent on the lawn in
trent of the sHomestead." After an
elaborate shore dinner had been disposed,
of President Frederick B. Farnsworth
made the address of welcome. He said:
"We welcome you all here tonight with
the true republican cordiality.- This club
is very different from what 1t was
two years ago. Then we had only about
200 members, and most of them older citi-
zens, most of whom were ready enough to
put their hands in their pockets, but who
could not spend their evenings or even
their Sundays at the club. But since the
campaign 1t has become quite place for
social meetings for the members.
"But shall now again repeat to you
what have repeated month after month.
We have $50 members; We must have
1000 to carry on the club. Many
should come in from the surrounding
k< 30 he To
names is the only way to perpetuate the
club and to make it do its best work.
"Now, I will introduce to you our senior
senator, who ia soon going to Washington,
and am sure he will not bs on the fence
there"
With this Introduction from President
Farnsworth, Senator Platt arose and spoke
as follows:
Young Men of the Republican Club: I
am a republican and Connecticut repub-
lican, and an aggressive republican. and I
know of nothing in its platform which we
want to reform. I believe in the republi-
can party. am partisan because the
republican party is right, has been right
in the past and will be right in the future.
And want to say to you young men of the
| republican club that you should make your
politics next to your religion. You are all
of you ambitious as young men SHOULD be.
| wouldn't give a cent for young nan
| who did not have ambition. But you can
not make yourself what your ambition
would spur you on to be in a country that's
ruled by the democrats. 1t may not make
| much difference to us on whose temples
| the hair is growing gray how the future
| turns out, but to you it is everything. Tt
| you it makes allthe difference in the
world.
We hear great deal about deserters, bu
I tell you for every deserter we have {
change last fall have got it, and they dom
like it. When I spoke to you il
the Hyperion theater before election a..
said that there was not an idl,
mill in the United States. Now you cal
see the situation for yourselves. We hav
suffered financial depression. Our friend
| tell us that the cause of all this Is the Law
called the Sherman law, and We have
special session of congress called to repea
this law, but does any one believe that i
We had president like Benjamin Harrison
in the chair and republican senate tina
this condition of affairs would ex
ists Cries of ''No, no."l Bsnjs
min Harrison when be was called t.
the dedication of a monument in Vernon
was called from the car at Albany an,
there gave utterance to this statement
"Every dollar of the currency must b
kept as good as another dollar of it.
Did any of you ever hear our present pres
| fdent give utterance to such expressions
think not.
shall probably vote for the repeal Q
the Sherman law. think that we ough
to 60 out of issuing a paper currency a
soon as possible. It Is unsound bushes
policy for a government to issue promise
| to pay. At the time the system was adop!
ed it was rather necessary, but now it ha
become SO customary that we have sevs
different kinds of currency, with dill
ferent functions, in this country. My ide
Ia not that we haven't enough currency
but we should make it better. want
: make the prediction that the repeal of th
Sherman law and the threat to repeal tn
, tariff law at the next session of congres
will afford no relief to the country. But
have no doubt that If Grover Cleveland
president of the United States, had til
power to dictate and would use it in r.
pealing the Sherman law and would striv
. to make one dollar of the currency as goo
as another, and would issue authority t
sell bonds and would leave the tariff alone
!, have no doubt, say, that the preser
clouds of financial distress would disaI
. pear as before the light of the sun.
"Fhe tariff can wait" says the NewYor
| Times, it Is the money question that is th
acute disease"
have now just outlined the great ques
lions which are confronting you, I war
to see more young men in Connecticut G
} into politics, and then we need have q
, fear for the safety of the Republican party
You are young men of brains and activit
and you are amply able to carry forwar
the standard of the party to victory.
SENATOR JOSEPH R. HAwLEY's SPEECH.
Senator Joseph R. IHawIey of Hartfor
; | was next called upon, and spoke as 70
lowe:
Young Men of the Republican Club {
New Haven-The republican party is som
thirty eight or thirty mine years old. Som
of US who were among those who saw til
} founding of THAT great organization wer
greatly pleased few years ago at th
forming of the Young Mems Republica
clubs throughout the United States. wa
very much pleased to hear that the Ne,
Haven young men had organized them
selves together in a strong body. 1t is a
unalloyed pleasure whenever I look upo
faces like those which I see before me.
see republicans and I see Anne,
leans with whom the countr
will be safe. There is nothin
1
the country is to be ruled eventually b
the principles of the Republican party. ]
is the only party that believes in and stand
| by all that 1t says. It is the only part
that is to DO trusted in financial matter.
It is the only party that dares to say ths
any man twenty-one years of age has til
right to vote and to have his vote counted
It was the great moving force of the great
est struggle the world ever saw and mad
this union one and inseparable.
We see the great financial crisis i
which this country ia involved. We &c
banks failing and factories shutting down
They are not doing it for amusement. T
my mind 1t ia the result of the view take
by those abroad, who see in US a mono
metallic country with the silver doila
worth about so cents. They have no sent
ment toward us. They are rather hostile
They study us coldly and businesslike.
The fact remains that on the very nigh
of election, when 1t became evident tbs
Cleveland would be the next president, in
Vulnerable schemes for industrial advance
election were pigeon holed and have n
NAMED pigeon-holed since. And the res
son of thisis the absolute business unce1
tainty which prevails all over the country
For no man on earth can tell what til
business future of the country is. No bus
mess man can plan for the future on az
count of this uncertainty. They can't tel
what to do. There is money, ,intellectus
power, push and vim enough in the coun
try to carry it along successfully, but i
is restrained on account of this same bust
ness uncertainty. The real distress of thu
country, however is the uncertainty O.
what the democratic party will do Th
democratic party comes up absolutely I'm
certain whether they will repeal the pur
| chase clause of the Sherman bill or not