The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-09-28
PIG0TT RENOMINATED.
DEM0CRArIo coS6REssIOSAL CON-
 VESTION AT TMIDDLEfOWN.


 VESTION AT MIDDLEf0WN. Platform Adopted-En-ssnator Morss ef Meridsn Was Put Up. But Received Only Ten Notes.-The Convention Wanted Pig ott-what the Platform Says.
 Middletown. Sept. 27.-The Second dis trict democratic congressional conven- ton held in McDonough's hall in this city to-day was called to order by James c. Roach of waliingford. chair man of the congressional committes. at 1i;s0 o'clock. Thomas L. Reilly of Mer- iden was made chairman.
 On taking the chair Mir. Reilly thanked the delegates for the honor. and then spoke briefly on the political questions of the day. He paid high trib- ute to the course pursued by Congress- man Pigott at the last session of congress and said that no delegate would make a mistake In voting for him.
 Chairman Reilly said that the wise course followed by Mir. Plggott had re- ceived the endorsement of his constitu- ents throughout the district. The speak CTS remarks were liberally applauded when he had concluded.
 Frank S. Pratt of saybrook was then elected secretary. and the list of dele gates as presented to the convention was immediately approved.
 A committee on resolutions was ap- pointed as follows: William S. Pardee of New Haven, John F. Houlihan of Waterbury, G. T. Hubbard of Middle town, James F. Bride of East Haddam, and E. P. Bates of Guilford.
 Nominations were next In order. In a rousing speech ex-Town Clerk Philip Hugo of New Haven nominated James P. Pigott of New Haven. The delegates vigorously applauded. Patrick Hayes of Waterbury seconded the nomination, as did G. T. Hull and MT. Gleeson of Mer- iden.
 Thomas Lane, delegate from Essex, sprang a surprise on the convention when he arose and nominated ex-Sena- tor George N. Morse of Meriden in op- position to MT. Piggott.
 John Scully of Meriden and W. D.. Markham of Chatham were appointed tellers.
 An informal vote was first taken and resulted:
 Pigott, 116 Morse, 10
 A motion was made to make MT. Pigott's nomination formal and unani- nous, but G. H. Hardman of Essex vigorously objected.
 He said that when Congressman Pig ott redeemed his promises made to hard working democrats in the lower part of Middlesex county he would vote for him and not before.
 It is supposed that MT. Hardman's dissatisfaction was due to the contest over a number of postoffice appoint ments in the neighborhood.
 On the vote to make the nomination unanimous Hardman's was the only dis senting voice.. H,-- ;s'
 A committee consisting of Messrs. Hugo, Hubbard and Gleeson was ap- pointed to inform MT. Pigott of his nomination and escort him to the hall.
 When MT. Pigott appeared he was cheered. In brief speech he promised to pursue the same course which he believed met with the approval of his constituents and said he would do all he could to assist the president in shap- ing legislation according to democratic ideas.
 The congressional committee was ap- pointed for the next two years as fol- iows:
 James c. Roach of Wallingford, James W. Kelly of Milford, William Ja- nieson of Middletown,. w. s. Pardee of New Haven and w. H. Hall of Chat nam.
 Then the convention adjourned.
 The Meriden delegates took to Middle town to-day number of handsome blue badges bearing a. picture of their choice md the inscription For Congress, Hon. James P. Pigott."
 The platform adopted endorses Cleve- land and the work of the Fifty-third congress, attributes the financial panics of 1873 and 1893 to the republicans and to the protective policy of the republi- cans, and on account of which the democrats found it uphill work to re- store prosperity in a day. Proceeding, he resolutions say:
 We commend the resolute work of President Cleveland and his aids in congress in making home rule on cleo ion day success; in stopping the use- ess purchase of silver bullion for stor- age in the vaults of the treasury; in cutting down the expenditures of the government more than 32S,oGs, 900 below that of the preceding republican ad- ninistration; in passing antitrust laws that will prove effectual in taking off a portion of the burden which was placed lpon what people are obliged to eat and wear and placing 1t upon what Is de- lived from accumulations, especially in view of the fact that more than one half of the national wealth, real and personal is held in the hands of 25. 900 persons; for the great reduction of axes upon raw materials needed to