Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-20
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The Calamity Rowling Republican spsakers Receive . Gold Reception in Waterbury.

Speakers Receive . Gold Reception in | Waterbury.
 The republican rally which took place | at the auditorium last night was pro- nounced failure as far as enthusiasm and | educational results are concerned. The | most that can be said in favor of the | speakers was that their addresses were brief and that they left behind them noth- | ing for their opponents to find fault with. nothing to discuss and scarcely any thing to talk about except the few funny stories which were introduced and which served to relieve the monotony of the uninterest- ing discourses on the haekneyed subjects of free wool. tariff reform and hard times" There was nothing logical. argu- mentative or aggressive in the addresse~ Of any of the speakers and to this we pre- sume can be traced the cold and indiffer ent manner in which the orators were re- ceived.
 Shortly after s o'clock the party entered the hall and for a political gathering it was strange to notice the faint applause, and things were beginning te look rather cool when the American band appeared on the | scene and threw little life into the meeting. Then chairman F. W. LaForpe of the republican town committee read a list of officers and introduced E c. Lewis as chairman. Mir Lewis is popular with the people of this city and received an ovation. He is a pleasing speaker and it was amusing to see him try to wear a sad face while he labored to draw a dark pie ture of the past fifteen months. But find ing his subject was not creating much en- thusiasm the chairman turned aside from | politics and told the audience a good story, something he can do to the queens taste. l When he had the meeting in good trim | after his humorous sketch of Pat" and his master, he introduced O. V. Coffin of Middletown, the candidate for governor | NIT Coffin spent most of his time in an effort to retute the statement of the press Tn relation to the improved condition of business at the present time as compared with one year ago. and the strongest part of his discussion on this matter was that out of long list of factories in the differ ent towns in Connecticut which have been reported as doing much more business now than year ago the speaker had found but two which had not been reported correct | ly. The speaker wanted his party to make the road easy for those who desired to enter the ranks of the republican party and asked that all such people be vel comed with open arms.
 Lorrin A. Cooke. candidate for lieuten- ant governor, was the next speaker. He thought that this would be a thinking campaign, and dwelt at considerable length on the free wool question. Mir | Cooke said that there was no issue worth speaking of in Connecticut. This is statement which We think the working people of Connecticut will not regard with much favor.
 Senator Platt of Meriden was next in. roduced. He told the audience how much he lovei his state and his country. The faces of the audience. he said re- minded him of the progress and industry ot the country. Mir Platt read two verses of the campaign song of 1892. which was sung at the democratic convention by 20- OOO people telling of the good times we shonld all see in the event of the election of Grover Cleveland. But Mir Platt did not think the audience cared to listen to man for whom they would not be called upon to vote for or against at the coming election and said he would give way in | order that they might hear such A man in the person of MT Sperry. the nominee for congress.
 When Candidate Sperry was introduced Senator Platt rushed to the front of the stage and demanded three cheers for Mir Sperry. piercing shriek from A few over-enthusiastic fellows scattered here and there through the hall, with a deafen- ing yell from halt dog n camins who carried torch lights for the band, was the reply. MT Sperry had not proceeded far with his address when quite a good many people commenced to leave the building. The speaker begged them to remain and said that he was unfortunate in being the last speaker. He dwelt at considerable length on the income tax. ''It was in- cluded in the Wilson bill, he said, '.to get the votes of the populists and the result is that an odIous measure has been foisted upon the people His conclusion on this particular subject was in strange contra dlcaon with some of his republican friends in Waterbury. one of whom said the other day: ''The democrats have made the biggest hut of their lives on this in- come tax question. There is no reason why man with an income of si,OOO should not pay something towards the maintenance of the government It is alu ed at the big tellows.' he said, .'and that is just why it is sure to win favor with the working people"
 When Alr Sperry concluded some fellow Tn the middle of the hall, who wanted to hear something about the issues of the day be ! fore going home. jumped to his feet and requested that General Kellogg say a few words on the ta'iff question. Mir Kellogg came forward and said he was not pre- pared to speak at that time. but promised ms friend that hs would be heard on the subject before election. Then the band played some more and the rally was over At the close the speakers remained on ths stage to receive the congratulL tions o th-ir friends One of the amusing fea. turrs Of this part of the programme was au incident which occurred between A promi nent republican and a we'll known demo crat and proved that there is not mucl likelihood of the humorous stories abou Pat dying out. Come up to the stage, said the republican wire puJler to hi
 friend ''and will introduce you to Nj
 Coffin. ''No sir." said the man as h, drew back toward the main exit, "I hav ' always had mortal dread of anythin,
 bearing that name and propose to keel
 away from it as long as can"
 Tho whole proceedings vindicated tn y remarks of MT Cook. that so far as the re | publIcans are concerned there are n : issues of any account in the state of Con
 necticnt." And on this account as mucl
 as anything else the audience went to thei
 homes disappointed and entirely dissatis
 lied with the result of the meeting.
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