The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-05

of the ioaves and fishes was going to be repeated in these days when there are no miracles. But they killed the goose that laid the golden egg when the re- publican party was deposed from power. No sooner did the country wake up to find the government in the hands of the democrats than business men who had let contracts cancelled them. Lines of trade which were spreading out were withdrawn and business men generally began to curtail their business. demo- crats and republicans alike Every thing went to the bad until Grover called an extra session of congress to repeal the Sherman law and thus bring about prosperity. Up to that time nothing had been said about the III effects of the Mckinley law, which had given every man in the country em- ployment. The Sherman law was to blame. It was finally repealed. Did the times improve? No. Then the democrats began to howl that 1t was the Mckinley bill which had brought on the hard times, and 1t was not until then, and then only. that the Mckinley bill was charged with being to blame for the depression in trade. We never said that protection increased wages, but we do say that 1t provides work for our laboring classes, when free trade deprives them of 1t.
 ITO hear a democratic orator you would think every democratic shop was running on full time, and that no democratic banks had failed. You know that Is not so, however. Was 1t not the democratic bankers in New York who were the very first to lock their money up when the saw the financial hurri- cane coming ?Confinednce will never be restored until the democratic party is so thoroughly beaten that there will no longer be doubt as to the policy that will prevail
 "The history of the final passage of the Wilson bill Is too long for me to tell, but want to say here that had that bill passed as 1t was originally brought out there was not sufficient protection in 1t to keep the wages of the workmen on par with the wages of foreign workmen. No sooner was the bill taken up than delegations began to flock to Washington to have the duties kept on articles that were of particular interest to them, and then the spectacle was presented of democrats who had been crying out against the Mckinley bill, becoming protectionists, so far as their own particular districts were con- cerned and free traders with regard to everything else. In this way the Wilson bill was passed, and became what the president characterized as a piece of party rerfidy and party dishonor." :" The contest over the bill brought out all sorts of democrats, and in Cennecti- cut they can be seen to-day. There are
 Hill democrats and Cleveland demo- crats, and as I am informed an ex-gov- ernor of this state and an official under President Cleveland said before an au- dience the other night in this city that he despised and would like to kick the president for turning his back on his party. It is said when thieves fall out honest men get their dues.'
 The democratic party as 1t stands to- day could be classified as follows: Some followed Hill, some followed Cleveland and some followed leaders they ought not to follow. There were the mug Wumps, the Tammanyites, the civil ser vice reformers, the spoilsmen, the snap- pers and anti-snappers, the free-trade democrats and the protection demo- crats In Hartford county the con- gressman thought it was democratic to vote against the income tax and the Wilson bill. In New Haven county Congressman Pigott thought 1t was democratic to vote for both measures Democracy, he said, was all things at all times to suit the convenience of each individual democrat. If MT. Pig ott had dared to represent the manu- featuring interests of his district as did MT. Sperry of Hartford he would have been read out of his party as the Hartford congressman had been
 Whatswe want is to send Mir. Sperry. Nehemiah D., to congress, who can vote for the interests of his state and dis trict, and who will not be ostracised,"
 He further stated that 1t was the south and west which had been con- trolling congress and the northern dem oorats had got to take the medicine whether they wanted to or not. He said he felt grieved to say 1t, but from the attitude of the southern congress- men on the tariff bill he could not help but fear that the south had been put ting the knife into men who subdued them and made them come back into the Union the bitterness of which had not disappeared. It was for protection democrats to say whether the interests of this state should be subserved to southern influence.
 In speaking of the so-called A, P. A. issue Senator Platt said: Tt is ridicu- lous to talk of A. P. A. and constitution al reform when such great issue Is at stake; when the democratic leaders have declared that the war for tariff reform were but just, begun" These issues he said were foreign to the cam paign having no more to do with 1t than the owner of a house would have to do with an architect who was en- deavoring to talk to him about the renovation and refitting of the dining and sitting rooms while the house was being consumed by fire. He then re- ferred to what protection had done for Connecticut and claimed that the two were inseparabie and that Connecticut was the child of protection. It was no reflection upon the democrats, he said, to ask them to vote for protection, and in this connection said:
 You can get a democrat to do. most