Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-10-26

anu LOOK tno Audieucc " npofh. AAN | Staub is a man of huge proportions. but when warmed up to his subject walked ipp and down the stage with the agility of a school boy. He said some good things in support of his party. "The democratic marty knows no sect or creed" he shouted
 with voice that shook the building. and caused the ladies in the boxes to crane their heads over the railing to see what
 kind of man was doing the talking. "It is always ready to pick up a man no matter
 where the place of his birth and give him
 a prominent place in the ranks. It is the
 democratic party that takes a man for what
 Le is and does not stop to consider his race
 or creed. It never refused to take the
 exile from the Rhine and honor him as her
 own. Our opponents tbink because a man
 does not worship God in the same manner
 as some one else he is not fit to be ele-
 vated to position of honor or trust. I | know something about how my opponents | can use a man. Then speaking of his | opponent Benjamin Mead, he said: Ben
 jamin has been going up and down the | Naugatuck valley saying that no honest [ man should vote for Staub because he is |
 prosecuting poor old olney and that there
 is nothing in it but politics. think it is
 about time I said something. I have the
 documents which would put any man in a | felon's cell. Let them name General $. W. Kellogg. George E. Terry and some other prominent Waterbury republican or
 or three Hartford republicans and I will | submit the documents to them. I cannot
 make them public as 1t would prejudice | the case. I will be satisfied with their | judgment as to whether did my consti-
 tutional duty. whether I was not otl ged to | bring suit to save the school fund. Ben jamin can't stop me from doing my duty,
 neither can the whole republican party. | If any republican in Connecticut believes | that did not do this from a sense of duty, let him look at these documents. Benja-
 min says that if he gets Tn the suit will | never be tried. If am elected I will go | to the bottom of it even if it takes a crow | bar to do it." Mir Staub concluded by
 thanking the meeting for it's attention to
 his remarks and said he was the father of
 all the other candidates. being the oldest
 of them all and on this account thought he had considerable on his hands.
 Congressman James F. Pigott was the
 next speaker, II desire to thank the peo-
 pie of Waterbury for what they did for me
 two years ago" he said. ''so that tonight
 I appear before you not as a candidate for
 congress, but your congressman, and I am
 proud to be able to say that I have no apology to offer for any vote that have
 cast in congress as your representative. I
 deem it your duty if you believe what
 these gentlemen have said as to constitu-
 tional reform to send the two clean.
 honest young men your party in this town
 has nominated to the next legislature with
 a handsome majority. You know how
 they will vote. Give me a young man
 who will vote as he says and I would rather have him than all the old fossils you
 could mention" The speaker talked at } some length on the subject of pensions
 and said that but two people in this dis , trict who had applied for a pension had been denied it. He told of the heroic efforts of Pension Commissioner Lochren in behalf of the union soldiers and ably refuted the claims that the republican party is the warm friend of the union } soldier. He said the republicans dodge every issue as ''it is the safe thing for them to do." An intelligent discussion ot these matters would reveal some things 3 which the leaders of that party do not care to hear discussed before an intelligent au- dience Mir Pigott gave an excellent explana- ton of the income tax He said: The priEci- pie of the income tax is as old as christianity and is foun ded on the gospel of Christ It Is the same as that man own ing two houses worth SlO, 900 each should
 pay more than tie man oAning one house worth Sl0, QUO. The man with an income
 of S1 ,0O0 pays out of all proportion 10 the , | support of the government us contrasted P with the man who has an income of Sl = 0OO, ,OOO. The democrats in congress thought it high time to say to the people of wealth, you shall pay more.' l had the honor of being the only representative who suggested that the operation of the ) act be limited to a few years because knew that if it proved beneficial it would ; be continued and if not that It Q could die out without doing much harm. l The house did not adopt the suggestion. l. = but the senate and the secretary of
 
 ] said that the professor of every college in b New England teaches that the principle of = the income tax is a sound one. He was V taught the theory at Yale.
 !, At this point Chairman Spencer rose | and said II have now the honor of intro ' ducinc to you a man for whom you have ' often voted but with whom I hope you will never have any official relations ' The man was Sheriff Tomlinson. Nh Il Tomlinson said that the duties of his ofnce
 did not require a man to be much of q - talker. He thanked the people of Water. bury for the generous support given to l. him on former occasions and hoped that l. the voters of Waterbury would stand by s the whole ticket.
 u A. Kenndy Child of Hartford was tber l: introduced and the meeting listened to ar II intellectual discourse such as has seldom been h ard from platform in this city Mir Child said that he like the nominees U from Waterbury. was guilty of the crime o II being a young man. and this k as ob u iectionable to our opI onents in his | al e of the state as it is in Waterbury. H' 70 said that this is a fight of young men anC ," hoped that the young men of Waterbury c would show that they are not afraid tC U place the political welfare of their city 1T !. the hands of young men. Speaking of th' St need of constitutional revision, he saiC ~ that it is as necessary in this state as uni h versal suffrage is in the United States "To deny this" he said. ais to deny thu le right which the federal constitution guar 'i antees to the humblest citizen of thu L. United States" The speaker cited thu sr words of Henry c. Robinson. a republi le can, in support of his argument, and msd' IIee an eloquent plea for a large democrati II vote in the hope that these reforms migh . be effected. Speaking of the A. P. A, h. o said: If Protestantism has any right tt
 exist it shodld stamp from its breast tn 'o organization which seeks to deprive an. ~ man from exercising all the rights of citi U, zepship on account of his religion. Peo ,i ,i | ple acting in conjunction with such an or .. ganization misunderstood the principles O ln the constitution and are unfit to exercis the right of citizenship. If the state 0 ot things which such misguided men as ar iu at the head of this society would hay ~ should obtain, where would be the right o and privileges which the constitution gual antees to the humblest citizen Of thi s' country? Let the authors of this move ,n . ment beware that this religious issu . which they have introduced into this can ln paien may not prove a boomerang and rt oe act upon its origipators with all the fore winch it can receive from the arm of "A outraged and grossly insulted free people .s We have been able to cary on our can