Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-07
THE BIG REPUBL1oAN RALLY.

HE BIG REPUBLICAN RALLY. Address of President Fafnsworth of the Connecticut state League-The- Duty of the True Citizen-The mIs- sion of the Republican Club move- ment-What the Clubs Should Ace complish-Pertinent and Valuable Suggestions. s..-
 President Farnsworth of the Connect- ut Republican league, in his address as | he Hyperion yesterday afternoon after hearty words of welcome to the assembled said the republican outlook for the future was decidedly bright. "The disciples of Jefferson among us are fast be- coming convinced that the combination of all the kicking clements of the land, just now trying to do business in Washington under the old sign of democracy, is not tho party for them. The mugwumps who, vilifying the grand patriot and statesman, James G. Blaine, went poking after the democratic will e'the-wisp promising free raw material for New England, now find themselves stuck in the mire of an income tax, contemplating the complications of modern democracy and the augar trust, while the powers that bs, seem much more inclined to dole out stones than bread to New England.
 The workingmen, the industrious, thrift ty sons of toll in our factories and on our farms, disheartened by loss of work and reduction of wages and indignant at the at tacks made on their savings banks, ,emsnat- ing from representatives. of sections which have no use for them, are joining our Young Mems Republican clubs to stay.
 The mission of our club movement is not bring all citizens to realizing sense of the importance and the dignity of the duties of citizanship. The fact that we are here to-day from all parts of the state, far in advance of conventions to nominate state and congressional candidates, and without effort to influence their action, should be testimony to all men that we are in this work for patriotic motives.
 There are many things that our young mon, and our new voters from other coun- tries can be taught in our clubs. Teach them to read and study the history of our government and the principles of our party; that In return for the blessing of living under government of, for and by the people in this glorious land of ours, the very least they can do is to take advantage of every means to form an honest, intelli. gent opinion at ths polls, if nowhere else.
 Teach them to attend caucuses or pri- mary meetings, and see that trussy men are sent to conventions and nominated fol office; to have confidence in their fellow men who may bs nominated for office, ir spite of what opposition may say about them; that man who neglects his politica duties is shirk. That public office should be 8 public trust, and the elected repre- sentative of the people should feel that ht l is the peoples servant, not their master l but that the more a man is compelled o7 l permitted to pay to get an office the lees h. l Is liable to conduct himself as servant. Teach them that the buyer of vote ans ] the seller of vote should be disfranehisst | and otherwise severely punished, and tha l such criminals should be denounced evel ! if the success of tke party should be jso | men or ignorant ones talk that the tarif l is a tax and protection is robbery, 1t vii ! be perfectly safe to offer liberal rewar, for the naming of any article the price o which has been increased by protectiv tariff.
 Teach them that no matter what new an, untried organiz zation may ask for thei support their first political allegiance is the grand old party, and that the bsst re suits can be secured by sticking to through thick and thin. Teach them ths reform within the party is not only possi ble, but much more feasible than to star a Dsw party for every new idea; that
 policy conceived in the brain of the hum blest man among us may become @ plan of the national platform if properly prs sented through the regular machinery C town, state and national conventions.
 Of course the best place to "borp"
 new scheme Is in the club-take it ther and debate 1t. If the sentiment of th club Is against 1t as impractical and tn originator is pig-headed, he can offer 1t [ the prohibitionists, and the populists, an the democracy in turn; if all others tur 1t down the last would probably accept i | hail It's author as a Moses, and make him
 secretary of asdepartment, with a chans | at sugar.
 Teach them that while our political a l tion may be confined to email town in | small state, the result of that action is ia | reaching and has an influence in shspir | the policy of the graudeat of all the nstior l of the earth. Teach them that pstriotis l and politics should go hand in hand an ! that no man should bs permitted to beoon | SuCCeEblOI dS d po1lticleu uAle55 Ao 1s II ! gafded as sn unssldsh patriot.
 There are many more things that we ca
 learn and teach in our clubs ss we carry c the work from day to day and from yei ! to year. 1 wish that some of the mar bright young men present would write ol | their Ideas of club work to be printed an distributed among the clubs of the state. Mir. Farnsworth now spoke of the dut of true and good citizens to take an inte
 est in the nstion's political affairs. Tn was indeed duty. Men may be zoe
 morally and otherwise, buff they negle
 their political duties they are not good cit zsns. MT Farnsworth here urged the ne
 essity of having organized work in polite Connecticut-a busy hive of industry-hi
 been too busy to develop the maehinel | necessary to ths running of party polite Now the machine of the republics party Is pretty good machine, but if, in
 mediately after an election, 1t Is trundle
 out of the way into some dark corne
 there to lie and rust until campaign tin comes again, there fs danger that it may ! pulled out and started up by untraine, clumsy hands, or possibly selfsh, tricky an dishonest ones, fabricated according to u
 wealth and folly of those who may
 csj oled and f.ttered into accepting nom
 nations for office by these men, with an u
 derstanding that the greatest qualiicatie
 is ths ability to draw checks and hay
 them honored. The machine under the
 circumstances is pretty sure to be run
 the interests of man or clique witho1
 much regard for the welfare of the mass
 of the people, who, as long ss they a
 we'll fed and have fair share of creatu
 comforts, eeem to be satisfied that "wh
 is, is right" too indolent to back up (
 opinion or even form one. Such machil
 politics as these deserve condemnation.
 In business the only way to get satisfa
 tory results from the use of machinery
 to use only the best materials and wor
 men in the construction; employ only u
 most ekilful ard reliable msn to care for i
 Why should not the same plan be fo
 lowed in pollticsla Why should not u
 machine be set up in every community
 it is in our club house here in New Have
 and all of our bright young men invite
 in and fitted to take any of the varior
 places in the machine and eventually an
 place in charge of the work that the
 may be fitted for by experience aud abi
 ity9 Would not the result of such cours
 be, that large portion of the hurry an
 rustic and psrspiration-sheadip of th ordinary short campaign would be elimiI ated and in place of them our really bel citizens, who had devoted @ reasonab
 amount of time all the year round in keeI ing the machine In first class condition could go about their business, get healtl | c H-y