The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-04-10
MKINLEY CLUB BANQUET
REPUBLICANS FROM AL OVER tn e
STATE

The other Speakers.
Hartford, April 9.-The annual ban
quet of the Mckinley club at the Allyn
house tonight was attended by about
three hundred republicans from all over
the state. General Alexander Harbi-
son, the president of the clnb, presided
and Joseph l.. Barbour was toastmas-
ter. The guest of the evening was
Governor John w. Griggs of New Jer-
sey, who was welcomed by thes Hon.
Henry c. Robinson of this city in
speech highly complimentary in char
acter and eulogistic Of the states of
New Jersey and Connecticut. Cover
nor Griggs was the principal speaker
OF the evening and spoke as given be-
low.
Other speakers were General Harbi-.
son, Lieutenant Governor r. E. Moore
of Nebraska, Senator John NJ Doug
lass of Middletown, Judge George Fl.
CoWell of Waterbury, Stiles Judson,
jr., of Stratford and l.. B. Plimpton of
this city.
GOVERNOR GRIGG'S SPEECH.
After some pleasantries and compli-
ments to the Mckinley club, Governor
Griggs spoke in part as follows:
Connecticut and New Jersey have
many qualities in common. Many Of
us can boast of a common ancestry.
Ihe best colonial blood of Connecti-
cut contributed to the enrichment of
the early New Jersey settlements The
great industrial community which COM
prises Elizabeth, Newark, the Oranges,
Bloomfield and Montclair, a commu-
nifty which is destined to rival in i'm
portance, If not in acrimonious con-
troversy, the greater New York." was
settled by emigrants from Connecticut.
History does not disclose the incent-
ives that led these shrewd Yankees of
1850 to prefer the salubrious air and
fertile soil of New Jersey to the natur-
al attractiveness of your own beauti-
full state; but any Jersey man can
without diffimculty think of many adj
vantages that may have operated in
forming their purpose which it would
be unbecoming for guest to mention
i'll this presence.
After continuing in this vein and on
this line, in a very pleasing manner
Governor Griggs came next to speak
of the political situation and to con-
trast the two great political parties
He said:
In only three out of the nineteen
months the Wilson tariff has been in
operation, has it produced a revenue
equal to the expenditures of the gov
ernment; for the whole period there is
a deficiency of $4,000, 900, while in the
same period after the passage of the
Mckinley law there was q, surplus rev.
enue of $25,000,000. Upon what theory
of political economy will the Demo-
cratic platform justify the borrowing
of money to meet the ordinary cost Of
government in time of peace?
Run your minds back over the rec
ord of this Democratic administration
and recall single thing it has done
from the passage of the Wilson bill
down to the latest issue of bonds
which has not been received with
widespread and intense hostility with
in the Democratic ranks. Out of such
a mass of seething errors, dissensions
and diversities, it will be impossible to
construct platform which can COM
mand either the respect or the support
of any great portion of the people. If
it shall be made to appear satisfactory
to the diverse elements of the party
it will be insecure; and if it is sin
cere, it will be unsatisfactory
/ will not assume the roll of proph-
ct and try to forecast the Democratic
candidate. The future is too dark for
ordinary political foresight. If they
want to be consistent with their tariff
record, they will take Mr.. Wilson and
rely upon the approval of the London
board of trade; if they wish to follow
the policy of the Cleveland admins
tration in financial matters, they will
take Carlisle. Either will suit us.
Let us turn from impractical and use
less speculation concerning Democrat
ic difficulties and look at the other side
The hope of this country for the fu-
ture is in the Republican party, as it's
salvation in the past was. 1t is not
unused to facing difficulties and dan
gers. 1t has always risen grandest
and most inspiring in times of storm
and stress. It's cradle was rocked by
the pillows of tempestuous political
seas. It's record is written in the his
tory of America; whatever has made
our country great, whatever has made
it prosperous, whatever has preserved
and solidified it, is due to that party
The great men of America since 1860
have been Republicans. Who have
been the leaders of political thought,
the directors of patriotic sentiment, the
statesmen that have achieved undy-
ing fame in the judgment of all the
worldwide except the leaders of our
party? Their names rise unsummoned
to your thoughts. Shall 1 speak of
Lincoln? 1t seems almost narrow and
vain to speak of him as Republican;
and yet he was the typical Republi-
can. "Sagacious, patient, dreading
praise, not blame, new birth of our
new soil, the first American"
Grant. Sherman, Garfield, Blaine,
Sumner, Fessenden, Chase, Seward
these and many more-compose that IL
lustrious catalogue of names that the
Republican party carries upon it's roll
of honor; names that no longer belong
to that pa tv alone, but are become part
of the I atoms history, inseparably
linked sith the course of its prosperity
and /, reatness-shining sources of pa
triot inspiration for men of all par
ties everywhere.
Fol they are glory's now, and fame's-
Some of the few immortal names,
,Nhat were not born to die
But the republican party does not
rely upon the prestige of its great
no &c NOR raSt alone uunr, tI,a ,,,a,-; ?