The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-07
LET THE GRAND FLAG WAVE
Il STRONG ADDRESS BY GOVERNOR
HASTINGS or PENNSYLTANI1.

Samuel Fessenden.
Bridgeport, March 6,--At the annual
banquet of the Bridgeport Republican
club in the Fourth Regiment armory to
night there We're over 1000 seated at
the tables at o'clock. For more than
an hour the feast progressed and when
the tables had been well cleared of eat
ables the speakers and invited guests
were invited to the platform.
The guests included all the state off-
GERS except Governor o. V. Coffin, who
sent telegram of regret, his absence
being enforced by illness. In the dis
tinguished gathering were Governor d.
II. Hastings of Pennsylvania, Senator
j. C. Burrows of Michigan, Congress-
man Willis of Delaware, Speaker Sam
Fessenden of Stamford, State Secretary
w. G. Mowry, State Treasurer G. W..
Hodge, Comptroller B. p. Mead, Gener-
al HARRISON of Hartford and number
of prominent politicians from Hartford,
New Haven and other cities of the
state.
Senator w III. Marigold of this city
presided and first introduced Governor
Hastings, who was greeted with ap-
plause. The Pennsylvania began his
speech in a general way relating enter
taining stories and then launched out
into a speech with but little partisan
ship in it. Continuing he said
Congress ought to have the everlast-
ing gratitude of all patriotic people by
reason of it's recognition of the Cuban
INSURGENTS The whiteSt all that the
people Of Cuba can have is the United
States and it's people 1t is time to let
our grand old flag wave while we stand
ready to protect it. We must make it
plain that foreigners coming to this
country are to leave their ideas of
1nonarchical institutions behind them
America must not be the asylum of
the INDECENT Of all nations. We have
developed the resources of this country
until we are the greatest and grandest
nation on the face of the earth We
lead in progress, in intellectually, in
wealth, good citizenship, good clothes
end even good beef. We have better
wives, sweeter children and more glo~
rious resources than any nation on
Gods footstool."
Governor Hastings then drifted into
the Armenian question and said he
wished the government could give more
aid, and if it had to send a half dozen
war vessels along to carry out the work
In these matters of foreign interven-
tion | believe in the old fashioned Con-
necticut doctrine that an ounce of pre-
vention is worth pound of cure This
country should have a host of splendid
war vessels to bear the flag of freedom
to every part of the world. Let us car
ry out the Americanism exemplified by
Lincoln, by Blaine and by other patrl-
OTIS Of former days 1t never closed a
factory, it never dulled the arteries of
commerce, it never stopped a furnace
or caused want by reason of depressed
industries to go stalking through the
land
The speaker then predicted the rele-
cation of the present party in power TO
obscurity within a twelve-month and
closed with: "Let us hope that after
that peace may continue to abide with
u.s. national peace founded upon the
life and learnings of him who said I
cannot tell lie;' a common people Of
a common nation, with a common prin-
ciple for a common good in a common
brotherhood"
Senator Burrows, the eloquent orator
from Michigan, was next introduced
and continued on the line of the former
sneaker. "It is true" he said that we
have passed resolution recognizing
the rights of the Cuban belligerents.
We have taken a step in the aggres-
sive. We have asserted our national
ity. This flag which we have raised
will never be lowered one single inch.
All parties are practically agreed in the
carrying out of the Monroe doctrine,
that is, the democrats and populists, in
a lucid interval. We are agreed that
no foreign power shall gain further
possessions on this continent. But as
l now see it the real question at issue
this fall will be our domestic policy.
The fault does not lie with the repub
Iican party. The United States senate
is composed of eighty-nine senators and
of this number forty-four are republi-
cans on some lines, namely, the pass
age of certain bills and a motion to adj
journ. There are six populists and thr-
ty-nine bourbon democrats. The latter
will not affiliate with us and we must
not expect any relief from the present
congress toward the benefit of business
interests. The only hope for this coun-
try is in the results of the coming cleo
tion. If the great object lesson of loss
and deprivation taught the country by
the results of democratic rule in the
past three years is needed it will teach
the American people something whose
results will be well worth the cost.
They will cast their votes with greater
care at the next election, for they will
have gained knowledge and foresight.
II confess I have never been able
to understand the presidential election
of 1892. The entire country deliberately
declared it would enter an era of free
trade. The people had a craze to fol-
low the democratic plan of turning
their back on protection. Who, of your
executives SO nobly fought this craze
as Benjamin Harrison? But you struck
him down. Never was there so good
an executive as he. He stood by AM
erican industries and American work
shops and in other matters made the
American flag respected and honored
the world over. But you voted for a
change and you got it"
Speaker Samuel Fessenden, the jolly
presiding officer of the last house, whose
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