The evening times., 1896-10-08

Hartford, Conn, Oct. SIT was nearly
l o'clock this morning before william j.
Mills. oi Now Raven. chairman Of the ex-
ecutive Committee of the rational Demo
cratic party III this state. caileu the state
Convention to order at Foot Guard Hall.
There were about ESQ delegates in attend
ance.
After few preliminaries, such as the
appointment of convention Committees, etc =,
Chairman Mills announced that ex-Gov.
Thomas Waller OF New London had been
selected as temporary chairman of the CON
vention. The mention of Gov. Waller's
nGme was received with hearty applause
ana three cheers. As he approached the
rostrum' the ex- governor was greeted with
renewed cheering. He spoke as follows:
BRYAN MUST BE BEATEN.
II pledged myself in public speech in the
last Democratic convention held in this
hall in June, that would oppose at Chi
cago reputation or Popdlsm in whatever
disguise they might appear or form they
might assume, and your action today Y sat
isfies me that you believe ! did all that
/ could TO redeem that pledge.
And now, Democrats, ] am for the
defeat of the Chicago usurpers and their
Populist allies, first Of all. by somebody
sure. BY national Democrats under the
blue and the gray,'and the Leadership Of
Palmer and Buckner, men we reverence
and honor, if 1t can be done; if not. by
national patriots from whatever party they
come. or whatever banner they bear-if it
is not red, and has not upon it the 16 to
iIieroglyphics, or the face OF either Altgeld
or Till man.
Fellow Democrats, the contest in which
we are enlisted is in some respects not un-
like that of 1861. 1t has broken up political
associations; it has separate personal
friends. But the contest, thank God, is
nearly ended. The dark clouds of disaster
are passing away. There is less fear and
more courage as the campaign progresses
and sound money men are crowding to the
front.
'-i'i.e gifted taIker ur the 1G to l cru
saders is beginning himself to feel the
change that is occurring. He is repeating
the sa wing wherever ne goes that IL he is
defeated his cause will survive, but his
cause is as dead as Dorus now He only
survives. And after November he will only
be recollection OF American vigor misdi-
rected and American eIoquence misap-
Piled
POINTS OF THE PLATFORM. :.
The platform contains the following
I've. the national Democracy OF Connecti-
cut. unreseryedly and unqualifedly indorse
the platform aud candidates OF the India II
apOiis convention. and commend the candi-
dates of the national aud State tickets to
all voters who desire to adhere to the prin-
ciples OF true Democracy"
The money plank in the platform is as
follows:
''As necessary consequence honest pay
meDt OF public debts and the preservation
Of the public faith and credit require that
the gold standard Of money as a measure
OF value shall be maintained.
while We favor the most liberal use OF
silver consistent with the enforcement OF
a gold standard, we are unaIterably op-
posed to the free coinage OF silver, deem
ing it n device for the debasement OF our
currency. and To the compulsory purchas.
Of silver by the government.
''Undcr existing circumstances, to pay
public debts in silver coin is repudiation; to
pay private debts in the same coin is TO rob
the wage-earner, and to provide for the
free coinage of silver means the destruc-
tion of legitimate business nd great suffer
ing among the ldboring classes"
I'VE believe the safety of our national
finances requires system OF sound bank
to supply the needs of the whole country
shall be created, safely secured, and always
and everywhere redcemablc IN golG.''