The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-10-09
JOEL A. SHERRY CHOSEN
AS THE COLD DEMOCRATS NOMINEE
 FOR GOVERNOB

FOR GOVERNOR
 y tho National Democratic Convention at Hartford Yesterday-A Stirring Address by Ex-Governor Waller--A Speech by the Venerable Ex-Editor A. E, Burr-other Features of the Convention,
 Hartford, Conn, Oct. S.--At 10:45 o'clock this morning about 25O dele gates to the state convention of the national democratic party were as- sembled in Foot Guard hall. In other parts of the building were several sen atorial delegations making nomina- tions.
 in the buttonholes of many of the delegates goldenrod was noticeable, and large quantity of the same was placed on the platform for free distrib- ution.
 When Chairman W. J, Mills of New Haven finally called the convention to order, he said he regretted that it was necessary to hold such a convention but owing to the assertion from the democratic party of those who had formerly adhered to its principles 1t now became his pleasure to do so.
 After the preliminary business was accomplished and ex-Governor Waller had been elected temporary chairman, Chairman Mills requested Delegates Stark of New London county and Can- field of Fairfield county to escort ex- Governor Thomas M. Waller to the platform. MT. Waller was greeted with applause. Governor Waller spoke as follows:
 GOVERNOR WALLETS ADDRESS. GentlemenI accept the honor you have so graciously and unanimously rendered me with unaffected pride
 But it Is not the vanity of presiding aver convention that affects me- It is the implied endorsement of the respon- sible representative men and leaders of the democracy of the state here as- senbled; men who have in the past been faithful to the principles. tradi- tions and interests of the party, and whose presence here to-day is in itself a renewal of the vows of their party loyalty for the rest of their liyes
 Chicago Convention.
 I pledged myself in public speech in the last democratic convention held in this hall in June that I would oppose at Chicago repudiation or populism in whatever disguise they might appear or form they might assume, and your action to-day satisfies me that you be- lieve II did all that I could to redeem that pledge. And I take pleasure in re- porting that all the members of the delegation of which I was the chair man were as earnestly opposed as was to the socialism, the populism, the trampism, the Tillmanism and the 16 to 1-ism of the Chicago platform, though one or two of them, who have since their return been Host, strayed or stolen,' were not quite so intense.
 But they were, nevertheless, true to the spirit of the convention that sent them. For we all voted together against the indignity the usurpers put upon the national committee in refus- ing to honor the unbroken precedents of the party by accepting the commit- tees nominee for temporary chairman. And we all voted together and in righteous indignation we protested to- gether against the violence of the
  delegation to procure a two-thirds ma- iority with no more reason or justice, or decency even, than they could, if their designs required it. have unseated us.
 Every one of your delegates voted against every plank of the Chicago platform and not one of them voted in favor of either the candidates on the ,,fx ar1i mentary cutrages were being enacted or threatened, I ventured to tell the usurpers. in as courteous but as de- termined language as could command, that the democracy, at least of the east and north, would not submit tame ly to such parliamentary wrongs and party humiliations; that while we could stand but little from republicans, we could for the sake of the party suffer a good deal from friends, but there was a limit to that even and they were all ready or the wrong side of the line
 Chicago Yells
 The re-echo of the yells with which the usurpers greeted this warning they will hear, in the "h1eak November, when their burning, dying embers cast their ghosts ur on the floor" and that echo will be, "quoth the raven, never more, nevermore.
 Delegation Had Good Time.
 But do not, I beg of you, assume from anything have said to you that your delegation did not personally have a good time at Chicago. The fact is otherwise Some of us were covered with presen tation badges from silver states and all of US drank with pleas ure the wines of California her silver delegates sent us.
 How Democrats Should Vote.
 And now, democrats, you who realize the irreparable harm that the success of popu1ism means to the Integrity of our institutions, to the credit of our nation, to the prosperity of our people, and to the perpetuity of our party can you upbraid me for saying that l am for the defeat of the Chicago usurpers and their populist allies, first of all by somebody sure? By national demo- crats under the blue and the gray, and the leadership of Palmer and Buckner, men we reverence and honor, if it can be done; if not by national patriots from whatever party they bear-if 1t is not red and has not upon it the 16 to 1 hieroglyphics or the face of either Alt geld or Tillman.
 Earnest, thoughtful men do not hesi- tate to join with others in saving life