Connecticut western news., 1896-09-03
RORABACK'S SPEECH
HIS ADDRESS AT THE REPUBLI. CAN STATE CONVENTION IN HARTFORD, SEPT. ?, 1896.

CAN STATE CONVENTION IN
 HARTFORD, SEPT. ?, 1896.
 and State Campaigns, and Nominates
 the Hon. Lorrin A. Cooke for Gov
 ernor of Connecticut.
 ExJudge Alberto T. Roraback, of North Canaan, made the following ps- triotic speech at the Republican State convention in Hartford yesterday.
 MT Chairman and Gentlemen of the Convention:
 The able and exhaustive speeches of our temporary and permanent chsirmen, he n prning guns of the campaign, seem to have aroused sort of old time en- thuissm. These great arguments make us fe4l as though we were here to renew nnr allegiance to the party and princi- ples of Lincoln. Grant. Garfield. Harri sou and that hero and statesman. Will liam Mckinley. The issues of this ~ampsign are as vital and important to shis great nation as any that were ever encountered bv our great leaders. That platform of principles SO recently ad- opted bv the national convention held in the name of the Democratic party, is menauce to personal security. the rights of property and an outrageous att tack upon the honor and fidelity of our government That convention, although called in the name of the Democratic party was not under the control of the honorable. conservatives members of that organization. but under the domin- ation of men whose most conspicuous public utterances had been savage and brutal attacks upon the most distin- guished man iu that party, the chief magistrate of this nation, for daring to io his duty in . manly and courageous way, that the lives and property of American citizeps might be protected. md the financial credit of our country saved. As read the proceedings of that convention, and the propositions it advanced, it occurred to me that it would have been in order for some proper authority then and there to have read the riot act and in the name of the United States of America to have called upon that body of men to disperse. Bnt this important ceremony was omit ted, and it will become the sacred duty of the voters of this nation to read the riot act at the polls in November, and by their ballots bury this conspiracy against the public welfare and honor The moro I study that platform, the more dangerous and revolutionary it seems to me and the more deeply am impressed with the great responsibility resting upon the Republican party in the conf g contest Are we equal to she emergency? Can VIC win this great battle for those principles which are so sacred to ns as a nation and so vital to the prosperity of our people?
 What has the Republican party ac complished in the past? What are some # its great historic achievements?
 A Union saved. The United States If America kept upon the map of tue world. A race emancipated. The old dag kept floating in the heavens, with ant star dimmsd and old glory never hauled down. Specie payments re- sumed Every dollar of our national indebtedness as sacred as holy writ, aud paid when due in dollars as good ss gold. Protection to American labor and American homes. Capital con i lent, and labor we'll rewarded.
 Theee are some of the fruits of Re publican rule which mske us justly proud of the great organization with which we are identified. Must we no, admit that some of the most brilliant achievements of the Republican party have been brought about by the assist ance and cooperation of honest and patriotic Democrats, men who loved their country better than their party
 Ia this campaign we are quite confiden that there IS great army of loyal men heretofore identified with the Demo cratic party. who prefer their country
 honor to their party's success, who ar
 ready to join hands with a united, in vincible and irrepressible Republical
 party, upon platform of honest none,
 and an honest government, to defeat thi
 dangerous alliance, so completely au nihilate the common enemy that eve i. my Brother Baldwin and friend Troul
 of New Haven county will feel 1t i
 order to rise up from the Novembe post mortem and burial of their polit
 cal organization and move to make th
 calling and election of Mckinley sn
 Hobart unanimous in an Connecticut
 You know it is claimed that Brotbe | Baldwin and friend Troup, are the onl two Connections electors of promineucs that can safely be canvassed for the Si
 yer ticket, and we all know that tn
 famous duet is attempting to sing th ]. same political song set to differer
 tunes; they are supporting the san i, presidential ticket, with one head an
 two tails with the tails fighting eac
 other like Kilkenny cats.
 Fellow Republicans, we are going win a great and glorious victory in ol
 Connecticut It is in the air. I'll storm is coming. I hear it amid tt ! murmuring of the pines on the hi
 tops of old Windham. Holland an f Litchfield counties. hear it upon tt e fertile farms up the valley of the Col
 necticut I hear it in the bsnkir
 houses and in all the great manufactu
 ing. financial and commercial tow