The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-30

politician who can only look down and seek for some petty advantage to be raked out of the muck heap of mlsrep- resentation and the foul fool of scandal. You remember, do you not, the story or the man with a muckrake? It has been too, often illustrated in the conduct of politics in this country, but never so sadly or vividly as in the adoption at Bridgeport of those resolutions which their authors call the platform ot the democratic party in the coming can vass. It is told in that quaint old book known as "Pilgrim's Progress that Christiania, while journeying with her family from the city of destruction to the celestial city, comes to the house or the interpreter and after being shown many and wonderful and curious things the story runs thus: "The interpreter takes them apart again and has them first into a room where there was man that could look no way but down. wards with a muckrake in his hand. There stood also one over his head who proffered him heavenly crown for his muckrake, but the man cid neither look up nor regard, but raked to himself the straws and small sticks and dust ot the floor"
 The allegory does not need explana- | tion or application. If the harmonious | democrats of Connecticut will still in | sist upon looking always downward and 1 clinging to their muckrake, let us as re- | publicans look up and claim the crown. 1 Much applause greeted Senator Platt at the various telling points in his ad- dress.
 Congressman F. Stevens Henry was | the next speaker. He said in part: We have eliminated all party heresies from our standard; we have stricken out the word "bimetallism" from our patriotic vocabulary; we have raised the flag where the democrats pulled it down; we have freed Cuba; we have won a brilliant war. This is portion of the work of the republicans for the l past two years.
 | We are told by the democratic press that this state campaign will be fought upon purely local lines" This tacit admission that the republican party is unassailable upon national is sues is possibly the highest compliment that can be paid a great political or 1 ganization by an opposing party. Still more complimentary is the fact that public opinion generally concurs in this view of existing political condi- tions, and best of all is the further fact that we know our record is unassaila- ble, for the republican party has re- | deemed, or intends to redeem, all the pledges made either in national or in | state platforms, and our recent record is evidence of good faith.
 l We have re-established Mckinley i protection for American industries and American labor. We have brought back the prosperity lost under the Cleveland administration. We have restored con- f1dence in the impaired credit of the na- tional government, making it possible to sell 3 per cent bonds at par by pop ular subscription in a time of war; in
 striking contrast with the efforts of the last democratic administration to sell 4 per cent. bonds through trusts and | syndicates in times of peace.
 We have eliminated all financial her.
 esies from our party creed. We have
 expunged that misleading word "bi-
 metallism'' from the republican vocab-
 ulary. And the grand old party has
 lined up under the gold standard for
 another victorious campaign.
 We have helped the business inter-
 ests of the country to a fair and equit-
 able national bankruptcy law.
 We have annexed the Hawaiian is-
 lands, and a republican administration
 has raised the American flag in honor
 where it was once lowered in dishonor | Iyro Il oI s,,ie f,a
 We have made Cuba free. We have humiliated and dictated peace to Spain
 and American arms have defeated captured and destroyed Spanish fleets
 and armies. We have brought right
 eous and unsought war to brilliant and successful conclusion.
 This is part of a two years record of the republican party in national af- fairs, and we can safely claim an equal.
 ly creditable record in our management of state affairs
 MT. Henry closed by giving an off cial account of the state funds received
 by successive state treasurers con-
 mencing with the administration ot Governor Bulkeley.
 Congressman N. D. Sperry next spoke. He spoke of the allegations o1
 mismanagement in the war just closed and said that by personal investigation
 he had been led to believe that these al. legations were false. He told of 2 !, prominent officer in the D. A. R., who had visited Camp Wikoff to investi-
 gate it's condition and see if the stories
 printed of mismanagement at the cam , were true. He said that on her return she stated that she had found that i was an ideal camp with food in abun. dance. MT. Sperry said that sucf stories of the camp as were printed il , the papers and raked up at the Bridge . port convention ought to be condemned at the polls. He referred to the annex : ation of Hawaii and the prominent par taken by Connecticut people in the de
 velopment of the. islands. Before h. concluded he announced to the audienc, T the news of the death at Porto Rico O.
 Lieutenant Redmond V. Beach of Nev Haven, which had just been received Congressman Russell of the ThirC
 district was the next speaker. H. = spoke of the so-called policy of imper l Ia liEp and bp a,oY tLo+ ,