The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-16

with the trials of the farm and the cul- ture of the college, a man who can , write good English and talk good
 sense; a man who by dint of his own
 effort has succeeded in business and
 politics, and holds a place among the
 statesmen of our commonwealth; a
 man who knows the needs of capital
 and labor with a disposition to foster
 both.
 The government of this state is pure
 business, and the people want us to
 nominate man for governor who has
 succeeded in his own business for this
 promises success in the business of the
 state. The government of this state is a
 public trust, and the people want us to
 nominate a man whose honor is as pure
 as the driven snow. They want us to
 name man who knows the history and legislation of the state; bright, hon.
 est, cultivated, manly man.
 The man who fills these requirements
 of the people in full measure is Hon.
 George E. Lounsbury of Ridgefeld, senator of the Twelfth district. I see that you know him and recognize in his
 name the choice of your constituents. Senator Lounsbury is virtually a na- ] tive of Connecticut, and in his veins 1 runs the true blue Connecticut blood.
 He represents the only aristocracy rec-
 ognized here-the aristocracy of an in- | telligent honest and industrious ances- | tor. Dr. Holmes once said that man | could best succeed by commencing about two hundred years before his 1 birth. It would seem that Senator Lounsbury did this, and his success fol- ! lowed as naturally as the day follows 1 the night. His father and all of his inn | mediate ancestors were natives of | Stamford. in this state. He was born | In 1888, in Poundridge, Westchester | county, New York, where his parents l were temporarily residing, and when | only few months old he was brought l to the farm which for tifty-nine years has been his home. The farm will al- | ways be the ideal home on which to breed and rear strong men. Nearly all | the great men of history were reared in | the country. In the country God is free | to do his best work for the souls of men, 1 but in the din and strife of the city | men spoil each other. In the country among the hills and valleys, orchards and meadows they have found
 Tongues in trees, books in the run- ming brooks,
 Sermons in stones, and good In every. thing
 The senator is to be congratulated on having lived his whole life on the broad acres that nourished and fostered I his youth. There, in a modest house l set about by trees, in the midst of broad fields rich with the promise of golden harvest, may be found one of | the most interesting of men. To see | him once is to know him forever. His strong, 1.-the, athletic form and .ntellec- t'ial features give him an unmistakable Individuality. His oratory is quiet and polished, and his written papers show a literary style, a grace and charm of dictum unequaled by majority of our professional writers. His reports and l speeches made to the senate during the | last two sessions of the legislature were all couched in that simple eloquence of I language which critics consider the best evidence of literary genius. If you make him governor his papers and mes- ! sages will do honor to the state.
 | Senator Lounsbury is what we are | pleased to call seif-made man He 1 acquired a good thorough English edu- | cation in the district school His con- stitution, naturally strong and robust, was hardened by labor on the Iarm l For two years he taught in the country | schools and 'boardtd round an expe- 1 rience which many of ug know was in | itself liberal education. Self prepared 1 he entered Yale college, from which he | graduated in 1863 with distinguished | honors and reputation for brilliant | scholarship. For thirty years he has | been successful manufacturer and has acquired a competence which affords him leisure to work for others and to | puraue congenial studies. His knowl- edge of Connecticut history and legis- | lation is second to none in the state l His business success has not changed his simple, healthful, manly way of living. but has opened for his new and | wider fields of usefulness He is a kindly, sympathetic man. His hand is | never closed to friendship and charity, | but he never gives to be seen of men, | His left hand never knows what his | right hand is doing.
 | It has been truly said that if you | really want to know what a man is, you should go into his own home and among the people of his own town and ycu will find out. We may deceive | strangers, but we cannot deceive the men who have grown up with us. I | have been in Ridgefield many times | and know her people well, and it gives me pleasure to say that every man | there. irrespective of party, is friend and admirer of Senator Lounsbury. | They boiled 552 votes at the last state | election and Senator Lounsbury re- ceived all but S4 Democrats who voted against him were heard after the count | to express regrets that the vote was l not made unanimous. He is a man of | the people and a friend of the poor. Gentlemen, in the name of this old commonwealth, which we love; in the l name of 'an upright, honest, straight 1 forward administration of state af- | fairs" in the name of truth and hon. or; in the name of all that is best in | American manhood and public life, I ask you to nominate George E. Louns- bury for governor.
 Nominate him and he will be elected by an overwhelming majority; nomi- | nate him and the state of Connecticut will have a governor Of whom we may be proud. He is a scholar and a states man.