The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-02-13

three rousing cheers were given for him
 with all the enthusiasm for which the
 Young Mems Republican club is noted.
 His subject was State of Connecticut
 Governor Lou2sbury spoke as follows; MT. President, Mr. Postmaster and
 Members and Guests of this Club:
 You will pardon me If I stop for a
 moment to congratulate myself on the |good company into which I have fallen
 tonight. I thank you for coneidera-
 ton which Is appreciated even if it is
 not merited, and for courtesy which
 Is not strained and which, like Charity,
 blessee both him who gives and him
 who takes. And I congratulate you as
 a club upon the possession of quality
 which,, though like genius and like
 common sense itself, Is gift rather
 than an acquisition, is so gracious in
 itself, 60 necessary to the successful
 politician and so close an ally to wisdom
 in all the walks of life that men count
 it as among the virtues.
 It would be hard for any one on this
 sion of any political question and not l pC aWll away ny SOulG ptIOiltoJ iAyo-
 terious power to the contemplation of
 some act, or fact, or quality in the life,
 the work or the character of Abraham
 Lincoln. It is especially hard for him
 who cast his first vote for the first mar tyred president and who tonight is
 prouder of that fact than of any title
 which has come through the generous
 preference of friends or the gracious fa-
 vor of the people. I shall be keeping
 well within the limits of the subject
 which you have assigned me on this programme tonight If speak to you of
 your existence as club, of your choice
 among the great political parties of the day, of your sympathy with the masses of the people and of the duties which you owe to your club, which you owe to the state and, above all, to your own individual manhood. For the primary object of every political club is the tri- umph of it's principles and of it's party at the polls and you take part in no election which does not directly concern
 the state, either as whole or In some of it's parts. I am not going one step beyond the truth when I say that the dignity, the action and the power of
  veal and the destiny of the state that when I speak of the Young Mems Re- publican club of New Haven I am re- spending to the toast of "The State of Connecticut
 And first let me congra tulate you on your existence as a club. One of the first truths that God made known to humanity was this, that it is mot good for man to be alone.'" Social relations lie at the foundation of all the institu- tions which God has ordained-the church, the family and the state. Union is strength. Organization. is power, and no criticism of the machine and no scathing denunciation of a Boss" will ever wipe out great law of nature. No matter How righteous may be your cause you can not single-handed, cope with organizations Against men band ed together for wrong you must hurl an army organized for the right. Force must be met with force, organization with organization You cannot drown the devil in milk and water. You have got to fight him with fire. A man who disdains to join political club because, forsooth it may become a machine and De owned by "a boss, may be a brilliant cynic, but he will never be success full politician nor a wise statesman. Let the mugwump realize this fact that the bird which "focks by itself' will find at the end of the season that there are no birds in last years nests.
 I congratulate you on the fact that you are a republican club. God forbid that on this birth-night of Lincoln should say one word against our demo- cratic friends. Side by side with your fathers at Lexington and Bunker Hill and Yorktown, their fathers fought to win liberty for themselves and to found this union of states. On all the battle fields of the great rebellion democrats stood shoulder to shoulder with repub- licans, and in the triumph which they helped to achieve the shackles were stricken from a race. Theld blood min gled with yours to cement the union anew and their strong hands joined with yours to lay for the nation a neW corner stone on the firm foundation of liberty. Whatever may be it's result in trade or empire, the war of the last two years has shown that we have nothing to fear from foes without | or rebellion within If this republic ever decays it will be from the dry rot | of undue wealth and inordinate pleas l ure. Slavery, "the sum of all villain ies," has passed away, but the love of | money, which is the root of all evil, remains to be a source of forever To keep his own party pure and to show up the corrup- | tion which exists in the other party is a blessed work in which both honest l democrat and honest republican can feel a brotherly sympathy. But you and I believe in our party, and we shall have the profound respect of our friends, the enemy on the other side, if we show our faith by our works.
 I am glad, too, that in everything ex- eept it's politics this is a democratic club. You have heard how Lincoln said hat the Almighty must think great 1eal of the plain people because He made SO many of them. It Is fitting hat you should call Lincoln your pat -on saint and hold your banquets on his night, for you, too. have shown hat you believe in the plain people. Am I right when I say that you are sixteen hundred strong? I have not he figures to compare but I do not be- ievn that in the metropoIis of tbe na