Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-22
LILLY HELD IHE GAV[L.
Republicans Opened Campaign
 at City Hall Last Night.

The Enthusiasm Was Missing, and the
 Chill Was So Great That it Froze
 the Keys on the Musicians Instru-
 mentsASenator Dillingham; Was the
 Principal Speaker of the Evening,
 and He Rehashed the Same Old Poli-
 cal Riff-Raff that Has Been on Tap
 for So Long a Time.
 The republicans opened the cam
 3aign here last evening in the City hall and the frost that permeated the atmosphere must have entered their hearts and their audience. It seemed to have chilled the music of the Amerl- can band. or else the first trombone was a democrat and hated like the very deuce to play good music for ms political foes; the second cofnet was evidently a prohibitionist and Alfred Kenyon, the clarionetist, although hailing from the same state as fhS } principal speaker, Senator Dillingham; of Vermont, is as good democrat as ever cast a vote, he also must have hated to play for republican dancer; sr SOu10 Ol I1O OIucI been popu1ists and mugwumps Appar- entity none of them were of the republi- can persuasion for their music always good, and though very fine last night did not have the twang and spirit that rOuts the blues. But who could have been in good humor at such rally as that last evening. It was certainly frost and chilling frost at that, and when we'll known democrat who lives on Kingsbury street got up to ask Senator Dillingham; a question he was so struck with the atmosphere that the question froze on his lips. George l.. IilIey was chairman and when Senator Dillingham; made the one and only reference to him. toward the end of his long speech, not futter was heard in the audience. No indication was given that Mr Lilley was even resident of this city, not to speak at all of his being candidate for con gressman at large. C ss.5
 It was indeed a most forlorn even ing for the republican party, an indica- ton of the times and the result of the impending election.
 The American band from the City hall steps announced the rally to the people. There the band played first class music, Maryland" and other stirring airs, but when they got into the hall it seemed to be all over with them. Either the audience was all democratic or the republicans that were in it not in sympathy of the audacious misstatement of the gentle man from Vermont. Former President of the Board of Aldermen, Warren l.. Hall, was chairman. Mir Lilley was first on the platform, leading MT Dill ingham, Judge Cowell, Samuel J. Marsh, and two or three others who l had all the evening on their hands MT Hall then stepped to the front, standing right in the way of the em- blems of the prohibition party that 1 stood on the table behind him, and called off a list of names so long that | many of his audience thought he would | not leave a man in the body of the | hall; all should go on the platform as | vfce-p presidents and secretaries. But | when he got through finally, not a | soul moved. Everything seemed to | have gone wrong. MT Hall asked that 1 all whose names he had read would l please take seats on the stage, yet no one stirred, and when after few min | utes. no one still moved, MT Hall made a flew remarks and introduced. Mir | Lilley as chairmen of the evening"" | MT Lilley then in duty bound said he would make flew remarks and he kept his word. They were very few, fortunately for him, for they were the [ everlasting and inevitable platitudes about his coming down the valley and 1 being here and there at all hours of the I night recently and saw smoke issuing | from chimneys. He said this so sim cerely as though 1t were a new sight l to him and that smoke usually issues through the floor. Then he introduced ! the star of the evening, the senator from Vermont
 MT Dillingham; spoke for an hour. The greater part of that time he de- l voted to praise of his party In Wash | ington, and particularly Senator Platt l of Meriden. From the eulogies he spent on the latter one Yould think he had but just read of the condemnatory ] votes passed by the Federation of La Dor at their convention held last week