Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-25


 CTS is formed into such a compact ma chine in the state of Connecticut, they have been chosen so skillfully, that they are interwoYen into every part and parcel of this state, and when the mass of the people, unorganized, de mand that a reform be given them they are listened to in silence, and 8 fake reform is offered to them, because the republican party says, "We have a machine at our back that the people cannot overcome"
 Since 1875, when we adopted the poll icy of taking piece by piece from the people of this state, the right to trans act their business by elective officers, and placed that business in the hands of appointees, selected by a system under which two hundred men have the same power as the twenty thou sand, we have pursued that policy with such success that the people have lost sight of their political rights, they don't know them-and if they do they don't value them enough to make an effort to recover them, and we are therefore perfectly secure in the posi- ton which we have assumed.
 But in the midst of their self-con- gratulations there came shock. Down in the city of Bridgeport, where the machine was absolute and arrogant in it's power, the people in their indigna- ton rose up, and by majority such as Bridgeport has not seen in many and many day, elected a representa- tive of the laboring class; a represen- tative of that class that the republican politicians believed could be fooled for all eternity. And again at Ansonia, where was furnished a most striking example in the difference in the prac- tice and theory of law between the rich man and the poor, they struck out and elected one of their own members to the highest office in the city. And once again from Hartford came the tfdings, our eyes have been opened, and ssyou can't fool all the people all the time,'' and to-day there is unity of thought and harmony of action among the organized people of the state of Connecticut that is the terror of that party which has made them their tools for so long time in the past.
 And now at last, when the leaders of this automatic machine party, the so- called republican party, that has had one man in a long number of years, whom to its surprise, it found had head of his own, and whom because of that fact, it promptly proceeded to re- pudiate, this party that has demon strated beyond the shadow of a doubt, that there is no man in the state of Connecticut, elected by it. sufficiently strong or powerful to persuade or CO., cree that party into giving up the man. 41o4, 7,f5 m o%hfx7 xvI o4oI1u if coo1Iro1 Ina spells that to-day constitute all the ce- ment or building force that exists in it. When George P. Mclean, as the governor of this state, commenced talk ing about giving the people a just rep resentation in the legislature of, this state,l the giant of ayarice, as repre- scented by his party, awoke and he lis tened at first with smile, because he thought it was the same old hypocrisy, but as the speech went on his smile changed into one of incredulity. and later amazement spread over his coun- tenance, and he hissed, You fool. ]" Then came indignation, the righteous indignation of the man who has held office, so long that he thinks he owns t. and, the governor heard the word migrate" hurled atishfs head.us5E 5EsastI as the speech continued and the speaker
 
 this giant, and he struck out so vicious ly and bruta1ly with all the power gen. erated in him by his years of exploita- ton, and this son, this one son, who dared in the house of his father to as- sert principles of truth and of justice, was driven out sick and wounded to such dergee that incapacitated him to carry on the duties of the office which the people of this state conferred upon him.
 But, thank God, it does look as though the people of this state have at last begun to open their eyes to the. real condition, and it matters not whether the man be a working man in the ditch, an artisan at the bench, the clerk in the store, the minister in the pulpit, or the lawyer in his office: it matters not who the man may be, once he realizes that he is. suffering an in- jury he will submit to it in this land only so long as he is unaware of the manner of relieving himself from this injury, and it is the glad and happy duty of the democratic party at this juncture to say to the united and or, ganized labor of the state of Connecti- cut, Just as you are opening your eyes to the awful power of a system based on corruption, just as the eyes of your governor have been opened to the aw- ful hope of power of that system, so will be the eyes of the president of the United States open when he dares tell the truth.
 But you. unlike the governor of the state, unlike the president of the United States, have the power in your own hands to right those wrongs. and that is the power which we ask you to exercise on election day.
 SPEECH OF HOMER s. CUMMINGS In Presenting the Name of Melbert B.
 Cary for Governor.
 ssNGr Chairman and Gentlemen of the Conventions: The prospects for democratic success are brighter to-day than they have been in decade. We have reached an important crisis in the history of the party, but it is crisis coupled with a splendid opportunity. The people of Connecticut are weary ing of boss rule, and the dominance of the professional lobbyists; they are amazed at the manner in which special privileges and exemptions have been granted to corporate interests: they are