Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-25

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 of the delegates mistook the unfaithfu
 likeness of Tflden for one of Thaye
 and there were some mutterings iron
 the Gary supporters until the state
 committeeman caused it to be noiset
 about that the central picture was one
 of Tilden
 Il At 9:45 there were less than 100 del
 egates in the theater and a bakers
 dozen in the spectators balconies. The delegates came in rapidly as the houl approached and at 10 o'clock nearly
 every one of the sos credited to the
 convention was in his seat. For some reason there was delay and it was 1O:4Q before Chairman and Candidate
 Thayer called the convention to order The appearance on the platform of Mir
 Thayer was the signal for long con-
 tinued applause. Hon John J. Walsh of Norwalk was immediately intro duced as the temporary chairman of
 the convention.
 MT Walsh suggested that the caucus committees chosen withdraw at once to expedite things. The chairman hu- morously added: e want to pump a little hot air into you and while am
 doing that the committees might with draw and transact their preliminary l business
 The convention was held idle one half hour pending the reports of the
 various committees. The committee permanent organization finally ap-
 peared and recommended that the tenn ! porary officers be. made permanent.
 This was done. At Il :4O a recess was taken.
 In the meanwhile the doings of the platform framers became more and
 more complicated and wrangle followed wrangle. MT Fiske of Guilford, after one of the wrangles, denounced the comasittee oh resolutions as 8 set of demagogues. and resigned his member ship on the committee. He was op-
 posed to that part of the platform which recommended representation by population.
 At theImeeting of the committee on credentials the only delegate contested was the one from Union. At one time an encounter was narrowly averted. Finally vote was taken and it was a tie. Then Chairman Kinsella of Hart ford dissolved the tie by voting to seat the delegate.
 Chairman Walsh then delivered his address as follows:
 MT Chairman and Members of the
 State Central Committee:
 thank you for the honor which you have conferred upon me by selecting me as the temporary chairman of this convention, and I assure you that I fully appreciate this honor. Fellow delegates of this, the most suspicious democratic convention which has been held in a number of years in the state of Connecticut, I welcome you in be- half of the state central committee, and in behalf of the democrats of this state. IzWelrome you with sincerity and earnestness, because believe that tonight you are about to take the first steps towards democratic victory in the state of Connecticut in November next, and propose in as brief and con- else manner as can to give you a few of the reasons why believe that you will be successful at the polls in this coming election.
 The people of this state have been told by their republican senator, MT Platt, that there should be no change made by the voters of this state on election day, because under the repub- lican administration the country has been prosperous for the past six years, and that prosperity has been coincident with republican rule, thereby implying that which has been reiterated. again and again by republican orators and press Writers-that the republican party is responsible for and and should be credited with the prosperity the country has enjoyed. And if it were so. that Providence in it's wisdom, had selected that party as it's instrument, to confer blessings or punishments upon the people of this country, then indeed would it be idle for us to as semble here tonight. If it were so, that Providence had selected the repub- lican party, through it's orators and press writers, to confer those blessings, while it had selected men of the stripe of President Baer of the coal operators of Pennsylvania, and the industrial captains of the monopoIstie trusts, to inf1ict its punishment upon the people, then it would be idle for us to assem- b1e. But we deny this, and we appeal to the reason of the people of this state to justify that denial, and we believe that we shall not appeal in vain.
 Many years ago our martyred presi- dent of this United States uttered the memorable words: sYon can't fool all the people all the time," and we be lieve that the time has come in this old commonwealth of Connecticut, as well as d1 over llIS WuGus tue p6OplS are awakening to the fact that they have been fooled by the republican party long enough.
 In this United States to-day there is an unrest, a dissatisfaction with the political condition of affairs, which un- rest and dissatisfaction has rapidly be- come crystalized upon one dominant l problem, and that is the problem of the trusts, and the party that can solve that problem, is the party which is going to control the administration of this country for years to come. It is true that the rapid increase of wealth | in this countrywide rapid increase of I wealth by natural production has caused a natural combination of capi- | tai for the purpose of expediting the transaction of large enterprises, and that fact has been equally true since | the first. private corporation in the | United States was formed right here in the state of Connecticut, many, many years before the war of the re- bellion. Those combinations of capi- tai, when conducted legitimately and . in, accordance with. the laws of the land, no reasonapie thinking man cap find fault with or attemrT to disturb in thefr natural growth, and the demo cratic party never has. and never will |