Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-17
CONNECTICUT CONVENTION.
Abiral Chamberlain Nominated TO
Governor by the Republicans.

1 Ao1rdJ chamberlain N0Mlu09SO TOT
Governor by the Republicans.
/ Hartford, Conn, Sept. 1.-THE re-
publican state convention, which or
ganized temporarily last night. reas-
sembled today. Senator Platt was
made permanent chairman and the
nomination of the state ticket was inn
mediately entered upon. Abiral Cham-
berlain, of Meriden, was nominated for
governor on the first ballot.
The platform adopted applauds Pres
ident Rooseve1t's administration, fa-
vors his denomination in 1904, endorses
his Cuban reciprocity treaty, opposes a
general revision of the tariff, but favors
the correction of any schedule where
import duties are found to have been
notoriously perverted from their true
purpose to the inordinate enrichment of
corporations monopolistic in fact or in
their tendency" State and national
supervision of trusts is recommended,
and Senator Platt was endorsed for re-
election.
Senator Platt's speech as chairman
was as follows:
After eulogizing the state admins
tration Platt said the one overwhelm-
ing issue of this campaign is endorse
ment OF the republican national admin
istration $50 gloriously begun by Will
lam Mckinley, SO grandly continued by
Theodore Roosevelt" Continuing he
said:
Recognizing this. our opponents are
indulging in most frantic hunt for
some other issue on which to go be-
fore the people. There is a fascination
in hunting when there is game to be
found and secured, but it is dull and tire
some sport where there is no game to
be either found or secured; and this
hunt of the democratic party for a new
issue must be both dull and tiresome.
When we restored the gold standard
and established the credit OF the ma
tion on a solid foundation, its free sill
yer issue disappeared with the clouds.
When we gave Porto Rico a popular
and representative government, when
we put down the rebellion in the Phil
ippines and established civil govern
ment of it's Inhabitants with all the
rights guaranteed to our own citizens
by the constitution, we started 1t on the
road to popular and representatives
government, it's paramount issue of inn
perialism became but dissipated fog"
Upon the subject of trusts Platt said:
"The difference between the republican
and democratic party proposes to de-
stroy the trusts and business conducted
by them; the republican party proposes
to regulate trusts and the business con-
Quoted by them, so that no unfair adj
vantage shall be taken of the people OF
the United States, and to the full limit
of its constitutional power it will carry
out this policy. The republican party
does not set itself against business or
capital needed to develop business. 1t
does not set itelf againt capitalists of
monopoly or extortion. The democratic
party, true to it's traditional policy of
destruction, has apparently but one and
only one remedy for the evils arising
from improper management of business
carried on by great corporations, and
that is to put all articles manufactured
by the corporations which have sup
posed ability to control prices on the
free list thus destroying at one blow
protection to our industries and the
business pursued by trusts. No more
fatuous policy could be conceived. We
deny that the tariff is the mother of
trusts and we affirm the tariff is the
parent of prosperity.
Hand in hand with the policy Of pro-
lection, he said, was the policy of re-
iprocity-reciprocity which shall ex-
tend our trade and give us wider mar
kets without seriously crfppltng our
own. Whenever and wherever such -.