The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-13
CAMPAIGN FORMALLY OPENS
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that vour fellow townsman, Colonel R. s. Woodruff, will be elected governor this fall.
 MT Thayer writes a spectacular let ter of acceptance, and some of the things which he puts in that letter have nothing whatever to do even with the state issues. For one thing he de- elares in favor of the abolishment of capital punishment, a thing that has nothing to do with party issues. Men nav vary in opinion on such subjects but they never make 1t a cause qf party division. Then again he states , that he is in favor of automobiles and goes on to express his views concern ing their beauty, comfort and so forth. Some may accept these views, but they are not party issues. At this 1uncture Mir. Barbour took opportunity to make some scathing remarks about w. R.. Hearst the democratic nominee in New York and to denounce the methods used by him in getting the vote of the Buff falo convention The democratic party he declared, made wordy declaratlon but failed to point outd etinitely any of the evils of which they complain They are dead wrong, he said, when they hold that each town and city should elect it's own judges and that the peo- pie should choose the county coflllills- sioners directly. If such were the case influences would be brought to bear, such as should not be brought to bear on the judge and commissioners. Ih'nk of the corruption it would bring a'oout. Then again they say that We are a corporation ridden state. The Hartford Times, a strongly democratic paper, takes no such position in an editorial printed in the issue of September A. President Mellen of the N. r., N. il. and H. R. R., appeared before the leg islature at it's last session and said that that company would take no un- derhanded means to obtain legislation fayoring Itself. Everything contradicts this democratic assertion. To the clain that Connecticut is a lobby-ridden state l I again refer you to the Hartford ! Times.
 There is the complaint that the tinan- i ces of the state are not being managed economically. There is only one an- swer to this statement and that answer Is in the report of the treasurer of ths state This shows that under ten years of republican management the state debt of Connecticut has been reduced from $3, ,117,O0O in 1897 to $275,O6l October 27 at the present time. (Applause) There is certainly nothing in the tlnan. cial record of the republican party thai would call for any change and no req son why the voters should prefer MT Thayer to a man of clear moral char acter-a man in whom both your fel. low townsmen and the people of tht state have full confidence ce-Colonel Rol In s. Woodruff (Appause.).
 The democratic tendency as showr by the nomination of Mr. Moran II Massachusetts and that of MT. Hears in New York has been disgusting tt good democrats The party is beint dragged into an awful state of dtscon tent and party hatred. The wavernlni tendencies of MT. Bryan who can for mulate a different paramount issue fo each campaign is certainly little en couragement for republicans to go owe to the democratic party. It is trut that no party can be without error, bu the tendency of the republican part! has always been to lip-llft while tha of the democratic party has been to ward decay and socialism.
 Now that I have accommodated my democratic friends by treating state issues I want to say a few words or national issues. Surely there can be nt state election in which five congress men are chosen where national issue' do not come up. Let us first conside the tariff Projection has come to sta. because the interests of the countr. and the prosperity of the people de mand It. Il may and does need revision from timo to time but the principle o protection is eternally right and is jus tiied by the logic of self defense.
 Mir. Barbour then went briefly ove the expenditures of the national gov ernment showing each to be necessar. and wise ever if large. He spoke par ticulary of the great amount paid ou in pensions to the veterans of 61 to '65 and said that 1t was but little return for the services they rendered to tn government. His remarks were ap plauded
 The issue, he said, was not So mucl economic as an approval of the whol administration. He recounted the ser vices of President Roosevelt in stop ping the conspiraeies of the trusts ant in getting through the pure food law and the establishment of honest in spection on meats. He said in closing that American had always raised u men to meet crises and mentioned tn names of Lincoln, Grant, Mckinley Roosevelt Hay, Taft and Root. Tn mention of the names brought forttl enthusiastic applause. America, h said finally, always would have mel on hand to meet the crisis.