Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-09
DEMOCRAT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1908

sive knowledge of the workings of those institutions. Has not this ex- perience fitted him for the higher office that We seek for him. Is he not qualified after such excellent training and deep study to i'll emi- nently the position of governor
 The reasons that We vegiven tor the nomination of Lieutenant-Gov- ernor Lake we believe are sufficient in themselves to entitle him to re- ceiye this honor at your hands, but there Is another claim, and one most vital to the interests of the repnbli- can party that we would yet advance. The republican party throughout this country and in our own state has adopted policy of traditions, customs and precedents. This policy has been the cornerstone of the suc- cess of the republican party. know of no state in which during the past 20 years, customs and precedents have been so strictly adhered to as in the state of Connecticut, and refer not only to those that were rec | ognized 20 years ago, but also to those that have since come into ex- lstence. We have been taught and warned that to break one of these established precedents would mean the ruination of the republican party. | We have listened. We have obeyed. There has been precedent estah- lished for years by the republican party in this state that lieutenant. governor, tried and true, should at | the end of his term be elevated to the governorship, and If Lieutenants Governor Lake has been tried and | found not true we should not be here to-day asking his advancement, MT Lake stands to-day in the posi- tion occupied by your two previous governors. They were advanced to occupy the executive chair as re- ward for the good work previously accomplished by them. This estab- | lished precedent has worked to the | benefit, the credit, the success and honor of the republican party in this state. Why should there be any he's itancy about the promotion of the present lieutuenant-governor? Why should the same leaders wno assist ed in the building Up or this prece- dent now be engaged in attempting to destroy? Has he not been de- voted member of the republican par ty? Is there anything in his record as public officer or as private citi- Zen that should deprive him of his right to that office?
 He is here to-day. His friends are here to-day, asking you-the | republicans of the state-for some i reason, if any you have, why Lieu tenant-Governor Lake should not re- ceive at your hands the promotion that has been accorded to previous lieutenant governors. Do not we beg of you if you intend to vote against his nomination, sit silent when this question is asked; do no, answer it by silent vote for that is hardly fair-but raise your voices and raise them loud in order that 1 the people of the state of Connecti- cut and the people who live beyond the borders of this state and are to, day anxiously awaiting the action oi this convention may hear your an. swer and judge accordingly.
 If you believe that this man has been faithful to the trusts thus fal imposed in him by the citizens oi this state then I beg of you as fair minded men and loyal republicans doing your full duty for which you were sent here, to place the seal oi indorsement upon his public career and name Everett J. Lake as your candidate for governor.
 | While MT Light moved in front >oi the footlights, Judge Garvan stood at the speakers desk and with up I lifted hand laid emphasis to his l words. Many times he was applaud. ed.
 Judge Garvan's close was in 8 deeply earnest voice during which the theater was hushed in stiffness He ended after IS minutes in a biz outburst of cheering.
 Colonel J. Moss Ives of Danbury a member of the governors staff took the platform and presented the name of Governor Woodruff. He said that he had not expected tt speak, but he felt that, even with out one word from the governor, he could not let the occasion pass with. out a word in behalf of the present governor. His address would not be one of prepared eloquence but few brief words to tell of the service ol Governor Woodruff to the state, te the people, and he who serves the state best serves his party best" | Rev G. w. Clark of Brooklyn took the platform to second Lilley's nomination. He opened by saying that that was pretty good. Truth | crushed to earth will rise again. T have now the greatest honor oi my life to second the name of MI Lilley." He said: This Lilley does | not float on pond. Do you know that the lilley is the sweetest o, | our flowers? Do you know that the | lilley will stand IS degrees below frost? That in the spring time il will send forth its shoots? I come here to speak for MT Lilley because the people of Windham sent me- I'm not asking you to nominate him Lilley is man. (Laughter). When he was reviled he revileth not. He loved the truth and 1 honor him fol l it. 1 have been congratulated | (cheers) for daring to come to a republican convention Gaughter). servant of Christ dares to go any. where (cheers.) There is no better man (cheers and misses and cries oi "No."0 He is head and shoulders above any other man of the state 1 (hisses.) Don't do that. I have the honor to second the name of MT Lil ley"
 | Mir rlo r1- l,ts remarks brought much laughter a