The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-16
SULLIVAN HITS
 HARD AT LILLEY Says Conditions Attending His Nomination Against Wish of Electorate Give Democrats
 Great Opportunity.
GREAT PRAISE FOR BRYAN
Says World Has Produced Few Equals as Leader of Men-Republican State Platform He Brands
 as Sorry Evasion.

The speech delivered in Hartford last night at the opening session of the democratic state convention by Tenn porary Chairman Ignatius A. Sullivan follows.
 Fellow citizens and delegates, pur- suant to the published order of the state central committee we are here as- sembled to take part In the proceed ings of that which promises to. be the most important convention held by the democratic party of Connecticut In more than ten years. Again we are in the whirl and strife of presidential campaign and again we are to pledge our support and our votes to that great leader of men who has led us in two losing campaigns but who now, and at last, is thoroughly understood by the whole American people and is to come into his own by leading us to a most triumphant victory in No vembeE
 WhNsd does not remember the Bryan of '9s? That picture of sturdy manhood and thRt fountain of matchless oratory has never been excelled but by the Bryan-of l9O0-the same sturdy, vigor- ous man to whose splendid attachments time and nature had added the calm Judgment and keener insight that comes With maturity to the real man.
 And what of the Bryan of 1908? As a model of American manhood of rar- est physical and mental achievements we have never seen his equal and as a leader of men. the world has produced few who can class with the Bryan of 190s-"The Great Commoner," "The Neal of the Democracy, the dominant factor in the campaign and the next president of our United States.
 And what of his opponent? A great man, good man, one who has filled high positions with great credit and who, no doubt, if unhampered, would make good president. But the man is known by the company he keeps.
 Our candidate stands squarely upor the platform as adopted at the Denver convention and which will be approved by this convention Each and every plank separately and collectively has received the hearty endorsement ant support of our candidate while the candidate of the republican party moi content with the party declaration ha: given much of his time since his nom. ination apoogizing for the omission: and endeavoring to supply what wal necessary in party's national plat form to satisfy people long suffering from political bossism and the rule O. a small coterie of wealth holders
 Our most important work here m, friends, is the adoption of platform for our party in Connecticut that wil pledge us to support all that produces good for the greatest number and thu selection of ticket that will win tn, confidence and support of those mer who may have supported the republi can candidates of the past, but wht are today beseechingly crying to us fo deiverance from the most unscrupulou coterie of graft-seeking, merciless, pitt less, political pirates that ever infested our proud state.
 But a few days ago was held tho convention of the republican party a New Haven and in reading the news paper reports of the doing of the con vention I was gratified to find that tn, chairman in his address gave grea credit to the democrats for the as sistance they have rendered the re publicans
 The platform of the Connecticu republicans Is no platform at all bu sorry, lamentable evasion of any thing and everything that may affor, any relief or advance any prospect O the partys machine, allowing the nex legislature eff republican, to gran any of the reforms promised by thu democratic platform of two years ng, and adopted by the republicans unde pressure of public approval. The re publican platform is remarkable fo its brevity and as brevity is the sou of wit, no doubt 1t was intended to b irreslstibly funny. And it surely "We unreservedly indorse the condIc of state affairs by Governor Wood ruff" 1t says. Governor Woodruff friends say, why was he not indorset as d candidate and not set upon il convention and his policies and recon