Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-23
REPUBLICAN, RALLY
Ex-Csverssr NeLssn Drssshi
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 The republicans of this city held another rousing CD rally at Poli's theater last evening, Ex-Governor George P. Mclean was the principal speaker. The rally attracted a big gathering but during the evening very little enthusiasm was awakened the few democrats present making almost as much noise at the mention of the names of William Jennings Bryan and Grover Cleveland as did their 6. o. p. friends when republi- can leaders were mentioned.
 Governor Mclean delivered an address the like of which is seldom heard from . man speaking from the stump as 1t were. His remarks were indeed conservative. A stranger en- tering the hall could never realize that the ex-governor and the lear candidate for senator was making a campaign speech. His discourse al- though somewhat dry was interest," ig both to democrats and republi ,ans in fact to the voters. of any party present. The main part of his ad- dress seemed to be given extempore while the closing paragraphs gre read from manuscript-a defense of Congressman George L. Lilley. It related to the submarine investiga- tion. Ex-Governor Mclean has not the fire of the campaigner, conse- Quently he does not "get" his au- dience as 1t were. In mentioning the name of William Jennings Bryan he said:
 T am bound to give him credit for being one of the most brilliant men that this country. has ever pro- duced. A round of applause went through the house. The republicans did not like it for a cent. Again when running. over the names of the great presidents he did not fail 10 mention Grover Cleveland putting him in with Lincoln, Mckinley and Roosevelt.
 He said few words about free trade-the golden rule of commerce. It is like our golden rule, love your neighbor as yourself. But how many of us do. Free trade would never do in this country, though, as the workmen had to be protected-thats why the tariff is in service" He spoke about the square deal which is all right if 1t is square What was square for the employer might not be square for the employe and what was square for the banker might not work the same for the borrower. "Billionairess sons should never try to teach laboring men the blessings of poverty-for let me tell you pow erty never is blessing.
 About the railroads. The people of the present age are too willing to jump upon the railroads for com- pare them with the railroads of Europe and you will find the conl- parison all in favor of the roads in this country. We are too quick to jump upon the railroads, but com to destroy what we have. We have 1000 comforts to-day that the rich of fifty years ago did not have-could not get them because they did not exist. The recent panic was brought. on by contest for the surplus wealth of the country and prosperity of this country is due principally to the pro- tective tariff but he thinks 1t helps and is aided by one thousand and one natural resources.
 Until Governor Mclean got to the I gubernatorial candidates he hopped here. there and everywhere saying almost as much good about the dem- ocrats as about the. republicans, but giving his audience little. or 10 chance to applaud. His typewri.ten pages in defense of Lilley did nc t sound like Governor Mclean ev.n though no striking statements were made. It was the same old defense about the lobby at Washington and the way the Boutell committee handled the Waterbury man.
 Other speakers were Thomas D. Bradstreet of Thomaston, candidate for comptroller on the republican ticket and Edward vroom, the actor. Vroom is a hired campaigner and while an orator his address had very little effect upon the audience. He had his speech down pat-all ,,,f it except the glowing remarks about the candidate for governor-this he read from paper
 Senator Irving Chase presided.