Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-27
been not weary with your outing. tntrod,,eed Se,z{or Rr,rd.1a.

some way enJoyed your Journey and ] been not weary with your outing. Introduced Senator Brandeeee. When the applause for MT. Freeman l had sllbsided, Chairman Brewer start | ed it again by introducing Senator Brandegee as the "honoreds son of an 1 honored father"
 Senator Brandegee reruArlzed in op- | ening that he took it as an omen of
 success for the republican party, when
 8 man like MT. Brewer came out of | his retirement because he felt inn pelled to show his interest in the
 party and the principles which it pro- | fesseS. He commended MT. Freeman for ! having come over like an honest man | from the democratic to the republi- ! can ranks, and he paid a. tribute to | Judge Marcus H. HolcomD, who was sure to be elected Governor and was
 another who had seen the light and come into the republican ranks
 Lieutenant Governor 1ingier, he said | the democratic candidate for governor | had not always been democrat, but | had once been a republican, and Gov ernor Baldwin was raised as a repuloli- can. but had become a democrat. | He recalled the names of the re- publican congreeman, who had rep | resented this district from the time of | the civil war and said that the his- | tory of this country from that time had been the history of the republican | beloved martyr, Abraham Lincoln. | (AppIause). To deny the history of ! the republican party is to deny the prosperity of the country.
 l All the great statues written on its books had been adopted by the re- | publican party, and our achievements as 8 country were the pride of every patriotic American and the envy of | every foreign power.
 Republican principles had been en- | dorsed year fater year till it came to | be considered that the fundamentals
 of the republican party had become l imbedded in the principles of the na- | tion. But two years ago 34,0OO re- | publicans in Connecticut felt called
 upon to withdraw as separate wing | and the democrats slipped into power. | They claim that it was with the man. | date to smash the protective tariff, but | they never received such a mandate. l They are the party of minoritieS and
 always will be. Connecticut is not and | will not be @ democratic state. Three | fourths of the progressives are back in
 the republican party now although | they are not saying much about 1t. | for the shouting is all being done by
 the other one-fourth of the party A minority came into the governing 1 power because the majority was di- vided. The progressives believe in | American principles and in nothing that the democrats declare for. They
 are just as anxious to put the dem ocrats out as we are Let them get | into the fray then and have hand 1 indeciding this question. They are | the friends of the American people.
 and I believe they are going to be with 1 us.
 Senator Brandegee devoted consid-
 erable time to showing how powerless | the five Connecticut democratic con- | gressmen and other northern congress- men are to influence legislation af- | fecting their own constituents, be- | cause the chairmanships of the i'm i portant legislative committees are all | in the hands of Southern democrats by reason of their seniority.
 Before election the democrats went
 up and down saying they would do
 nothing to injure any Connecticut