New Britain herald., 1916-02-09

nounced as the next speaker It was the signal for an outbreak of applause that was deafening and Whlch lasted for several minutes. He sald ne came to the stand so that he would not have to use a megaphOne to say How are yOu?'
 The governor told of his entry into politics when but young lad ana said he remembered very distinctly the time when Lincoln, Fremont and Fillmore were opposing each other for the presidency. Lincoln was elected and with him came the salvation or the United States. If the election had not resulted in favor of the repubh- can party at that time, there was no telling just what would be the condl- titns today, Governor Flolcomb sald. Tn his connection with politics, his excellency said that he had seen three democratic presidents, Cleveland twice and Wilson once, and the last was worse than the rest. New Britain is the one bright spot in the republican ranks in the state," he said. Ut stood nobly by Taft in 1912 and was the cause of sending your congressman to Washington at the recent election. He said he hoped to see the coming election unanimous, and was glad to meet the "boys" again.
 Judge Henncy's Remarks.
 Judge Henncy said that it had been his good fortune to be able to assist the local committee in securing the speaker of the evening" for if there was one place that deserved the best that could be obtained in the line of speakers it was New Britain, which had stood so Loyalty by the republican party in the past. He spoke on the duty of every man toward his city, state and country and urged that all make study of the laws governing the same so as to be able to distin- guish what were just laws when they came up. He spoke of the important matters that are left to commissions and said this vas a bed ractice for one commission did not believe as it's predecessors did, so many changes oc- cur Judge Henney said there was too much autocratic government at pres ent because citizens were too lazy to take action against laws that were un- desirable. He said proper government could not be obtained unless citizens took an interest in 1t.
 Touching on politics more deeply Judge Henney said he was not going to
 
 said it was essential that the party have something to spur it on and when a candidate is selected all should take eff their coats and Jump in and do their best to elect him.
 Boom For President
 President Baldwin in his introduce ton of the principal speaker said We live in hardware city, where we all know more or less about machin- cry. Now som metimes it happens that a certain piece of machinery is SUD- posed to have worn out it's usefulness, and is ready for the discard, when long comes some energetic agent who
 lvises that his typo of machine be 'stalIed to take the place of the old ne. This is often done only to find hat it is not as good as the old one The same thing happened to the polit- cal machine some time ago, when it was felt that a new piece of machin- cry was needed for the government and after three years it has proved to be not as good as the old one. In the summer when the republicans meet in Chicago, H., at the convention with their machine, many important queS- tiOns will be brought up and the QueS- tiOn will arise who will operate it, and 1t is with plea sure that I present to you a man who is fitttd for that place, MT. Estabrook.'
 The speaker said in part:
 Bryan Misrepresents Middle West.
 For the last six m onths I have been preaching throughout the west the