Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1890 — CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS, [ARTICLE]

CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATS,

The Name of Cleveland Received With Or eat Enthusisin. Democrats ot Connecticut nominated a State ticket at Hartford on the 16th. The mention of the name Cleveland was received with the greatest enthusiasm. The platform says: The Democratic party of Connecticut reaffirms its adherence to the platform adopted by the National Democratic convention of 1888, and condemns the Republican party for its attitude upon the great questions affecting the welfare of the people as a revival of the most odious doctrines of that federalism which has ever sougthto establish in this country a i aristocracy of| wealth and a despotism of legislation. Wei declare for such a revision of the tariff as shall admit crude materials of manufao ■; ture free and lighten the burdensup the necessaries of life. This is true protection’ for the manufacturer, the laborer and' farmer. We charge the decline of over one-half 1 in farm values in Connecticut to the prevailing Republican tariff policy. We denounce the radically unjust and panicl brooding McKinley bill which will! increase the cost of living and reduce the cost of luxuries. It is the most outrageous measure of taxation ever prepared in American Cons! gress. We accept James G. Blaine's! ’interpreSHcSTol It as Infamous. Wei policy of Speaker Reed and the majority of the House which deprives the House of its deliberative character, arrogantly disregarding the rights of the minority and establishing a system of centrifugal power. We favor a llberal pension policy toward all soldiers and sailors who wore disabled in service, and to their windows and de-, pendent children; at the same time insisting that the treasury should not ba depleted for the benefit of bounty-jumpers, deserters and impostors. We denounce the federal elections, or force bill, now pending in Congress, as the most dangerous and revolutionary measure ever de vised to thwart the will of the people and subvert our popular form of government, as a measure begotten in partisan desperation to perpetuate the power of the republican party. It is un-American in that it doubts the capacity of our people for tolfgovernment. We regard the secret ballot law, enacted by the last General Assembly in response to repeated demands of the Democratic narty, as a step in the right direction, and we favor such amendments thereto as will render the compulsory secrecy absolute for the suppression of bribery and intimidation, and will prevent such attempted evasions of the same as were practiced by high authority at the last election in the city of Hartford.