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CONNECTICUT. 



CONNECTICUT. The Republicans of this 

 State assembled in convention at New Haven 

 on January 20, 1875, for the purpose of nomi- 

 nating candidates for the State offices. More 

 than two hundred and seventy delegates were 

 present. 



For Governor two candidates were proposed 

 in the convention, James Lloyd Greene, of 

 Norwich, and Amos S. Treat, of Norwalk. On 

 the first informal ballot taken, the whole num- 

 ber of votes being 273, Mr. Greene received 

 117 votes, Mr. Treat 82. On motion, Mr. 

 Greene was then nominated by acclamation. 

 For the office of Lieutenant-Governor, Charles 

 L. English, of New Haven, was unanimously 

 nominated ; for Treasurer, O. B. Arnold, of 

 Meriden ; for Controller, Robert B. Crawford, 

 of Norwalk. 



The following resolutions were then passed 

 by the convention unanimously : 



1. We adhere to the doctrines and principles of 

 the Republican party as heretofore expressed in its 

 national platforms. We have undiminished confi- 

 dence in the integrity and patriotism of President 

 Grant. We heartily indorse his recent special mes- 

 sage to the Senate on the Louisiana question, and 

 the principles therein contained ; and we unite with 

 him in declaring that " any military interference by 

 the officers or troops of the United States with the 

 organization of a State Legislature, or any of its pro- 

 ceedings, or with any civil department of the Gov- 

 ernment, is repugnant to our ideas of government ; " 

 and, with him. we " can conceive of no case, not in- 

 volving rebellion or insurrection, where such inter- 

 ference, by the authority of the General Government, 

 ought to be permitted, or can be justified;" and 

 at the same time we thank the President for saying 

 that " to the extent that Congress conferred power 

 upon him to prevent, neither Ku-klux Klans, White- 

 Leaguers, nor any other association using arms and 

 violence to execute their unlawful purposes, can be 

 permitted in that way to govern any part of this 

 country." We urge our Senators and Representa- 

 tives to adopt early measures for securing the peace 

 and welfare of the people of that State. 



2. We utterly condemn, as we did during the war, 

 those unwarrantable denunciations of the General 

 Government, which, while subserving only a selfish 

 political purpose, tend to keep alive an insurrection- 

 ary and lawless spirit in certain States of this Union. 



3. We are in favor of hard money and all necessa- 

 ry legislation to get it. In so far as the new finance 

 bill means the early redemption of Government notes, 

 we approve of it ; and we believe, if its execution is 

 left in the hands of a Republican Administration, it 

 will achieve that end. We denounce the Democrat- 

 ic party as a party of inflation and repudiation ; and 

 we cite in proof of these charges their platforms in a 

 majority of the States, their refusal in the last Con- 

 necticut Legislature to indorse or take any action 

 upon the subject, though especially requested so to 

 do by Governor Ingersoll ; their utter failure to pro- 

 pose or support, as a party, in Congress, any meas- 

 ure looking toward a return to specie payments ; and 

 their united opposition, in the Senate and House, 

 to the recently passed Senate currency and banking 

 bill. 



4. As to State affairs, we challenge a comparison 

 between the Republican and Democratic adminis- 

 tration. We arraign the Democratic party of Con- 

 necticut as having proved false to their pledges of 

 reform, by using their power for merely partisan pur- 

 poses, by interfering with the rights of municipali- 

 ties, and by returning to the Senate of the United 

 States a man who in the hour of the nation's peril 



was notoriously in sympathy with those who en- 

 gaged in an attempt to destroy the Federal Union. 



5. We present to the electors of this State the 

 names of the Hon. Jaines Lloyd Greene and his as- 

 sociates upon the State ticket as men qualified by 

 their ability, integrity, and character, to perform 

 worthily all the duties devolving upon the execu- 

 tive officers of the State. 



The Democratic Liberal party met in State 

 Convention at Hartford on the 16th of Feb- 

 ruary, to nominate their candidates for State 

 offices. The convention was fully attended 

 by delegates from every part of the State. 

 The organization of the convention having 

 been completed, a delegate moved "that an 

 informal ballot be taken for a candidate for 

 Governor," when another member proposed 

 to renominate Charles R. Ingersoll for a third 

 term by acclamation, and with him the pres- 

 ent incumbents of all the other State offices. 

 This proposition having been seconded, and 

 indorsed also by the delegate who had previ- 

 ously moved for the informal ballot, which 

 motion he withdrew, the chair put the ques- 

 tion to the convention, when it was unanimous- 

 ly adopted with prolonged applause. Upon 

 which the President announced that Charles 

 R. Ingersoll and the other State officers were 

 renominated. Their names and respective 

 offices are as follows : 



For Governor, Charles R. Ingersoll, of New 

 Haven ; for Lieutenant-Governor, George G. 

 Sill, of Hartford ; for Secretary of State, Mar- 

 vin H. Sanger, of Canterbury ; for Treasurer, 

 William E. Raymond, of East Canaan; for 

 Controller, Alfred R. Goodrich, of Vernon. 



The following platform was unanimously 

 adopted: 



The Democratic and Liberal Republican Electors of 

 Connecticut in Delegated Convention assembled, de- 

 clare : 



1. That free government derives its just powers 

 from the consent of the governed; that the Federal 

 Government is vested with those powers only which 

 are granted to it by the people and enumerated in 

 the Constitution of the United States. 



2. That the public welfare requires the supremacy 

 of the civil over the military authority, and freedom 

 of person under the protection of habeas corpus ; and 

 we demand for the individual the largest liberty con- 

 sistent with public order; for the State, self-govern- 

 ment ; and. for the nation a return to the methods of 

 peace, and to the constitutional limitations of power. 



3. That we view with apprehension and alarm, and 

 solemnly condemn as subversive of free government, 

 the recent action of the Federal Executive in refer- 

 ence to the States of Louisiana and Arkansas, and 

 the avowed determination of the administration to 

 disregard the will of the people of those States in 

 reference to the organization of their governments, 

 and the management of their local affairs. 



4. That the use of bad money imposes an unequal 

 and dishonest tax, which bears most heavily on those 

 who work for wages ; that irredeemable paper curren- 

 cy, by whatever name known, is bad money ; and that 

 it is a fraud in time of peace for the Government to 

 make anything a legal tender except gold and silver 

 coin of a fixed standard. 



5. That the Republican party has proved itself un- 

 fit to rule, because with unlimited opportunity it has 

 failed to make the bad money, which it has forced 

 upon the people, equal to the good money with which 

 it pays its bondholders. 



