CONNECTICUT. 



tire old State ticket, with Richard D. Hubbard 

 at its head, was renominated by acclamation. 

 A letter signed by Lieutenant-Governor Loornis, 

 tendering his resignation of the office he then 

 occupied, was read, and the resignation ac- 

 cepted. Charles Durand, of Derby, was nomi- 

 nated in his place. The following platform 

 was adopted by the Convention without a dis- 

 senting voice : 



Resolved, That the Democratic party of Connecti- 

 cut again pledges itself to the principles which it 

 has invariably adopted, and which a majority of the 

 people of this State have repeatedly approved. 



1. The Constitution and the Union shall be main- 

 tained, with the supremacy of the civil over the 

 military authority ; the largest individual liberty 

 consistent with public order; the equality of rights 

 for all citizens ; local self-government and the limi- 

 tations of the Constitution to be observed by those 

 administering the affairs of the Federal Government. 



2. We demand that rigid economy shall be ob- 

 served in every department of the State and Federal 

 governments ; and that the salaries of public officers 

 shall be reduced according to the necessities of the 

 times. 



3. That the deep-seated and continued corrup- 

 tions among Federal office-holders and employees 

 sliall cease ; and we demand of Congress that it 

 shall rigidly and persistently pursue investigations 

 to uncover fraudulent practices and ring contrivances 

 which deplete the Treasury and add to the burdens 

 of the people. 



4. We condemn the monstnus frauds and the 

 daring and unrighteous action of tho Commission by 

 which the people of the United States were cheated 

 and deprived of their choice in the last presidential 

 election a bold plot and unparalleled iraud which 

 struck at the heart of the republic ; a plot and fraud 

 which shall not be condoned, and shall never be re- 

 pe tted. 



5. That the public lands shall be preserved for 

 the benefit of actual settlers, and subsidies of money 

 or lands to corporaiions and speculators shall cease 

 for ever. 



6. That the Constitution of the United States rec- 

 ognizes gold and silver as the standard money of 

 the Union ; and this standard is the only stable basis 

 for the commercial necessities of the world. The 

 Democratic party of the Union has never failed to 

 recognize and support this essential principle. A 

 great and costly war, and Republican extravagance, 

 fraud, and corruption, brought an irredeemable cur- 

 rency, under which prices of every commodity have 

 fluctuated, industrial interests have suffered, labor 

 has been deprived of its just reward, and many busi- 

 ness men brought to bankruptcy; but the laws of 

 trade, with a large balance of foreign exchange in 

 favor of this country, have brought us to the door 

 of a redeemable currency and a sound basis for an 

 improved and prosperous state of affairs, which will 

 place the creditors and debtors of the Government 

 upon the same financial plane. 



7. That the resumption act, so called, was in its 

 inception unwise, uncalled for, and not demanded 

 at the time of its enaction by those laws of trade 

 which govern with unerring certainty the finances 

 of a country; and having confidence in the Senators 

 and Rapresentatives of this State in the Congress 

 of the United States, we unhesitatingly rely upon 

 their integrity and judgment, believing that they 

 will be controlled in their action upon the question 

 of resumption by those well-known principles which 

 underlie the necessities of commerce and the best 

 interests of the people of this State. 



Resolved, That we condemn all repudiation, and 

 demand the just payment of the public debt. We 

 condemn the financial policy of the Republican Ad- 

 ministration as the direct and shortest way to uni- 



versal bankruptcy and total repudiation ; and we 

 demand that whatever money is issued shall be for 

 the benefit of the whole people. 



Jtesolved, That we demand of our Senators and 

 Representatives in Congress earnest efforts to in- 

 crease our trade with foreign nations, by such legis- 

 lation as will tend to restore our commercial tonnage 

 to its former equality with that of Great Britain, 

 and place annually in the hands of our own ship- 

 owners many millions of dollars in gold, which now 

 goes to enrich the owners of foreign ships, and thus 

 furnish to the laborer increased employment, reduce 

 the public taxes, and greatly increase the country's 

 exports. 



Resolved, That we thank the Democratic House of 

 Representatives for earnestly struggling against the 

 Republican Senate to reduce the public expenditures 

 and lighten taxation. 



Resolved, That we request the next Legislature of 

 this State to carefully consider the laws that have 

 been passed during the period of war and of exces- 

 sive expenditures, and to modify such portions of 

 them as may be deemed injurious in any degree to 

 the public interests ; and we recommend the modi- 

 fication of the trustee process so that the wages of u 

 laboring man with a family, and the wages of women 

 and children, may be protected ; and we also favor 

 a reasonable homestead exemption. 



Resolved, That an harmonious Union, the rights of 

 every State respected, a friendly intercourse among 

 the people, and a cessation of sectional hostility, are 

 essential to the good name of our republic and to 

 the prosperity of the country. ; and we invite all voters 

 who favor this healing policy and who are opposed 

 to the politicians, in or out of Congress, who strive 

 to keep alive animosities between different sections 

 of the Union, to act with the Democratic party in 

 the coming election; and to those workingmen 

 whose right to suffrage has been sustained by that 

 party, in great conflicts when their rights were as- 

 sailed, to all laborers, of whom in every vicissitude 

 in our country's history the Democracy have been 

 unflinching advocates and friends, we extend the 

 same cordial aOliation and respect that have dis- 

 tinguished our party from the days of Jefferson to 

 the present time. 



The Republican party assembled in State 

 Convention at Hartford on the 24th of Sep- 

 tember, and nominated the following State 

 ticket: For Governor, Charles B. Andrews, of 

 Litchfield ; for Lieutenant-Governor, David 

 Gallup, of Plainfield ; for Secretary of State, 

 David Torrance, of Derby ; for Treasurer, Tal- 

 madge Baker, of Norwalk; for Comptroller, 

 Chauncey Howard, of Coventry. The platform 

 adopted at this Convention was as follows: 



The Republicans of Connecticut, in convention 

 assembled, resolve : 



First. That the existing dangers to the public 

 credit, industry ^ and commerce call upon us to pledge 

 anew our constancy to the great principles of pa- 

 triotism and self-sacrifice which have successfully 

 carried the country through the perils of a great war 

 and preserved and established the Union. 



Second. That the bonds of the United States and 

 the legal-tender notes issued under the necessities 

 of the war are sacred debts, to be paid to the last 

 dollar in the standard money of the world; that the 

 only money recognized in the Constitution or in the 

 exchange of the world is gold and silver coin of the 

 weight and fineness which give it universal currency ; 

 and we demand that all currency shall be redeemable 

 in coin at the will of the holder, and that both coin 

 and currency shall be kept at par with the gold stan- 

 dard of the world. 



Third. That the issue of legal-tender notes was 

 only justifiable by the necessities of the war, and 



