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the veto power, he has aroused the wrath of his own 

 party, who offered him the unprecedented insult of 

 permitting the passage of a vetoed bill by a two-thirds 

 vote while in full control of both Houses of Congress. 

 We ask all citizens of this State opposed^ to such ex- 

 tra, unjust, and unconstitutional legislation, to unite 

 with us in defeating the [Republican party, which has 

 so openly committed itself in support of the Kiver and 

 Harbor Bill, as well by the obstinate refusal of its late 

 convention to approve the veto of the President, as 

 by its renomination of the Congressmen who sup- 

 ported the bill and opposed the veto. 



Fifth. The adoption of an amendment to the State 

 Constitution is a most important exercise of the sover- 

 eign power vested in the people. The exercise of that 

 power has been wisely guarded by requiring such 

 amendment to be first approved by the House of 

 Kepresentatives ; to be then published with the laws 

 and submitted to the people ; to be then approved by 

 two thirds of each branch of the General Assembly, 

 and then, and then only, to be submitted to the peo- 

 ple for rejection or adoption. No member of the 

 Legislature can vote to submit to the people a consti- 

 tutional amendment of which he does not approve 

 without violating his oath of office and destroying one 

 of the safeguards which the people themselves have 

 erected for the protection ot the Constitution from 

 sudden changes. We denounce the declaration of the 

 [Republican party platform favoring the submission to 

 the people of a proposed amendment to the Constitu- 

 tion which it fails to approve, as evasive and coward- 

 ly. We fully recognize the evils arising from the 

 abuse of intoxicating liquors. We believe the evils 

 may be most effectually checked by the force of an 

 enlightened public opinion ; they may be partially re- 

 strained by wise legislation ; but such legislation 

 should not be so oppressive or impracticable in its 

 provisions as to trench on the personal rights and 

 liberties of citizens, and ought not to be made a 

 partisan question. Legislation so equally affecting 

 every one, in reference to a subject wnere all honest 

 men seek a common object, can most safely be left to 

 the individual conscience, free from the blindness of 

 party prejudice. We believe the incorporation of a 

 police regulation relative to the sale of intoxicating 

 liquors into the State Constitution to be opposed to 

 the plainest principles of sound government. 



The Prohibitionists of Connecticut assembled 

 in State Convention at Hartford in April, about 

 forty delegates being in attendance. No plat- 

 form was adopted nor reported, but the fol- 

 lowing State ticket was nominated : 



For Governor, George P. Rogers, of New 

 London; for Lieutenant-Governor, William S. 

 Williams, of Glastonbury; for Secretary of 

 State, F. H. Sage, of South Norwalk ; fqr State 

 Treasurer, Edward Tuttle, of Meriden ; for 

 State Comptroller, C. S. Harrington, of Mid- 

 dletown. 



The Greenbackers nominated Tanner 



for Governor, and Phelps for member of 



Congress from the First District. 



The election resulted in an almost entire vic- 

 tory to the Democratic nominees. 



The aggregate votes polled for Governor 

 throughout the State in 1882 were 16,598 less 

 than in 1880, they having been 115,165; of 

 which 59,180 were cast for Waller, Democrat; 

 54,526 for Bulkeley, Republican ; 928 for Rog- 

 ers, Prohibitionist ; and 481 for Tanner, Green- 

 backer. In 1880 the entire vote for Governor 

 was 132,763, distributed into 67,070 for Bige- 

 low, Republican ; 64,293 for Eaton, Democrat ; 

 897 for Baldwin, Greenbacker; 488 for Rogers, 



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Prohibitionist. In regard to Congressmen, the 

 Democratic nominees, Eaton, Mitchell, and 

 Seymour, were elected from the First, Second, 

 and Fourth Congressional Districts ; the Repub- 

 licans having re-elected their nominee, Wait, 

 from the Third District. In the Senate there 

 are Republicans 13, Democrats 11. In the 

 Legislature of 1881 it stood, Republicans 17, 

 Democrats 7. To the Lower House the Dem- 

 ocrats elected 109 members, the Republicans 

 139. In 1881 the proportion of their respect- 

 ive numbers was 101 aod 147. The Republi- 

 can majority in the next General Assembly will 

 be 30 in the House of Representatives, and 2 in 

 the Senate. 



COREA, a kingdom of Eastern Asia, occupy- 

 ing the peninsula opposite the Japanese island 

 of Niphon and bordering on the Chinese prov- 

 ince of Mantchooria. The King of Corea ac- 

 knowledges the nominal suzerainty of China, 

 but has for ages preserved a practical iride- 

 pendence. The Chinese have assisted the Co- 

 reans in their wars with the Japanese, who 

 conquered the country in the third century of 

 the Christian era, and have repeatedly overrun 

 it since, claiming tribute and submission down 

 to the present time. The Coreans are a Mon- 

 golian race (the Fuyus, who founded the Japa- 

 nese Empire), grafted on another stock which 

 shows evidence of Aryan origin. For nearly 

 three hundred years the Coreans, taught by 

 the terrors of invasions from the Japanese on 

 the one side and the Mantchoos on the other, 

 have followed a policy of complete non-inter- 

 course with foreigners. 



OPENING OF TREATY POETS. Within the 

 last ten years, influenced by the pressure of 

 the Chinese and Japanese Governments, they 

 have commenced to open their gates. The 

 urgency of China and Japan and the compla- 

 cence of the Coreans is partly explained by the 

 dread of Russian annexation, and the desire to 

 have friends among the Western nations inter- 

 ested. In 1876 Japan, in consideration of aban- 

 doning her traditional claim to tribute, obtained 

 a treaty conceding certain commercial privi- 

 leges. The garrison town of Fusan, which the 

 Japanese had held for centuries on the penin- 

 sula, was transformed into a trading-station. 

 Japan also obtained the right of trading in the 

 sea-port of Gensan, on the northeastern coast, 

 and in 1880, in the port of Inchuin on the west- 

 ern coast, twenty-five miles from the capital, 

 Seoul. The last concession precipitated a con- 

 flict between the reactionary party in Corea, 

 headed by Tai-wen-Kun, the father of the King 

 and late Regent, and the progressive party, 

 represented by the young King and Queen. 

 The progressive party was divided between 

 the friends of Japan and those partial to China, 

 The Japanese military system was introduced 

 by the Japanese faction. Commodore Shufeldt, 

 working with the American Minister at Peking, 

 and aided by the influence of Li-Hung-Chang 

 and the Chinese Government, obtained through 

 the Chinese party a treaty, signed in June, 



