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chanced along meditated over that inscription, and was so 

 surprised that he spoke out loud so that his friends heard 

 him say : "I wonder liow they got both of those men in 

 the same grave!" (Laughter.) 



Seriously, if I was to make a suggestion about this 

 program of speeches, it would seem to nie that the officers 

 of this association might make the list to read something 

 as follows : Speakers. Mr. J. H. Hale will welcome you 

 to Hartford. Air. J. H. Hale will respond for the governor 

 of Connecticut. Mr. J. H. Hale of Hartford will address 

 you, and so on, for I have enjoyed mv friend's address to 

 you upon the re-discover} of Connecticut. It is a state that 

 everyone of you live in and love, and have sworn to 

 support. It is a mistaken notion, to my mind, that so many 

 people is this state have seen fit to give away the little farms 

 in Connecticut and wander away from home and fireside, 

 and disappear in this great country of ours, and fail to reap 

 the great financial rewards that they expect and hope to 

 get. Connecticut is renowned the world over for its manu- 

 factures, for its inventive genius, and for a great many 

 other diversified interests that are scattered all over this 

 world. Just now it is great for having as its governor, a 

 man who is, I tell you, my friends, administering the aflfairs 

 of this state absolutely independent of any party bias. 

 (Applause.) They have at its head a man who is interested 

 onlv for the welfare of the state, a man who has in his 

 heart onlv the best interests of the commonwealth, irre- 

 spective of any party interests that may be involved. Per- 

 haps he, if he were present to-night, . would not tell you so, 

 but in the short month that I have been associated with 

 him ( and I feel greatly complimented to be able to asso- 

 ciate with such a great man) I tell you honestly and sin- 

 cerely that whatever Simeon E. Baldwin recommended in 

 his message to the legislature, or whatever he recommends 

 to them in the future, by way of special messages, what- 

 ever bills he mav veto, or whatever bills he may approve of 

 and sign, that the paramount question in his mind, and the 



