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The Connecticut Citizen

NUGGET #69

Connecticut Citizen, The, was a “weekly” newspaper published in Ridgefield. The first and only issue was Oct. 8, 1892. It said its aim was to “battle on behalf of the farmers, mechanics and laboring class of Western Connecticut in favor of lower tariff taxation, purer politics, and just state representation.” The Citizen backed Grover Cleveland and Adlai Stevenson for president and vice president in that year’s election (Cleveland defeated incumbent Benjamin Harrison) and may have been backed by Melbert B. Cary, a wealthy Ridgefielder and a Democrat who was chairman of the Cleveland and Stevenson Campaign Club in Ridgefield and in 1902 ran for governor of Connecticut.  

Read the Connecticut Citizen at the Library of Congress.

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