State of Connecticut
BY HIS EXCELLENCY
SIMEON E. BALDWIN
GOVERNOR
Following the pious custom instituted by the fathers of
the Commonwealth, and ever since maintained, I appoint
Thursday, the twenty-eighth day of November, as a day
of praise and
Chaukauiutiuſ
to Almighty God.
During the year that has gone, Europe, Asia, Africa and
part of our own continent, have suffered from the horrors
of war; but our peace has remained unbroken.
The harvests of our country have been abundant; our
industrial establishments busy and prosperous; and our
trade, both at home and with foreign lands, never before
SO great.
The strain to which every four years our frame of civil
government is subjected, it has met unshaken. Never has
the general course of business throughout the United States
been less disturbed by the political contests incident to a
Presidential election, and a majority of their citizens
contemplate with composure the soon-coming transfer of
political power to men chosen by the minority, under our
rule which allows electoral colleges of the States to control
the choice, although they may represent only a minority of
the whole people.
An attempt to assassinate a former President of the
United States failed to inflict upon him any serious injury.
For these things, and for all that makes American life in
the twentieth century so full and free, I recommend that on
the day that has been named above, the people of this
State, gathered in their homes and churches, render to
God their grateful thanks.
Given under my hand, and the seal of the State, at the Capitol in Hartford,
this ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand, nine
hundred and twelve, and of the independence of the United States the
one hundred and thirty-seventh.
SIMEON E. BALDWIN.
By His Excellency’s Command :
MATTHEW H. ROGERS,
Secretary.




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