The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-10
Rev. G. H. Beard Says He Is Not Fit Man to Represent Con- necticut in United
 States Senate.
HIS DEFEAT ASKED FOR
Two Years in Which to Raise Sentl- mcnt Against Present Incumbent --Gcncral Association
 Meeting.

At the annual meeting at the Grand Avenue Congregational church of the General Association of Connecticut, representing nearly all of the $50 Congregational churches in Connccti- cut, Rev. Gerald IT, Beard of Bridge port, the moderator, delivered an ad- dress in which he made sharp at- tack upon United states Senator Nor gan G. Bulkeley of Hartford. MT. Beard in the course of his remarks paid his respects to Senator Bulkeley and said he was mot a fit man to be elected to the United States senate hy reasons of his confessed actions which higher ethical standard would not justify The speaker saiu that since Senator Bukeley had been In Washington "he had not done a single thing for old Connecticut
 He said the clergy had two years left to arouse sentiment for the sen- ator's defeat, Then this blot and the shame of this old commonwealth would be wiped out. He said there was need of more ministers taking stand for purer politics, There was need for the ministers to partici- pate in the primary and in connection with municipal and state elections, as we'll as teaching political righteous ness in the pulpit He commended the action of the ministers in Hart ford Bridgeport and Norwalk in this line, in recent political movements.
 The address of welcome was made by Rev. Dr. Sheath. pastor of the Grand avenue church, who greeted in a cordial manner the visiting clergymen,
 At the afternoon session the most important business was the adoption of the report of the committee ap- pointed to make arrangements for the 1 bi-centennal celebration. The re- port follows;
 The committee appointed at the last meeting of the general association to make preparations for a suitable celebration of the approaching bi-cen- tennial of the association, submits the following suggestions embracing what ! gram for the 1909 meeting Your committee recommends that in 1909 the general conference be held with the First church in Hartford, and that 1t be devoted to the celebration of the bi-centennial sessions of Tues day and the session of Wednesday af- ternoon, as this will afford little 1l rn,. ihp f. ment of the various topics calling for recognition and careful treatment on such an occasion.
 We recommend that pr. Timothy Dwight be moderator for 1909 and make the opening address. It ap- peared to your committee simply a matter of course that the main event of our celebration-the chief feature of the two days program--should be historical discourse embracing a general survey of our history as an association of Congregationalism In Connecticut, and of its ministry dur ing the two centuries that have passed since the association came into being We recommend that this hlstorica
 discourse with services of praise and prayer be assigned to Tuesday even ing and that Dr. Edwin P Parker be appointed to deliver it, We recom
 mend as a less formal and more per sonal treatment of our history espe. cially the history of our later years
 that a paper of "reminiscences be in cluded, "reminiscences of Connection ministers and that Joseph H Twichel } be appointed to prepare it. Following
 in certain way the procedure of tho
 celebration of fifty years ago we sug , gest a series of papers and addresses , on Connecticut Congregationalisn 2 ..-a--.s-z----
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