The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-27
OLYMPIC CHAMPION, PORTER,
 SPEAKS FOR BUCKINGHAM
World Noted Athlete, a Native Bridgeporter, Gives Reasons Why Democratic Candi=
 date Should be Elected.

the old municipal baseball team, and
 later, while student at Yale Univer- sity, he played on the Law School nine.
 Friends, there is nothing like athletic
 competition to test a mans metal.
 There is where ones, true stuff shows
 up and if one has any yellow in him,
 there it comes forth to ones speedy
 undoing. Friends, if Eddy Bucking-
 ham did not have the right stuff in
 him he could not have made good then.
 And the fact that he did make good then, and with plenty to spare, is to
 me guarantee sufficient that he will make good now. We need above all things a fighter
 in the office. We need more than all else backbone. Gentlemen, if there had been backbone in the administra- i ton of the city's affairs in times past notorious steals that have been pulled off in this city under our very eyes would never have occurred, and some people who now pose as eminently re- the bars. There is today in American commonweaiths no more rapacious monster than the public service cor poratfon that tries to, slip through al- ways just within the letter of the law. It robs the city, it robs you. and it robs me, for you and I are the city. And that we, the people of Bridgeport, are continually pilfered right and left is due nothing more and nothing less than to the weakness, inehciency and dishonesty of those whom in times
 past you have, we'll meaningiy enough, perhaps, but mistakingly, thoughtless- ly invested with the administration of your affairs. So I say there is a lot of work to be done to set this city arieht. and only a fighter of metal he adway. Such a one I conceive to
 be Edward T. Buckingham who,
 grace granting. will be our next May or.
 You on the East Side have occasion to remember and feel grateful to P. T. Barnunn, for he was in a large measure responsible for the existence of East Bridgeport and certainly for giving it a rroper start. Washington Park is
 one oS his gifts to the people. And over on the South Side. lining the coastal margin of the city is another c.agnifcent park, Seaside unsurpassed as breathing spot for the people in all New England. Friends, P. T. Bar gifts because he loved Bridgeport, be- cause he loved the people of Bridge port, because he believed in Bridgeport, it's possibilities and future. He was beyond doubt Bridgeport's most public spirited citizen. Fellow citizens, in Edward T. Buck ir gham you have a public servant,
 tried and proved already, who is of
 the same stuff as F. T. Barnum. He believes in Bridgeport, too, and loves
 Bridgeport, and loves you. I know of
 no more genuinely democratic fellow
 in the town. He is democratic by
 party and democratic by nature, clear through and through. He most rich-
 ly merits your support. Providence
 has even greater things in store for him-he Is not going to stop at May or.
 And don't let your support stop at
 voting for Ed. Buckingham on election day. Remember he must have a har-
 nonious backing in order to make good. Of himself he is nothing, but with all working in unison he can do very much. Nor let your support of and your interest in his administration stop on election day, with his election and that of 8 legislative body that will
 pack him up to the hflt. It must continue right on through his term, if
 he is to do his best for you. He must
 be made to feel that you are all back of him all the time.3 Then he will be Q, great force, and only so can he fitly
 and truly represent you and bring about measures that will make for the
 Fellow citizens, there is something onainous about the letter fsB." Bridge port begins with ''B", Barnum begins with tsB'; and so does BuckinHham
 The motto of the campaign, as I see from the buttons you are all wearing on your lapel is "B-A Booster'', be al booster. It is most fitting. Let the
 watchword be "B-A Booster for Buck
 ingham' and a BETTER, BUSTER, and BIGGER BRIDGEPORT, that will do the memory of Rarnunn, Bridge
 ports original booster, honor. And
 remember, too, that every knock against is boost-for Buckingham.