The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-18
BANQUET OF KNIGHTS IS
 A SUCCESS
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(COnt1nueQ From F1rSC HdS0.l gates. We slept with the delegates at times and finally we got IS of them. Then Freddy Bartlett did the magnan- imous thing and Henry was nominat- ed. Then we went to Henry and told him that we wanted the city attorney Finally on the platter O. delay and indecision he handed it to Demo- crat.''
 .'Tel them that I acted on the ad- vice of your law partner" said the Mayor.
 "He wants me to tell you that he got a so-ca1led legal opinion from Stiles Judson, who was wise enough throat it was to go down. But I am no politician as Mayor Lee is. In fact I am not the same kind of poll tician as the average Irishman. To Irishman who has held office in my recollection who, after feeding at the public crib for several years, Is seen to relinQuish it without a struggle. rule that all Irishmen are good poli- ticians.'
 Judge Pullman kept his hearers in an uproar and when the laughter had subsided he talked along more serious lines, telling of the birth of his father in a little matched fisherfnan's- cot tage on the Irish coast, five miles from Dublin. He said that none there could raise their voices and say they had purer Irish blood than he running through his veins. Further he said: "I am down on the program to re- spond to the toast Irish Oratory.' I wish I had the power to speak to the theme. It is a sad thing oratory does not live after it is given. The Scrip lures live. The comedies of Sheridan and the works of Shakespeare are among the wonders of the literary world today, yet their authors have NI,n faCf nrof -vxyo read them. But for their power of conviction and their eloquence they can no more be called back than the song of the siren. At the head of the Irish orators stands OConnell, one of the masters of the English tongue. He was called the agitator, for as ir- resistible as the flow of Niagara he was bringing the light of liberty to Ireland.
 My bother was born in England and I want to say right here that believe that the best of all the good in the world is centered right here in keep her in the forefront. I want to say that the more the people rule the less we are dominated by a few bosses. If the State primary is good thing let us have it. As long as we can get the people of this country to think and vote the prophecy of Macaulay will never materialize and America will move on, the wonder of other na- tOnS and the glory or the world.
 Attorney Joseph Hartigan of New York. proved a most eloquent speaker. He had some wonderful facts. He showed that the first Presbyterian church in this country was established by the Irish, that the First Method ist church was established by the Irish, that over one-third of the pill grims who came over in the May flower were Irish. and that over one half of the Pennsvlvania Legislature before the Revolutionary war was made up of Irishmen.
 Loren Delbridge sang "The Wearing of the Green with fine effect, and Joseph Clabby rendered ''The Old Plaid Shawl The entire gathering united in singing good old time Irish songs. A genuine surprise was sprung near the close of the event when the Satellites. star attractions at Polls this week. entered the banquet hall playing old Irish reels and airs upon the pipes.
 Gov. Li'ley shook hands around and had a little talk with about all of those who were present. He said he had a deliehtful time and he seemed to enjoy himself.