The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-05

order lies in the electing of such men as Judge Simeon E. Baldwin, and in the inviolable conservation of our Ma tional Constitution.
 For ovep a hundred years it has been our pilot; has steered us clear from-the rocks and shoals on which other Nations have been rent asunder, and during all that time has borne us along on a course Of uninterrupted and uneXampled prosperity-a free and happy people. And no wonder. For the American Constitution is Masterpiece of human wisdom and foresight. It guarantees equal rights to every citizen, and protects them all equally in the maintenance of those rights. IL takes no cOgniZance of sects in religion, or of parties in politics, but legislates for all with an impartial balance. It recognizes the laws and rights of other Nations, and respects them, yet throws open it's portals to all of every Nation who desire to live under it's benignant and happy rule. Hence there are no citizens in this republic who love it with a stronger and truer attachment, and a iuster appreciation of the civ il and social benefits it confers, and who are more interested in defending it, than Irish immigrants, there are reasons, too, why we should feel a stronger attachment to the Constitu- tion than immigrants from other countries. We speak the same lan- gauge and therefore we assimilate more readily with the Constitution. We have abjured and cast away the Constitution of England. We never loved it. We never chose it. It was not ours, we were neither happy nor free under it. The American ConSti- tuition we have chosen. We have re- solved to live under it and to die under it. We have sworn fealty to it, We revere it. and will stand by it. And defend it against all ene- mics, and if need be will die for it.
 For it secures to us all that we de- mand-life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
 If ever the party of new Nation alism, seduced by the delusions of imperaEsm shall prove so ungrateful and unworthy as to lay hands on this country would contemplate the deed with sorrow and dismay and would reverently gather up the frag- ments. and preserve the precious de- posit against the day when men, weary with anarchy, tyranny, and blood, should return to reason, and demand the restoration of Constitu- tional liberty.
 There are two great parties. The Democratic party, and the Republican party. Between those two parties we must chose the candidates they pres ent or stand aloof, indifferent or neu- tral, which no good citizen ought to do at this falls election. For the best of all reasons, to my mind this election should put an end to party strife and revise a patriotic sentiment all over the land, which political 1ead- CTS and factions for sinister ends are trying to prevent. There can be no permanent prosperity without pacifi- cation, and the only way to do it. is to vote for a change of rulers By doing so you will on the Sth day of November put an x mark in the cir cle of the Democratic column of your ballot and the trick is turned. A lover of Republican Institutions, firm ly believing in the Democratic theory of Government. The greatest good to the greatest number
 EDWARD s. RYAN,
 Westport.