The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-07
EDiorams From The Speeches of
 Judge Baldwin

The Republican State Convention, which was held week or two after ours, borrowed three blanks of our platform which I thank them for do- ing Namely, our declaration for a Public Utilities Commission bill; for a bill removing the $5,000 limit for death damages; and for @ change as to employers liability, so that ac- cidents occurring in large businesses should be treated as part of the cost of operation, and compensation to the sufferer charged over to the employ CT.
 By borrowing those three blanks from us, they have saved us a great deal of time in this campaign. We don't have to argue for them. Both parties demand them of the next General Assembly. The head of the ticket of each of the two great parties has publicly and repeatedly announced that he is in favor of | them.
 True, it is a death bed repentance l on the part of the Republican party managers. They have had the fullest possible opportunity to pass these bills. They have had an overwhelm- | ing majority in each house of the General Assembly for Is years. I am. I own, a little fearful that if the Republican ticket should prevail, the same thing would happen over again, and none of these bills would be passed.
 .eThe devil was sick, the devil a monk would be. The devil got well, d the devil a monk was he." | But at all events they are out of the way.
 Now why don't they go on and borrow some more of the blanks in the Democratic platform.
 Why not pledge themselves, as we have done, to create that fifth Con- gressional District? Here is a law
 of the United States which requires
 Congressional Districts to contain as
 nearly as practicable an equal num-
 Der of inhabitants, that there shal
 be as many of them as there are Con
 gressmen. We have five Congress
 men. Why don't we have five Dis
 tricts? Because Republican legisla
 lures have persistently refused. ses
 sion after session, to obey the law of the United States, which each mar | in the General Assembly has sworl to support
 And why didn't they borrow an other plank in our platform, that fo electing United States Senators by tn
 people.
 They didn't borrow it because the
 don't like it. I hear nothing from the campaig speakers at Republican meeting about either of these two Democrat , blanks.
 They don't dare to say they disap prove them They would not be for
 given by the party machine if the said they did approve them. , But the people of Connecticut,
 believe. do approve them and eac of them.
 s We are a law-abiding people. W
 want that Act of Congress obeye' We want a, fifth District on that al # count, and on its merits, too, becaus Q it is the only fair way to elect fiN !, Congressmen, to have five District ,. each about equal in population. if We want United States Senator Q elected by the people, so as to ste this insufferable prostitution of tf = General Assembly by making nomin; . tions to it turn on, not getting tf if best men, but getting the men sure ,f to vote pat for Gov. Bulkeley or Go III Mclean.
 was once opposed to the electic = of United States Senators by the pc
 ple. I thought that the legislatu ,o could study closer the men WI
 might be thought of for the oft1c
 and would know more about them
 have been convinced that I w
 wrong in my conclusions. The legi
 lature may know more about u = candidates for that great office. Tn may know too much about some
 them. They may know the size z. their pocket book. Members of t - legislature may be elected by a ca