The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-01
LOYAL DEMOCRATS RALLY
 IN ENEMY'S STRONGHOLD
Evenings Chill Not Minded by Enthusiastic Citizens Who Want
 to See Connecticut in the Hands of Good Government

ion of who pays the bills for running
 the government And as for Congress
 man Hill, he voted against the sub | mission of the income tax amendmen
 at all.
 You will perceive" continued MT | Wilson, that the railroad and tn.
 other interests behind MT. Goodwin |desire to control government for | very definite purpose. That purpoS,
 is to put their hands into the pocket. of ordinary men and take out part O.
 what they find there.
 "They want the ordinary man tt | pay more than his share of the cos
 of running the State, hence the State
 tax on towns. which falls so largely | on homes and lands. They want hin l to pay more than his share of the cos
 of running the Nation, hence theil | opposition to an income tax, and hence
 their predflection for internal revenue 1 and tariff taxes, which fall entirely
 upon consumption and not at all up- 1 on property.
 1 These gentlemen are all alike ir | this. They want to control the gov
 ernment in the interest of monopoly
 to take more than their share. Trusts | which flourish by reason of tariff
 walls and other unfair laws take
 sometimes s1,O00 in profits for each
 s1,OO0 paid in wages and salaries | Sometimes they take enough in prof
 it's to replace annually the entire plant used for their business in that year.
 | the habit of some trusts to restrict 1 production at it's very source and this is often ridicuously easy.
 | The tobacco trust to restrict the | production of tobacco has only to cut | the price over a large area, until no i profit is given to the farmer. The | next year thousands of farmers go out l of tobacco raising and there is an ac- l tual scarcity of tobacco
 The beef trust to stop the produc- | tion of cattle has only to pay over a large area to the farmers a price that does not afford a profit and on the following year a great many less cattle will be produced, there will be | an actual scarcity, and the trust is able to keep up the price to the con- sumner because it -has kept down the price to the farmer
 MT. Wilson then showed how the i cold storage plant is used ito maintain corners in such commodities as eggs and fruits.
 He concluded by saying: For 40 years the country has been sliding in- to the hands of the interests It will take more than one year and more than one election to restore the Re public to it's former status. The man who says to the contrary is either reckless, or very stupid.
 About all that can be done in this election is to shake out the crowd which has been in power so many years 1t has forgotten the people and endeavor to pass measures which will make the work of running the gov ernnent for the people easier in the future. In this matter I assume that the intelligent voter will be govern ed by the same reasons that influence him in the ordinary affairs of life. If he has a. man who does not give good .results,- he does not keep him upon the theory thattthe next man would be even worse, but discharges another, in the hope that this other will do better work
 William w. Bent, candidate for rep resentative asked the voters to tell him how MT. Goodwin was going to explain his connections in this cam paign with the same element in the Republican party which lobbied years ago. He said:
 ''It is a pleasure, indeed, to have this opportunity to speak at rally in my own district. I have only been a resident of this district for a short time, and have not had an opportun ity of meeting all of you before, so that it is a great pleasure to meet you here tonight face to face and to talk with you concerning the issues of this campaign. The Republican party have criticized us because we have devoted to much attention to na tional issues; but it is for the reason that they at this time are not ex tremely anxious to talk upon those issues; but are endeavOring to evade
 
 strictly to State issues. It is entirely proper to discuss national issues at this time for the reason that although it is not a national election in the sense that we elect a President. never theless we at this time do elect mem bers to Congress and it is extremely important that the Democratic candi- dates should be sent to Congress to help pass these measure which our party have so long advocated, espe- cially in a reduction in the tariff to result in a reduction in the cost of living.
 Before taking up the so-called State issues, let us see how sincere their candidate MT. Goodwin. is in advocat- ing measures, all of which we have included in our platform, but which he seems to think are matters which the Republican party is alone advo- eating. MT. Goodwin has stated that he IS in favor Of public utility bill. MT. Goodwin from what I hear is what you call a good fellow and may be sincere in what he states; but many of you will recall that at the last ses- sion of the Legislature when the pub lie utility bill was before that body for consideration, that the newspapers throughout the State with big head lines announced that there was scan- dal at the capitol; that railroad lobby ists had circulated around among the members of the Legislature while the vote for that measure was being taken, and were endeavoring in every way to influence the members of that body to vote against such measure
 Foremost among these railroad lob byists was a gentleman who is now publican party. You all know whom Two years afterwards at the Republi- can convention which was held a short time ago, this same man who at that time was so Instrumental and active in defeating the public utility bill, this same man at the Republican con- vention held at Hartford, was the man who secured the nomination for MT. Goodwin. This is all a matter of public record as can be shown. and as you recall was prominently stated in the newspapers at that time
 MT. Lake had practically been promised the nomina ton for Governor by the Republican party; but by req son of MT. Kings efforts, although MT. Lake had been conceded as having a