Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-08
STATE SOCIALIST
CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR
Robert Hunter Spoke to Gathering in
Olympic Hall.

Robert Hunter, the candidate of the
socialist party for governor, was the
speaker on Friday evening before a
gathering of over 100. including sew
eral women, in Olympic hall, and was
enthusiastically applauded as he at
tackled the records of both the TSpub-
lican and democratic parties in both
national and state legislation, and
showed what the socialists stood for.
He was introduced by Isadore Polsky
and was preceded by Edward Perkins
Clark of Mystic who told of social
istic gains from 80 votes in 1908 in
Stonington to 119 in 1910.
Candidate Hunter spoke in part as
follows:
We are on the eve of what 1 believe
win be a memorable campaign in the
history of this state. This is our year.
Discomfort is almost universal and the
revolt against corruption and misrule
runs high. Men are suffering from
high prices and low wages: from over
employment and no employment, and
these conditions in politics and indus
try are forcing men to think. And,
strange as it may seem, the old lead
ers, the old idols, of the republican
party are being held up everywhere
throughout the land as objects for
contempt. Cannon and Aldrich, DALI
ell and Hale Payne and Lodge, Bullle-
/ ley and Brandegee are no longer the
HOllOI0u itddtiS O1 OIL SUD
missiVe followers. They are today
facing a stampede. They must either
get out of the way or be crushed.
But, friends we have nothing to
hope for from the democratic party,
and we have nothing to hope for from
| the republican party. And no voters
should know that so well as the voters
of Connecticut Now. let us exam
inc the records of the republicans.
There are five congressman from this
state at Washington and there are
two senators. These men are elected
| TO protect the interests of over one
million human beings in this state,
most of them hard at work in fields,
| factories and workshops
And, | ask, what have these seven
| representatives from this state done
for this mass of working people? Can
| anyone mention one thing? / have
made inquiries. got a man in Wash
ington to go over the records of the
American Federation of Labor and
the Congressional Record. And | find
that about one dozen important meas
ures were brought into congress eff
fecting the interests of la Dor.
And | want to tell you here tonight
that after examining the official rec
ords / cannot find one single word ut
tered by any of our representatives. in
congress in favor of labor.
The congressman and senators from
tn1S state nave fought every Dill in
the interest of labor. They have also
voted and worked for every bill OPP
posed to the interest of labor.
The speaker told in detail of more
than half a dozen bills benetiting la
Dor which We're killed in the state leg
islature. and went on to say:
l might tell you tonight of the mil
lions stolen by the interets. I might
tell you of forests and lands and coal
mines and gold mines stolen by the
lions in poverty, of the uneni ploy ID
and of the Indebtedness caused by this
industrial system of ours. But some
million and despise the man who steals
a dime.
And I have told you these stories
tonight because ! want to show you
that the railroads can have their mil
lions of acres of land. The corpora
tions can have their billions Of un-
earned prof1ts. The powerful can have
every kind Of legislation they ask for.
but the workers eonfinsd in the fac
tories OF this stale ten and twelve
hours day cannot have one toilet
room for twenty i've human beings
employed and | ask YOU to ponder up
on that little thing
A short time ago the papers of this
state We're much excited over Wha
they called the theft of the republica n
party. 1t seems that in the conven-
ton at Bridgeport the doors were
locked and like q gang of burglars.
the delegates proceeded to make ncn :
nations, "a
Now. that's pretty bad. but the worst