The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-01
DEMOCRATS NOMINATE
 BENT AND MELTzER
 FOR GENERAL ASSEMBL Y Both Declare in Favor of Public Utilities and Other Progressive Legislation

1 tain conditions to be met. The peo- Die have for long time demanded the correction of these evils, but the Re- Ipublican party has failed to respond, | but suffered matters to stand as they were and the voters are not going to be received again but will, I believe, place the Democratic party in power and look to it for their correction.
 The matter of a public utilities bill is one that is to come before the next session of the Legislature, and there is no doubt in my mind that such a bill will be passed. The business men of this State have taken up this mat ter and are pushing it in earnest, and so great is the sentiment in favor of such a measure that no man could be elected to either branch of the Legis- lature this fall if he were opposed to such bill The great fight will come as to the wording of such a bill, and without at this time going into the matter thoroughly I will say that I am in favor of public utilities bill so extent the purpose of it's creation, that is to effectively safeguard the public interests by the proper regulation and control of public service corporations.
 There has been on our statute book for a great number of years a statute that provides that in case of the death of a person by the negligence of an- other person or corporation that the executor or administrator of such de- ceased person upon bringing suit could not recover more than $5.O0O. In
 
 is not worth more than $5, 900, while if he were a valuable horse that be- longed to him that was injured he might upon proof that the value of the horse was $10,000 recover that amount thus making a mans life less valuable than that of a horse he owns. And yet in 1903 a Republican Legislature readopted that statutory provision. If elected my vote will be for the repeal of such a statute. I am in favor of a direct primary act and the enactment 1 of RmDlOV6rS' liability
 Both the platform adopted by our 1 recent town and city convention and the l State convention contain measures which if adopted would result in get ting rid of many of the evils now ex- isting, and I stand upon those plat forms And now, fellow Democrats, I think we all feel that this election will see the Democratic party again in control of the State government; if so it will be because the voters in this State believe that our party will ac- which the present party in power has failed to act upon. I will do my share and I am sure the rest of the candidates on our ticket will do theiH& l again thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me
 MT. Meltzer was introduced to the He spoke as follows:
 f'I do not believe it is necessary for me to repeat the words of gratitude and appreciation, so well expressed by brother Bent for the honor of being your nominee for representative on the Democratic ticket, because I believe you all appreciate that any sensible man will feel proud to be nominated to such an office and to be placed on the same ticket with such an illus trious man as the Democratic standard bearer in this State, Simeon B. Bald win And l am frank to say that I feel so strongly on this point that if I had the choice in the matter, and r. one would mean defeat and the other victory, I would rather be on a ticket