The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-29
1 WILSON NAMED
 BY ACCLAMATIAN
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the honor.
 | In the interests of harmony, he said, | it would give both his father and him.
 self great pleasure to withdraw his 1 father,s name in behalf of MT. Lynn l W. Wilson.
 MT DeForest said he felt as if the | convention was making a mistake and
 asked it to remember that it had plac- 1 ed a candidate on the State ticket
 without knowing whether he would | accept and that he had withdrawn. It 1 was his desire as a Democrat to have l the convention convene today, norni- | nate before it adjourned, the man it 1 wished for representative in Congress. ' l MT. Seymour was still insistent upon the name of MT. DeForest remaining before the convention, and suggested that they nominate him and adjourn
 for week to get his answer Mir. Eli B. Weeks chairman of the Con gressional committee, said he had la bored with MT. Robert E. DeForest a week ago in an effort to have him take the nomination. as he did not know at
 tffe time that Bridgeport would have
 another candidate.
 He said he thought it would be ut
 ter nonsense to bring the matter be-
 fore an adjourned convention at
 later date. Attorney John J. Cullinan,
 spoke a second time, stating that he
 wished it understood that MT. DeFor-
 est was the first choice of the Bridge
 port democracy and that Mr. Wilson
 was the choce of the Democrats of
 the 23d senatorial district for the
 nomination of Senator When its> be-
 came known that MT. DeForest would
 not be a candidate for, Congress, MT.
 Wilson had given up chance of win
 ming an election to the state senate
 in o~do.- to make the more important
 fight for representative in Congress.
 MT. Seymour's remarks, n1ais nom
 nation speech, said MT Cullinan were
 exceedingly fitting as a eulogy to
 the man whose democracy was un-
 questionable and who had served his
 party as well as Robert B. DeForest.
 Jeremiah Donovan. leader of the Norwalk delegation, said in view of
 what had transpired, he believed 1t
 would come in good grace from MT.
 Seymour to withdraw the nomination
 of MT. DeF'orest, and if. he was the
 man that he believed him to be, he
 would do so. 4e
 Archibald McNeil, IT,. said out of respect for MT. DeForest, MT. Seymour should accede to the wishes of Mir. De- J. Hanlon invoked a storm of applause when he declared that Norwalk, the home town of the Republican nominee, would give any candidate that the con- vention nominated, one of the largest majorities ever given the candidate by either party in that place, oa the withdrawal sof the nomination of MT. DeForest and moved that MT. l Lynn W. Wilson be nominated by exclamation. John J. HaITon seconded | the nomination. The nomination was | then made and MT. Seymour and MT. | DeForest were named a committee | to nOL11y MT WISOI1N e1AA0 1A44AS 4AAAAA before the convention.
 The candidate was received with en- thusiastfc and prolonged applause I The convention was called to order | at Il o'clock by Eli B. Weeks, of Litchfeld, chairman of the Congress sionaI committee. was elected temporary chairman Ed ward F. Meeker of Bridgeport was chosen senator.
 MT. Walsh delivered the opening ad- dress as follows.
 .s In section 10 of the Constitution of the United States it is provided, of the Congress lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspsctdon laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any State on imports or ex- ports shall be for the use of the all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress- and that same Constitution provides that Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign na- tions, among the several States and with the Indian tribes.
 weeks by the fathers of this country, the various states setting up high tariff walls against one another and forced them together that it was pos sible to batter down the walls. Then came the war of the revolution and |, present governme ent, when all tariff walls were stricken down. These walls were never resurrected until lfter the civil war when we were breed to have 8 high tariff for war purposes and mend our wounds as a tick family needs a doctor.
 After the country had recovered rom it's illness the manufacturing clement insisted on keeping on the I@ nigh tariff as a matter of protection 1ntil today it has generated the great ruStSt which it supports
 We now have the spectacle of a Republican ex-president going about power to suppress certain trusts which it's own party has created and { till fosters He does not seek to re- l nove the root of the evil, but to | t hop off a branch here and there ! Ie knows that the protective tariff I 5 direct appeal to the basest eIe- of fundamental rule of 1 r thics upon which civilization is t ounded. That is that you should do ( nto others as you would have others + 10 unto you- He has never had thel [ outrage to tell the people the self , : vident truth. The situation has prac- : lcally resolved itself down to this F lou must go back to the great eIe- 1ent2l truth expressed in the com titution and thus retain the demo- = racy founded by our fathers, or you Y aust give up your ideas of home rule l the state and accept an autocracyl t Washington.
 ) decide. MT. Hill has been a party . } the creation of the present tariff i'll, which the best brains in his own 4 arty say is wrong and unjust and my opinion this convention in ominating foreeful candidate will ominate the successor of Ebenazer Hill.
 It was moved to take a recss untf11
 o'clock. The object of this adjourn lent was to give the Norwalk delega- on time to find Judge Robert K. and ascertain if he would e candidate
 It was then moved to take a re- ass until 1 o'clock Senator Donovan 1ggested making the hour two clock. MT. Weeks said that the itchffeId delegation would be obliged take an early train. The time