The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-28

the fact that tonight althou.sh we zen hays Tdof1ny st tbstr wgathff Bridgert cit sues of the campaign, are wiling to brave the storm to hear the discus sion.
 Tonight all the issues of tha cam paign of importance will be discuss ed and I am instructed to speak but a very few minutes. At the present time in the State of Connecticut and throughout the Union there is a great danger stalking about the Iana!5 You all know the rise in prices at the pres ent time of the necessities of life is. making it almost impossible for some of us to purchase these necessities The Republican party has been in power so many years that they. are the ones who are responsible. They are endeaVoring to shift the respon- s1b1ity upon us. They say 1t is the force of circumstances. When the men who own a faGtoss fi11G TT aaaEsgs Wrongf i11 tae fac1kry they cG1 inc heads of#tae departn1ents You have found things going wrong. It's high time that you made change in the heads of the departments of the State of Connecticut.' (App1ause1
 ''The Democratic party met in con- vention and adopted platform with some blanks in it. They were plain and straightforward. You didn't have to turn them over to see what was on the other side. All were written plainly and each meant what it said
 -The Republican party hastened to adopt some of our planks flor the principles appealed to them /as being they had absolutely ignored them! When they saw the Democratic party arising to the occasion they endea- vored to take some of them them selves and now they are endeavoring to make promises to you Of what they will do in the next two years when not known what it was to carry out one of these promises.
 T ask, you gentlemen, whether you consider that promise made by a partv in power with simply inc idea of keeping in power, is one upon which you can depend after election You promise. Your voice will be heard in judgment and I doubt not that on November 8 Bridgeport will be heard in louder protest than ever before, first city in the State.
 '"The Democratic party has taken a firm stand as being absolutely oppos- ed first, last and all the time to the use of money in elections and to the use of money in buying nominations to office. The Republican party for election of United States Senators. The Democratic party claims that United States Senators should be elect ed by the people-that you and I and all the rest of the citizens of Bridge port shall have the right to say who small De the OHlIeQ states HoeudlOf, and that no longer shall the present system prevail of apparently giving the office to the highest bidder.
 t"The Democratic party is opposed Bridgeport felt the weight Of it last year. The administration which I have the honor to represent was com money for two years for paying this State tax and we must pay to the State altogether over $8! 900 which rep mi tav in h biS city simply because the Republican administration during the past 10 or F or 16 years has been extravagant and we in Bridgeport must help to pay their old bills
 | 'ELet us take up the matter of char ter changes. It has come to be the cus. n of late years, if charter changes are desired. to go to a cer- tain few. enlist them in the project, and then have the things fixed. We Democrats are absolutely opposed to all charter changes of this kind We claim that the voters of the city where such changes are proposed whether they want such changes or whether they do not" (Applause.)
 EtYou will hear discussed tonight in an able manner the taking away of the s5o0o limit, the enactment of Workingnlan's Compensation Law and why we should have Public Utilities Commission. But let me tell you this the Democratic party is absolutely in favor of all three of these and put itself on record to that effect long before the Republican party ever thought of it. How they do love the working gman every two years' (Ap- pIause). 'aThey talk to him at the noon day Yea, every day from now until election day you will have the privilege of hearing some one of these campaign orators at one Of the fac tories But always remember to ask them this one question when they are making you promises: Why was if that the Republican party having
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