The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-07
public, be is for the Payne tariff just

public, be is for the Payne tariff just
 The Republican party can never f4 but it has got to be too strong for them. It is like the old days in Illinoisn down in Egypt, as they when If man wanted pork he would go out and shoot it. Two hunters were stalking the woods at night when one saw by the moonlight the hind legs. of a hog behind a tree. He crept up and seized them. It turned around and proved to be a boar with with great vigor. there was a violent struggle for minute and then he. cried to his companion, Tom, come here double quick, and help me to let this hog go."
 The Republican party can't let go their high tariff. There are too many are too many contributors to the campaign funds among them. But one party can reform the tarin-the party that has always believed that low tariffs were the right tariffs, and that after the rates were made am pie to protect American labor. the object was accomplished and it was
 I should like, if there were time, to discuss the Republican doctrine of ''ncw nationalisfn' with you at great CT length than is possible tonight
 They propose, as we have begun by exercising imperial power in the
 
 the free soil of our sovereign states; to this state, which every elector here has sworn to support as a free and Independent state. The Republi- cans tell us that the federal power must be increased by executive ac- ton, by legislative action, by judicial construction. It does not seem to matter to them that the constitution of the Usited States has fixed strict limits to the power of the nation- which cannot be extended, except by amending the constitution That, however, has always been the Demo cratic doctrine, and it is sound doe Urine. It is a doctrine all important to us of the small states. If we want to keep home rule in Connecticut, there is but one way: to stand firm on the reserved rights of the states, each equal before the constitution, however small it's territory may be.
 I suppose that one great reason allowed to remain in power so long is their name. To be truly Republj- can in ones views and sentiments is a good thing. We live in a republic Naturally we like the name, Republi- can. But a name is not an mex haustible capital.
 have heard of country fair where one of the side shows was a tent with the sign Talking Seals" and a picture of two seals facing each other in a talking attltude: in. There was tank, and two seals, and the snowman was feeding them; After while the visitor onserved would like to hear them talk stranger was the reply, what are you thinking I of? Don't rHo4s yoq k90w 5,2st their nane-taIking seals"
 The Republicans have scme tall takers, but the trouble IS that the leaders of the party are not really Republican-not really friends or Re publican government: That's just their name-"Republicans They ar %%,~i 11~ inn nT really want to raise the powers of the United States here on the same lines in which they have raised them
 The country, fellow citizens, will not go to destruction this year which
 But the country will go to destruc- tion eventually, if this steady lnroad by the federal power upon the held reserved by the founders Of our goy- as it is now being directed by the Republican party.
 It is the wonder of the world that we have stood so long, with growing wealth and population The whole secret of our stability is that until eral power was kept within narrow bounds. The whole danger to our stability now is that since the Civil War the party which has generally been in power has tried to push and has pushed the excise of the federal power farther and farther into fields  Hamilton and Jackson and Webster l thought ought to be kept purely un- der state control. The Republican party has found it's interest in for 1 warding this movement; the interest, | that is, of a party. not of the coun- | try. It has used the tariff as one instrument. It has used the cry Of l ''new nationalisn'' as another. ]
 It is time to stop while the just | balance of power between the states ] and the United States can still be | restored and preserved.
 The place to put on the brakes is ir Congress. We are electing five congressman this year. Let us elect men who are, on this point, for the true interests of the nation and of the states alike. Vote you please for governor Governors have little l influence at Washington. But vote | for the Democratic congressman and let us have solid Democratic dele gation to proclaim again on the floor of the House the true. sourd, eternal principle of Democratic doctrine.