The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-07

As an example let us recall the old system in this state whereby ma 1 jority of votes were needeo to elecl' "For 25 years the Democrats or | this state boiled the largest number | of votes but because 1t was nol d | majority over all other parties Re- | publican legislature would eject tne 1 candidate for governor who polled | | the second largest number of votes | | After a quarter of a century or con | tinual pounding in one spot tne Re | publican party of Connecticut hnaliy | gave away and allowed the people or | | this state to elect a governor in the | same manner as the governors or eV- | cry other state in the union IS chosen- | | "In negligence cases we had form of practice different from that of any | other state in the union. It allowed the defendant to take the case rom the jury=and let the court assess the damages. It was only a few years ago Sthat Connecticut's leglsiatu!e gave away and decided that certain cases could be tried by jury. There are many other laws upon our statute books which are just as obnoxlous and which should be repealed Tney
 want to know why we have to
 stand an hour and half on
 a street corner waiting for
 trolley car,-why trains do not
 stop in our city:-why the pee people
 treatment they shall receive at the hands of the big corporations. The
 Republican party has for years prom
 ised to give us a chance to remeoy
 these conditions. Will you trust them any longer?
 Stiles Judson, Republican can didate for senator told an audience at the Stratfield hotel the other nlgnt
 that not afraid nf ine ot ,ens,ature eas but he said that he feared Repuo- lican senate. This branch of the legislature which has had Repub- } lican majority for many sessions has refuted all progressive legislation that 3 tended to curb the railroad in the nagement of the affairs of state 5 through the influence it w1elded Tn 3 the senate. You have a chance this ! year to make it Democratic senate ] You can make it so if every man does l his duty. Remember that the Re t publican party has had control of the Q senate for 20 years and it has never V given you an employers liability Dlil y They have never attempted to raise e inc value of a human life to mora r than S5,000. This year the Republl- . can party says in its platform that = the S5,OO0 should be abolished. They r don't say whether they will change r cratic platform favors the repeal or = the s5,000 limitation or any other e arbitrary sum. That is positive In f, what it says. Whoever. wrote that
 
 IS was evidently a clever corporation g man. He made the party say 1t . would change it but did not state o how it would be changed.
 v '"They left any mention of the if workman's Compensation act out of IT their platform and when they dis if covered the omission MT. Chandler n came here and took the stump prom If ising the Workman's Compensation 'f act which was not even In ms party | &1n e n In short it is this. In case work a ingman is injured he gets specific o- amount for his injury and under the k Employers Liability Act he would at get whatever a court would allow to him after proving the liability of the m employer. On the eve of an election h. the Republican party always claim: ar to be the friend of the workingman ,r Another issue in this campaign o- that is of vital importance is the cor be rupt practices act. Up to 1909 WI at had an act that gave the states at se torneys some power to investgat . charges of corruption. Republican ,n took this power out of the bill. Wha e er did they do it for. Were they getting - ready for, this saturanalia of corrup is ton which began in the RepubI1cal to state convention and will be con m tinued on election day ii the eIector rH ." ate of this common wealth will per Iy init it.
 ,S ny From every pulpit regardless o to creed the clergy of this state has de t no manded for years that those wh gh ti tt ape e nriSon ana tne Republica
 party changed the laws in order tha ,s those who wanted to corrupt the cleo " "iu torate would be able to escape pr1so Sn stripes.
 it makes me sick at heart whe lai hear of young lawyers or near-law
 yers discussing Judge Baldwin on tn set stump. sat at the foot of Juds ne Baldwin at Yale as did many of thos 'rd young lawyers and to him we ow ITS much of the knowledge that they pos 'Si seSs.
 sh- "In the Nolan negligence case 2u 1897 the supreme court wrote tn
 evil is too far seated to be remedie yer by the judiciary and it should | per remedied by the legislature Juds lge Baldwin was a member of the cou ills that wrote this decision It is or ent of the negligence that is being quote
 is in this campaign. But what has ii ar Republican legislatures since IS! be done to legislate to remove this dee om seated evil the judiciary refers to
 order to aid workingmen. Nothln ,ial Tn the famous Hoxie case where g the of the judges of the Supreme cou .ot- concurred that the Federal laws we lall not applicable in this state the plan leir has been laid at the door of Jud the Baldwin. a Democratic judge, and nan three of the concurring judges we ical Republicans.
 the "The man who appeared in fav in- of the railroad in the Hoxie case yer whose brief was for the railroad nly was Hon. Michael J. Kenealy, t
 chairman of the Republican sta ,f,,1 committee. Why they find fault wi en- Judge Baldwin for defending the ls ak. of the state, and nothing else. ,bin "I want to urge upon you to vc ;nd the entire Democratic ticket. It ,,e-, an honor and a privilege to vote
 to a man like Judge Baldwin, ,ant Others speakers were Joshua Me
 ne ger candidate for Representati' b;Ia Lynn w Wilson, cand date for Co ah gress: Edward F. Hallen. candida nar for Judge of Probate; William poi Bent. candidate for Representati' ,;fa William Vollmer. candidate for cour to sheriff; Garry Paddock. candidate ,ouS Senator in the 23rd district; Archib; no+ McNeil, candidate for Senator in ,nor 22nd Senatorial district, and seve row others.
 In the afternoon all of the can o dates addressed an enthusiastic me oon ing of German voters in Germa rasS Hall while the Republican candida Won occupied chairs in a back room for talked with several friends Ione Schwaebischer Naennerchor hall c;
 the dfdates for both parties met at tion "Metzel Suppe" party that was h ,un- there.
 The Iarcest rally of the evening Y