The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-01


 no heat in the building the severa audience for two and a half hours The meeting was called to order by 1 District Chairman Thomas Lattir who introduced the chairman of tht 1 evening, Thomas P. Donnelly, candi
 date for alderman in the district. | MT. Dcnnelly spoke as follows: l Tt gives me great pleasure to in l troduce to you Charles H. Armstrong 1 the Democratic Senatorial candidate | from the Twenty district.
 'The Democratic party is to be con- 1 graduated for having secured such 6 | splendid type of man for it's candi- date. man who is so splendidly fitted | both by his education and experience | and his position as a manufacturer to legislate upon the questions that will | come before our State Senate. "The business men of Bridgeport are to be congratulated upon the prob ability of having such a man to con- | sider their interests
 The workingmen of Bridgeport are 1 to be congratulated upon having 8 man of such excellent character and i has in his business demonstrated his sincere sympathy and love for the | WorkinSman to represent them. We heartily recommend MT. Arm strong to them. They should certainly elect him.
 l The other speakers who addressed the gathering were Charles H. Arm strong, candidate for senator; Will liam W. Bent, candidate for repre- sentative; Lynn W. Wilson, candidate for congress; Joshua Meltzer, candi- date for representative; and Edward F. Hallen, candidate for judge of pro- bate.
 When MT. Wilson had finished speaking MT. Alfred E. Veness arose and said that MT. Wilson had pre- sented many wholesome truths and that 1t was one of the finest talks up- on the economic questions he had ever heard. He said that he hoped every man who had heard the speech would give it good solid thought and con- sidera tion.
 MT. Wilson spoke as follows:
 '1 am inclined to the belief that we are spending a little too much time upon our candidates for Governor, and what they believe.-and not enough upon the parties and what they say they will do.
 Most Of the matters in issue are matters of legislation which the Gov ernor, who ever he is, will have little to do. The Governor may exercise a certain moral influence and he has a veto power, but that is all.
 Tt is not likely that any candidate
 
 legislation favored by the platform of his party He could, of course, if he wanted to, but that he would do so is so improbable that it is not worth talking about.
 ''The attention of the voters should be directed to the parties themselves. What do they say they will do, if they have the power? What a party will do is stated in the platform of that party. The platform of a party and the pledges made in it's platform are the only things that can bind the legislators of that party.
 And the Legislators, the Senators and Representatives, are I assure you, a much more important factor in se- curing the measures that we want, than any number of Governors would be.
 ''Now these Republican leaders, or dealers in political merchandise, who secured the nomination for MT. Good win permitted their delegates to make a platform which declares for Pub lie Utilities Bill, an Employers Lia- bility Act and the repeal of the $5,000 limit.
 ''But the platform upon which Judge Baldwin stands declares for a Public Utilities Commission to be elected by the people, for a Workman's Com sation Act, for a repeal of the s5,000 limit, for ratification of the Income Tax Amendment, for Direct Pri- maries Act, for strong Corrupt Practices Act, and for the repeal of the State Tax.
 .eYou will see that these platforms are not the same at all, and that the pledges which the Democratic party makes to the people in the platform upon which Judge Baldwin stands and all Democratic candidates for Representatives and Senators stand, is a very much sturdier document than the one which Mr. Chandler comments to your attention.
 "NoW this MT. Chandler is a very able man and we must give him cred it for that But he has not been very sincere in this campaign. In fact he has been so insincere that his own father has accused him of Sophistical reasoning which means, I take it. that MT. Chandler's father says that MT. Chandler has. been uttering false. or dishonest reasons to influence the voters.
 MT. Chandler, for instance. asks you to vote for MT. Goodwin because he says that MT Goodwin favors Workman's Compensation Act, and he says, or causes it, or permits, it to be implied in newspapers and else where that Judge Baldwin does not favor such an act
 MT Chandler quite neglects to in- form you that the men WHO gave MT Goodwin his nomination forgot to fa- vor the Workman's Compensation Act and he omits to say that the conven- ton which nominated Judge Baldwin put just that plank in the platform thereby binding Judge Baldwin, which is not very important. and thereby also binding every Democratic Senator and Representative, which is exceed ingly important.
 1T am convinced that MT. Goodwin never knew that he favored Work mans Compensation Act until he read the Democratic platform. And though he may be for such a law, his party is not and the Senators and Repre- sentative of his party are not. It is the same with direct primaries, the able and sophistical MT. Chandler, tells you that he favors direct pri- maries, but he did not work to get them for you when he was member of the Legislature in 1909, and he did note vote to have direct primaries plank in the platform of his party in Hartford though he was a delegate to the convention. And though MT. Goodwin and his friends controlled the they not only did not en- Jorse direct primaries, but they re- fused absolutely to insert a direct primaries plank when it was offered | by 8 Bridgeport man.
 AS TOT the direct State Tax on towns MT. Chandler. and MT. Good 1 win are saying nothing upon that l subject whatever. But Congressman l Hill, as permanent chairman. of the | Hartford convention. in his keynote |