The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-10-11

distinction throughout the entire dis l trfct for the masterly manner in whicf 1 he discussed on the platform the issues 1 of the campaign.
 1 f'As is well known, he is man o1 | unusual ability. His oratorica1 talent l has often been called into the service | of his party and he has always res bonded without hesitation. He is a l member of the legal profession and | commands high standing the bar. 1 tice and is well prepared for the duties l of the office of judge of probate His character is of the highest. No man
 in the city commands the respect of | his fellow men to a greater degree | than does MT. Hallen. He will make l an ideal judge of probate and let me
 repeat that I second his nomination | with great pleasure and satisfaction '' l On the motib of Alderman Paddock I the nomination was then made unani- | nous by a rising vote.
 Charles H. Botsford, John J. Morrissey | and Dr. Philip J. Mclaughlin were l made a committee on notification. ] When the candidate. entered the room l he was enthusiastically applauded and when he had finished speaking the ap- plause would have riva1ed that of any | convention of five times it's size. MT. Hal1en spoke upon the issues of the
 day and completely enthraHed his
 hearers. He spoke as follows:
 MT. Chairman and Members of the PrODaLo convention:
 "Your Committee has just reported to me the action of this convention,
 and T am here to acknowledge your favor and to thank you sincerely for the honor of being your candidate for judge of probate in this district at the coming election.
 From end to e4sd of our great coun-- try there is an awakening that will
 find it's sure expression at the polls on the 8th of next November. Definite promises of the Republican party.
 which were even embodied in it's na- tional platform and on which the peo- pie had cause to rely,s- have been
 shamefully repudiated by a Republi- can congress and by men who no masses, but are allied with the forces of organized greed and represent privilege in it's most debasing form.
 "In the house under the leadership of Cannon, Payne, Dalzell and others the expressed mandate of the people was contemptuously disregarded, and in the senate a precious band of po- litical brigands completed the sacrifice of the peoples interests;
 What else could be expected of this clique of Republican senators who dominate legislation and who have been kept in power by trust and cor poration influences? Take Aldrich, the Republican leader of the senate, who has amassed a fortune of ten to if teeen million dollars in comparatively few years, and who has no more sym pathy with the needs of the people than Une CZar or all the RuSS1aS. Al drich, who revises the rubber schedule for the benefit of the rubber trust and his own pocket, and who is largely responsible for the present almost pro- hibitive price of rubber, which enters so largely into the life of the people,
 Take Guggenheim, who, it is a1- legged, spent about half a million dol lars to get into the senate; who helps revise the metal schedule for the ben eft of a smelter trust, and who with this artificial aid keeps lead, zinc, and other commodities of the people at the highest prices.
 sHTake Scott of West Virginia, who brought his glassware on the floor of the senate, and dangled them from and pleaded in the name of labor for the highest rates on glass. What a mockery, since Scott pays wages in his glass factory that keep his operatives on the hunger line from one end of the year to the other.
 And so one could go down the Iine with Depew representing the New York Central Railroad, and Crane the largest individual stockholder in Am erican Telephone and Telegraph Com pany, with his paper interests specially cared for and his eleetric trust barri- caded behind the tariff wall. And our own Connecticut senators, never heard from on the floor, but lined, up, I re- gret to say, on every occasion with these barons of privilege and monop- oly.
 F'who will say that this precious crew. 6dTnlIS TOT CH0nS6IV0S further millions by their own legislative acts, buttressing the trusts with ridiculous Iy high duties on trust articles, and advancing the cost of living by leaps and bounds, so that the maintenance of life itself by the toiling millions is getting to be a serious problem who will say that they should not be rebuked at the polls at the coming election?
 Tariff to compensate for the differ ence between the cost of labor here and abroad is one thing, but tar if many times in excess of this can be shown on many items, none of which excess goes to labor, is a very different thing. The most humble citizen pays his full share to the ex- tent that his cost of living is enhanc- ed by the unjusx extOrtion of many of the Aldrich-Payne tariff law, even as he contributes his full share to direct taxes in the price he pays to tradesmen for the very neces- saries of life who in turn must pay out in large part in rents and taxes |
 In the West there has been a splenAI did protest within the Republican par | ty, led by Cummins, LaFollette, Bev- eridge, Deliver and others. and des- 1 the Republican administration, they | are makin~ a fight which bids fair to | relegate to priva te life many of those | who in high places have betrayed 1 their trust and turned their backs on l the people. Maine has already in | afcated that in the East there will be | q mighty protest from Repu blicans |
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