The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-18
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SPEECH.
 Hartford TTmes.)
 II Oscar W. Underwood, the Democrat lc leader in the national house of rep resentatives, delivered in Hartford and
 in New Britain last night an address, 1 mainly devoted to the tariff, which will influence more votes than any I other speech which has been made in |i Connecticut during the prestnt cam
 paign. A full report of this admir- 1 able speech is given in The Times to- 1 day.
 l No Democrat fin public life has been 1 so intimately connected with leg1sla- l tfon in congress during the past three I years as the distinguished chairman | of the committee on ways and means,
 for it must be remembered that he has 1 been the leader, not only in the for l mutation of the tariff bills which have l passed both branches of congress, com manding the support of some Repub- l licans as well as of all the Democrats
 in both branches. but the committee i ed the important duty of organizing 1 the committees of the house., which was entrusted to the speaker alone 1 during the whole time of Republican l domination. The chairmanship of the l committee on ways and means is, next to the presidency itself, the most inn | the. present time. To the sagacity and the capacity for leadership which MT. Underwood has shown is very largely due the strong hold which the confidence of the American peo- pie.
 hour for his talk in Hartford. Dur ing that shour he managed to convey to his hearers more information than they are accustomed to hear in any one evening, and it was convincing information, every word of 1t. His description of the origin of the in the revolt against the Cannon rules in the house of representative and the lack of sympathy with that move
 man in the White House at that time, and his demonstration that all which is really worth while in the whole ] icies which the Democratic party has
 been trying for a quarter of a century to introduce, was most effective. as was his proof that the final attitude of the third term leader on the tariff question is as nebulous az was his whole colirse on that question while he was president
 MT. Underwood was especially in structive in his explanation of the course of the Democrats in congress in attempting to abolish the duty on su- else, or income tax.
 We wish every Republican in this state who did not hear this speech--a read it. If they could be induced to do this there would not be much chance of the election of any Repub-s
 
 state this year. GOVERNOR WILSON IN WEST Providence JournaLl There has never been much doubt as to the ability of Governor Wilson to attract votes in the East. But the West was another matter. In the
 first place. it was more or less per- meated with Roosevelt sentiment; in the second place, the gibes at the one-time President of Princeton as a ..professor'' had created the impression
 of certain academic aloofness from
 'slhe plain people, Mir Roosevelt,
 much to his discredit. has harped up- on this string from the very beginning education, student of hfstory,ka writ- CT of books. he has endeavored to create distrust of his opponent by disingenuous appeals to the prejudices of the vulgar. Perhaps if Governor
 Wilson had followed his first molina ton and stayed at home. this policy since he has shown himself to the Western people they understand him better.
 It is said by those who have fol- lowed him on the trip from which he has just returned that the first attf- tude of his audiences has been one,l But he has 8 remarkable way of put ting himself on rapport with his hear CTS Those who merely read his speeches can realize how full they are of phrases likely to catch attention. l There is solid argument in them, but | it is enlivened by gIeams of humor and l wit, by apt allusions and pat quota 1 tions. Y ct perhaps the personality Of 1 the man counts for even more. He has the rare faculty of making each person in large crowd feel that he is the sole auditor-that it IS he whom | the speaker wishes to convince. Some | men who had greater claims than Governor Wilson to being ranked with the great orators have lacked it whol- ly. The one statesman of recent times who possessed it abundant1y was MT. Gladstone. You might object to ev-i he spoke he held you breathlessly in Sent and almost persuaded you to agree with him.
 Judging by the results of the third only Illinois and Michigan, of the Western states, show Roosevelt in the lead Of Wilson. Whether by enthu- siasm for him and his cause. or by the Republican split, the Democratic candidate has striking lead which it is difficult to think can be overcome. everywhere; but that was to Be ex- pected. That he should cut into MT. Rooseveit's strength on his own rhos- tom of his popularity. No one can say. of course, what forces may oper- ate on election day to draw votes to one side or the other But Cover nor Wilson's winning of the West has a significance it would be idle to de-
 FORsTER TO RoRABACK.
 (New Haven Union.)
 George Forster, chairman of the Democratic state committee, does Con- necttcut and clean politics yeoman ser vice in his letter to MT. J. Henry Ror- pick out which of Mir. Forsler's hot shots will do the most good; they were all well aimed and hit their several