The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-15
AT L0COM0BILECO. ATTACKS HILL Accuses Him of Being Spokes- man for the Privileged
 Classes Only Says Vote for Hill Is Vote for Man Who Deserts the
 Masses

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 "A vote for Hill is a. vote for a man who deserts the masses; vote for Hill is a. vote for man who serves the privileged classes and the privileged classes only; a vote for Fill is an endorsement of the policy of increasing the duties on the ordi- nary commodities Of life that the American people need to keep body and soul together,' said Senator Jere- miah Donovan Of Norwalk, Hemo- cratic congressional candidate in part Of his speech this noon before 400 or more employees of the Loconohiie Co. of America where he spoke in the interest of his candidacy to succeed his fellow townsman, F. J. Hill, who has oeen inhabitant in Congress for eighteen years.
 Referring further TO Mir. Hill he satc: Why has he not I7.1e much for the %Grking voter. whose concI- ton will not permit him to the halls l.e has on1,e for the prIyiIeg $ cla.ses Why ouId he not have been heard to raise his voice for the ordinary plain people as we'll as those interests who can hire the finest legal talent in the world to appear for them? He was always arrayed with the side of privi- lege.
 Gentlemen, I say to you that vot- ing should be a business proposition with you. Elect men who will truly represent you and they should put man who is my opponent is called tariff expert He never stepped into g legislative hall to give you the bene- fit of his great Knowledge. Yet he wants your vote that he may con tinue to serve privilege. Why didn't he vote to free the sugar? Why didn't he give you free beef2
 He leads you to believe that there IS a division in this country upon the question of the tariff and is trying to tell you that the South wants free trade. Why, there is more baled cot ton used in the cotton mills of the South than in all of the New England railroad alone there are 791 mills, 600 of which are cotton mills and 123 knitting mills They have their en- dustrfes in the South that they want to protect and he who tells you that they want free trade is a crazy man.
 aaela--Isaaxu-a& -a&-tl1is Able tariff gentlemen that the East is slipping. From being the eighth state in inn portance Connecticut has slipped to the 11th. By upholdtng fniquftous railroad tariffs Congress has placed the workingmen of the East at the mercy of the railroads of the coun- try. St. Louis has passed Boston as a business center of importance. Bos- ton manufacturers are paying every year about 70 millions of dollars for 30 millions worth of coal. The other live chaps of the Great West are talk ing advantage of the conditions and they are passing the East.
 Why there are 37 boat lines tap ping the New England ports and 35 of them are the property of the rail
 roads. Here you are near to the coal mines of the East with water freiglhts and the railroad stands between you and the advantage that is rightfully yours because of your geographical location Has this gentleman who wants to be returned to Congress ever taken any steps to break up this con- dition.
 You live in the only city where | the water freight rates are the same as the railroad rates, and the cost of carrying freight on water per ton mile is tWo-tenths of a mill and the cost by railroad per ton mile is cents.
 Have the gentlemen who want MT. Hill returned and want your votes for same gas rates for you as they have i in Massachusetts and New York or the same water rates.
 They have always been getting theirs because they have been bigger and stronger. Instead of Tightening your burdens they have increased them.
 'tI submit to you the question: What shall be done? Shall we go l on and on fattening the interests. MT Hill wants you to because he is an
 expert. He was never an expert on
 something that would help you like the parcels post although he did give 1 IL one vote 4Qu1Ee recently. lie n<1S | never been interested in anything but l special legislation
 MT. Donovan closed by presenting 1 a letter from g. New York dealer l showing that special agents of Ameri- can made watches are bound by the
 makers to sell them in this country l for $23 while they are sold abroad for 1 $10 and then he told his hearers that what they needed was direct legisla- ton like the initiative and referen- dunn and direct primaries to settle | the difficulties and defeat special 1 privilege.
 1 The meeting was called to order by l Col. John H. McMurray, one of the | Dem ocratic candidates for representa-. 1 lives who urged the gath ering to sup port all of the candidates on the l ticket and pIedging himself as a can- 1 didate for representative in the Gen
 eraI Assembly to do all in his power ! to bring about direct primary cleo l lions in this state if elected