The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-12
E. Fl. DILLON & co.

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 Those men will find their way in, sol
 about the politician as about the in-
 dividual who wants to have a voice in
 governing his own affairs. Young
 men can become missionaries in this
 movement; ambassadors of the cause.
 pledges. There is no time to do good
 work like the present. We have got
 the people with us today; hold them
 with us, by keeping them encouraged and the best way to keep them. en-
 mean business. The trouble that con-
 fronts us now is to hold in check the
 tremendous uprising and enthusiastic
 public sentiment. We don't need to
 arouse enthusiasm for it is already
 aroused. We need hold in check what
 fever heat and with intense desire
 to line up with the new movement
 "Just one word with regard to the
 State of Connecticut. There is stu
 pendous energy on the part of the
 Westerners in this movement which
 can not be made half known to those
 in the East. 1t is the western states
 men who are going to settle this ques-
 ton but we of the East and in Con-
 necticut have our work to do.
 q confidently believe that among
 the States. of the Union that will de-
 clare for Theodore Roosevelt at the
 next election will be the State of Con-
 necticut, that r0ck-ribbed old state
 which has 50 long now been domina ted
 by the Republican political bosses. The young men have seen the vision
 syhich has long haunted Col Roose-
 welt, that unless there is a social and
 industrial evolution there will be a
 bloody revolution The politicians can't see this because the dust has been thrown in their eyes and dare
 say a good deal of it is gold dust The thinking, moral element of the
 State is going to arise and grapple with this question. It is the man in the rural districts that will be of ma terial help. They are thinking and when they think and then act they are powerful enough to move the heav-
 ems; they will be able to move the seat of Connecticut government from the Yellow building in New Haven back to Hartford, the capital where it be- longs. This is a campaign for the Workingman. The high cost of liv- ing has come to such a point that it is a serious question of livelihood for the working man, the man who pro- duces. The dinner pail used to be a long one, and the Workingman went to his labor with his chest thrown out and his heart contented. NoW he goes to work with his dinner in his coat pocket. If there are four years more l of Republican standpatism he will have only enough to carry in his vest l poeket.1
 1 Dr. YandeH Henderson, a professor
 at Yale Medical school was the sec-- ] ond speaker. He said that he had never been interested in politics until a few weeks ago when he got into tho l fray in support of Roosevelt He l said that the time has come when
 every American with red blood in
 Should n Telaf get inao ana the RaPnsss in the fight against privilege and the vested 1 interest. Tt is a fight ito decide whether the majority shouid rule in l this country or whether we should continue to suffer the tyranny of tha few who are trying to SOW seed that
 will produce the idea that the majori- 1 ty is not fit to govern the country.
 | In referring to President Taft he quoted MT. Dooley who said, What can you expect from a bale of hay"
 from duty and the evidence of the inability of depaxtment heads in the 1 government to get matters of impor- | tance decided. He cited the recent
 charge made against Secretary Mo drews, the whitewashing record of Ballinger in the Pinchot-Alaska land 1 grab case; of the removal of pr. l Wiley after his fight against ur1- l adulterated foods and drugs
 l He admitted that Woodrow Wilson | was a real progressive but he said that the movement was needed in this country in order to provide party that would support the Roosevelt idea that 1 the country should not be run by the l courts. He said that this country was the first great country to en- deayor to establish rule by the majori- 1 ty, but that the fathers of the country had not faith in the majority rule at l the start, that they would have had
 today so they provided many means | of checking popular government with l the idea that the courts would even I tually follow the will of the majori- I ty. He said that England and other l European countries had since taken up Government by majority rule, but had 1 refused to follow the American system l so trat today the vote of British I elector was more effective than that of an American citizen. The Ameri- l can people could not get control over 1 it's House of Lords. the lU. s. Senatel as readily as the British voters had curtailed the English house of Lords I He said: We hear too much of this nconstitutionalism in this country 1 Time and time again the will Of the people has cried out for great reforms and the legislatures have enacted | laws for the benefit of the majority l and the courts have killed 1t because I it was unconstitutional What a ma 1 jority of the people decree should be Flaw should be constitutional, and that | is why Col Roosevelt wants to strike I a blow at the root of the evil which 1 defeats the will of the people. That l is why he is advocating recall oi the judiciary in this country He be- l lieves that the judiciary should fol- low. the legislative branch of the gov- l ernment. He believes that the execu- tive of the government should do the du' l ties of carrying out the will of the people. Taft believes in referring ev- Il erything to the judiciary. Roosevelt believed that the Interstate Com ! merce Commission should deal with