The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-29
 SYSTEM CRUDE
 SAYS WILSON
Congressional Candidate Tells Second District Democrats They're True JettersOnlans Informing Address Listened to With Rapt Attention by
 Large Gathering

Lynn W. Wilson addressed three l meetings, last night, an open ail | meeting in the Second, a meeting ir Timko's hall, in the Third, and a large assemblage of Fairfield Democrats, al Sasco Hill, Southport.
 r A large crowd greeted him at Rail 1 road avenire and Lafayette street, 1T the Second, where a considerable DOT tion of his remarks were devoted tC | direct primaries He said:> The Democrats of the Second are entitled to congratulation for the part they have always taken in promoting direct primaries. In this you prove yourselves true JeffersonianS The convention system is undemo- cratic and unbusinesslike. The will of the voter. which is the foundation of the democratitc system, cannot be those delegates are absolutely honest l and sincere.
 Recently, in the Republican party there were two candidates for Mayo and competing delegations favorable to one or the other of them. There were also two candidates for Town Clerk, and flor some other offices.
 Now all the voter could get by vot- ing for delegates in this case was his candidate for Mayor. The delegates once elected could and did choose en- t1rely other nominees than the lndi- vidual voter had wanted.
 Under direct primaries each voter Mayor, but his choice for City Clerk Town Clerk and each other office. f'How disadvantageously the system works in the issue before us. A nom- ination for Congress is in question The Congress is an important body. The office of representative in Con gress is one of the most vital.
 Such a. question ought to be de cided upon it's merits. Each voter should be able to express his approval, or his disapproval of me, directly, at primary.
 But that isn't the way it is being done. have in my hand-sa circular, in opposition to the delegation in this district which IS favorable to me.
 t"rhis circular doesn't discuss the is- sues. It doesn't consider whether the leadership of the party should be changed It doesn't refer tos the Con- gressional candidacy in any way.
 Tt is an appeal to affections and hatreds. It says that some eandi- and some are not. It wants you. to choose delegates, not to do something you want done, but because you love them, or hate them, as individuals.
 There is nothing in this circular about principles, or what they are. There is a great deal about jobs, and many accusations that somebody vot- ed, or did not vote, to give job to somebody else Nothing whatever about the thing that is to be settled.
 '"The way delegate tickets are made LID is equally clumsy and indirect and equally a hindranoe to the orderly transaction of public business.
 First we look over the district to find somebody who has big family of sons who vote, and cousins and other relatives who vote. : Then we put a~man from that family on the delegate ticket and tell him to go out and hustle He does go out. He appeals to his friends to vote for him to keep him from being beaten Blood is thicker than water. Hundreds of votes are cast that way.
 But the question is whether party leadership should be changed and whether somebody should go to Con gress, and not who is the most pop ular man in the district, or who has the most friends.
 You see that the convention system is unbusinesslike It is so. indirect and clumsy and awkward that the wonder is we are able to transact pulp lie business at all.
 Any private business run in that way would perish. It is great tr1o- ute to the principles of democracy ana to the stability and intelligence Of the American people that you can Keep the country going at all when prob lems are decided in that way"