The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-01
Plea For the Election of Democratic
 Aldermen

In the excitement presidential campaign the vot CTS must not lose sight affairs board alder to be chosen, rather half of board is to be chosen of the utmost importance that it be fully chosen.
 The Democrats are especially interested in this mat they have undertaken service for Bridge which will require the cooperation of the aldermen than any other party.
 Especially is this true of the municipal ownership program which is embodied in the Democratic platform
 The Farmer realizes, and it says it with sense of humiliation that the Democratic aldermen have hitherto up the general feeling in the voters that they would the right thing with respect to the pledges of their party in this matter.
 Yet this newspaper entirely conscious that there extenuatng circumstances It is but recently that people have had their attention turned to the matter of pledge breaking.
 The people had not awakened to the ndignity that thrust upon them when their servants promised thing before election and failed to do that thing after election.
 Moreover, the distant past certain persons in fuential politics had the habit which had become tom of thrustng themselves into the councils of the alder men, advising members of the Copamon Council to do things of which the people could not approve.
 But those days past, happily past. There has been political awakening and in the Democratic party political house cleaning
 The stimulus this great rebirth of party responsi biy was given by Governor Woodrow Wilson
 His greatest contribution to contemporary politics hssscourgng of the lobby and the crooks and breakers of other party but the pugng of his party.
 That house cleaning within his own political home
 
 else that he did, and he has done much that is useful
 Tn Connecticut the feeling has existed and the spirit has been busy.
 The state ticket includes these who have been foremost the of political progress staunches in performance, Dunn of Willantc and Tingier of Vernon.
 Governor Baldwin, though less advanced in economic thought than other the ticket has perform ed one supreme service for the state.
 He gave the death blow to corruption of the ballot and hastened the end of the influence of the Third House in the General Assembly.
 Also the spirit of the Connecticut Democracy was shown by it's action removing the head ots State Cen tra Committee upon the strength of belief that he had employed himself in defeating popular legislation.
 As to the attitude of Bridgeport toward this general movement among Democrats that the Democracy shall what says, nothing need be said Contemporary history speaks for itself.
 But the who enter the Common Council, rep resentng the Democratic party, will enter spirit They will have witnessed the changed attitude the peo that the clements which formerly influenced aldermen to their hurt and to the ijry of the city completely stripped of prestige
 They will Democratic party is the voters of the party and not it's aspiring bosses they will keep every promise which they have contracted ceptng Democratic nomination upon Democratic plat form
 The proof of this that no Democratic alderman has raised voice in REPUDIATION of his party platform
 None will be so base lost to principles of justice and honor to the platform before election kick it after election.
 Vote for the Democratic aldermen. That vote will be a vote for municipal ownership COMMERCIAL