The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-26
MAJOR BOUDREN
 ASKS DEFEAT OF SENATOR BARTLETT
Opposition sis Based Upon Lat ter'S Destination to Assist in Repeal of Compulsory Vacci- nation Law

Major Thomas Boudren, the veteran peal to-day to the voters of the 2srd
 senatorial district to vote against F. A. Bartlett, Republican candidate for senator. upon the ground that he refused to assist during his last term in the senate for the repeal of the vac cinatfon law, desired by the anti-vac- cinationists of Connecticut
 The appeal runs as follows:
 "I desire as an old time Republican to enter my protest against the non1- candidate for the position of senator and submit the following reasons for
 your consideration.
 gro the members of the Legislature only we must look for the passage of wise laws and the repeal of oddous
 ones.
 There was before the last .Legis- lature a. bill for the repeal of the law permitting School Boards to compel the vaccination of children as a con- ddtfon of entering the public schools. large number of our intelligent cih- zens, is so manifestly unjust and coupled with 90 many dangers that no one who investigates can furnish @ logical reason for its continuance upon our Statute Book.
 s'The people of this State supplied the members of the last Legislature subject. which, had they cared to study it, could not have failed to result in the repeal of this law. But argu- r Bartlett to consider the merits of the question and he voted to impose the vile superstition and humbuE upon the children of this state.
 He took no cognizance Of tho fact that during the past two years nearly two hundred children had died from large proportion of them from lock- jaw
 Perhaps had Mr. Bartlett been the possessor of a family of children he the subject, but having none. and his family at the present time possessing only a potential existence, he had notla- ing to fear from the operation of this law and did not deem 1t necessary to pay any regard to the wishes of those of his fellow citizens who have chdl- dren.
 When MT. Bartlett told me that he thought the law was good enough as 1t was, did he form his opinion from a careful perusal of the report of the Royal Commission, which, after seven years of careful Investigation of thds subject, reported unanimously against compulsory vaccination? Did he ever read the exhaustive treatises Of Prof. E. W. Crookshank, Dr. Charles Creigh- ton Prof. Ruta of the University of Prague. Prof Alfred Russell Wallace, Century of Vaccination, by Dr. Wm- Tebb, and a hundred others of equal | eninence in every civilized country on the globe?
 'aThds question win come up again before the Legislature of 1913 and we do not care to have it adjusted by men Of the Bartlett type. There will be no doubt as to how MT. Bartlett will vote on that occasion, as he must be judg- ed by his former action.
 'I appeal to every father and mother in the District to see that MT. Bart lett is not elected Senator. His att titude on tllis question in the last Leg lslature and his probable action in the next, should he be elected, should cause every antivaccinist to work for his defeat. I appeal to you son behalf of your helpless children, who can look to no one for protection but you- There are many instances of serious l injuries resulting from vaccination in this town, if one cares to look them up.
 ssDo you desire to subject your fel- l low citizens to these needless dan 1 gers? In our contention on this sub | feet we interfere with no mans right | to have his own blood poisoned as of l ten as he sees fit, but we appeal to you as reasonable voters not to force l the acceptance of this vile and disas- 1 when only the ones to be sben- | efftted by it are the mercenary graft | CTS connected with our Health Boards, l vaccine makers and stupid M. D.'s.
 "I urgently appeal to every an1-vac- :inist to use all his influence to pre- vent Mir Bartlett's election and by so l 1oing teach a lesson to those men who | sonal profit and not for the good of the | people.
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