Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-04

The final guns in the 1912 political campaign here, except for a republican rally in Greeneville tonight, were fired Saturday by the republicans and the democrats with rallies in the afternoon and evening.
 The republicans were first in the field Saturday, holding a rally at Z o'clock in the afternoon in Union square, where a 40-minute address was made by Frank R. Collins of Lincoln, Neb., to an appreciative audience who applauded, although one well known citizen, a follower of the third termer, interrupted at several points when his favorite's name was assailed.
 Honored the Dead Vice President.
 Before the rally in Union square the republican town committee had Tubbs band playing inspiring airs in front oI the Broadway entrance to the Waure- gan house. At clock, the hour for Vice President Sherman's funeral in Utica, N. T., the band hushed all to reverence for the memory of the dead vice president by playing Nearer, My God. to Thee.
 The band then moved up to Union square, followed by an automobile con- taining the speaker, Frank R. Collins.
  Hon. H. H. Gallup and Edwin l.. Bur- nap, chairman of the republican town committee.
 When the automobile was stationed in the square, and after a selection by the band, Mr. Hall, president of the Norwich Republican club, asked for a moment Sf silence as a tribute to Vice President sherman, and all stood witf hats off for brief period of time. Warning to New England. President Hall then introduced the speaker, prefacing his introduction with a few earnest words on the pO- litical situation, in which he declared that the democrats were straddlin@ | their platform, Wilson saying tha they will not touch the tariff while | the platform says they will. As warning he said, to New EnSlander! l he would quote the words of Repre- sentative Kitchin of North Carolina who had said on the floor of congress l that the southern democrats would make the tariff as they pleased ant 1 that they would have the mills of New England moved into North Carolina 1 President Hall also referred with em 1 phasis to an expression of Governo | Wilson. made before he ever though 1 Ol DelIlS DICSluCuly III NhlNh NAAD 5ON l ernor stated that he was against al labor unions and that he believed then productive of idlers, loafers and inefh cient men.
 A Stick of Dynamite. Mir. Collins, the Nebraska man, be gan by telling his hearers that the had in their hands for use on Tues day a stick of dynamite with whic they might blow their industrial head off, and he appealed to them to vot by their common sense and reason Under President Taft, whom he char acteriZed as the most misunderstood man since Abraham Lincoln, an thereby brought out applause, tn speaker stated with emphasis ther was much to the credit of the republi can party, which now stood with tn best record of any party in this or an other country. Taft, too, had been en
 dorsed by Roosevelt. La Toilette cam
 before the Chicago convention with
 platform on the referendum and recal
 but Roosevelt had no platform bt
 himself Can Roosevelt ever look NJ
 Taft square in the eye again?
 He will" answered John R. Roblr
 son from his place In front of II
 speakers wagon.
 He Vill?" retorted the sneaker.
 thought he had nerve, but if he wi
 he has even more nerve that l gay
 him credit for!"
 Hard Times of 1893.
 Mir. Collins reminded his hearers
 he times between 1893 and 1897, whe
 he saw, under a democratic admins
 tration, Nebraska corn shoveled in
 the furnaces because it was too chea
 to he worth selling, and in a furth,
 interchange with the man in the crow
 the speaker brought out applause whe . he declared that he had never accept'
 a fee from a corporation in his If . and that his father. tailor, had le ? free trade England to comA to u United States, where he miyht briI / up and educate his four sons in a w. ! he could not do in England. TT ; workinPman, he declared, was he fir to suffer and the last to recover ul der business depression. which den
 OcTatic administration meant, and !, implored his hearers not to vote !, such 8 way next Tuesday ,as to le; , , to the conclusion that the Americ; people could not safeguard their ov interests. He urged the voters not join Ihe democratic aid society } voting for Roosevelt.
 He spoke a few closing words of P spect for Vice President Sherman. ' Robinson came forward at the close ) the rally to shake hands with [ r speaker on what he had said about { : | vice president but said he could n 1 keep quiet when Roosevelt was a 5 tackled.