The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-01

there. visited several of the hotels
 and saw the delegates at close range i-I saw the capitalist, manufacturel l and business man; saw the corpora ton lawyers and professional politi-
 clans; saw the office-holder and the l office seeker; saw the silk-hatted
 grafters and the kid,gloved boodlers; dressed, all quartered at the most
 fashionable hotel-and saw nc
 workingman there. Passing to the 1 the same element was there, but It i only had seats for the same class. Come back to. Chicago, at the Pro greSsive conventIo the same element, l different groups-with the same ab- ! sence of the working-cIass. Do you 1 belong to party that does not con ] councils although you are expected to vote the ticket? Are you satisfied Co remain in party that treats you with such contempt?"
 The speaker then followed his dis cussion of the various parties with an attempt to prove that all were fnan- ced by vested interests while the So- c1a1istS were compelled to appeal to the individual voter for campaign ex- penses. He related how 192,O00 peo- pie in Philadelphia last week had cause. ending by reference to Roose- welt as the only candidate for presi- dent today who says Get thee be- know where his support comes from
 An appeal was made for the sup port of Robert Hunter for Congress. who, the speaker said, was born and raised with him in the same Indiana true. He is a man who will repre- sent you there, said Debs. tfYou Congress, though you have had many nnisrepresentatives Send Robert Hunter there and he will represent you.''
 Urging the people towards so1idar- ity, the candidate again invefghed against the capitalist with reference to the wn-trodtlen from the Saw tours time through the Roman era middle ages, Colonial days, to the present time when competition result ed in the elevation of the plutocrat the subverSion of the worl<in gman
 Touching upon the present threat ening situation a Lawrence, he said: Tt is the fruit Of the exploitation. and of the poverty and of the misery read of the report of Charles Neal, our Labor Conl11lissi sioner. This report was made public by the efforts Of Vic tor L. Berger, 3, Socialist in Congress the time of the strike. The arrest of Ettor and Giovanniti and afterwards of William D. Haywood, accessor- ies before the fact to a brutal murder, came about simply because those 1ead- CTS were loyal to the working classes. Ettor and Niovannitf had no more to
 
 are in jail and I have no doubt but they would have been sent to the cleo tric chair were it not for the fact that we intend to see they get square deal. I know what it is to sit in jail for having served the working classes. I kno1r what it is to be un- der indictment for nurder-and be en- tirely innocent. | am the only candi- date for president who has been m jail. (Appla use). Who planted the dynamite during tha- strike-Wood" (Hisses).. Yes, there is no doubt about that (Cheers) "1s he in jail ?'' (Cries of ''Nor). He is free though guilty
 With reference to the awakening of the Socialist party in Bridgeport and his strivings for the cause, Debs re- marked: Some years ago when I ar by the marshal or sheriff, whereas I am now met by the Socialist Mayor of a. good many places. After a while it will be by governors GA voice from the gallery-You will be presi- speaker said: William Howard Taft. put two of my colleagues in jail in 1894 and when sentencing them he said, I only sorry it is not Debs instead of you I am only giving you six months, but if it were Debs I would give him six years, and now I am competing with him for the pres idency.'' Prolonged cheering)
 With a high tribute to the woman worker in the country and expressing his hope that she would be able to come when man will with shame deny that he opposed her, the candidate closed his speech amidst din of cheers and after shaking hands with to catch an outgoing train