The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-19
REILLY IS NAMED FOR CONGRESS IN
 THIRD DISTRICT Democrats RenOminate Able Champion of Peoples
 Right NOMINEE ACCORDED
 SPLENDID RECEPTION In Vigorous Speech of Ac- ceptance He FOreshadows
 Democratic Success s|
Special to the Farmer.)

JOnns OOuEQdQs or New
 Haven. chairman of the congressional
 committee.
 Attorney Harry T. King, of Meriden, i placed the name of Congressman Reilly in nomination in a slowing eulogy of i MT. Reilly.s record during the past turn to Congress by big majority. Il There were several brief seconding
 speeches and MT Reilly was then named by exclamation.
 1 Congressman Reilly was brought to the hall and was greeted with cheers 1 lowing speech of acceptance:
 REILLY's ACCEPTANCE
 It is with the deepest gratitude and i fullest appreciation of your friendship 1 in giving it that I accept the nomina-
 ton you have offered me this morn l ing, and yet I hope that the honor
 has not been extended solely on per
 sonal grounds. ... !.
 Two years ago this week in Water l the nomination for Congress in what
 was then the Second district and i thanks to the loyal support of my par | ty and others, who believed that the l best interests of the country lay in l Democratic success. I was elected by
 something over 5000 plurality, repre- senting change of over 1z,oo0 votes 1 in two years.
 have served the district at one 1 extra an1 one regular session of the sixty-second Congress and Ii you did l a renonination 1t would be little credit to you to name me for another term and little honor or satisfaction to me in accepting the action, as simply ex- pressive of personal friendship.
 Upon the record made by the House and by your representative in it will the. question of his return or retire ment be decided and that is right and proper If the work of the House and proya1 Of the district; if your repre- sentative has been true to the best in terests of the country and the ~6is- trict; if he has been faithful to, the trust imposed in him; if he has fairly
 well measured up to the ideal you have fixed in your minds, then he can with fairness and reason look for the reelection.
 Upon this holiday occasion I am not going to detain you with a long re- matter of legislation with my votes upon the important measures that were s aeted 3 u2on, t,la am fully oetr;re aEare are informed to both No higher average of intelligence and citizen ship exists in this country than in this district. The voters know what the House did and what the members of the House. especially those from Con- nectieut did, and no clever attempt to1 claim a record that was not really made can be successful
 More legislation of actual benefit to the people of this country was
 
 been passed for twenty years. The change in the House rules whereby the one man power in the appointment of committees was done away with and with 1t Cannonism banished, I hope forever from the House. was the first great reform measure passed by the Democratic majority and was the basis Of a great amount of other wise legislation.
 The law providing for the election of United States senators by, direct passed will become law as soon as it is ap- GProved, as constitutional amend ment, by the requisite number of states.
 The campaign publicity bill by which the expenses of candidates for the House and Senate must be pub the nomination and election was a Democratic measures that became a. law.
 Many acts relating to labor matters and providing for the eight hour rule for all work done for as well as by the government were passed by the House though in some instances held held up in the Republican Senate.
 The abolition of the gag rule. under which government employees were to their representatives In Congress, was a notable achievement. It was rule promulgated by the ouly living ex-President and reafdrmed by the present President.
 In addition to these and many others I might name there was an honest effort made to revise the tariff down ward that the high cost of living might be reduced In 1908 the Republicans had promised to do it, but instead of the trusts and an indignant and deceived electorate turned them out of the House in 1910. Bills were pass ed by the present House that would lyndoI11btedly lessen the cost of many necessaries of life without in any de- | gree disturbing legitimate business. ,k<.7 i,1- dustries had been ibamboozzIing the | workingmen of the country and claim 1 ing that the outrageously nigh taflfrs were necessary to a continuance of the business. when they were maintained only as a reward for great contr1bu- 1 tions to the Republican campaign ed to the fact that as the protection increased their. condition became wGrsef and they rebelled. The DemocratIej House. in keeping with it's promise | that if successful it would revise the tariff in tke interest of the consumer, 1 made an honest effort to do so, but all | either by Senate or thePresident-
 The workingTnen of this district and state are to be again considered as men without minds by the Republicans who are preparing to tell them that if the Democrats win in this election l that all the shops are to shut down because the Democrats will i'm sti*ute free trade measures. Their only hope lies in their ability to fright en voters into the support of the party that has betrayed them. But their hope is in vain The voters see in the great Democratic governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson, a real leader of the common people against the great combinations that have op- pressed them and they see in the full | filled promises of the Democratic House the dawn of an era, of unequal-I led prosperity after March 4 Legit-l innate business is not fearful of Dem oefatic success and the outlook was never better The day of deliverance