The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-25
NO PROMISES
 UNPERFORMED Gov. Baldwin Tells Why Wilson is Strongest of Candidates
 For Presidency
TRIBUTE TO TAFT AND I. R.
Former Able Judge and Honest, Latter Born Leader of
 Men, He Says

 ider1cy and after paying tribute to all three as strong men, gave reasons why Governor wilson should be the choice of the voters at theelection on Nov. x.
 Governor Baldwin spoke xn part as follows.
 There Is a singular position of a1- fairs in this political campaign.
 We have been used to four or five tickets for Pres1d ential electors-So- cfalist, and Prohibition, and Labor. @e- sides those of the two great parties: But this year one of the two great parties has been broken ia two. The shell of the Republican party remains znfaot, but a large part of the heart in it has gone out to a new organiza- sion. We have two Republican cam is' msTk you. 10 division. ti,ds time. in Rk@ Democratic party.
 'sWho are these three candidates for tlae Presideney who are now before
 TT am glad, as. an Arnerican citizen, to bs able tc say that they are eli ssrstofore ~ A elected President of the United States The other will be next
 ssTney are all strong men, but sach has many qualities not shared by the others.
 man know that he has been able judge He ought to have stayed 0I1E1BeS. unQ0f3JOOQs polict5cs-practical polittcs-.e never has. He is no politician, but the other Republican candidate is. Colonel don't think he always leads in. the right direction I think he often knows that he is not leading in the right direction. But thorough poll
 s.He has carried off nanny Of the best men in the Rspuolfcan party. But, note tia4s He has captured very few from the Democratic column He svzil capture very few: Tha Demo cratic party has Desn long protsstins which he has so effectively called the attention Of the people. Democrats do not need to separaee auto pro tfmn- The Democratic party Is in it's nature progressive. I have said that all three o6 the candidates for the strong men, some may be skroauger than otherA woodrow wnlsoa cannot were new-found truths, with the unc- tbon of Colonel Roosevelt. He knows 1sss ts Pss1s4,sSi soist,Ssi 0f rne ,d deva1Ss appear the better reason. He oould TO. not d dee,ds sh. a lsw T oese w.th s st,s learn ican people recognise in him, the strongest of the three. He dtends | ideals. He is. and I am not afraid to say 1t, an fdeaiist. He is always 1 for climbing higher. He is for giving 70 the people the best thers is to give. He has the power also to stale clear 1y what he proposes, and to elevate | his discussion of any subject, though | 1t may seem the commonast and dull- est to lofty plane, above the fogs of rnisrepr,esszta*don, and put 1t in | stand
 isWoodrow Wilson has made no | promise which he has not performed 1 Can you say as much for either of his |
 
 .'Colonel Roosevelt is BOW declar- ing that our tardffs are too high, and so when. for seven years, he had a l united party and a Conzress absolute dy controlled by that party behind
 President Taft says he was elected on platform that called for tariff reduction. though t left it to be we ought to have such a reduction. He appointed a tariff board to exam the tarin board p report rsportsS f ahas Ane We ought to have such reduction. But when measures to that end, tariff bills making reduction. and onay req sonabIe reduction, were passed by a Democratic Houee of Representatives and a Republican Senate, did he ap- once and again. There is no tariff re- form to be got out of him There is none to be hoped for from Colonel Roosevelt But for tariff reform the Democratic party has always stood, and woodrow Wilson, when elected, formed.
 And performed how? Not by any sudden revolution in policy. The Dem no more money by taxation than we need to spend, and to arrange the re- duction of tariff duties so as not to 1njure any legitimate industry. It could injure legitimate industries in Connecticut The kind of a tariff law Democratic Congress would put wreTa legitimate industries in Connecticut. It would give the benefit where the Benefit belongs. It would increase our free list. It would give our Connec- ticut manufacturers an opportunity to buy their raw materials wherever in the world they could buy them cheap est, and have them sent here on a ship flying the American flag. 1t would increase our annual product. It employed: for the greater the product the more hands are wanted"
 Let me read you a passage from a Republican manufacturer in this state, written to me, personally, giving his opinion of the tariff question, based on long experience in a Connecticut fac-
 ''we are making a line of light hard ware We have for a good many ebroad. particularly in competition with Germany which is reputed to have the ability to produce goods at mn excessively low price both on ac- count of its low cost Of material and alleged higher cost of labor. Please note that nouwithstandfng the higher cost of material and alleged higher cost of labor here in this country, we have been able for Q period of years to hold our own, on an identical pro- duct In other words, we apparently are able to overcome the handicap of high cost of material and labor, by the superior effectiveness of the ma s.hinery and labor in this country. Note again that the same machinery nut in the hands of lower paid foreign labor. would not produce the results 1t produces here.
 esThe only benefit that I can per