Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22
PROCRESSIVES BURN RED FIRE
Housing Rally With Parade-Herber Knox Smith, Candidate For Governor, Speaker With Winston Churchill of New Hampshre-Mrs. M Toscan Bennett of Hartford Presents Woman's Sde-Town Hall Crowded.

the country in declaring for blanks at- fectinS the wage worker and his home.
 Mrs. Bennett went on to speak Of the changes in household conditions that had come through the develop ment of modern machinery and mod- ern industrial methods. The women are not in industrial life because they want it. Their place is in the home, and that is the hope they cherish. With wage of only $500 year the man cannot support a family of four or five girls. The girls must go out and work, but not because they want to.
 Women's Power Through the Ballot. Mrs. Bennett claimed that the giv- ing of the franchise to women would not increase the Immigrant vote nor l the uneducated vote.. The franchise given to women will enfranchise the only leisure class in the United States. They have worked in their way, per haps Intellectually. for the things thas are in the progressive platform. Give the women the vote so that they may bring up better citizens. If you want to save this hideous waste of human life that is going on in our factories, give the power that you can to the women who have the value of human | life so much at heart. You leave 1t to women to prepare your children for the world I ask you to make it pos | sible for the women to do little l towards preparing the world for your children. (Applause.)
 i Turned Down in Hartford. The speaker described how the suf- l fragists of Hartford had worked D secure some action on the white slave traffic in Hartford without securing a single answer from the candidates from whom they sought to secure declaration of their attitude on this question. It was different in Seattle, where the women had vote.
 l Her final appeal was for an oppor- | tunity to send children out into the world where the viewpoint of women counts. She was vigorously applauded as she concluded.
 introducing Hon. Winston Churchill. l Chairman Gallaudet then made sev- eral announcements and spoke also of subscriptions to the party which would
 gladly be received.
 He next introduced Hon. Winston Churchill. the progressive candidate | for governor in New Hampshire, who
 was given an ovation as he rose to speak. Before Mir. Churchill could get started to speak J. c. Vallette pressed up to the desk and handed him q pamphlet with the request that MT Churchill read it. Mir. Vallette ex- plained that he had to go home by the next car, so that he took this chance to get the literature into the speakers I hands. 1 Mir Churchill began by relating some of the difficulties in New Hampshire in fighting. the bosses, relating an incl z! dent where one of his candidates had backed out from standing on the tick l ct. That night when the man went home his wife wouldn't let him in the ! house, and ever since then. said MT l Churchill. he had been a believer 1T
 woman suffrage. Gaughter.)
 | Mir. Churchill had some good word. | to say for Candidate Herbert Kno1 | Smith and also for the vice presiden tial candidate, Governor Johnson. Af- ter a pleasant introduction with few stories MT. Churchill answered some
 of the criticisms on the progressives
 He declared that the party was made
 by the people and was not freak ol
 a few leaders. The 79 papers that art against 1t up in New Hampshire ar'
 moking votes for it every day. We art trying to make a real democracy II this country and we have got to have a real democratic party to do 1t. Int
 American people want in their officer. men who have character The speaker
 declared that New Hampshire had a.
 invisible government in the Bosto1
 and Maine railroad, which was so in
 visible that many people couldn't set
 it and had to be told about it. Som'
 of the results of the fight in that stat'
 were a public service commission, thu
 block signal system, corrupt prac
 tices act with teeth in it that is to b.
 used this time. They secured 800
 mile mileague book, which the speak
 CT remarked with a smile, was said tt
 be the most popular book he ever in
 troduced to the public.
 Platform Written by Experts.
 The progressive party platform, con
 tinued MT. Churchill, was written b!
 the greatest political economists ant
 scientists in the country. New Jersey the bargain counter for trusts, as tn speaker described it. was a reflection ; upon Governor Wilson's platform am policy, because the governor had neve
 raised his hand to make it more dif1 l cult to form these trusts. We need , tariff commission which will look afte : the interests of every class of people We want to throw out the politician and put in experts in our government | } will regulate the hours of labor, mak } ing them the same all over the Unite States. Our programme is one of co l operation between state and natior
 We want an old age pension, direc ; election of senators, minimum wag , law for women, but when we ask fo these we run bang up against the con ) stitution. For that reason the part has put in its platform. both nationa f and state, an easier method of amend
 ing the constitution.
 Progressives Jumped Overheard. Illustrating the separation of tn progressive and the republican part by the principle of the gyroscope,w ,whic | insists on flying back to its origins l line when defected. Mr. Churchill sal [ that the G. o. P. were headed for de
 struction with such persistency ths f the progressives decided to jump oveI l board and let Ter go!
 l He told of the growth of the pro f gressives in New Hampshire and of tn snap caucuses held to defeat the pro 5 gressives, in which the republican , called in a democrat to the conven . tion to help and just managed to bea 7 Churchill by four votes.
 }. The New Hampshire man edded hi
 speech with a story with a good laug
 in it, and the rally concluded with
 general handshaking as many can z up to greet the speakers. It was re !. marked that Mir. Churchill looked lil . a worker. but that he wrote easier tha . he spoke.
 Cheers for Roosevelt and the speak
 CTS were given as the rally ended, le 6 by Chairman Gallaudet.