The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-27
WALKER TRIES
 TO BREAK UP WILSON MEETING
Red Hot Time In Fourth District When Congressional Candi-
 date Indicts Machine
Thomas J. Blewett Challenges Alderman From Fourth-Lat- ter Does Not Accept

sons.
 There was some doubt. for few moments, whether there would be any Walker was on the outskirts of the crowd, and insisted on being heard simultaneously which created some confusion.
 Come up here, Danny if you want to talk said Wilson, "I'll wait until til I get through.
 Didn't Billy Russell give you the last nomination you had for Con. gress?' inquired the Alderman.
 "No,' said Wilson DO you say he did ?''
 '.I do," said the Alderman.
 Wilson turned to the crowd. Gen tlemen, you hear what MT. Walker says that he and Russell are giving Congressional nominations. If that's true, it's up to you.''
 A roar of applause went up from the crowd at this sally z
 At last Alderman Walker, persuaded by Alderman Robert E. DeForest, con- scented te ent.
 In essee Wilson's claim was that in the last election Messrs Rus sell and: Walker entered into. an un- derstanding to procure the defeat of the Democratic party.
 
 tations. were held between themselves and Republican leaders.
 For five years the Democratic par ty had a platform. It favored initia- tive and referendum, direct primaries public ownership of electric light and other utilities, workmen's compensa. tion and other measures calculated to make the people better off and Bridge port a better place to live in. Under this platform. the party had won the biggest victory in it's history, except ing one, the first election of Denis Mulyihill.
 .sYet the Walker Russell leadership,''' . he. said, utterly destroyed this plat form. They made, instead, platform which, in it's vital blanks. was like the Republican platform, and was a plat form which no candid man could read without concluding that both e doou ments came, from the same source.
 Why" asked MT. Wilson, ''were these gentlemen repudiating Demo cratic pledges to assist Republicans?
 "After election, in which the Democ- Facy had been defeated through their b1undering, machfnat tion,' continued the e- speaker. it appeared that both Messrs. Walker and Russell and their, immediate friends were in high favor with.sthe Republican administrat ton, Alderman Walker received from the. Republican, Mayor. such appointments asTf1ad never before been given by a. Republican axecutiye to a Democrat. and his immediate circle of friends were taken care of by the Republican administration, while other Democrats were everywhere displaced, and given. snowballs to eat. s
 seThe Russef-Wa1ker leader in the Eleventh district immediately was. eu- ployed under the Republican. .adminis .tration, not in as good. job, however, as he had under the Democracy" the speaker said.
 eYou don't find me holding down any jobs given by this administration, do you?'' asked MT. Wilson.
 ssI ask you to find,'' continued the speaker, .tthat the evidence shows conclusively that there was an under standing between the Democratic lead CTS and Republican leaders, that it included the destruction of the party platform and it's years of pledges to the people of Bridgeport, and that it concluded the political defeat of two of Bridgeport's leading Democrats, Buckingham and Donnelly.
 Buckingham was brutally and base. Iy betrayed in the house of his friends Donnelly was meanly slaughtered, by means so simple. but so perfidious. that they bring the blush of shame to the cheeks of Democrats.
 s.Now how was Donnelly disposed of?
 My friends, there is a law of con- tract. All the relations of human SO cietv are based upon the good faith of enc man with another. If you buy sugar. and you, get sand, it's the gro- cer's fault the first time and yours the second time.
 ssNow. John M Donnelly had a splendid record as Democrat in of- flee that splendid record almost took him through.
 "Rnt my friends, Donnelly had ad- vocated for years all these good measures in the Democratic platform. But the new platform, which Walker Russell made, had destroyed them all and substituted what was virtually the Republican program!
 Mark the trap into which they led DonnelIy He could not say he was for the measures which the party had always favored. If he did, the plat form of perfidy and betrayal would be produced by his opponents, and 1t would be said to him, It doesn't mat ter what you stand for John, here is what your party says it stands for, and that would mean certain defeat.
 "So. as a matter of necessity and party diplomacy, Donne1ly had to be silent where he had before been vocal. The result was the very result that the makers of that platform desired.
 'IneV K1lleQ 4tWO OlIdS Wl(Il OAC stone, just as they said they would: They hung a millstone about the neck of Donnelly.
 s.These men are millstone about the neck of the Democratic party. The party must cut loose, or they will de- stroy it, as the vote in recent elec- tions shows.
 Attorney Walter F. Foley was pre- siding officer, and spoke briefly and eloouent1y introducing the speakers.
 MT. Foley is candidate for the Dem ocratic Aldermanic nomination in the Fourth.
 Walker with plotting to betray the Democratic party.
 He said: II know that you have wis tied MT. Warner, the big Republican leader. Tell us what you were do ing there. Tell the truth or we'll tell it for you"
 At the close of his remarks MT. Will son offered Alderman Walker the plat form, to answer MT. Blewett's accusa- tion
 Alderman Walker did not accept the invitation.
 sAVIN ROCK NLARDI GRAS.