The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-28
ENTHUSIASTIC CROWDS GREET
 LYNN WILSON
Democratic Candidate For Con gress Speaks in East
 Bridgeport
Charges That Buckingham, Don
 nelly and the Democratic
 Party Were Betrayed by False { Leaders Blewett Repeats 4 His Charges

 Eleventh and Twelfth Districts, last score that group of leaders whom he described as the walker-Russell- Boucher combination, attributing to their agency the destruction of the Democratic platform, with it's blanks for municipal ownership, direct pri- maries, and the like.
 lE Wilson discussed the betrayal of former Mayor Buckingham and the means by which he believed the defeat of John M. Donnelly YVES ac- eoxnpiished.
 One of the sensational features of the meeting was the appearance or Thomas J. Blewett, on the anti Walker ticket in the Fourth District. who charged that Alderman Walker had visited De Yer H. Warner for She purpose of attempting a deal against the Democratic party.
 MT. Blewett described his fruitless 'efforts to get MT. Walker to reply to that charge.
 Tn the Eleventh District the meet ing was presided over by ex-AIder- man O'Neil, who introduced the speakers.
 MT. Wilson said: My friends. what do you conceive the Democratic party to be for2 What is the reason for such a party, what it's object and itE purpose? Is it to get jobs for some body. that they may have easier work and live better than their nedghbors? :?
 My friends, that Is not the req son. No party could long exist if that were it's only mission. There must be government. There are func- tionS of government at which must be carried on. and this requires men. who have right to be paid for their services. But the object of the party is not to got jobs.
 Let as zee what Thomas Jefferson. the great founder of Democracy. had to say about the mission of OUT his torfc organization.
 'sHe said that up to his time there had always been privileged class ia every country in the world who as serted the right to treat the common peoples as bees. depriving them of the fruits of their industry, excepting barely enough to rear their children in penary and perpet1iate their spec
 i.ae said that the object of the Democratic party was to represent the naEFes of men. to insure to them better Cumdttions of living, tO gman for ,tha5n the proceeds of their toll.
 'fDiais, my friends truly is the mis- sion of our noble party. truly is the 9RlSS0nC9. be its nieefon and it's duty.
 We are in a position to see that the important thing about party man. agement is not the jobs, but the prin- c4pfes which it accepts and promotes, the measures that it agrees to for. ward.
 with respect to measures you know that both the Democratic and Republican parties have been making promises to the people, honest prom iees, which the rank and file of Dem ocrats desired should be sacredly kept.
 s'But men who have gained power and, whose duty it became to execute these promises have not been faithful
 The result was manifested in Chi cago, where the Republican party was split in twain, not by a difference over jobs, but by a difference over ideas.
 Almost my friends the same thing happened at Baltimore, would have happened there, had not the Demo- cratic progressives of the nation gain ed control of, the national organi2a- tion, named progressive candidates and put honest, progressive Demo- crats at the helm.
 You see that, nationally, the effect of promise breaking has been division in the case of the Republican party, and harmony in the case of the Dem ocratic party. where progressives gained control.
 Now, my friends, what has been going on in the nation has been go- ing on in Bridgeport. Has been go- ing on in Connecticut. Most Demo- crats have been trying to carry out the mission of the party to make the people freer, happier, and in positions of power, have been seeking to assist those who would treat the people aS bees
 Five years ago. my friends, we made in Bridgeport a progressive plat form, the most progressive at. the time in New England. Upon this platform we won the biggest victory save one in the history of the party here. The greatest victory was thu first election of Denis Mulvihill. The second greatest was the victory of Buckingham upon this platform
 Tn the last Democratic convention as you know, that platform in it's essential parts, was kicked out of existence. A platform was made which in it's essential particulars was a Republican platforms platform for the public utilities corporations
 Municipal ownership, direct pri- maries, initiative and referendum, all the good things the Democratic party had been promising to the people were basely destroyed by these lead CTS, who should be busted from every
 
 What would you think of me should I stand here tonight babbline the language of the great corpora tions, saying 10 you. Though yester- day believed in direct primaries and power in the people, and municipal ownership to drive public services out of the government, now I do not believe those things and T was mis- taken What would you say then?'
 voice in the crowd: Wed assas- sinate you"
 Not that, I hope. But you'd call me traitor. and you'd be right.
 Now ask you if you are going to measure me by one standard and Messrs. Walker. Russell and Boucher by another?
 To them you have given place and power and the material rewards of our party, to me you have given only the honor from time to time of stat ing for the benefit of the community the Democratic creed from the high position of a Democratic nomination for Congress.
 Will you demand of me a higher devotion to party ideals and party du- ties than you demand of Russell and Walker?
 If you will not let me change my coat over night, will you let them?
 T say to you that they are false stewards, and that our duty to our party and to the people requires us to dismiss them.
 Now then we come to the deyilish cleverness with which the defeat of two strong Democrats was arranged.
 Mayor Buckingham received at the