The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-14
DONOVAN AT
 SINGER PLANT MONDAY RALLY
Interested Audiences Hears Him Take a Crack at Prosperity
 League

Jeremiah Donovan, Democratic can didate for congress, was given a very respectful hearing at the plant of the Singer company this noon, where he addressed about 250 worl1men for a few minutes before they returned to their afternoon toll. The candidate made good impression, but appeared to be suffering from cold which pre- vented his usually powerful voice car rying for any great distance. Among the things he said were:
 ''I have been Q member of your gen eral assembly for a number of years, and in talking to you about myself will say that in all of the sessions where I was a member Of your law making body at Hartford I only miss ed three days, but was never absent a day when 8 roll call vote was taken. any of you to look at the records of the General Assembly and see how I am recorded on every vote. I don't think you. will find that I was ever very fan from the people. I am will ing to go up or down upon that rec ord.
 My opponent on the Republican CT in the House of Representatives. He will tell you that he is an expert upon the tariff and that you should valuable man to you with his eighteen years of experience. MT. Hill does not believe that as a useful member of Congress that he is second to Dal-
 
 stars in the Republican constellation. He has reached the enviable position of being a member of the ways and means committee, and we will admit that in American politics MT. Hill is 9 great man.
 ''But if he is such a wonderful man and he means to do so much for his district, why has not he applied some of his skill a tariff expert to change the tariff on dressed beef? Why has not he used his eighteen years of work in ChAnRIng the tariff that you could buy more for the dollar that he claims he brought to you by pro tecting the things you created with your brains and skill?
 'If he is an expert on the tariff he must know that when he went to Con- gress eighteen years ago all of us than we can now. He will probably tell you that there is no tariff on cattle. But he does not tell you any thing about dressed meats and all the nanufa ctured food products that are protected.
 ''They are telling you that I am a free trader. I am not a free trader in a general sense. I am a free trader where the necessities of life are con- sidered and I am for a tariff On man ufactured goods, such as made in this ve1ope.
 You have got an organization in League that is fearful that Mr HiI1 will not go to Washington again. Whose prosperity are they looking out for? If it is the workingmen's it is not strange that this league should come into heinz at this time? If they wanted to add to the prosperity of your city why are they not advocat- ing cheaper trolley fares, cheaper e1ec- tficity, gas and water? Down South and in Massachusetts they are get ting something for the people. In Nor folk, Va, they have eight trolley tic kets for a quarter. Has your league ever asked for eight trolley tickets here so that all of you can have prosperity?''
 After leaving his hearers imbued with the idea that the Prosperity League had some work to do at home to win the confidence of the people before hurrying to the aid of Mir. Hills high protection schemes he clos ed with a, reference to the giant in- dustries of the South that use more cotton than all New England and said that they were no longer infants that needed protection.
 Former Mayor E. T. Buckingham in troduced the speaker to the gathering and was well received.