Norwich bulletin., 1912-10-22

uIASu III lue pOllLlCdl Ddlllo A1OAOdy night in progressive party parade and rally reminiscent of score of years ago. Decorated with bandanna on the hats or around the necks of many of the marchers and swinging from the ten automobiles that brought up the rear. with red fire blazing and Roman candles popping along the line of march, the progress sives filed through the streets 175 strong, from the gathering place at the Buckingham Memorial over the short line of march, through Main street and Broadway, which brought them to the town hall.
 Tubbs band led the line, Chief Mar shal Irwin c. Elmer giving the word to start just after eight o'clock. The Baltic band led party of progress sives from the Fifth district, who made up the second section of the parade, and the automobiles with the speak CTS, each also containing ladies, made up the third section.
 Party Slogans.
 At the head of the parade was car ried the slogan, Not Backed by the Steal Trust" and others that appeared in the ranks were "A Movement for the Betterment of Mankind" and We Are in This Cause with Our Whole Heart and Soul
 Democrat Donkey Appears.
 An unexpected diversion was caused as the parade was about to start, by the appearance of the democrat don- key, which was ridden up the street by Rip" Sanderson and was later rid den at the head of the parade by Jack" Wilson.
 Upon arriving at the hall, the pa raders found this filled to oyerflowing with about one-third of the audience women. They were all ages from schoolchildren up. American flags were used for decorations about the desk with pictures of the partys can didate for governor, Herbert Knox Smith, who was to be one of the speakers, and there were also pictures of Roosevelt and Johnson.
 The following sentence from Jane Addams was suspended on a banner at the front of the hall: "A great party has pledged itself to the protec- ton of children. to the care of the aged, to the relief of overworked girls, to the safeguarding of burdened men"
 Edson F. Gallaudet, the well known aviator, was chairman of the meeting and seated with him were Mir. Smith and Mrs. NJ. Toscan Bennett of Hart ford, who was also to speak. Others upon the platform included c. Warren Davis, Zebulon R. Robbins. Herbert R. Branche, and Edgar H. Allen.
 Welcome from Chairman.
 Chairman Gallaudet, in the name of the progressive party, addressed a word of welcome to all. referring to the growth of the party from it's first gathering of 100 to the present irn- mense meeting and he declared that what the party wanted was chance to lay facts before the republicans and democrats, and he introduced Hon. Herbert Knox Smith, the party's cam didate for governor .as one well cal culated to state such an array of facts,
 Candidate for Governor.
 MT. Smith was given an enthusias- tic greeting with cheers and applause as he rose to speak.
 The platform of the progressive par ty for the first time put the keynote as the American man, he said in open ing. Nothing but good Is to be said of the dead. and for that reason the speaker would refrain from saying anything about the republicans. As for the democrats, their party had al- ways stood for state rights, not tc give too much power to the federal government, for it might be abused It's a cowardly shirking of a great many responsibilities. You might cut up your horse into 4S parts. but he wouldn't carry you anywhere. Where Governor Wilson is. I can't tell. He talks one thing in one place and one in another between tariff-for revenue and free trade. He has taken issue with us on the dissolution of the greai trusts, but there has never been more ludicrous vaudeville perform ance through the, Sherman antitrust law. You have got to have the reg ulation of these great corporations by a body of trained men always on tnt job, which means an interstate trade commission. Governor Wilson onc' declared for commission form of .goy. ernment, but he has now declared against it.
 Through With Wilson.
 MT. Smith read from the democratic campaign in which Governor Wilstor stated that the platform is not a pro gramme. I'm through with Wilson on that, emphatically declared th' speaker. He's like the street cal conductor who told the passenger tha the platform was not place to stand on, but to get in on.
 Enthusiastic cheers greeted tn, speaker when he declared that tn progressive party was the party tha can and will, pledged by it's platform to the American people from the out set. The full current of the people, will must. be turned on if we are t carry out the pledges of that docu ment. To that work we must als' call for the women of this nation half the driving moral force 0 this people. (Applause.) Promises to Make Good. The speaker asserted positively tha the party was to make good on II platform and the guaranty of that wa the men in the party and the spiri of it. They held the first unbosse convention that people in Connection had seen in this generation.
 A eulogy of Oscar Straus as one 0 the clearest minded men in the natio l brought out further applause, and le up to the mention of the name c l Roosevelt, whom MT. Smith styled l the master of them all. Roosevelt l the same man, the same grim fighter as he always had been, and the speak CT declared his conviction that Jeho
 yah still had work for Roosevelt to dt 1 (Cheers.)
 Self Government the Issue Here. Tn this state, continued Mir. Smitl the issue is government. and he were elected the first thing he wa going for was direct primary lav
 He explained the working of the di rect primary and went on to giv
 a description of the Chicago progres