The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-01

| dinary human nature. Men follow to a large extent their self interests, and so each separate interest should be represented by somebody friendly to that interest.
 If any of you gentlemen hired a man, and you found him working on some strange job, and you asked him I what he was doing, and he should say, I'm doing job for Warner" you would be vexed with him. And if you should ask him, EfWhy are you working for Warner on my time and my wages, and he should say: Warner once gave a large sum of money to help me to an office,' you would probably discharge the man.
 Now we have this very situation in Bridgeport. MT. Warner gave $3,- 900 to Cliff Wilson, two years ago, to son has been doing MT. Warmers work ever since. He has been doing 1 it on your time and mine. He has been 1ibera11y paid to be our ser want and do our work, by you and I. MT. Warner is opposed to munich pal ownership. So is Mayor Wilson.
 MT. Warner kept a lobby at Hart ford, to prevent you from voting on the municipal ownership question.
 Mayor Wilson was there, helping the lobby.
 MT. Warner wants great debt Mayor Wilson has fought like ca tiger to give him what he wants.
 First Mayor Wilson tried to get the consent of the stockholders of the city, to start the debt. He began with mere matter of $2,ooo. 900. First he called a special election. Then he called his workers together and told them to hustle for the bonds.
 But the people, trained in the be- lief that the pay-as-you-go is a bet ter plan, turned down every bond is- sue by large majorities. Here wasf a case where Mayor Will son knew that the people did not want millions of debt.
 He also knew that MT. Warner did want millions of debt.
 The people were paying him $3,0oo ner contributed $3,O00 to the cam pafgn fund.
 Mayor Wilson, having a clear choice, followed the biggest contri- butor. He continued to do Mr. Warmers work on our time.
 He went up to Hartford with Mr. King, MT. Lavery, MT. Marsh and other employees of MT. Warner's,f and asked the legislature to give him power to make 8 debt of millions.
 He didn't succeed, but it was not his fault that he didn't. The Demo cratic representatives either defeated his proposed bonds, or caused an sau- tomatic referendum to be attached to them, so that they cannot be issued without your consent, my friends. g1v- en at the ballot box.
 Now if Mayor Wilson simply re- cefved the advantage of MT. Warmers big contribution, that would be one thing.
 But when we discovered, in 1911, it had been made, MT. Wilson, by him. self or his friends, denied 1t had been made. He joined in a conspiracy to d i've a1-< was seeking, and we never would have known that Warner paid the freight, unless he, had been afraid of the corrupt practices act. We found 1t out when the contribution was re- ported.
 Mayor Wilson has not been satis- fed with working for his largest con- tributor. He has felt so grateful he has toiled for MT. Warmers upper political servants.
 There is MT. John T. King, for instance, who has hindered at Hart ford the passage of about all the rem edia1 legislation the people of this State have desired, during many years.
 Mayor Wilson gave MT. King, who some home, thousands of dollars worth of work upon the city streets, work which really belonged to needier and more deserving men.
 And he let MT. King collect gar Fbage just as MT. King pleased, which was hardly a square deal MT. King himself holds an important office, in the state central committee of the Republican party. He has 9 great deal of political power in Bridgeport. He gets it through MT. Warner, and through Mayor Wilson, with, I am ashamed to say, some of your consent and mine.
 Now it seems to me, that this state of affairs is very wrong, and injuri- ous to the public veal. If MT King wants to earn his living by lobbying for hire against public utilities bills and worknen's compensation and the like, we'll and good. But he shouldn't lobby with the public power in his pocket.
 don't believe in lobbying for hire myself, and I offered in the General Assembly a bill to make it a crfrfAa It was a good bill such some states have passed, but it did not pass in Connecticut.
 It is alright for MT. King to hold garbage contracts. But it is wrong for him to supervise his own per- forrnance of his contracts through his political influence.
 think we may say that Mayor Wilson has been so grateful to Mr. Warner for his big contribution, that he has permitted MT Warner to be the real mayor of Bridgeport.
 Whether this Is true or not, you are as good judges as am. You will remember the letters MT. Warner has written to the newspapers, telling of t4ny4 policies and especially that letter he wrote to Hartford, telling about Sunday baseball bringing work ingwomen to Bridgeport. I agree with MT. Beard, Lavery's pastor that higher wages would be a, better way to do this. But the real question be- fore us is whether MT. Warner has indicated in public print over his own signature that he believes himself to be the real mayor of Bridgeport If he is the real mayor it is wrong in two ways. MT. Warner is the head of the gas and water monopoly He | is interested in the trolley and rail- road monopoly.