The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-10-29
THE FARMER: OCTOBER %, 1913
did not take place-and that's all.

did not take place-and that's ALL
A little piece appeared in the paper
saying that Mr.. Poll would be cou-
tributor to this campaign: He will
not be a contributor. We do not
want one dollar of Mr.. Polls money
| for this campaign for we can run it
| without his assistance.
am very much pleased to see this
great outpouring tonight in the old
pa1I1W1ck where I was born. I was
| born beside Washington park pear
the corner of East Washington and
Noble avenues, back of the home of
| the late honorable and lamented Will
liam Hunt Perry I am delighted to
have the opportunity to come before
my friends in the district and to ask
your suffrage in this campaign.
! I am the freest lance that ever
was nominated for. the office of mayor.
have no promises to man, woman or
child and I propose to remain that
way until next Tuesday might. What
though there may have been some
differences at the primaries! I ap-
| peal to those who were in the min
GRITTY at the last primaries to remem-
Der that have always: been a Demo-
crat and no man dare say that Fred
Mullins ever scratched a sticket put
before the electorate.
| 81 want to remind YOU voters that [
stand squarely on the platform pre-
sented to the Democracy of Bridge
port at the convention the night I
| was nominated. I want to add that
anything you have seen in the pa
pers over my signature Z hereby re-
| 1terate. I stand back of anything
! that has come from me.
lit makes no difference whether Cliff
| ford B. Wilson or Frederick G.. Null
| Inns is elected. That is only a mat
| What is back of the man ?-the prin-
ciples that he represents and what
| he is going to stand for in case he is
| elected propose to stand strongly
| and firmly for an economic admins
! tration. Any money that is spent
Will be used 50 that you will get 100
cents on the dollar. I don't. pro-
| pose to make contracts for a stated
| figure and be satisfied with whatever
/ the contractor may wish to give to
the city. I want 100 cents return for
100 cents paid out.
TT strikes me that my friend Mr..
| Wilson, undoubtedly is a little bit dis
turbed today. He has in this even
ings paper-the paper particularly his
| organ-in large letters a statement
criticizing some of the remarks that
have made. I will answer his ques-
tons. I will answer Mayor Wilson
| next Friday night if am alive and
have my health at the Lyric theatre
He says I got my figures from the
Bridgeport Evening Farmer and Lynn
| w. Wilson. I never got a letter or
| a figure from Mr.. Wilson or the
Bridgeport Farmer. I have been too
! closely identified with interests of
Bridgeport to be so uniformed as to
have to seek information from MIR.
Wilson or the Bridgeport Farmer. If
1 I want any facts or figures 7 know
where to get them in the municipal
records and when I quote figures I
know what I am talking about and
ready to back them up.
Mr.. Mullins again referred to the
matter of city paving, which was a
feature of his address in the Second
district rally Monday evening. He
said he wished every street in Bridge
port could be paved with the finest
materials money could buy, but he
wanted to see 10 cents worth of Ia
boz and material for 10 cents taken
from the taxpayers of Bridgeport
| Then he declared himself a vigor-
GUS supporter of the referendum on
| bond issues. THE great question of
the bonding of Bridgeport is of vital
Importance he said. ST do not stand
Bridgeport ought to have. I am ready
| to help along Improvement if it is
! Justly, fairly and honestly handled.
But am opposed to this system of
| rushing to the legislature of the state
i of Connecticut without the consent
| of the people of Bridgeport to ask
for any bonding issues. don't be
lieve any bonds should be issued that
| have not first been submitted to the
| people. They have to pay the bills
| I am in favor of the referendum on
all bonding measures
Mr. Mullins created considerable
nirth when he referred to Peter
White. eff I am elected mayor will
guarantee that Mr.. Peter White Will
never come from Chicago to Bridge
/ port and get $4,000. I will guarantee
that the taxpayers won't have to pay
for his, or anyone else's, room rent,
or laundry bills, or stenographers' ex-
| penses or lunches and suc@ On the
contrary, if I am elected mayor, I
i will guarantee to pray out an injunc~
! ton, acting in the capacity of a pri-
| vate citizen, against the coming of
| any other Peter White. Mr.. White
was brought to Bridgeport by GER
tain powers that have strong inf1u-
ence in Bridgeport to readjust it's bus
| mess methods or to install new sys-
TENS of bookkeeping in the city de-
| partments, because the gentleman who
| is in charge of the citySs fnance-who
has been there for many years-knows
more about this business than Peter
White ever thought of knowing
! 6Cheers.)
''Mr. White came to Bridgeport at
the solicitation of some of our Repub-
lican friends to try to find Something
| rotten in Denmark But Denmark was
clean, and the only recommendations
he made, that I know of, were these:
To compile in book form the city or
dinances and charter amendments;
| and to build a fence around the city
| auditors office so the taxpayers could
not get close to the genial gentle
| man"
| He then referred to the question of
bridge bonds, and said that it IN
| doubtedIy was true that Stra afford ave
nue. bridge must soon be widened and
| that Stratford avenue must be widen
| ed from Stratford avenue bridge to
Yellow Mill bridge. When this is done,
he said, it will take care of the traf-
dc for a generation. He said that
/ he, himself, had signed a petition for