The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-16
Secretary of State Creates Sensation at Democratic Ratification Dinner by Story of How Cooperation Was Forced to Come Across" for A Favorable Committee Report on Bill--Candidates All Predict Party Success

wise have soon been lost. Our high way system needed to be run by a. competent engineer of strong good sense, and the Democratic a,dn. ir1istras- ton answered the need. The results speak for themselves.
 s"rhe people of the nation trusted the Democratic party in 1912 and alect- ed a Democratic president. The peo- pie of Connecticut trusted the Demo cratic party in 1912 and elected a Dem ocratic governor Let us make the people in 1914 see things as they really
 are, and they will elect 9 Democratic soveTnor again and stand by our great lPresddent. woodrow Wilson. I
 Toastmaster Lane then read a tele-
 gram from Congressmen Lonergans Reilly, Donovan and Kennedy regret ting their inability to be present but wishing all success to the dinner and them introduced Lieu tenant Governor Lyman T. Tingier. He said that he had not sought the nonlinat ton, but that now that he was nominated he wanted to be elected. He reviewed the blanks of the Democratic plat form and in reference to the matter of woman suffrage said that the ques- ton was one of the most tremendous inn nportance and he believed that It should be met now by the subm1sstQn as soon as possible of a constitutional amendment to the people.
 Coaagressnan Bryan F. Mahan said that the trouble with the Democratic party is that it doesn't set together often enough, and that he was amaz- led at the effrontery of the Republican party in believing that 1t could carry the state of Connecticut at the conn ling election. He said that. after all Ithe charge which had been made against the Republicans by former Re- publfcans in the last two years he didn't see how any honest man could lconseientiousIy vote for the Repubii- can ticket now or at any other time. a ] The toastnaster then explained that Senator George M. LAnders. who hnd been in the banquet hall earlier in the evening had been called away by in- ness in his family.
 f Comptroller Daniel F. Dunn said that the Republican lobby had nain- tained off1ces on many floors in the state capitol to see that business was done by the legislature against the interest Of the people He added that the people could be assured that dur ing his term of office the furniture at l any rate remained in the office and was not carried away by the office hold CTS. He declared that in single year the | state had saved the sum of $S14s 600 merely by seeing tE1at insane people. who Belonged in other states ald in other countries were sent where they beIonged and were not supported by this state.
 Albert Phillips, the secretary of Estate. said the Democrats were ready to defend all the acts of the Democrat ic state officers. He said they were all Democrats except Attorney Gen
 eral Light and he had been refused g |renomfnation because he had refused ] to obey the orders Of the crowd of Republican bosses. He said the Re-
 p1pltcans had charged the Democrats
 with inefncIeney and extravagance and he then pointed out that for the first time in the history of the state the states banking deposits were drawing interest at two and a half per Ecent. He referred to the old habit Of Charging $I70O or more for engross- now been cut down to $30. He added that the automobile department of his office when he went there was in chaos. that records were not filed and that money and other things had not
 been opened He referred to what he called the hypocrisy of the Repub- Ilican lobby in saying that it had no candidate for governor and then all the time having the plan to put Judge HoIcomb over. He said he didn't want Ito say anything about the Republican candidate for governor, but he point ed out that when he was speaker of lthe House at Hartford and had the appointment of committees he named only men who, he claimed, could be controlled by the lobby.
 He referred to the. Republican can didate for attorney general as a man l who for years had been nothing but 8
 private secretary to J. Henry Bora back.
 Treasurer E. s. Roberts sketched briefly the state debt, which he said at present was about S11 .0Oo, 600.
 Senator McDonough urged the Dem ocrats to send a full congressional del- egation to Washington and declared that if he was elected attorney gen i eral he would write his own opinions and those opinions would not be dtc- tated by any man or set Of men. Harry w. Asher, the candidate for judge of probate, urged the support
 of the President and said that while he did not expect any Republican to 1 vote for him he did expect that every Democrat would vote for him.
 The guest table. Simeon B. Bald
 win, Bryan F. Mahan, Lyman T. Tin
 gter. George M. Landers, Albert Phil lips, E. S. Roberts. Daniel F. Dunn, John F. MeDonough. Harry ". Asher James J. walsh, David E. Fitzgerald, and the toastnnaster, John J. Lane.
 Bridgeporters present at the ratif- cation dinner included Lynn W. Will son. Hugh J. Lavery, B. M. Christie, James l.. McGovern, Thomas Martin,
 William F. Russell, S.. F. Boucher Daniel E. Walker and P. H. Brady