The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-18
Senator PeCks Ringing Speech At
 Opening Of Democratic Convention
A Masterly Effort That Reused the Delegates to Out tbursts of Applause. Reform Measures Passed by Dem ocratic Senate Which Were KiIl= ed By Republican House
 Pointed Out

there rests the truth.
 The same thing happened to the County Commissioner Bill, for the election of the Commissioners by the countless If there ever was a more ldiaboIica1 way of selecting the Coun- | ty Commissioners than by the Legis-
 lature, then the forces of the Repub-
 Icans party have overlooked 1t. This
 and the Direct Primaries Bill was.
 passed by a Democratic Senate, and
 defeated in a Republican Legislature.
 s-The Workmen's Compensation Bill
 did pass the last General Assembly. It I was one of the most important pieces
 of state legislation that has been be- l fore us in years. It was hurriedly bur
 jed. with out mourning or crape, no re- | quiem mass attended 1t by the pre-, ceding General Assembly which wak a Repillb1ican majority.
 ssWe have thrown off the yoke or I the past Highway Commissioner. It tcouldnst be done with a Republican 1 Senate. and I think that you will agree there is g. general improvement in the. 1obbies Of the Capitol in consequence of the change of the officer.
 'fThe whole state ticket was elected l as you know The comptroller in T
 troduced some new economies. by | which the state profited Instead Of. Himself The Secretary of State ask l ed for some legislation which was most necessary IL was 4OIr-QeAI l1k5<4I1
 The Democratic Senate passed it. The lsRepubIfcan party killed it. The Good. Roads Bill, making many state trunk ! lines, was passed by the Democratic fSenate. The Republican House de- stroyed it
 l Democratic fulfllment of a.dninistra- ton that savours of incompetency in the conduct of the State affairs. When
 the Democratic party is accused of all
 the neghgences that the human. mind can couture, Of the motives Of the 1 charge may onhdentiaIly be as- erfbed to the poignant regret with which the Republicans have seen the I Democrats roofing itself into the
 hearts of most of the people by the ] Justice born in the conviction peculiar Ito every human consciousness. that the fright to life, liberty and the pursuit j of happiness is no illusion
 Perish the interest of Democracy. l perish all of our future attachments lrather than we should strike one blow
 or speak one word on behalf of the I wrong against the right
 I Ridicule is Gone.
 sI feel 1t hardly worth the while to touch on the National administration. I It's only a few months ago that the IRepublicans and their Republican I press were hoWling derisfvely with | AsDolIar Diplomacy The Lean ISchooimaster and other epithets or {. ridicule.
 Where has it gone Where is the
 shrielk of the ghouI7 Where is the
 scream of the hyena that hungers to
 helpless dead7 Has the unspeakaible, the urb eIievable horror of the blood, <. the wine of mems bodies drenchine the foreign soil staggered the minds of these Irresponsible beings, cloven
 their tongues, haunted their sleep with .sl the gory dreams of their unanswered 2, Iprayers2
 So 1t has happened we have had a
 Democratic President. Woodrow W11- I son. who with fidelity has used his
 dom and justice, to the end that we were not needlessly sending a greai army of men marching to their eter. , nifty.
 The Republican party contend thad ! they are the favorites of the gods and 3 Hate That they were in fact borr pronidentiallys punctually in the nick ' of time. where the Divine truth haC been sifted from all the errors of tho mankind of the past, the dead past and they now stand reincarnated. The great difference is that we think that -s| is right. and we know much that Il wrong.
 At a Senate dinner just prior to tn. close Of the last General Assembly
 one of the Republican Senators stated : i-My experience with this Democrat, ' Senate has taught me a valuable les
 ison in life. All of my early trainina . was developed along the lines, and 1 E was my accepted belief that shoult z live for a long time for the purpos, : land accomplishments of destroying ev F erything that emanated from Demo Q crat, or the Democratic party. Tha n they were only fit to exist as a blacF 2 background for the reflection and re T sp1endency of the Republicans, indd E vfduaI1y and collectively. And gen y t1emen' he went on, T want to sa,
 kthat this is the best Senate the Stat z of Connecticut has had in twent t years,
 s Must Sustain President. ..And so the next national eIectio1 : will denote nnequivocally the vote o z the people in the confirmation an, 2. the fuIh1Iment of the Democratic par z ty pledges. There was a nation-wid E cry irrespective of latitude and Iongi
 tude for a revision of the tariff down
 ward. The same public sense de - handed a reform in our currency. Esv ' cry obstace that human ingenuit e could create was placed in our pat e for such achievement, but it was al : in yefr1 and we stand today cheerful F iy proc1airning our success in both O : these measures as iInpeI1ed by publi = opinion, and executed by the gran = Democracy To sustain the Nationa Is administration, we must necessarff