The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-20
PHILLIPS REPEATS
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complishments for good or error.
 I'm thds election great national ques- tions are being decided, and some i'm portant state questions as we'll No man calling himself a Democrat will be Justified in voting against his ticket for any minor, or trivial reason such as for instance because some private has not been promoted to be corporal, or beca use some particular bit of leg isEation in which he believs is not yet law.
 sI should say that in this election the maner in which every thoughtful citizen shall cast his vote, must be- ! termihed, if he is a sincere man, by what he believes about the accom- pldshnents of the Democratic admin been given such splendid impetus ual- der the leadership of President Wdl- son.
 Does he beIieev that the United 1 States is better at peace than at War2 .'Tlen he will vote to sustain the hands of the President who in tle lace of much cIanlor, derision. and even insult, saved the blood of our young men from being shed in Mexico, and ourselves from no one knows what participation in the slaughter house of European politics.
 But if one believes with Bernfhardi, I that a little blood letting is necessary | from time to time, to preserve the | health Of the state, then such a. ole l T have no doubt, will feel 1t his duty I to vote down the President, and will l show his opposition in this neighbor-5 hood by trying to defeat that splendid l fellow citizen of yours, Hon. Thomas L. Reilly, who has been faithful lr every vote to the Democracy, to the policies of his party, and 50 the high Lest ideals of the American people. .sAnd so, perhaps, a vote might be I1 K as -.1- :. t R1 -Ix<xv. r1f the President. fight to: drive the lobby iout of Washington, or by his views Ion the currency bill, or his outlook upon tariff Legislation
 There are men who believe in lobby rule, who deem it healthy for a na- Ltion that its decisions should be de- l termined by men who buy and sell leg islation. else we should not have at 1.-the head of the Republican machine lin this state man like J. Henry Ror- aback, nor on its state central com tmittee men of the type Of Bob
 ssYoters who believe In such things lwiIls vote for such things. and there ] is no help for 1t. except to pray that isome day their blind eyes may be eiopen- they may see the danger into which the activities Of mereenaries thrust the liberties Of the people. There is another class from whom the Democracy may have something to ifear, perhaps two other classes. Those twho vote their Republican ticket right or. wrong because it once had a great name and those impatient souls who lean never wait for anything, but who wish Tuition to follow upon the plant ing of the tree, after the fashion man. aged by those magicians who plant the tseed in front of your eyes and pick 1.-the fruit some twenty seconds later. I Unfortunately the Denocratfc par ty is not a magician. It cannot roll backward in the brief space of two years the great cloud of evil into which twenty years of reckless se1f1shnessa lhad plunged the government.
 Ten years were consumed under 1.-the leadership of such artists as Ror- wrecking our own New Haven sys- tenn.
 How can the Democratic party undo in few months the evil that was so long in accomplishment?
 tsYou who have been slow with your votes to demand better things, will do wisely now if you wait for the new tseed to grow.
 ssThe tarin had but nine short lmonths of usefulness
 It had already done much good, when the European war fntervened, lshuttipg off almost entirely business Iwith the other side.
 l. 'eThe currency bill has not had time to go into operation, but from it will How the invigorating stream of credit Iwhich as President Wilson told you lin his letter, yesterday will give the small man the same opportunity for his share of credit that the old syst em slgave to the great one.
 ITO defeat the Democratic party now, while it is in the midst of great constructive legislation. would mark 1 us of Connecticut as persons of no sta qbility, who tear down the old struc- ture before they have made up our
 minds there should be a new one in its place.
 Our prosperity demands that we go forward unf1inchingly on the road we have taken. Hold up the hands of the president, by giving him a senator and a congressional delegation who will
 build further upon what has been
 built
 That matter of a senator is Of more than passing importance. There I deem there is no choice to any thoughtful man.
 "The cause requires the election Of a Democrat, were the Republicans as an individual as virtuous as a maiden, as wise as Republicans ever are. and as patient in affliction as Job was.
 t'But the issue between the candf- dates as candidates is all too clear to leave a doubt. Upon the one side is ability of a most unusual kind, which
 has been ripened by experience in
 public life which is of the very broad
 est.
 Upon one side is a man who stands
 upon his own merits, and is nominated
 by the exclamation of his fellow cit
 izens.
 .eUpon the other side is the boon
 companion of Roraback. the friend of 1 Robbins, whose candidacy stands up-
 on the control of convention by the activities which in this state have
 come to be described as Roraback-
 ism.
 ''Brandegee not so long since stood
 in the senate chamber. facing an
 opportunity. He had been signaIly
 selected for one of those who should