Norwich bulletin., 1914-10-07
ACCEPTS DEMOCRATIC
 NOMINATION FOR CONGRESS
Congressman Mahsn will Run Again
 from the Second District.

l Mahsn will Run Again
 from the Second District. l, New London on Tuesday afternoon &C., cepted the Democratic nomination for congress fin the Second district. Hei the formal notification of the action of the recent convention from the committee which waited upon him at the Crocker house at o'clock This committee, consisted of Mayor Timothy c. Murphy of Norwich, Dr. Omar J! LaRue of Putnam, Joseph Huntington of Old Lyme, William F. | Hanley of Stafford Springs. who sub stituted for Charles T. Pinney, who was unable to be present, and Mathew J. Golden of Saybrook. |
 In notifying Congressman Mahan of the action of the convention, Mayor Murphy, chairman of the notification committee, paid high tributes to the esteem in which the nominee is held in this district Mayor Murphy stated that he felt that he voiced an unan- irnous and urgent demand rom an united democracy. in requesting the acceptance of the nomination by Con- tory for the entire state ticket in No vember..
 In accepting the nomination Con- gressman Mailan said:
 Congressman Mahan's Aeceptanee.
 'T thank you for the kind words in which you have notified me of the ac- ton of the delegates to the Second congressional convention I fully ap- preciate the honor which has been conferred upon me. A tribute such as this should gratify any man, and I accept the nomination with high appreciation of the responsibility In volved. I am not insensible to the l~x- tl,,y ,r1is 7f,1IG action of the delegates in their recent convention. May not talSes this as an evidence of approval Of my r<eord in congress?
 "The present congress has been in session for nearly IS months, and dur ing that time has enacted more con stfctive and. ameforative legislation than any congress since the beginning of our government. The Democrats have fulfilled every pledge made to the people through their platform sdopted at the national convention held at Baltimore.
 Among the many bills passed for the bersefit of the people, might men ton the tariff bill. Since the tariff was passed in 1861 to meet the ex- penses of the war between the states. it has been revised many times by the Republican party, but always up- ward in favor of the manufacturers and trusts instead of the common peo- plr. The Underwood tariff bill has placed on tine free list practically all the necessities of life.
 We have passed the federal reserve act, giving to the country the best H. nancial system it has ever hsa 1n It's ! history. Under the provisions or tnls measure it is impossible for a few men | of great wealth to prccipitate panic. i've have passed the trade com- I mission bill, a law which will prevent l forever gigantic corporations driving ! their weaker competitors to the wall "The Reyburn securities bill, which | gives to the interstate commerce com mission power to regulate stock and | bond issues and puts an end to stock watering. You all know the fate of the | New York. New Haven and Hartford railroad, swhosc stock ten years ago | sold at 279 and today is going beggfns 1 on the market. This awful wreck Of a road whose property is one of the fin- est in the world would have been 1m- l possible under this law.
 l s"The Democrats have passed two amendments to the constitution; the | first providing for an income tax, by which s100, GOO te8 of taxation is talk en from the backs of the poor peeple | and placed upon corporations ana men | of wealth. who are best able to bear II, and who now for the first time will pay their just share or the expenses or
 sHThe other amendment provides for the election of United States senators by the people and not by the legisla- ture.
 | we have passed the Lever bill 1 which grants a federal appropriation to every state for farm extension work and will prove a great aid to the farmers. It is a. fell known fact that the farms of this country do not pro- II duce within one-third as much pei Il acre as the farms of the European countries. This bill will improve these conditions and will undoubtedly . result in a very large increase in the . productive wealth of this country.
 "These are but a few, of the many acts passed by the present congress
 every one Of which tends toward the
 greater wealth, happiness and pros
 perity of the people of this country
 This record of progressive Legislation is due largely to the splendid ,cacer.
 ship of the wise, able. courageous ano
 patriotic statesman, President wood. row Wilson.
 , q accept this nomination with conn. ] dence that the record of congress snc l of our state administration will rneet with the warm approval of the people and that the Democratic ticket jus nominated will on Nov. receive theii 1 endorsement" Il Following COnsressIiidu iInu speech of acceptance he entertained the members of the committee al luncheon.
 
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