The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-10
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 'If the people of our district are to uphold the work of the President, and intend to enable him to continue, it is needless to say that they will see to It that he is given that character of support that will come from the rep resentative nominated by the same factor that made 1t possible for our country to have President Of the strongest fibre.
 In your letter to me you speak most kindly about the matter of the contest that I have carried on to stop the practice of absentQefsrn among the members Of the American Congress. It is to be regretted, perhaps, that you should be called upon to commend your representative for work in this direction. But 1t was a pernictous5 years went by and to me a newcomer, it seemed wrong that the House was deprived of the use of many of it's sblest members in It's deliberations, because of this practice which had be- come a habit.
 rIt has been stopped now, and do not want to take the credit alone for stopping members of Congress from drawing money for work they did not perform Permit me to request that the members of the convention of which you were members give the credit to the people of Fairfield coun-s ty, Connecticut, and particularly those who so kindly wrote me letters of en-. couragement at the beginning of the fight over a year ago and made me. strong by the fact that felt I had the confidence of my people.
 T have always felt that I could best serve the people of our district by keeping in touch wish them. I might say that I learned this by contrast. While my predecessor was our repre- sentative he visited the four corners of the earth to learn what the mujiks of Russia needed and how the Arabs in the Holy Land got along, and the only time that he seemed to. be inter ested in how we got along during those years was a, few weeks before election,
 eewe can profit by the experience of others, and perceiving the dire straits that the country found itself while we had a representative who travelled, it was easy for me to perceive that should try to have my thoughts first upon the people who selected me to do their work.
 T want all of the people of Con- neeticut to feel as long as I remain their representative in Congress that I am their bushes agent in their re1a- tions with the government, for this is true to a great extent.
 Eff our people in their everyday bus mess were going to send a drummer
 man who would antagontze the trade l and heads of the concerns with which they were supposed to do business?
 ''F'or the next two years the na- | tional administration will be Demo- l cratic, and there is only one answer
 to the question of who is to receive 1 favorable treatment from that Con l gress@one who is antagonistic or one
 who is part and parcel Of the party in I power?
 ..George Harvey, editor of the North American Review in his leading ar ticle Uphold the President" gives the following conclusions
 Ignoring, then the innumerable l doings and happenings of minor i'm l portance which tend so often to | impair the vision, the irresistible | conclusion is that the excellences
 of the present Administration so clearly outweigh it's deficiencies that the balance in its favor is overwh e1ning; the actual efficiency 1 developed by untrained and mex perienced executive officers, under l the inspiration of a, chief whose un-
 sparing devotedness to the per l formance of his manifold tasks l has never been surpassed, as ex- l traordinary it was unexpected; that 8, competent working IegisIa- tive body has evolved from ma teriaIs none too promising; that
 without achieving or assuming to have achieved unattainable per-, 1 lection, MT. Wilson as President | has justified the great perfections and realized the high hopes of those
 whose faith was strong in his in | te1lectua1 and moral attributes; 1 that in all large essentials he has, l indeed, kept faith with his con
 science and: the people; and that | he richly deserves the vote of confidence and gratitude which citizens cannot withhold from him without depreciating the value to, the commonwealth of true public service.
 T beg leave to call your attention