Putnam patriot., 1916-11-03
SPEAKERS PLAY DEMOCRATIC
 ADMINISTRATION
MAN FROM MAINE AND MAN FROM CALIFORNIA HANDLE
 WILSON, BRYAN, BAKER & CO.,, WITHOUT GLOVES
ids As They Hear athng Criticism of Democratic Foreign Policies

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 taking possession of the custom house we turned tail and ian bringing with i honor behind. He said that the coun- try and it's flag was ridicuIed by the nations of the earth. It was time that AmeTicanism asserted itself and that party labels were cast aside and that all stand together to get back our lost prestige in the eyes Of the wcrld.
 lie told of personal friend of his from Vermont who took his family to Mexico, and was living at peace help ing the Mexicans about him. After all semblanee of government was des troyed and the dogs of war let loose this man was taken from his home, tied to pole, his daughter ravished shot while his wife and daughter dis appeared-and yet, such things as this being of common occuranee, we are "too proud to fight,n said the speaker.
 MT. Peck, in his introductory re- marks, talked of woman suffrage and why he believed in it. He said that he came from an equal suffrage state and that he was one of the pioneers in urging the ballot for women. He predicted that next Tuesday night from California to Maine would come the news of republican victory. He said he lived in Connecticut % years ago. He noted with interest the pres. ent prosperity in this state. lie wished he could say that it was a permanent prosperity but he knew that it was not. He said that in his state where there were not many manufacturing industries there was no prosperity. Men were out of work and there were bread lines and soup kitchens. The few factories are running on half time and they are enjoying the kind of Pros- perity Connecticut would have had had it not been for the war.
 The speaker said he voted for Wilson four years ago. He was ashamed of it and "wouldsnever do 1t again." He voted for him because he was president of large college. His acceptance of the nomination rang true. He was proud of him when he read the "strict accountability" note. His pride be- gan to wane when he learned that w. J..Byran had tipped off the Austrian and German governmental that the note didn't mean what it,said.
 Itfurther disappeared whenlwe went down to Mexico to get salute for the flag and didn't get it but brought l9 boys home dead and left our honor behind.
 He told of the fiasco of getting sViIla after he had come onto United States soil and killed American citizens. "What we should have done was to go to Carranza, the only recognized head of any semblance of government, and told him that he could have thirty days to produce Villa at our borders or that we would march into Mexico and take possession" said ithe speaker, mid applause. He predicted that we would go into Mexico before we got through.
 He made a scathing arraignment of Secretary of War Baker and his com- parison of the Revolutionary soldiers to Carranza's bands. He said he had interests in Mexico himself. He had been there. since the war began. He knew of men being buried with only their heads sticking outIand left that way. Of their piteous cries as the wolves came and devoured them" And such things as this," he,ssid "are likened to the acts of our Revolution ary soldiers at Valley Forge where the noble Gen. George Washington got down upon his knees and asked God for guidAnce,and direction.'
 MT. Peck kept the close' attention Of the audience and interspersed his re. marks with stories that caused much laughter. He said Bryan was politi- cally dead and would never ibe resur- rected. In closing he urged everyone to cast aside political preference and to stand United for Americanism.
 Preceding the rally there was torchlight parade similar to the one last Friday night. There was band, a drum corps and red fire all along the line of march. Many homes were H. iuminated and decorated for the occa- sion and they were liberaliy cheered as 6he marching column passed by.
 The rally was one of the most enthu. siaslic that has been held in Putnam in years.