Norwich bulletin., 1916-09-28
MOST IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN ;
 SINCE THE CIVIL WAR.
Congressman Richard p. Freeman Predicts Republican Success This Near.
especia1 to The Bn1le+i, ,


 Hartford Sept. 27.-Plans for an aggressive campaign in Connecticut from now until election day were made here yesterday when the candidates on the republican ticket met with Chair
 man J. Henry Roraback of the repub- 1lcan State Central committee had luncheon at the Allyn house and dis cussed campaign arrangements.
 We have the men, the issues and the platform Chairman Rorabac5 said to correspondent after the meeting. "All that is necessary for voters about them"
 The conference was attended by Lieutenant Governor Clifford B. Will son, candidate for reelection, and ven, candidate for secretary of the state, of the state ticket: Congress- men P. Dsvis Oakley, Richard F.
 Freeman, sbenezer J. Hill and James r. Glynn, candidates for reelection
 as well as the republican candidates
 for presidential electors
 To say that optimism reigned .;u- preme at the conference is to tell noih- ing but an absolute fact. Every one president was confident that Connccti-
 cut this year will return big majori- ty for Hughes and Fairbanks and will elect the republican state ticket by an overwhelming vote. It was declared to start Gt once on a campaign of the d-time. enthusiastic nature and to carry it through to election day with out let-up.
 Arthur F. Bowers of Manchester. a candidate for presidential elector pre- dicted for this year the largest re- publican majority since 1900. 'I am confident" he told the correspondent, that Hughes and Holcomb and Mo Lean will carry Connecticut by a ma Jority greater than any given any can didate since Mckinley rolled up ma jority of more than 50.oo0. and that all five republican congressman will be reelected by record majorities.
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 most important since the Civil war. ! T consider this presidential election the most important since 1884, not ex- cepting the election of 1S90,' he said, and there can be no doubt that the | intelligence and common sense of The American people will again be demon- | strGted by republican successes. Industrial conditions that existed | throughout the country during The | first two years of the present dento- cratic administration cannot be for ! gotten. The Underwood tariff bill opened our markets to the cheap com petition Of Europe with the inevitable | result that our factories were shut down and our workmen thrown cut Of employment, and business stagna- LIOll WdS well nelSn uflVerSal.
 Since then our foreign competitors have been engaged in shooting at one another all day and all night, and we have profited by selling them muni- tions of war which they had no time ] to make nd which they were coppe1l- | ed to buy from us at our own price. Every intelligent voter must rec ognize that there is absolute need of industrial preparedness against the | time when these men in Europe come | back from the trenches and direct their energy to commercial pursuits This preparedness can be assured only 1 by republican success in this cam | paign, otherwise. when the war abroad ends, the conditions that obtained in 1913 and 1914 will be with us until 1921. On November seventh the ma terial welfare of the American peo- pie for the next four years will be, st stake and upon that issue there can be no doubt of the election Of Charles E. Hughes with a republican majority in, both senate and house."
 Republican prospects seem as bright as the sunshine of the morn