The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21

Lynn w. Wilson made two speeches, last night, from the text, Who's pay ing Hills campaign bills this year?"
 MT. Wilson spoke to an overflow meeting of 300 or 400 persons, on East Main street, and then followed Hon. Thomas L. Reilly, and Hon. Jeremiah Donovan. before an audience of 600 persons in Arco theatre, East Main street.
 Mr. Wilson said: T don't know whether you want a man in Congress who pays his ovtn campaign hills as Congressman Donovan does; or .wheth- CT you want a man who has his cam paign expenses paid by other people. as MT. Hill does.
 we don't know who's paying MT. Hill campaign expenses this year. But we do khow who paid them in 1912. We know where the money came from. The facts are in the record. They're sworn to. They're stated under oath by the very men who gave the money.
 Some of the facts appear in letters written by Arthur c. Wheeler of Nor walk, who was MT. HITS political agent and the treasur,r of the com- mittee that raised Hills campaign fund.
 This MT. Wheeler, as I shall show you, was a ready letter writer. He wrote letters at the drop of the hat, and some of them are interesting and instructive letters as you shal1 see. So the question arises, Who is pay ing MT. Hills campaign funds this year? We'll, we don't know. But we know who paid them two years ago. MT. Hill is no slou6h of writer, and one of the first things he did was to write beautiful appeal for cash. Oh, it was a touching document. It would draw tears from eyes of stone. It was so very pathetic. MT. Hill must have taken lots of pains with it. He wasn't counting on it to get tears from stone, but he did hope it would ex- tract cash from steel. Steel, as every. body knows is tough and a man has to be something of an artist to make it yield the juices that sustain and re- fresh congressman like MT. Hill. So MT. Hill, his beautiful appeal for funds nicely printed and in his hands, sought out James A. Farrell who is president of the U. S. Steel trust, and asks him to do somethine for the needy.
 MT. Hill had always been such a useful man. The country needed him. Steel needed him. If he was to ar rive, something must be done. There were so many things to buy.
 One doesn't know just what MT. Hill did and said; whether he stood hat in hand, as he asked, whether the butler let him in, or whether MT. Farrell met him at the door. We don't know whether MT. Hill made his request boldly, or whether he preferred it with timidity; whether his voice trem- bled and tears stood in his eyes, or whether he preferred his request in the calm confidence of one who has earned a reward and expects to get it. But there is a letter from MT. Wheeler, which throws some light upon this interesting meeting. It is certain that MT. Hill expected Mir. Farrell to give him $500, and also expected MT. Farrell to collect money in the West. The letter will be print ed, and you can read it.. When you read it, remember that Mir Wheeler was MT. Hills political agent, and re- presented Hill in law as well as in fact.
 So MT Farrell was asked to pay MT. Hills bills two years ago, and was asked to collect money in the West to pay them.
 MT. Donovan paid his own. Some