Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-28

lieutenant governor of the state, spoke at the largely attended democratic rally held in the town hall Friday night.
 Preceding the speaking. Tubbs' Mili- tary band gave a concert at the Wau- regan house corner, and with red fire ablaze, enthusiastis followers of the democratic party shortly before fell in line and marched to the hall.
 Jeremiah J.. Desmond presided at the meeting and introduced the speak CTS.
 Achievements of the Democratic Party
 Frank P. Guilfoile, candidate for lieutenant governor, was the first speaker. He opened by speaking of the state democratic ticket and said: l believe that your ordinary love for your state and city will lead you to study the issues of the campaign. The citizens of this country are now con- sidering the ability of two men, and it is an important duty upon which we are called. He spoke of the achievements and the character of the democratic party in the state, and he said Wilson has given us the great est program of legislation since the time of Thomas Jefferson. He referred to the Mexican situation and how the returning soldiers from the border re- turn with greater love for the Stars and Stripes and for Woodrow Wilson.
 Cummings Greeted With Cheers.
 As Homer $. Cummings started to speak he was greeted with cheers. He was introduced by Chairman Desmond. In part, MT. Cummings said:
 I am very happy to have the oppor- tunity to come to Norwich again, where like to believe that I have so many friends. I trust that I shall not be disappointed on the 7th of November. l have met with you on many differ ent occasions, and occasionally at po- litical meetings.
 We hear a great deal nowadays about efficiency. I sometimes think that it is easy to make an efficient government, provided you are willing to have an autocratic government. America could be the most efficient nation in the world if it would sup press the newspapers, close the schools, dismiss the congress, and turn the control of the government over to the hands of one strong man. We would then have an efficient government, but it would not be the government that we love. It would not be the govern ment that inspires our feelings.
 So far as 1 am concerned, the flag of an autocratic government has no attractions for me. The only flag that have any respect for that floats in the sky is the kind of flag that voluntarily and gladly in the manage ment of their own affairs. That is the kind of government that we have.
 Believes Women Deeply Interested. I believe that the women are inter ested in this campaign perhaps more than in any other campaign her q ofore. They are interested because tVe de- cision of the 7th of NovembGr will determine the future course Of this republic and these women of ours who have women's sympathies have known what it was to see their sisters in Europe suffering from the curse of war. The curse of war falls, some times think, more heavily upon the women than upon the men. The men go gladly and with good cheer when their fatherland or their motherland | calls. They go bravely to death. | sometimes think that the experiences l of the world in Europe have demon | strated that all men are brave and | that after all there are very few cow | ards in the world; that when a real 1 test comes, humanity responds. But l the women are left behind. They have 1 to give their sons--they have to give ] their husbands, they see them march
 out into unknown perils They have | to stay home, not simply to watch | over the home, but to supply the places | of the men, to take their places in
 the fields, as they are now doing in i Europe to supply as best they can l E0 S i that are out at the front.
 1 have been going about the state 1 of Connecticut recently, visiting place
 after place, since the 9th of October
 1 have been going over our good state | and think l have never seen Con- necticut look so beautiful as it does
 this fall Almost every day has been | bright with sunshine, and our hills l have been colored with the rich, beau | t1fuI hueS of autumn. Everywhere I | have seen little groups of people, the l farmers in some places, who gather | about to hear what I had to say about
 the issues of the campaign-the lRNe
 tradespeople in the small villages
 where l stopped at the stores, or some 1 times at the factories where the men | poured out at noon hour--or assem- | blages like this. where people come to | hear the issues of the campaign dis 1 cussed-arfd everywhere I have found
 peace and prosperity and contentment
 and happiness. Everywhere through l this state I have thought Great God ! | Suppose that in moment, in the l twinkling of an eye, all this should be | changed, and then instead of these | peaceful and gracious scenes of happf-
 ness and comfort and joy, there should | be the march of the army, tie assem- | bling Of little groups of men in each | village, the groups expanding into the
 larger groups in the city, going into
 the training camp, going to the bor- l der, going to the front, going into | danger and I have thought how diff
 ferent Connecticut is from all the rest of the world.
 War Comes for Small Reasons.
 War comes for small reasons-it
 comes in the rWinkling of an eye It 1 comes when statesmanship breaks down. Oh, my friends, war broke out | in Europe on or about the 1st of Au-
 gust, 1914, and was there a man or a
 woman in this room that believed up to
 A or AS hours before that time that | there would be such war; that there would be any war?
 Not one of us believed it. And vet 1t came Servia and Austria were in ! trouble. In a moment Germany, and Russia and France were involved. Bel gium was invaded and trampled un-
 der foot. Great Britain came in after
 a few days. Then Turkey and finally
 Bulgar1a. Roumania and the rest, un-
 til there were sixteen nations involved
 in this great world war, and in a few
 days Greece perhaps will come in,
 making the seventeenth. They have great lines of battle. hundreds of miles
 long, men living there in the earth, | burrowing like rats. They have kill
 ed 3,0G0,000 men in Europe already.