New Britain herald., 1916-10-27
SECOND WARD HAS
 SUPPER AND: RALLY
Oakley, Covert, Hall, Klett, Quigley
 and Steele Talk

Bardeck's hall was the scene of a 1 rousing rally last evening when, un- 1 der the auspices of the Second Ward Republican club, a Dutch supper was l held. If there is one thing that this club does successfully besides voting 1 for their candidates, it is handling 1 similar affairs. According to the old saying ''practice makes perfect" and | every one knows that this club has 1 plenty of it giving Dutch suppers. On l the program were contained political | speeches and songs, also an address ] by Congressman P. Davis Oakley. During his peroration MT. Oakley | said he realized what ought to be | dOne for this city, and if he lives to 1 be an old man he could not do for | the Hardware City what it deserved. ] m answer to the criticism of his acts such as his vote against the rural credits bill, he termed them as ab- 1 surd and he had the opinions of re- publican colleagues and friends to pack h1m up. The democratic press, Whlch has endeavored to show the constituents of MT. Oakley where he stood on the McLemore bill were all wrong, according to his remarks. He also paid a compliment to Sena-
 
 lature and in reference to his ,oppOn- ent in the congressman said that While member of the legislative body in Washington, he was subject to the crack of the caucus whip un- der the Underwood tariff bill.
 Candidates for Representative.
 Richard Covert candidate for rep resentative, was the first speaker of the evening. He said at the outset that as an orator he does not do any bOasting. MT. Covert told of his fight for political honors two years ago when he lost; out in the race for tax collector He received fine SUD- port, however, from the republican party and hoped to repeat, only with better results.
 He eu1ogized his running mates on the ticket, and in reference to Senator Klett he said that as a worker he was second only to Mayor Quigley.
 E. F. Hall, who with MT. Covert is a candidate for representative hon. ors, thanked his colleague for the nice words said about him during his speech. The best interests of the people rest in the election of the re- publican party, the speaker said. He urged all to get out and hustle for the ticket from top to bottom. MT. Hall said he favored the bill whereby large corporations would be forced to contribute toward the state tax. The bill being prepared by Mayor Quigley calling for a state appropria- ton for better sewage methods will be presented at the coming session and will receive his hearty endorse ment and vote. Through the endeav- ors of Senator Klett the bill which would have placed upon the shoul- ders of this city an expense of about $75,O for it's dams, pipe lines and improvements in neighboring towns had been killed, he declared. Such bills, when presented need a strong l man like Senator Klett to oppose them, MT. Hall said.
 Senator Klett.
 When Senator Klett was introduced, he was given a warm reception. In his opening remarks, Senator Klett asked the support of republicans for himself as well as the entire ticket locally, nationally and statewise. In comparing the record of Congressman Oakley with that of ex-Congressman Lonergan, the speaker said that the latter never voted for protective tariff which would benefit New Eng land manufacturing concerns. In speaking of his own candidacy, Sen ator Klett said that IL has been said that if his opponent was elected he couId give the time to the duties the office calls for Records will show where he did not miss a single session of the last legislature, the speaker said. In answer to criticism in an out of town paper regarding campaign literature issued by him, Senator Klett said that he did not wish to infer that did not pay tax before he became a senator, but what he meant was that they were not paying their propOrtiOnate share, and under the law he worked for they are now doing so. Other criticism through edi toriaI comment is that he is claiming credit for the bill that assisted the de- pendents of the soldiers at the border, whereas the bill was drawn in Hart ford. Tn reply to this Senator klett said that he conferred with Governor Holcomb regarding the enactment of such a bill which met with the ap- proval of the state executive and later the bill was drawn and was presented at the special session of the legisla- ture by him and the sum of $1OO,O00 was appropriated for the care of soldiers dependents. The democrats and their followers have also criti- cized him for his action in regard to the factory inspectors office and labor bureau being merged, but these shouters do not say that ex-Governor Baldwin was one of the chief advo- cates for the consolidation, MT. <lett said. He asked for the support of the voters on his record.