The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-04

we Know that you nave courage and resolution-courage unhesitating and resolution unswerving. We know that under your leadership no Ameri- can will have to hang his head in shame.
 we are well aware that you do not know all there is in the world, but we know from our acquaintance with you that you have the capacity, the temperament, the character, the va1or, the wisdom of this great people for their service and to use it for them.''
 The rest of MT. Roots speech was along the same lines, wholly eulo- gistic of MT. Hughes. Then MT. Hughes responded, launching into one of his campaign speeches and at times repeating what he has said on the stump. When he announced. "We have been living in a period of na- tional humiliation" Col. Roosevelt shouted: "Good!"
 M. Hughes said:
 Our citizens have been murdered, their property destroyed and our commerce interrupted. The alterna- tive of weak and vacillating policy is not war; it is firm insistence upon known rights in a world where all na- tions desire our friendship, and we desire the friendship of all, and where only the most inexcusable blundering could drag us into strife"
 After MT. Hughes had finished, Col. Roosevelt was introduced, and he got really rousing reception. He praised the club and recounted it's history, at one point saying: "No man has a right to claim spiritual kinship with Abraham Lincoln if he is too proud to fight"
 A little later he said:
 eff, after the Gettysburg speech, Abraham Lincoln had appointed conference of the type now sitting in New London, we would not think of the Gettysburg speech except with bit terness or laughter"
 A Sheer at President.
 A few minutes later MT. Roosevelt said:
 MT. Hughes has alluded to Mr. Wilson's speech on Saturday in which he said that if-now, I cannot pre- tend to give it to you with verbal ac- curacy, but you correct me if I do not give the spirit correctly-in which he said, in effect, that if you do not re-elect him this country might have war. That is substantially what he said, and the inference was that if he were there there would not be any war, leaving it to be inferred by the outside world that nobody could in suit him so that he would fight.
 "At this moment we are informed that in the German Reichstag there is a debate going forward as to wheth- CT or not they will resume what they call the U-boat warfare-what I call the murder on the high seas of men, women and children. And you can guarantee that there would be no de- bate on that subject if they knew that they Chad as President of the United States man who would not tolerate any kind of action of that sort.
 Calls Speech on Invitation.
 MT. Wilson's speech last Saturday was an invitation to foreign powers to do whatever they wished, because if he were in power they need not be afraid"
 Neither MT. Hughes nor MT. Roose- Welt made any reference to the meet ing of MT. Taft and the Colonel. MT. Taft, who spoke only briefly, did. He said, just at the close of his speech:
 ''We are here to welcome the next President of the United States.
 And I may say incidentally also we, are holding one of those excep- tional meetings of the 1ex-Presidents' Club. It has not large membership. And the members do not always, or perhaps ever entertain completely harmonious views.
 But there is one subject upon which we are unanimous to point that I can't exaggerate, and that is that we are going to elect in Novem- Der another member of this club"