The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-10
National Committeeman,
i'm Remarkable Speech:
Flags Mclean, RoOse-
welt and Root For I'm
patriotic Utterances
and Gives Interesting
Recital of Achieve
ments Of Wilson Adj
1rli1listration.

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ministrati0n.
New HGven, May 40-Efo-
squentIy presenting the cass Of
Democracy and replying l
with biting caFcasm and ln-
answerable argument those
professional critics. of the Adj
ADMINISTRATION, National. Com
srait&eezaan Homer s. Gum
1nznGs sounded the Democratic
Keynote In his address as tenn
sDepary chairman of the state
slOanwenkion here last night.
Time and again, Music Hall
/ reecnndad with cheers at the
mention OF the name of VIII
son. The recital eff the great
agnslaAfwe achievements Of his
Endnalraiefnafson were gree&ed
WITH enthusiastic outbuFsfs.
| HE shafts at Senator Mclean,
G1aeuaowse Roosevelt and Elihu
EOok waRe cG1raed in the most
Ealing words.
The address consumed naoEB
than an hour, but every min
.!uae Mr. Cummings held his
audience IN his hand CDntin-
ned applause followed the con-
Gausiun of his remarks, which
closed with q wonderful tri-
bHte that compared Wilson to
Einco1n.
Mr.. C1znn1fngs address, In
Gill fOlEOwse<
sxaent1en1en OF the Convent1on:
1--WE assemble upon the eve of an
other presidential campaign Mani
testify the hour is & critical one in the
affairs OF the country and or the world.
We have been blessed by an album
dance of prosperity hitherto unknown
IA our history. For nearly two years
there has been progressing in the old
world the greatest war known to man
kind All the great nations of the
foundations OF the governments of sew
era1 hundred millions Of people are Inn
perilIed and, indeed, the destinies Of
the human race are at stake. How far
and into what quarters this conAagra-
ton may spread man Is now so wise
81 to be able to foresee. Great Brit
ain, France, Germany, AUSTRIA Russia,
Italy, Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Bull
garia, Belgium, Portugal and Japan
are already victims of this unpara1IeI-
ed, international catac1ysrn, while Rou-
mania, Greece, Holland, Denmark,
Switzerland Norway and Sweden are
armed camps, with all the normal
functions OF national existence disturb
ed or suspended, awaiting, with anx-
1ous concern, their turn to be summon
ed.
rOur country Is the one great ma
ton in the world that has not been
drawn into the awful vortex OF war.
We not only have peace and prosperity,
bat we have them under circumstances
that emphasize their priceless worth
and the folly of taking any action that
may Irnpern them. And yet such are
the necessities Of partisanship. poll
ticians who place party and not Amer
lea first are criticisIng the Ad1afnistra-
ton, n1aEgning the President, SANDER
Ing our public officials and hysterf-
caIIy calling for a change of leader
ship. It is a spectacle as amazing as
1t Is discreditab1e. It Goes not re-
uuire the vision of q seer to know what
Judgment history win pronounce upon
those small minded critics who, in the
period of great national CRISIS placed
party above national honor and with
every device known to envy and malice
ungenerous1y sought to add to the bur-
dens that events had placed upon the
shoulders OF the President of the Unit
ed States
Partisan Crf4acism.
a characteristic form of this crit
fcism Is found in the address delivered
by Senator Mclean at~tl1e Repub1ican
State Convention, held at Hartford on
the eleventh of April. I think thai
even the most ardent admirers of the
eloquent and versatile Senator win not
contend that his address was q work
o. constructive statesnan ship SELF
ing adroItIy upon minor details ii,
the work of the Administration he
naagntded them out of All proportion to
their real consequences, overlooked the
great achievements of the last three
years and demanded a return of the
Republican Party to power without
suggesting, throughout his entire adj
dress, any DEFINITE policy or indicating
what alternative course the Admins
fratfon could have pursued which
would have more completely accorded
with the dignity and the traditions OF
America
improvements is destructive criticism
It Is not constructive craftsmanship
Gsneralitdes Will not do and until the
critics of the Administration offer a
Biz Of Particulars and better pro-
gram they will receive sscant attention
IN the Courts Of popular opinion
think do the Senator no injustice
when assert that his plea was one Oh
strict and unreIenting partisansfaip
And think, also, that the American
people are in no mood for that form OF
aea&ecraft
Republican Difficulties.
'TEeverthelsss, 1t is only fair to ad-
NIT that the task set for the Senator
was not without it's d4f1cu1ties.
a Keynote speech is welI-nigh an
4Hnposszb1nty when the whole party is
end of tune The Senator did the
beet he could He staoze to utter q
war CRY that would be heard from
Hartford to Toxic but the acoustic
properties Of the Hartford armory, are
notorfously Inadequate. I do not want
to be respectable for an lII-tfmed lev
1ty over q subject essentially SD but
the VAIN attempts OF the RepAb liean