The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21
East Side Theatre Packed to Overflowing and 300 Are Unbale to Get In Aud itorium- -Ex- Congressman Scores Record of Ebenezer Hill.
War Business Responsible For Less Than Three Per Cent. of Prosperity Here, He Declares Mir. Dono- van Arouses Great En- thusiasm.

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 "Meriden Night" rally conducted under the auspices of the Ninth Dis- trict Democratic club, for the benefit of Meriden voters employed in Bridgeport, woke up the East Side last night For a district rally, it de- veloped unprecedented enthusiasm. The Elk theatre, at East Main and Arctic streets, comfortably seating 500, was crowded to suffocation. Out side the hall an overflow meeting was started, with approximately 300 voters giving earnest attention to the speak CTS.
 Former Congressman Thomas L.. | Reilly, of Meriden, candidate for Congress in the Third district, was the chief speaker. He was given a tre- mendous reception. Among the audi ence were about 100 voters from Meri- den, and they led the cheering sec ton. Former Congressman Jeremiah Donovan, of the Fourth district. also spoke and reused his hearers by a spirited attack on the record of E. J. Hill.
 A parade preceded the rally drum corps heading a lot of marchers who carried campaign transparencies let East Side folks know there was "something doing,'' and the East Side folks turned out in force. The thea tre was packed when the speakers ar- rived. Mir. Reilly was the first speaker. He devoted most of his address to a review of the Democratic party's achievements, especially with regard! to the, man who tolls. In 24 years of continuous rule, the speaker de- clared, the Republicans hadn't accom- plished any real legislation destined to benefit the ,laboring man. The re- cord of four years under Woodrow Wilson, he said, was a record of promises kept.
 The Adamson law received especial attention from MT. Reilly. He point ed tolit as a most courteous and righteous solution of the gravest do- mestic perils tha thas ever confront e ed the nation.
 E And MT. Hughes" he said, would have us believe that this law is all wrong. That it should never have been passed. Would Mr. Hughes re- peal that bill? He hasn't said so. Will MT. Hughes ask the defeat of the "A Republican Congressmen who saw fit to vote with the Democrats in the passage of that law and thus avert great national calamity"
 Scouting the Republican campaign argument that we are living in "a fools paradise due to war business, Mr. Reilly produced. briefly, statistics k<4 of our manufacturing activity is due to European demands.
 "In the coming election" the speak, CT said, "the labor vote, so-called, will play an important part. On which side will labor be found? On the side which has given it a. most progress i've program in the interest of labor, or on the side of the stand4p 4pat Re- jpublicanism that would brook no such program?
 "I want to tell you men something to which I was an eyewitness. At St. Louis. during the Democratic con vention, was a member of the com mittee on resolutions. Before that committee, there appeared Samuel Gompers, president, and Frank l.. Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor. They present ed program of blanks that they wished included in the Democratic platform.
 When that platform was presented to the convention, it contained 13 of the IA propositions endorsed by MT. Gompers and MT. Morrison.
 Just a week previous, these same men had gone to the Republican con- vention at Chicago and stated their case to the Republican resolutions committee. They were given prom ises-and that was all Winch the Republican platform was reported, it by these highest representatives of labor.
 Those blanks are in the Demo cratic platform. What assurances have you that they will be carried out? The assurances of experience, my friends. The assurances of a par ty that has made its platform of 1912 into a record of actual achievement"
 MT. Reilly paid a tribute to MT. Cummings and MT. Donovan. He de- clared that the President, "who sure ly will be re-elected,' should have liiC odPPOAe VI o AilCluAy Soh6A CSo.
 "Mr. Cummings is the finest ex- ample we have the younger type of real Democracy in this state," he said. Send him to Washington and you will have in the Senate a man with the courage of his convictions. He will be there to vote-not to bring back @ record of dodging issues.
 "In regard to MT. Donovan, I can say from my own personal knowledge that never has a district been repre- sented more faithfully than was the Fourth district when MT. Donovan was in office. He was always at his desk and never missed a vote on an important question.
 Send MT Donovan back. He will help the President. You can't ex- pect the President to draw any great support from that greatest of all stand-pattsrs, imbued with all the stand -pattism of Republican inter- ests, E. J. Hill"
 At the conclusion of MT. ReilIy's address. the Meriden voters led in three cheers" that were Justify giv- en.
 Former Congressman Donovan fol- 1tous f3e aftarkaa ,c tIftf,s rso