The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-03
CROWDS OUT TO CHEER WILSON'S
 ADMINISTRATION
Three Great Rallies Are Scenes of Impressive Dem
 onstrations for President


 Wilson, scathing denunciationy of the boss control of the majority of mem
 bers of the common council, and wit,
 featured the three big rallies held in 1 this city last night when Democrats l poured out of their homes and aided in great demonstrations for the Presi-
 dent and his policies.
 | Meetings were held in the Eighth
 district, in the Second district, for both Ithe Second an = First, and in the Young 1 Mems Woodrow Wilson club rooms.
 More than 800 persons were assem-
 bled in Schwaebischer-M -Maennercho1
 hall in French street at the largest
 district rally held by either party this
 year. The rally was preceded by a parade through the streets of the dis
 trict. Joseph N. Connolly was marshal of the parade and the Lincoln school
 drum corps headed it. Marching to
 the martial music which the drum
 corps furnished, were men for years | identified with politics in the district,
 side by side with young men who
 Nov. will cast their first vote for
 Woodrow. Wilson and the Democratic
 ticket. | The marchers and those who fol- | lowed them, filled the lower floor end
 the gallery and many were obliged to
 stand. A number of women attended and they appeared as interested as the
 men. Attorney Harry Brooks of New
 Haven was the principal speaker. He
 said if President Wilson fails of re- election, the construction which Flu
 rope will place on the action of the
 American people will be that the coun- l 1>o 4~
 follow. Tn an eloquent and masterly
 address he reviewed the history of the | Democratic party since 1t had come
 into power and said that more con-
 structive legislation had been enacted
 in the last three years than has been
 talked of by the progressive element
 in the Republican party during the
 last 20 years. He urged the election of the entire Democratic state ticket and
 declared it was the purpose of the party to enact a mothers pension bill. 1 Alderman Daniel P. Harrigan, nOm- 1 inee for senator in the Twenty second | district, contrasted the condition of 1 the troops recently returned from the | Mexican border during Wilson's ad- | ministration with those who returned after the Spanish merican war dur l ing Republican regime. He was | given an ovation when introduced. 1 Touching briefly on the issues of the | campaign and the achievements of the l President, Alderman Harrigan turned l to local issues and urged the voters l of the district to send Attorney John 1 A. Cornell to the common council. Attorney Cornell, candidate for al- l derman from the district, and the | Cai6 n rf.
 'tWe are living in the era of the greatest development, commercially, | industriously, financially and other l wise that the Republic has experience ed, since the day that George Wash | ington assumed the guidance of it's young destinies.
 duce the splendid conditions present at every hand, proceed upon, and our prosperity must of necessity result from the influences of fundamentally sound, definite and appropriate gov ernmental policies.
 "In our own land, business may be in day caused to come to com plete standstill by a piece of unfavor- able legislation.
 ''It is impossible to consider the l prevailing prosperity of this land, without noticing the legislation enact ed by the Democratic Congress under 1 the leadership of Woodrow Wilson. It | is impossible to attribute this prosper l ity to a foreign war or any other ex- ternal cause, when we know that if 1 the hole world were to beg at our shores for the supplies we are now l able to furnish, we would not be able to supply the demand, and could not i take advantage of any situation, if the , policies of the government touching 1 things industrial and commercial did | not so enfranchise these things as to 1 put out manufacturers in a position | to do so.'
 Dr. Edward F. ~McGoyern, candi- ! date for representative, proved the wit of the evening. He outlined the Presidents consistent policy in keep 1 ing the country out of war. He said he was thinking of others and not of 1 himself for war had no terrors for him. "If called to go he would prob l ably be with the other doctors far in the rear of the firing line. Becoming serious, he reviewed the acts of the Democratic administration and said that no matter what. other candidates were considered, no one counted so much as the President.
 Attorney Joshua Meltzer, candi- date for representative, exploded the Republican bugaboo~ of the full din-
 ner pail and prosperity.
 Former Alderman Patrick H. Brady made an admirable chairman of the meeting. Former Alderman John H. Coughlin and Michael Dywer were on
 the committee of arrangements Re- treatments were served after the rally.
 The Young Mems Woodrow Wilson
 club held a rousing rally in their club CTS from New York and local orators discussed the issues of the day.
 William B. Gaffney of Utica, declar- ed that the misstatements and evasions of Charles Evans Hughes will encom- pass his defeat and the honesty of pur- pose and good Judgment of Woodrow Wilson in every critical emergency will
 be appreciated by the people and that
 he will be returned to the White House with a large majority. That Hughes never was with the people but is merely millionaires' and Wall streets candidate was asserted with vehemence. The speaker showed that Hughes had vetoed the New York Coney Island five cent fare when gov ernor of New York when it was known