The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-06-10
FAvORITE SONS
 HIGHLY LAUDED
 TO CONVENTION
Dupont and Sherman Get Warm Send Offs in
 Nominations.

In naming Colonel T. Coleman Du- pont of Delaware for presidential nominee before the Republican na- tional convention at Chicago, Con gressman Thomas w. Miller of Del aware said:
 Tt is one of the men who have done much to bring fame and honor to my state that we present to this conVen- ton today In 1863 this gentleman was born in the state of Kentucky. The silver spoon was not numbered among his playthings. Our candidate com menced life as a mine worker in the state of Kentucky. By the time he was 30 years of age he had become su- perintendent of the mine in which he had started work a 1aborer.
 His interest in the betterment of the civic and industrial conditions in the mining camps, was in reality done to increase the welfare of the workers who were first in his heart for he had been one of them.
 Tn 1893 the state of Pennsylvania claimed him and within that state for several years he devoted his con- structive genius to the upbuilding of various public service corporations
 At the outbreak of the great war in Europe he separated himself en- tirely from the powder business and since that date he has erected in the city of New York another monu-
 
 tive genius, the largest building in the world, an accomplishment worthy of a man of big calibre
 He has the domesticity and kindli- ness of the late lamented William | Mckinley; he has the energy and ex- plosive> force of Theodore Roosevelt and the calm, deliberate judgment of | William Howard Taft. His record in the business world stamps him as 1 a business man'se candidate. As a representative of the workingman he | is an ideal candidate because he toe has been a toiler-not a spoiler. ] With these few words I place be- 1 fore this convention the name of Cole man Dupont for the office of Presi- dent of the United States l William J. Calhoun, of Chicago formerly United States minister tc China, in nominating Senator Law renee Y. Sherman of Illinois said:
 "Gentlemen, for more than 5t years, with the exception of three widely separated administrative per iods, the Republican party has gov erned this country. Four years ago our party was still the majority par ty. But unfortunately, bitter person al antagonisnls and factiona1 dispute: were developed that disrupted the party and it went down in the mos disastrous defeat ever known in thu history of American politics.
 we are now assembled as the re presentatives of the people to formu late declaration of principle ant politics and to nominate candidate for President and Vice-President.
 "The personality of the candidat we nominate may have much to d. with the result. I am authorized b, the delegation from Illinois and it il turn is instructed by the Republican of the state to present for your con sideration the name of a. candidate fo the high office of the President of tn United States.
 ''The story of his life as I know is for the most part a very simple one and yet ii has in it many element of the heroic which elevated it ia above the level of the commonplace , "He has been twice elected to tn United States Senate, once by tn state legislature and once by diret