The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-30
SEC. DANIELS
 AT HARTFORD

former President Benjamin Harrison and Col. Roosevelt, who spoke during the Spanish war, urging the retention of a Republican Congress. Their argument of 1898 applies thousand-fold now, he said. The Secretary then turned to domestic af- fairs, to show how Republican Con gressmen have fought the Adminls- tration He said, in part:
 "The first great preparedness meas ure was the shipping bill, providing for an initial appropriation of fifty millions of dollars and a government owned merchant marine. It was in troduced in 191E passed the House ton on the part of Republicans, and was defeated in the Senate, March 3. 1915, by a Republican f1libuster. This bill was avowedly a preparedness measure, and its withdrawal in the last hours of the .SiXty-third Congress was only after it had been announc ed that those who wished to speak against it included practically the en- tire Republican membership of the Senate The bill was introduced in the next Congress and finally passed in April, 1916. One hundred and sixty Republicans and one Democrat voting against it in the House, and 20 Republicans and one Democrat against it in the Senate.
 From the day the United States | entered the war unto this good hour the neck of the bottle has been and 1 is ships. The number of soldiers early sent to France was measured only by the tonnage. For every day of delay in sending soldiers to France the responsibility rests with those Senators whose opposition and fiji.
 buster prevented the passage of thc
 original shipping bill.
 "In the light of the gigantic achieve. ments of the Shipping Board thereb! created, who will say that if Senator Weeks, the Republican whip, and hi!
 formidable array of Republican Sen
 ators had not blocked the way fol
 nearly two years, the victory whicE
 is now in sight would not have Ions
 since been achieved?"
 | Continuing, he said: May I not
 call your attention to how labor ha
 fared under a Democratic administra.
 tion? The Department of Labor or. | iginated in a Democratic House, ant
 the first Secretary of Labor was ap pointed March 4. 1913, by a Demo
 cratic President. This department ha
 expanded wonderful under the in
 creasing demands of the past five ant
 a half years. From the day we enter
 ed the great war it seemed eviden
 that the labor problem would be on,
 of the most difficult, if not the mos l difficult. with which the admfnistra
 ton would have to deal. The success
 of Secretary of Labor Wilson coult
 not have been achieved had not labor organized and unorganized, put it
 shoulder to the wheel and done it , part.
 "But let us see how at least on spokesman of the vested interests re gard the War Labor Board. Followin the order of President Wilson tha
 the Smith & Wesson Co.,, intuition
 manufacturers at Springfield, b
 taken over under Federal control be , cause that company refused to obe
 the order of the War Labor BoarG
 and you will recall that on the sam
 day he dealt in an equally drasti
 manner with striking employees of , concern engaged in the manufactur . of war munitions-a publication , Worcester, known as the Voter an His Employer, and supported. so
 am reliably informed, by a group Republican manufacturers, said in i U issue of Sept. 2S:
 . "'The manufacturers who al members of the War Labor Boar should have resigned immediate U when the President decided to tal 2 over the Smith & Wesson Go. Tn seems to be the general sentimel . among the manufacturers throughor Il the country"
 T And you will bear in mind, II
 friends, that one of those branded
 this organ of outraged big busine
 ss- a representative of the America n Federation of Labor. is William Hoy I ard Taft, late Republican Preside, a of thes United States, joint chairms n of the board.
 n Upon what ground do Republice A leaders ask the support of the Amer n can people? What do they offer - They have no real issue, no progra y- of constructive legislation, no gre a reform to attract progressive voter q They vote with Wilson on some rc q calls after having sought to emasc d late important measures for W q emergencies. Failing to appeal to Il l. voters on a single issue, to arouse u " conscience or to give confidence ts better things, the heterogeneous R il publicans leaders have killed { ,e fatted calf in honor of new wo Ic the war has given us-Camouf1aE V, They are offering 1t as the real thil l. and have just enough of the ostri l. in them to believe the voters will le taken in.
 D. Nothing but death can remove t ia wise leadership of Woodrow Wills T. for two years. He will end the W Id. with victory for Americas high I ,d solve and his voice will be Americ c- voice in concluding permanent peace ve
 New York State will have to su