New Britain herald., 1918-10-28
(BACk Up PRESIDENT
\ ELONERGAN'S APPEAL
lGandidate for Congress Speaks at
North & Judd Noon Rally
lKLETT IN ANGRY MOOD

Candidate For State Senator Denounc-
cs 'Rottcn Politics Someone Was
Guilty of Yestcrday''-Wilson's APP
peal Outrageous, Chamberlain.
Il stand squarely on my record
during the four years that I have
II been your representative in congress,
and / dare any man to come on my
platform between now and election
day and question the judgment Of my
@ivote on any measure since I have
8 lbeen in congress. Every measure
#fhat / have voted yes on has been
& approved of by President Wilson We
are, now approaching an election day,
the likes of which this country has
u never before seen and l urge you
week from Tuesday to forget your
politics and think of America alone,
Aand in so doing you will follow out
S. the request of President Wilson and
81 place in congress men of experience
who will work in sympathy with our
president" The foregoing statements
q form the keynote of the address CIV
fgan at North & Judd's factory today.
! A}The address was the opener of a Sc
y }ries of addresses that is to be given
at factory gates during the week. At
torney W. IT. Mangan introduced the
Speaker and urged the voters to place
congressman Lonergan in congress
again.
Congressman Lonergan opened with
4 a recital of the doings of the congress
Nduring the past term. He told of
@ the vast expenditures necessary to
prosecute the war to successful
conclusion and the necessity of haN-
ing a sound financial system. He out
q lined the growth of the army and
havy and the ship building industry
o all Of which he said, have prospered
81 under democratic president and
q congress. The speaker explained the
@ necessity of continuing in office the
AS present officeholders as men of ex-
~ perience are necessary to carry out
NJ this work.
ITO the men of foreign BIRTH" the
4 speaker continued, would say: If
I YOU have a love for the land of your
4 birth, if you love your parents and
ID wish to see the depressed countries
of Europe rise and prosper, then you
will vote to retain the democratic
congress- Only through President
Wilson, working with a congress that
is in sym mpathy with him, can these
things be accomplished
The speaker in closing asked that
mis- experience in congress and his
record as representative from this
a district be taken into consideration on
81 election day and that he be given as
substantial q vote by the citizens OF
IL New Britain as he received in 1916.
Speech BY Senator Klett.
At a rally at the Russell & Erwin
plant this noon, F. S. Chamberlain
and George w. Klett addressed an
audience in the pouring rain.
Mr.. Chamberlain told his listeners
how he, in four years as treasurer Of
the state had built up the treasury
and made it possible, if it were best,
4 for the state to wipe out its debt to-
II day. He declared that politics did
y not enter into the work of the ad-
81 rninistration, and that everything was
done for the best interests of the state
H - Connecticut. He then introduced
Senator Klett, who began by telling
81 his audience that he came before the
neople on his record and not on any
PROMISES. He enumerated the bills
that he had helped to put through
the legisIature,e among them several
i improvements on the Workmen' s
j k~ompensation Act, the inventory and
census Of the resources and people Of
III the state, the bill by which aliens
were enabled to get their citizenship
naners in New Britain instead of
y Hartford, and the teachers pension
# bill.
Senator K1ett declared that the
republican party had not played poll
4 Am4ics and did not intend to, and that the
pnarty would not revert to such rotten
noIitics as somebody had used yes
terday. He said he did not know
8 whether it was under the auspices OF
the democratic party or not, but thai
it certainly was rotten politics.
He then gave his record in the
senate, SAYING that since he has beer
In that body, he has not been absent
j once and has attended every com
nittee meeting. He then gave the
#record of his rival, George M. Land
I ers. giving the dates upon which he
was absent and did not vote.
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