Republican farmer., 1918-11-01
Thursday, Oct. 31

4NO CdIluludIG 1Ol O411CC III these days should ask for cleo tion just because he is a good fellow" declares William T. Hincls, candidate of the. Dem ocrats for Senator, in the 21st district. "He should have some definite constructive pro- gram to offer to the voters" MT. Hincks made this statement to a Times reporter, who ask ed him for an interview, and continued:-
 T. should like to have some hand in the shaping of legislation after the war. I heard pr. John R. Mott, the head of the United War Work Cam paign, say that the next ten years were going to be the most interesting and vital years in the worlds history; l and certainly 1t is true that they will 1 be filled with the greatest problems | of readjustment and reconstruction l the world has ever seen. Just how | important a part state legislation will | form in this situation 1 do not know, | but there is a necessary relation be- | tween state and national legislation | so that the one goes hand in hand with the other, and the man who takes part in state legislation and who l does his part Zealously and unselfish- | ly will be contributing his portion to- ward the solution of the great worlds problems.
 A Selling Proposition
 1T believe a candidate for office ir 1 order to make a successful appeal tc the public must have some very defi- nite and fixed principles or qualified. tions on which to base his claim fol election. We cannot go on in these days handing out to the voters the same old stuff that our fathers an( grandfathers did. Not only must { candidate reflect the conditions anC ideas and beliefs of the times, bu , he must be a leader in creating anC modifying those ideas and conditions : A man ought not to be elected to of l flee today just because he is a goot fellow and hasn't any enemies. H. l OOSAI L4OL u DC S4SClOu pSOauS0 lie l content to follow. where others lead A campaign is a selling proposition pure and simple. A candidate mus have something positive and definit to sell to the voters or else he ough not to get their vote.
 For Woman Suffrage
 "I had hoped that the fedora amendment for woman's suffrag : would be adopted at Washington an 5 would come before our state legisla = lures this winter. I still have hope = that 1t may, although at the last coun = the necessary two-thirds majority t d pass it was not to be had in tn ; United States Senate.
 The Prohibition Amendment
 'I am, however, a strong and ope V advocate of the proposed amendmer 2 to the United States Constitution pro | ,viding for national prohibition. Tn has already been ratified by the les islatures of many States, and wi !, come before our legislature this vii 5 ter. l believe the adoption of tn 'f amendment will Go more good fc . the world at large and will be ( :. greater benefit to ones time and ger ; eration than anything that would o,
 dinarily fall to ones lot to do. have made my advocacy of goverl
 mental prohibition the foundatic . stone of my candidacy.
 Il "A large manufacturer in Bridg
 port told me that he was about '' build a factory in state which ha
 adopted prohibition year befor
 He had a survey of labor condition
 made and found that the efficient
 of labor had improved 15 per ce
 during the year that prohibition h;
 been adopted. I have never been
 total abstinence man myself, but wh,
 think of the wickedness and suffe
 ing that is caused by liquor, I fe If that it would be a verey small sacl
 flee for any of us to give up his ov
 benefits that would be produced . personal tastes for the incalculat
 rum were forever thrown into the d.
 card.
 q can claim no special qualific
 tions for the senatorship. I ha spent a good deal of my life, espe sts ally of recent years, in the pub . service, and I have always been d. terested in governmental matters. d was educated as lawyer and pre -. ticed for thirteen years, the last fl - years being spent as general coun 'h' for the Connecticut Railway & Ligl S9, ing Co. I have been in the banki GU business for a dozen years or mo eo and am a member of the boSrd of
 rectors of quite a number of corpol In tions and institutions.
 Student of Taxation |. 'I am a good deal interested ry. elte. es4eI@ti tioil oi loIttl anu srate te
 more or less on these sd6iects, a
 last year I was appointed by Gov ok