The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-08-28

cause of progressive Democracy;
| do not ask our people to come to our
| front porch in Ohio. You are the
| sovereigns of the nation; the power
| is inherent in you; we have no au-
| thority except what you give; you
| can add to it or subtract from it if
| you think the public interest might
| be advanced. But 50 soon the align
ment came; so soon we faced our
antagonists, we saw the first weak
point in the front line. The proposal
was made that a separate peace be
made with Germany. and within "a
hours after the pronouncement by
Senator Harding at Marion, l march
ed into the breach and 1 still hold
that position. and will hold it until
November End. And then the second
break came in the lines last night. at
Pittsburgh, Pa They have been go
ing along in the formality of gath
ering together the largest campaign
fund known in all the history of gov
eminent, or in all the world. In 1896
Mark Hanna gathered together So
100000 1t staggered the sensfbili-
ties Of our people; it appalled, the best
thought of the nation. and no political
party from that day until now has
ever dreamed of putting together such
a sum of money in order to conduct
campaign uIlIil HoW, repeat TAild
this year. the chairman of the Re-
publican campaign committee has set
to work a great force of men; state
chairman, community chairmen, trev-
cling represen tatives-and he desig-
mates these men the money dig
gers of the Republican party. I
charged the creation of a vast cam
paign fund. Mr.. Hays denied it. He
said they only had three million dol
lars. Chairman Upham within three
or four days afterwards, reminded
Chairman Hays that he had made a
mistake, and instead of the Repubd-
cans having three million dollars, they
had about $7,5oO.00O, so that Hays
figures were multiplied two and three
half times by Upham- In my Pitts
burgh speech last night, I believe I
dem onStrated to the satisfaction of
every unprejudiced voter in this coun-
try that we were justified in multiply
ing Mr.. Upham's figures at least by
two, and 1 repeated then, and I re-
peat now, and / will continue to in
sist until the tides of November that
the Republican fund. not the cam
paign fund-the corruption fund, will
not be less than fifteen millions of
dollars. But 1 care not how much
money they have, we will not attempt
to match their dollars; we shall make
an appeal to the moral and the indie
pendent thought of the nation, and
insofar as our experience goes in this
campaign, we find that there is a
thorough awakening of the great
moral, Independent thinking force of
the nation, and I have a deep-rooted
conviction that progressive Democracy
will not only triumph this year, but
the result will necessitate the entire
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party.
Now I said that we plan to keep
the faith. Need 1 reind you that at
beginning of the war in the state of
Connecticut, you assembled your peo-
pie and that they were addressed in
every community by your local
speakers, with a fervor and a patriot
ism that stirred them to their very
souls, first of all your citizens were
asked to buy bonds until it hurt, and
then they were asked to have the
children buy war saving stamps and
thrift stamps, and to sell them as
well, and then came the supreme ap-
peal. You were asked to give up
your boys and they were marshaled
into the grandestt army the world has
ever known anything about. But
when the mothers of Connecticut were
asked to give their boys-when your
people were asked to give of your re-
sources; when your children were
marshaled into armies and vast hosts
of sa1esm en-what pledge did you
give them-not that our soldiers were
not moving overseas because we are
a warli<e people-not that we intend
ed to add a single acre to the domain
of the United States, but the pledge
you gave was that our boys We're
going over to destroy military auto
cracy; an institution that had
brought war and tragedy and heart
aches all over the face of this earth
and that our boys were fighting this
war in order to make war in the fu-
ture impossible. That was the pledge.
And 1 conceive it now to be the high
duty of the Democracy of this nation
because it has assumed the leadership
of the cause, to keep the faith with
the mothers and the fathers of Con-
necticut and the mothers and the
fathers of every American common
wealth making up our sisterhood OF
states.
"I visited the stricken soldiers over
in your tubercular hospital. saw
there the most splendid types of
young men and my emotions have
rarely been as deeply aroused as they
were stirred today. L asked boy at
ter boy with the palor of sickness in
his cheeks, with his shoulders not as
broad as when he wore the khaki of
the nation, and with his chest de-
pressed asked them all, how long
they We're in the service-how long
they were overseas what their condi-
ton was when they went into the ser
vice of their country, and with feeble
voice. and vet with a smile of salts
faction in the thought that they had
given their best in behalf of a great
cause, and almost without exception
those magnificent boys said, Cover
nor, I was healthy when 1 went into
the service
'I visited a magnificent young
IriShman in a corner, and I asked him
what his trouble was. and he said
aside from being buried alive for
quite Awhile. I got along pretty WE'LL
But he had the Irishman's smile; he
had the Irishman's spirit; he had the
IriShman's pluck, and 1 asked him if
he was going to get we'll, and he said
he was going to whip it OUT And