The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-23
CROWDS'CHEER
CUMMINGS ON
WESTERN TOUR
Connecticut Statesman Do.
ing Effective Work For
Nation In Debatable'
Territory
Especial to The Times.)

Ration, New Mexico, Oct. %
Homer S. Cummings of Stamford.
have set the prafries afire for Cox and
Roosevelt has crossed into New
Mexico and last night aroused ban
ner crowd to high pitch of enthu-
siasm by his address here, he said In
pair:
"Our cause is sacred and the con-
test is but the measuring of our own
spirits. For the present we have
been enduring as best could and
with what patience may have seemed
possible. Temporary interlude of Re
publican incapacity. The American
people have already paid and are still
paying staggering penalty for hav-
ing elected a Republican House and
Senate. Since that time all the pro-
cesses of government have been i'm
paired. The opportunity for the ex
tension of American trade and com
merce to every quarter of the globe
is slipping away and peace has been
indefinitely postponed. Rude and I'M
skilled hands have been thrust reck
less1y amid the interlacing of human
destiny. The opposition has conduct
ed campaign of criticism; with
PROPAGANDA of SANDER directed at the
President of the United States and has
attempted to persuade the people of
America. to abandon our Allies by
whose side only few months ago we
were fighting to save the civilization
of the world.
Contrasted with their record of par
emit incapacity we present our own
unparalleled record of achievement |
in peace and in war, enriched by a
leadership which has carried Amer
lea to greater heights of glory and |
prosperity than she has ever before
known. During sour control OF the
government, prior to the outbreak OF |
the war, we placed upon the statute
books of our country more essential,
than the Republican party had placed |
there in a generation. We supplied !
the country with a currency system |
which enabled America to withstand |
the strain of war without shock or |
panic and which ultimately made |
America the greatest creditor natlon
of the world.
when the war came our leadership
rose to still greater heights. 1t was
not nv mere chance that more than
2. 900 900 men were safely transported
across three thousand miles OF u
boat-infested seas, where wen armed
we'll equipped we'll Differed and in
dominitable in spirit, they turned the
tide of battle won imperishable glory
and triumphed in the greatest war the
world has ever known. 1 do not care
what partisan critics may say-when
the history of the last six years is
written they will be recorded as
golden years of American statesman,
ship, American achievement and
American honor Partisan criticism
of minor defects and individual off,
Gals. may for time attract super
fetal attention but the great facts, tne
outstanding facts, of the last six years
plead eloquently for the Democratic
cause. 1 do not know now others
may feel about it. but as for myseII
am proud to be an American citizen
I am proud of our great army; 1 am
proud of our great navy. L am PROUD
of the power of my country and the
manner in which that power has been
used; l am proud of all the splendlo
achievements of my country and l am
proud of the leadership of woodrow
Wilson. am glad also to realize
that during all this period, the party
to which we belong has ever held high
the honor of our country, and In all
matters relating to the permanent
peace of the world, has instinctively
turned it's face to the light. The
Democratic party is a great historic
party. Its founder was the greatest !
Democrat and the greatest political |
scarcely laid down the pen with
which he drafted the Declaration of
Independence, when the forces of
popular government began to take
form under its direction. He founded !
the Democratic party. He gave it life |
and vitality and proclaimed its prin- |
ciples and set 1T upon career OF
usefulness to humanity 1t has seen
other parties rise, become great, de-
cline and pass into oblivion. The
Democratic party has survived them
all. 1t was never more alive and
never more needed than it is today.
AS look back to a period A years
ago. when Thomas Jefferson drafted
the Immortal document that made
America free, am glad to know that.
under the providence of God, another
great Democrat touched as was Jefer-
son, by the divine fire has participated
as one of the master figures, In the
preparation of a document destined
TO set the world free. To him at this
hour, worn and stricken by his serv-
ice to humanity, our hearts flow out
in love and loyalty. We take up his
work with an unfiagging faith in the
triumph of a cause founded upon JUS
tice, inspired by the spirit of liberty
and responsive TO the impulses Oh the
great heart of our country.
To F,ortify the System Against Grip
Take GROVES L. B. Q. tablets C4ax-
ative Bromo Quinine tablets) which
destroy germs, act as Tonic and
Laxative, and thus prevent Solds,
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