The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-08
Soldiers Devine and Costello Whose Blood
 Helped Stain the Bat tleie1ds of France Speak For Humanity.
Pathetic and Convincing Appeal From Men Who Did Their "Bit" to Save Civilization-How It Can Ia. Be Done.

Vigorous speeches by ex-serv1ce men depicting the horrors of war and de- nounclng the Republican party for it's attempt to thwart the worlds effort to end all wars embodied in the cove nant of the League of Nations fea- tured an enthusiastic meeting of the Democratic club of the 11th district. Tn It's clubroom last night. All foul 1 veterans of the World War-AIbert Walsh of Danbury, candidate for state comptroller; Joseph J. Devine, candi- date for probate judge; Harry Silver stone, candidate for representative, ana Frank Costello, held forth the League as the only hope of prevent- ing others from being forced to en- dure the ordeal through which they | had passed and praised the Demo 1 men and service measures. l MT Devine received an ovation lows: be1ore a group of fellow Democrats some or you may have seen me before 1 ana hope that after the first of Jan y uary you will see me quite often in Slly nall l am a Democrat not be- cause my father was a Democrat b,lt ] because the Democratic party has al l ways stood for progress. It has been | the progressive party in this country rom the earliest day of this country in 1912 the Democratic party went in TOT the first time in twenty years and started to put through progressive leg
 Islatlon- One big act that was put through helped us carry on the war to successful conclusion and that
 was the Federal Reserve act Under US WorKlngS we were not only able to finance our own war expenses but to heip carry along our allies, which l under the old and inadequate bank. ing laws would have been impossible
 Another Democratic law was the
 Farm Loan act which enabled the Farmer hnrrnUv +o his crops
 | In this campaign I would be a.
 Democrat for one reason if I had not
 been for any other, the policy that
 our standard bearer Jimmie Cox Is arguing for, the League of Nations &I
 say tonight that had been a Repub-
 1can up to 1917 when I joined the
 forces of this country and landed in
 france in January, 1918, had I been
 Republican at that time in 1920 [
 would vote for the Democratic ticket because it stands for the League of
 Eae,ons Eaanna n ana why? landed in you boys may have been there from } the Yankee division before I was fou
 can tell your friends the state of af-
 talrs you found there, and that I l found there. ~ I found France bIed
 white. was one of the fortunate
 Americans who had a smatterins of
 French which I acquired at college
 Everyone that talked to had some
 
 1 whether their loved ones were alive
 or dead. Others would show you the picture of a vigorous young man in
 uniform who had died at Verdun In
 two or three months back of the lines 1 l learned to love the French people 1! They have one thing in particular in common with us. and that is the love or their flag. They all united in urg- , Ing on us that not only must the Ger man army be defeated, but war must be ended for all time.
 'I went up to the front and-I saw :, the havoc that war caused entire towns and cities destroyed women
 and children starved to death ill., nourished but all working hard Can you imagine going for miles and miles and seeing people work in the fields
 never seeing man unless he was over sixty or had lost the use of an arm f or leg? In all the large cities most , of the people in the stores were wo- men and children. This was the con | dition I found in France when we 7 went up to the Verdun front in May,
 1918. I visited the battlefield of Yer dun. l saw there the ruin wrought 7 to the countryside, entire fields blown , up.
 Then what happened to me? This
 IS my own personal experience. Many , in the audience went through worse
 than I did. We were switched from = the verdun sector and on Decoration Day, 1918, we stopped the German
 drive on Paris. We were disembarked in the city of Meaux, and there we | met the refugees coming back. Not II (Continued on Page Twelve:)i