Republican farmer., 1920-08-06
STOECKEL SEEMS
 TO BE THE MAN
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law. Then the Times and all other papers would jump on me for not seeing that the law was enforced. I am goings to see that the law is en- forced and I am going to have force of men down in Bridgeport in a few days to see that the law in reference to overcrowding is strictly enforced"
 The speeches outside of Governor Aoicomb's neat little talk did not abound in any brilliant oratorica1 dis plays, although Congressman Chand- ler's handling of the Prohibition question put the crowd in a happy state of mind. He said:
 Prohibition? I don't know what to say about that. What will I say :? What are you in the audience, wet or dry?"
 There Was chorus Of wet"
 Well, all right, then. If you are wet so am I. believe that if it is too dry it should be wetter, and if it is too wet it should be dryer. I be- lieve we should be able to strike a line between hilarity and intodcatio1. I am in favor of hi1arity but am not in favor of intoxication and I am a Presbyterian and don't think that doc Urine will shock any of the dea- conS.'
 The speeches of Senator Brandagee and Congr essman Merritt were the usual political stump speeches with the usual Republican flavor. The Democrats, they said, were the party of sedition. The Republican party saved the country in the eos. The Democratic party was the party of the Southern slave owners and was now controlled by the South and by the Murphy'S, the Brennans and the Tag garts. The Republican party was 100 per cent American. The Demo- cratic party was made up of foreign CTS.
 Senator Brandegee claimed credit for having drawn up the declaration of war against Germany. He said that as a. member of the Senate Committee e on Foreign Affairs he had had as much to do with the drawing up of the dec laradon of war as any man in the country and objected to giving the credit to President Wilson.
 Congressman Chandler occupied most of the time in denouncing Flu gene V. Detibs whom, he said, had been adjudged a. criminal and<that the party that nominated a criminal who was serving his sentence in prison was guilty of crirninality He eulo- gized Speaker Sweet of the New York | legislature for denying the five So- cialist members the right to sit in the | legislature and said that that act was l not a denial of the right of represent ative government because although these men had been legally elected l they were not members of the Legis- lature until they had been accepted as | m embers by the men who had been elected from other sections of the 1State
 | In reference to the criticism of 1 Senator Harding for conducting a l front porch campaign Senator Bran degee said that Hughes would have
 been elected four years ago if he had i stuck to his front porch and had not 1 caused the mix up in California which ! lost the election to the Republicans l. He called attention of the audience l that shortly before we entered the world war President Wilson had in- suited our best friend. England wher 1 he had said that he could not sec ] any difference between the aims o1 England and of Germany and said that Senator Harding would never be | called upon to explain any pro-Ger- 1 man editorials as none had beer printed in his papers before the United States entered the war.
 The Republican State convention | for the nomination of governor, lieu. | tenant governor, comptroller, secre- tary of state and state treasurer wM
 be held at Hartford, September
 and 9.