The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-18
HAMILTON HOLT.

SChoCo lIle meeting at the ballroom last Saturday afternoon in the interest of the League of Nations, Just seventeen declared themselves by show of hands as having made up ticket, while thirty five acknowledged that they hadn't decided. The signifi- cant thing was that while nearly three-fourths of the audience raised their hands ito signify they had read the Covenant of the League, only four of the seventeen who had determined to vote the Republican ticket were observed among them,
 Miss F.. L.. Bowne presented Mrs. Caroline Rutz-Rees of Greenwich tn e noted suffrage leader as permanent presiding officer. Miss Rutz- Rees said: ::
 "As I came into Bridgeport my eye fell on poster. It read: Steady wom- en, Let's Have Done With Wigg1e and Wohble." I said to myself What a splendid Democratic poster they have gotten out How accurately that de- scribes Senator Harding!" Then I read: Vote for Harding and Coolidge and I concluded that whatever else the Republicans have in this cam paign they haven't a sense of humor. There isn't one of our suffragists who doesn't know what wiggling and wab bling MT. Harding has been through on the matter of suffrage. He wasn't for it when it was difficult to stand and be counted on our side.- When We were trying to get Governor Hol- comb to call a special session, his attitude was: "Oh, dear, how I hope the Governor will call a special ses- sion. hope very much. I gladly hope Governor Holcomb will call it." Then when we asked the direct question: Will you bring pressure on Governor Holcomb to call a special session 9 his answer was: Tn reply to your telegram I am compelled to say No.' As far as wiggling and wabbling goes there never has been a greater ex- hibitor of wiggling and wabbling than Senator Harding eSnpcial1V the League of Nations issue. If you want steady America and want to have done with wiggling and wabbling vote for the party that has no doubts at all that it wants the League of Ma tons"
 7 Countess Laura de Gozdawa Turc- zynowicz, whose services were much sought after by the Republican Ma tional committee a stump speaker, but who turned a deaf ear to all their pleas because she believed the League of Nations issue transcended party lines, next addressed the meet ing. She said in part:
 "I was a Republican until the national convention declared against precious bit of paper which is go- ing to turn the shame and disgrace into which the present leaders of the Republican party have led our be- glory which the blood of our boys won fro us on the battlefields of France.
 T really feel I don't amount to much now because I haven't a vote. Like many women. born here in this country I am depriYed of that privilege. l can't vote his year be- cause I married abroad and will have to go through the long, tedious pro- cess that foreigners do before I can reclaim my American citizenship. I don't think this state of affairs will last now that women have the bal lot.
 "I hope you women who are mo- thers when you have your children in your arms again will think of those women in war-torn Europe, ing so that they were glad to see them die. They are our sisters. They suffer as we would suffer: Those are the people we are told to leave alone to starve and to be slaughter ed. I want to see America keep that proud position which she has won in association with our allies in the war. I don't want my boys to be called to war, I have seen enough of that. How shall I keep them. how shall you keep your boys if the League is rejected? Do we want Q America to resume the role of an out cast? There is no middle road, we must choose one path or the other. For my part I pray that the gres name and fame of America shall pc vindicated of the charge that she is a stacker nation by the election of the Democratic ticket
 Hamilton Holt, publicist and au- thor, who only last week ernolled as a. Republican, whose family has re- sided in Woodstock, Cam, for two hundred years, told why he was sup porting Cox and Roosevelt. MT. Holt, addressed himself particularly to those whom his call for a show of hands indicated as undecided or in clined to vote the Republican ticket
 He said in opening:
 s'I wish I could vote in Connecticut instead of New York so I could vote against Senator Brandegee."
 In clarity of thought and diction MT. Holt's address would be hard to excel, and coming from one who has such a long record of public service and was so intimately connected with the Peace Conference as the editor of the "Independent" it came as the voice of authority, which made it all the more pity that much of its inn pressiveness was marred by indistinct enunciation. In some speakers such fault might be a blessing in dis guise, but with a man who has the message MT. Holt has it comes close to being a calamity.
 Mir. Holt said in part
 The Treaty of Versailles, of which 2 the Covenant of the League is a part consists of 440 articles, and is about as long as a good dollar and a half novel, seventy-five or eighty thou sand words. The first 26 articles deal exclusively with the Covenant. the last 400 with the terms imposed on Germany and her allies. The League of Nations is mentioned some eighty times outside of the 26 articles of the Covenant. The Covenant and the treaty cannot be separated.
 "Ir is :w curious thing how the word Covenant came to be used. All pre- vious agreements between nations have been known treaties, proto- cols or conventions This new treaty was of a different kind from any other, it was Covenant with a re, iigious significance, an agreement tt bind all nations, not against ranothel group of nations, but against the com mon enemy of all mankind, which i. war For that reason they went tt ths Old Testament for a word de scriptive of the moral force behind the agreement, and they called it tht Covenant ofNthe League of Nations.