The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-11-01
REV. MIR. BEARD HOPES DEFEAT
 OF BRANDEGEE

Gerald H. Beard delivered an eXce'- lent sermon on '"The Holy Spirit in American Politics. In his discourse he outlined the reasons why the voters should not cast their ballots for Brandegee. The reasons are sane and sound and carry a strong appeal.
 It is in part as follows:
 'we are sometimes told Between two evils you must choose the less. Don't throw away your vote. Be- tween two evils, if they are radically evil, I am under no obligation Io choose either.
 Because the candidate put up by the opposing party is just as bad as the candidate of my party, is no jus tifcation for my voting for the bad man in my own party, nor for his bad measures.
 candidate of third party or not to vote at all.
 Take the case of the senior Unit ed States senator from Connecticut. Now and then, as in this case, a can didacy becomes so notoriously bad homie, or social, or governmental question. and becomes above every thing else moral question.
 Senator Brandegee for years has stood conspicuously for things the Christian conscience abhors and con demns. I do not refer to his voting against the enfranchisement of wom- en, though I believe the women rightly have the vote. That was d question with two sides, either of which could be maintained from a Christian position. I do not mean because he voted against one par ticular child labor law. That may have been because he believed it un- constitutional, as it turned out to be- "I do mean because he has shown himself repeatedly destitute of moral sense, of respect for women, of jus tice toward little children; because. he has deliberately sided with cor rupt politicians; because he has open ly traduced some of the noblest men in both parties; because he has fought measures against the drink traffic; because he has played into the hands of special interests depriv- ing the people as a whole of their just rights; because he is a coarse, profane, cynical politician, who. as l such, is a disgrace to this good old state of Connecticut.
 "Fourteen years ago, MT. Brande- gee strangled in committee the square deal which President Roose- urging in behalf of our wards, the | Filipinos.
 "I voiced then a protest against against his cynical scorn of what he termed sentimental considerations
 "Republican business men and l their own signatures. Some Re- publican papers did the same. When the U. S. Senate voted to impeach U. S. Judge Archibald for conduct un- | becoming a judge, this senator from Connecticut voted to sustain him. When Senator Lorimer was un- seated for political corruption, the senator from Connecticut voted for the buyer of votes.
 gro tell us, as the senator did the l~tI frrH& I,,- -~f@ --% the Prohibitory Amendment was due to his belief that excise matters should be handled by the states, is I the baldest subterfuge.
 'Mr. Brandegee vo- I, not only against the Eighteenth Amendment but also against the enforcement act which sought to make effective the will of forty-five states; against the prohibitory law for the District of Columbia. against the preventing of food stuffs being used for a1coh oi during the war, against the prohibi- tion of the sale of liquors to our men in uniform.
 'AIl efforts to keep our army lads from liquor were 'fads, fancies and fril1s.'
 Homecoming the League to En. force Peace, he spoke of the support CTS of ex-President Taft, President Lowell of Harvard MT. Osca rStrauss Bishop Brewster, Prof. Farnam ot | l ale aHu olueIS, III CeT0fS Wn1ch Il would not be fitting to repeat in this presence.
 Much of MT. Brandegee's Ian guage is not fit to repeat in polite so- ciety.
 Tn the matter of the qualification of electors, he could see no mora question at all. The opposite o1 i moral for MT. Brandegee is A practical matter to be judged by practical men, That is morals 1s not practical. His opposition is not like Senator Harding's to one sup. posedly faulty form of the League o1 Nations, but to any and every form of such a league. He is one of the bitter enders.' The voter who votes to send MT. Brandegee back tc the senate, votes, whether he is con. scious of 1t or not, to endorse the unchristian, debasing character tha marks the senator's record
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