The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1920-09-20

party and called Theodore Roosevelt
| a Benedict Arnold and an Aaron Burr.
! which is dead and gone He pro-
poses to give the United States a syn
Dictated presidency. If you believe in
that sort of thing you want to elect
Senator will have more to say about
administering the government than
the President himself. He would be
controlled by a little group of selfish
old line bosses, associate presidents.
why haven't we made progress in
! the last year and a half? Why
haven't we reduced the high cost of
| living and done many other things?
Because for the last year and a. half
i we have been asking legislation and
never obtaining it. Whenever we
have asked the Republicans for it
they have always answered, no, no.
no. They were too busy in investi-
eating. What have the Republicans
done to solve practical questions?
WhA4 have they done to reduce the
high cost of living or to reclaim lands
more food =
"I read in this mornings paper
another letter of Senator Harding's
about the League. He says he trusts
to replace the League with some
thing else. His position on the
League is just as cellar now as it was
earlier in the campaign when one
morning after he had made q state
ment of his position in regard to it
the two great Republican papers, the
Sun and Tribune, rejoiced that he
had defined it. One. thanked God
that now they knew just where he
stood. that he was dead against it,
and the other thanked God that they
knew just where he stood, that he
the same all the way through his
| letter. First he is going to throw it
away entirely Then there is lot
of good in it. Then he apparently
does not believe in it because he
approves some points butd oes not
believe in it because it was helped to
: be drafted by a Democrat. Does
not approve the document but does
to hmake the thirty-nine nations
which have accepted it, give it up,
and accept on that shall have been
written by Republicans
to the League for fear if we go into
5 1t our boys will be made to fight
somewhere else in the world The
| wife of a County Chairman in Maine
heard men were to be sent to Poland
) to fight. Some people have been out
of school SO long that they will be-
lieve anything. Every school boy
of entering into any agreement with
] | other countries which can in any way
! abridge the right of Congress to de-
! clare war. And Governor Cox and ]
have pledged ourselves that if we
: are elected to office that not a single
man shall ever leave this country te
: fight without the consent of Con
gress."
f After Mr.. Roosevelt finished his
t speech the band played the Stal
/, Spangled Banner and the meeting
was over. The police opened a lane
t in the crowd from the band stand tt
the driveway where Senator Clark:
= auto was in waiting and to this Mr.
Roosevelt made his way Stopping to bt
, introduced here and there and shake
hands with the many who crowded
I up for chance to do SO.
l From the park he was driven di
rectly to the Stratfield where he hat
vi light lunch and shortly after si7
, he boarded his private car at the
! railroad station. It was attached tt
! the six twenty-five train for Dan
= bury where he spoke on Saturda.
a night going from there to his home il
Poughkeepsie for a Sundays res
from his strenuous campaigning.