The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-28
BIG CROWDS AT THE RALLIES
 LAST NIGHT

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 Three largely attended rallies mark ed the Democratic campaign last Cyril and Methodius hall on Church street; one for voters of the Sixth and Seventh districts at which Italian voters predominated and a third in the Lincoln school where the princt- pal address of the evening was deliv- cred to the voters of the Twelfth dis tr1ct by Christopher P. Keenan Of New York.
 MT. Keenan said in part:
 You voters in Connecticut share with the voters of New York the dis. tinctton of obtaining the privilege Of woman'S suffrage against the deter mined opposition of our senators. dare say you ladies who have been as signed that peculiar article of apparel, the Plymouth Rock pants, by Senator Brandegee will soon have an oppor- tunity to present to him an appro- priate garment of Sackcloth in Whlch he may spend his remaining days in penitence when he is retired 10 ms rightful place in the home.
 After an expenditure of millions for smelling committees, after months of boosting of how they were going to expose extravaganza in the con- duct of the great war by the Demo- cratic administration. the Republican orators are now soft-pedalling on the issue. We want to discuss it and we are proud of our record. There is a good reason why the Republicans don't. With only 25O.Ooo soldiers to be provided for in the Spanish War, the Republican administration fed our soldiers on embalmed beef, fur nished guns that didn't fit the car riages, cartridge belts that wouldn't hold cartridges, and when the boys were dying in the fever-laden camps they sent their medicine by slow freight. They are afraid we will show up their record. That is what keeps them silent.
 ssThe Republican party doesn't dare to criticize the great measures like the Federal Reserve Act, the Farm Loan Act and all the others that we have placed in the statute books, but should visit on. our people the plague of a Republican president and Republican Congress they would repeal the progressive meas ures they don't dare to criticize be- fore election or nullify them to sucn an extent that we would be placed in the dark days before 1913, the period of low wages and unempoyment anu long hours that Senator Harding calls normalcy.
 "For 25 years the Republican par ty promised financial reform. one or the very first things the Democratic party O1d WnSn IL SdlhCd SOiiti oA Ni- 1913 was to pass the Federal Re serve act which placed the pan1cs or normalcy forever behind us. and res- cued the American people from the sharks of Wall street. rao., Farm Loan Banks Connecticut is In district one under that act. 1S4 farm CTS in this state were given loans to a total amount or $l.4o''5oo' When a Republican Congress came in two years ago they saw the oper- ations of this act was going to re- deem the farms of America from the mortgage sharks. Under the act from s10o to s1o,ooo on his farm ana ne 10 si~en forty years in uhiel, | to pay 1t back, at an annual rate of $65 per thousand during the life of the loan. That loan can't be called in as bank may call a mortgage. When a Republican congress came | in the mortgage sharks were anxious | for a repeal of that law because il | meant farmers were getting money ! from the government to pay off their mortgages and paying Uncle Sam l smaller rate of interest C1 e1 a1nor- 1 tization plan that gave them a chance for living. They couldn't repeal the | law with a Democratic president in | the way, so they passed a resolution permitting litigation to be started to test the constitutionality of the act and automatically put stop to it's i goes in, and a Republican president, | they will repeal the act altogetheE | and put the farmers at the mercy oi 1 the mortgage sharks.
 Why have the present leaders of | the Republican party prevented ouI | signature from being attached to the | peace party. The real reason is thai the Republican senators believe thai | God Almighty made them out of g little choicer clay than the Demo | tS hat iG "a and the only reason why the peace treaty has not been signed.
 They said President Wilson should | have invited at least two Republican
 will say now that they would not
 have gone if invited. If President
 Wilson had invited the ranking mem Der of the foreign relations commit tee, not the chairman but the ranking member, the gentleman who is now the candidate on the Republican
 ticket for the presidency, he would
 have violated all our cherished tra-
 ditions if he hadn't resigned wher
 appointed. Do you suppose MT. Hard
 ing would have taken a chance on 2
 Democratic governor appointing hi:
 successor and robbing the Republican | party of Truman Newberrys hard
 bought majority of one? They didn'
 want to go but they wanted the peo
 pie to believe the preposterous charg that Wilson was an autocrat and tha 2 he didn't want them to go.
 The other speakers at the Twelfth
 district rally were: Senator Georg
 B. Clark, Miss c. E. Moore, Lieut. Joseph J. Devine and Harry J. Platt
 Owen Burns candidate for Board o
 Education, presided. In the cours
 of his remarks. MT. P1att said:
 "The day after I was nominated
 paper came out with the statemen
 that I was lamb being led to tn | slaughter I want to say that I vii be glad to go down in such a cause ] but I am not going down befor
 these domineering autocrats who ar
 opposing us if you will work unceas . ingly for the success of the ticke l Five snakes in thes grass in tn
 United States Senate, like their mode :, the Kaiser, are trying to tell the fire [ voters of America that they are to
 ignorant to decide on the peace trea ty. You don't know how many pal lageuts of the Republican party ar