The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-08
WAR SCARRED VETERANS PLEAD
 FOR THE LEAGUE

FOR THE LEAGUE (Continued from Page One)
 a man among them! Feeble old peo- pie carrying a parrot or some other precious little keepsake. As we l marched up they tossed us a flower or a colored handkerchief with the flag of France. and cried out 'Bonne chance! All of you know what the Second Division did. It was no better than many another division. We had the chance and we made good. l see a Second Division man sitting in that chair there. who knows we made good, but he lasted longer than did. 'On June 25 I went back to the 1 rear wounded. For two months the | only thing I could swallow was an eggnog made out, of condensed milk and medicinal whiskey. Every sec l ond day I had my arm dressed, and every time they dressed it they had to | inject morphine into tho arm to help deaden the pain. At night couldn't sleep. I was there for two months I under tar roof in the hot sun. with other wounded and I began to won | der was it after all worth while as | I picked up the casualty reports and 1 read name after name of fellows | knew in the States who had gone | west I was still wondering when I arrived back in the States in Novema l Der, 1918. Many of you who met me | 1 in as good condition as I am now. True, my right arm is crippled. but | that doesn't matter: what l want to l impress you is the horror of war and the waste of war. I@haA 1 come through it all. l haven't any personal interest in whether there is another war or not, because they lwouldn't accept me if I wanted to go. But I want to say to you that l if there is anything that looks good l to me that is going to hold up a war five months or five days or even five minutes, am for it, and that is what l the League of Nations is going to do. I don't say that the League of Ma tions will prevent all wars. l don't say that it is perfect. I don't believe that for a minute, because nothing l human ever can be perfect.
 ''The League of Nations hasn't been given a fair deal before the American public. It has been misinterpreted and misconstrued. Why? Just this by a Democratic president and the | war was conducted, by Democratic president. I don't say the Demo crats won the war, but they were in charge when the war was carried on, and it was the Presidents duty under 1 the constitution to make a treaty of | peace together with our allies, when Germany had been defeated. He pro- ceeded to do that. The treaty was brought back to the United States. Be | fore he came back the Republican | leaders had decided that no matter l what he brought back it was no good | because he was a Democrat. Did they do that for love of country? Did they do that with the American spirit that you and I entered the service? No! | They did it for partisan purposes only. They knew if President Wilson put l through the League of Nations in 1919 1 the people of the country would be so grateful. to Woodrow Wilson and the Democratic party that in 1920 tAl- r publican who would want to &run against the Democratic candidate.N
 Ut is a partisan attack. Nothing more and nothing less. They have given all sorts of excuses for their att l titude, first one and then another, but when you sift it all down in black and white it is merely selfish par | tisanship, and just as soon as the cleo ton is over and the Democrats are elected as they are going to be on Mo- vember 2, the opposition to the League
 of Nations will fall like house of cards.
 Now boys, just bear with me lit tie longer. We have been through this mess, through the torments of
 hell, and if anything will prevent any
 body else from going through what
 we went through, l am for it. The League of Nations is so drawn up that
 at the very least it is going to pre- vent wars until people cool down and
 if the people get a chance to see what 1 IS coming they are not gong to per | init any wars.
 Do we want in power the next foul
 years the Democratic party which ha:
 always been for progress and stands
 for a League of Nations to protect
 our future, or do we want the Repub-
 lican party controlled by body o1
 reactionaries who object to the
 League of Nations purely for partisan
 purposes. Forty-four nations have en
 tered the League of Nations for pro
 lection against future wars. but thu
 Republican party says now that WI
 have won the war, let us crawl into
 a little hole and stay there.
 "One little word more in regard t
 my own candidacy for judge of pro | bate. I am ex-Service man, hay
 been across the water and severel, lwounded in action I only mention
 these facts because the proposition hal
 been put up in this way. Shall tn | ex-service men<be given a chance t | have a say in their own government
 am making a fight for that princi 1 pie. The Republican party has no !seen fit to give a service man a chanc for that office. The Democratic part
 has always been in favor of the ser
 vice man. If it wasn't, how would
 have gotten on the ticket? I am ca
 pablo of conducting the office of juds
 of probate in an efficient and business
 the people of Bridgeport will have
 judge of probate who is of the peopl k and for the people,
 Frank Costello, Second DiviSio 1veteran, was not on the program, bI when we found the candidate for pro | bate judge was the same Iieutenal heEina Whnsa ha<aisxza -ha- had Bi