The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-22
DEMOCRATS PLAN FOR :
WH!RLWIND FINISH
Factory Rallies and Big Meetings
Indoors and Outdoors Dissi-
pate Rumors of Apathy.

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political campaign is being rapidly dis
sipated in Connecticut, at least, by the
plans of the Democratic leaders which
! have been announced in part and COM
prehend a genuine old fashioned wR.S@
wind finish with rallies at every iR
portant factory in the state and hun
dreds of important afternoon and eve
ming meetings, both indoors and out
doors, wherever the weather permits.
Lonergan HustlIng.
Congressman Augustine Lonergan,
the popular young Hartford states
man, who is making a tour of nearly
all the one hundred and sixty eight
towns Ct Connecticut in his campaign
against Senator Frank Brandegee, In
speaking two or three tines every day
this week and some of his itinerary
calls for four or five set speeches in
one day. He is going up and down
the state proudly proclaiming his rec
ord in Congress and exposing the
votes and statements of Brandegee on
numerous; important issues, particu-
larly the League of Nations and wom-
an suffrage. -
5randesee Ducks Challenge.
Senator Brandegee has several times
been publicly challenged by Lonergan
to meet him in joint debate on their
respective records in Congress and
finally, Lonergan pushed his challenge
to the extent of agreeing to have the
debate staged in Brandegee's home
town of New London. Lonergan went
even further and departing from the
custom established years ago by the
Lincoln-Douglass tourney, declared he
was willing to have the seating capac-
ity of any New London forum &C
curately ascertained and admission
tickets divided equally between the
Republican and Democratic state
chairmen for general distribution.
This bold def Brandegee also declined
saying he preferred to get together his
own audiences and talk to them as he
pleased.
SpeIlaey Campaigning.
Assistant United States Attorney
General Thomas J. Spellacy, has come
on from Washington to throw him
self into the intensive campaign now
making itself felt and it is understood
that this forceful orator and ready
debater will concentrate much of his
dynamic energy on Fairfield county.
A careful appraisal of the present
Connecticut situation by the experts
at the state headquarters in the
Garde Hotel, New Haven, indicates
that the big fight of the campaign must
be made in Fairfield and Litchfield
counties, with the other six counties
breaking about even.
Tyler Handling MiddIesex.
Rollin U. Tyler, the highly respected
Haddam judge who IS running for gov
ernor on the Democratic ticket, is
looked to as winner in his own Mid
dlesex county. Lonergan is admittedly
strong and dependable in Hartford,
Holland and Windham counties. New
London county is having about enough
Republican schisms to send it into the
Democratic column and there is prac-
ticaIly no doubt but that New Haven
county will roll up a nice Democratic
plurality.
Borah Makes Cox Votes.
When Republican strategy sends bit
ter end Senator Borah into Connecti-
cut to try to save his companion bitter
ender, Brandegee, and into Danbury,
in Fairfield, for a starter, the hopes of
the Democratic leaders were brighten
ed materially. By his almost total
omission of the name or achievements
of Harding, Borah seems to have made
votes for Cox. Borah deceived few if
any Connecticut voters by his discus
sion Of the League or his query as to
whether we should go in or stay out
All intelligent Connecticut realizes
that we are in already that we are
stin maintaining an army on the Rhine
and that less fortunate than the Allies,
we have not been able to get the peace
treaty ratified by the senate but are
still at war with Germany.
Women Denounce crandeeee.
Senator Brandegee is the only can
didate in the whole state against
whom the state suffrage association
has taken adverse action; in fact the
association took no action, one way or
another, on any candidate save
Brandegee, who was denounced in
severe terms for his reactionary and
insulting attitude toward the suffra-
gists. Women who may vote the Re-
publican ticket will split on Erande-
gee by the thousands in favor of Lon
ergan, SO the suffrage leaders declare
Mrs. Fannie Dixon WEIGH of Columbia
a popular suffrage leader and interest
ing speaker, is running for secretary
of state on the Democratic ticket. She
is the first woman ever nominated for
a state Office by any of the larger polit-
ical parties in this state Additional
interest Is being furnished Connect
cut women by the prompt action of
Mrs. Terrence McDermott, wife Of a
New Haven physician, who, when she
learned that her brother, Walter
Walsh, of New Haven, was to preside
ut a Borah rally, communicated with
state headquarters and made nine
speeches in defense of the League and
in explanation of how article ten will
benefit the Irish people. all these
speeches being by way of showing that
bor fap,i1v cOr1JH not ho oIorcoI ,oe ~