The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-11
Asks Women Electors Not to Return Him to Senate
 In View of His Record
MT. Kirk Advises Women to Retain the Rod of Punish ment and to Use It Un- sparingly for the Coun- try's Good.

Speakers who have been address ing political meetings throughout the country in recent weeks. without re-
 gard to how they may differ on the issues of the campaign, are united in
 the observation that the entry or
 women into politics has resulted in a
 distinct change for the better in the
 more concincing proof of the apt ness of the observation could be found than the assemblage that
 greeted Congressman Lonergan.
 Democratic candidate for United States Senator at the second of series of patriotic meetings being
 held at The Stratfield Saturday after noon by the local organization ami- [ lated with the National Bureau of Democratic Women of which Miss E. l.. Bown is chairman. o
 Almost every element in the com munity was represented among the 800 women who gave close attention to the congressman's exposition or Senator Brandegee's reactionary record. Women of refinement and culture predominated and 8 majority of the hundred or more men present were of the substantial serious-nind- , ed type who in the past have been missing from political gatherings. From this audience a warm re- sponse came to the appeal made by Mrs. D. S. Sanford of Bedding who presided over the meeting after brief introductory speech by Miss ~disgrace and humiliation" Senator Brandegee's reactionary course in the Senate had brought upon the state. Many of the women present shud- Senator Brandegee in speech he made in May, 1918, from which Mrs.
 Sanford quoted to the fleet that: ' Every war from the Revolution i ary to the Spanish war, had been won without the talk of pink chem ises for men or feather hats for wom- en.''
 , Mrs Sanford then read Brarde- \ gees peroration, which contained these words:
 ''The women don't expect to do the fighting and instead of beating around about their aid to democracy they had better stay at home. knit :. bandages and pick init to take care of their brothers and fathers who are being shot to peces in the trenches
 Mrs. Sanford, as she placed the clipping away for safekeeping, said :
 'I am trying to speak calmly and
 judicially, but that quotation con
 tains the words of a brutal and vul-
 gar man. There is one thing that we women of Connecticut can do that IS going to help the federal government i tremend dousfy. We can, if we will, re- move from the federal senate the senior senator from Connecticut. who
 has been a humiliation and a dis grace to he state for years
 Tt isn't smply that he has been voting against woman suffrage for years but when an attempt was made to pass a bill to reliepe the horrl- ble conditions of the little factory children of the south working under conditions which a hundred years ago i were considered too scandalous for the nineteenth century, Senator ! Rrandegee voted against that bill. Not | LsI e. ,A1 ioration of labor, Senator Brandegee has voted against.
 "FinaIly, and, of course, a thing [ close to our hearts, he voted con i stantfy and always against the League . of Nations to end war.
 !t Now what we women can do 4s to 1 remove that brutal ruffian from the senate of the United States and put in a. clean. honest, forward-fooking ! high-minded man, pledged by all that | he holds sacred to do his best after ! he gets there in support of the League of Nations and progressive ] legislation.
 . Just one more point. Do you realize
 that the present senate had a Repub- i iican majority of one man, that that ! one man bought his way into the ! senate by corruption so gross that ht
 has been sentenced to two years 1T
 prison for it? Do you realize that [ because of that Republican majority : of one secured by that mans cleo |, ton, the foreign relations committed , was packed with a majority of Re | publican senators with Henry Cabo [ Lodge at the head? Ig' MT. Newborn had been even ordinarily honest, thu 1 present senate would have had Democratic majority and the foreigr Z; relations committee would have had i Democratic chairman. In that cas- | the treaty and the covenant of tn, League of Nations would undoubted ! ly have been reported to the Senat' -I-I-v No her ] of the league today. By that marrow margin secured by corruption dit i We lost what we so strongly want? I
 one bad man could do all that dam
 age. one good man can do an untolt
 amount of good On the election 0
 MT. Lonergan to the United State senate, may be that the fate of tn ! League of Nations hangs"
 Mrs Sanford then introduced Con
 rressman Lonergan, whose addres