The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-05
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II did not enforce the law and there
was an accident and people were in
1ured they0could not recover damages
because the insurance policies contain
clause that they are not liable for
injuries caused by a violation of the
law. Then the Times and all other
papers would jump on me for not
seeing that the law was enforced.
am going to see that the law is en-
forced and 1 am going to have force
of men down in Bridgeport in a few
days to see that the law in reference
to overcrowding is strictly enforced"
The speeches outside of Governor
Holcomb's neat little talk did not
abound in any brilliant oratorical dis
plays, although Congressman Chand-
ler's handling of the Prohibition
question put the crowd in happy
state of mind. He said:
Prohibition? I don't know what
to say about that. What will say?
What are you in the audience, wet or
dry?"
There was a chorus of wet"
'Wel1, all right, then. If you are
wet SO 1. I believe that if it is
too dry it should be wetter, and if it
is too wet it should be dryer. I be-
lieve we should be able to strike a
line between hi1arity and intoXication
I am in favor of hilarity but am not
in favor of intoxication and I am a
Presbyterian and don't think that doc
trine will shock any of the dea-
cons"
The speeches of Senator Brandagee
and Congressman Merritt were the
usual political stump speeches with
the usual Republican flavor. The
Democrats, they said, were the party
of sedition. The Republican party
saved the country in the COS. The
Democratic party was the party of the
Southern slave owners and was now
controlled by the South and by the
Murphy's, the Brennans and the Tag
CARTS. The Republican party was
100 per cent American. The Demo-
cratic party was made up of foreign
erS.
Senator Brandegee claimed credit
for having drawn UP the declaration
of war against Germany. He said that
as u member of the Senate Committee
on Foreign Affairs he had had as much
to do with the drawing UP of the dec
laraton of war as any man in the
country and objected to giving the
credit to President Wilson.
Congressman Chandler occupied
most of the time in denouncing Eu-
gene V. Detihs whom, he said, had
been djudged criminal and that the
party that nominated criminal who
was serving his sentence in prison
was guilty of criminality. He eulo-
gized Speaker Sweet Of the New York
legislature for denying the five So
cialist members the right to sit in the
legislature and said that that act was
not a denial of the right of repr esent-
alive government because although
these men had been legally elected
they were not members of the Legis-
m enEbers by the men who had been
elected from other sections of the
State
Senator Harding for conducting a
front porch campaign Senator Bran
degee said that Hughes would have
been elected four years ago If he had
stuck to his front porch and had not
caused the mix up in California which
lost the election to the Republicans.
He called attention of the audience
that shortly before we entered the
world war President Wilson had in
suited our best friend, England when
he had said that he could not see
any difference between the aims of
England and of Germany and said
that Senator Harding would never be
called upon to explain any pro-Ger-
man editorials as none had been
printed in his papers before the
United States entered the war.
The Republican State convention
| for the nomination of governor, lieu
| tenant governor, comptroller, secre-
| tary of state and state treasurer will
be held at Hartford, September s
and g.