The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-27
De Laney Broke Promise To Women
 Says Gallagher

Laney with breaking a promise made | ane dirselv Conneedcuts failure to take / her place as the thirty-sixth state to Ianey's promise and his assertion of the cause when the test came was described by MT. Gallagher in these ] words: Senator De Laney was waited on by | a committee of ladies from the wo- man suffrage organization and so was I. We were asked to pledge our word, if we were willing, to work l and vote for woman's suffrage in the senate. Both of us gave our word of honor that we would. My oppon- \ When the suffrage biIi came up the senate was boiled before the vote was taken in order to see how the senators stood. They discovered Lieutenant-Governor wilson in the chair, they knew that Connecticut would ratify. In order to, kill wo- mans suffrage they were obliged to scurry around and see what senator twas willing to violate his word of honor to prevent the women from voting. Out of 35 senators at Hart to go back on his word. That was Senator De Laney from this district tHis vote made a majority of one against the ratification of woman
 
 Of the cause he had pledged his word iof honor to support, robbed Connec- lticut of the honor of being the 36th state to ratify, and that honor went ito the Democratic state of Tennes- see urged on by President Wilson.
 '1sn't it for your interest to have a man in the state senate who can S,e trusted to keep his pledged word. Senator Delaney has gone back on his word. have never gone back pn mine. I pledge you to work for Juvenile court and for the school teachers for justice to our soldiers and all the reforms promised in the Democratic city platform. don't be- lieve you want a man in the senate who can't be trusted to keep his word"
 The meeting was opened by Alder man William F.. Hogan, who de- nounced the unauthorized use of his of Nations by an organiZatio- calling itself "The Anti-League Dem ocrats," and announced himself oGtirely in ac- cord with Governor Cox Al the. ques- tion.
 Town Chairman John A. Cornell was the permanent chairman.
 Edward Tole, Democratic candi- date for alderman from the Eighth cdistrict, charged discriminating against the northerrs section of the district where there is crying need for a school.
 Lieut.. Joseph J. Devine, candidate i1OT prODaL6 JudSe, 'denOunced HepuD- s1ican speakers who Hive been accus- ing the Democratic administration of iextravagance because they had fur .nished the American Expeditionary Forces with reserve supplies. and paid his respects to Republican ora storswho had. on the basis of his ser vice in the navy, held forth as an ex- spert on the number of horseshoes the American army required in France.
 Mrs. Daniel T. Sanford of Bedding said in part:
 "The League of Nations needs us Iand we need the league because the ileague was formed on the funda- lmenta1 principles the United States has stood for from the beginning, ipeace, self-determination and self Idevelopment: The United States has Inever fought a war-except possibly, tthe Mexican war-for aggression or material gain. and the charge of fsome Republican speakers that we en- lis false. The only thing that has raised the people to the full express ision of their energy has been an ideal.
 What is the Monroe Doctrine :? As nearly as can quote the words, it is:
 ''The United States will regard as an unfriendly act any attempt of a European power to extend its in Huence in the western hemisphere" For in more modern language: ''The United States guarantees ito protect and preserve against external ag- :gression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of the republics of this side of the water jAlmost the exact language of Article K. Think of this little republic with practically no army throwing a chal- 1enge like that to the other powers vof the world. It meant that any time we might be called onto use the words of our. Republican friends to send our boys to Patagonia or Chile to protect those nations. As sin 100 years not a dollar or a life has been sacrificed in support of that Inf one little repNblic for a hundred years could proNct this hemisphere with only moral force, what do you think about the possibilities of 40 na- tions of the world enforcing the same guarantee? That is Article x"
 Harry Silverstone. candidate fo1 representative, promised if sent tc Hartford, to assist in breaking the strangle-hold the Republican machine has on the city which is fast leading it to bankruptcy, and his colleague Frank J. Clancy announced his oppo. sition to the soc meter charge fol gas and the ten-cent carfare.
 Harry J. Platt, candidate for Con gress. said in part:
 ''The Republican party is attempt ing to distin propaganda into us by sa1esmen who are paid to tell us tha we are ignorant and can't think fo ourselves, that the senatorial oli garchy will do our thinking for us Don't pay attention to these pait salesmen. Think for yourselves, reaC the League of Nations Covenan which they excluded from their cam
 paign book, and vote for the Demo cratic party which stands for peace lprogress and prosperity. The Raise
 fried to tell his people they cou1dn' think for themselves, just as the sena torial o1igarchy is doing today. H t> did it for 40 years. I have too mucl confidence in the American people t
 believe they will be fooled that long.
 A. R. Golden. introduced as "-
 plain soldier from over there." de -r1ounced the present leaders of tn
 Republican party. saving in part: sII