The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-22

of cur party as chairman of it's state committee. He has represented our Statc in three great national cOnven- tions of our party.
 The candidate I shall name will get the votes with or without campaign funds He will not only poll his full no other candidate can, that increas- ing section of independent voters who
 occupy the borderland between the Democratic and Republican parties He wiM appeal to the righteously in- dignant elements of the J. Henry party who want to turn the rascals out.
 Why do I say that this candidate can secure the disaffected Republ1-
 can and independent vote? I say 1t
 because he has secure them. For ten years prior to his election as mayor
 of New Haven in 1917 the Republican machine had carried out city with dis
 gusting regularity. Two years prior
 to his election as our mayor this ma
 chine had sent us down to humiliat- ing defeat by over 5000 majority. It
 boasted that it was invincib1e ana
 that New Haven was irretrievably d Republican stronghe Id.
 He was elected our mayor. He has been reelected twice since every time by an increased vote, and last year in order to win he had actually
 to overcome Republican plurality given in our 1cfty in 1920 of over Ill., 900 votes. He turned that II 900 plu- rality of 1920 into a Democratic p1u- rality of over 5000 in 1921. In the words of the popular refrain, my friends, "1t takes a good man to do that"
 At tender age he began to earn his own living. At the age of four teen he was in our high school. Be- fore he was 21 he had earned his own way through the Yale Law School and had been admitted to the bar of this state. Two years later he took his Masters degree at Yale. In the best sense of that much-abused word, he is, therefore a self-made man. In spite of disability that would have discouraged must men, step by step, by hard, patient honest effort. he has and success and on every round of it he has been credit to himself, a force for good, and a real friend of those who needed his aid. He has never been ashamed of his humble beginning. He has never forgotten the great mass of hard worl1fng de- cent people from among whom he came.
 Why is it that so many hundreds of delegates have come to this conven- ton without instruction and have in stlnctively recognized the peculiar and splendid availability of this man? He has organized no bureau, sent forth no emissaries. to manufacture senti- ment in his own favor, entered into no aIiances made no effort in his own behalf. He has not even announced ms candidacy and stands ready to withdraw now if this convention can discover any more available nominee He has borne himself in every respect with the becoming dignity of the elder statesmen of the republic who believe that the office should seek the man. He has not sought and is not seeking this office; but this convention knows down in it's very heart and soul that the times cry out for just such leader ship as he presents
 Therefore I nominate this veteran. stlll Tn the very prime of his useful ness and vigor this man who leads ne today in fact, and tomorrow shall lead us in name. This state has long enough been pillaged by the b1ighting hand of privilege and selfish interests and we present to you a leader who wealth from those who have tried fo | make it private trust. We present l to you as your candidate for governor 1 a Ver1table David, to slay this rank Connecticut Goliath-our David. VOLT David, Connecticut's David, the Hon Haven "