The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-12
POOR ROBBED BY
 ''M0vIE" TAX FOR
 CAMPAIGN FUNDS
Republican c a m D ai gn M o n e y Raised By Bludgeoning Poor, Says W. H. Avis.

New Haven, Oct. 1.-The poor have been bludgeoned out of one third of million dollars for Repub- according to statement made by William H. Avis and issued by the Democratic State Central Committee. MT Avis was formerly a well-known Republican leader in Connecticut who mas turned from the party of special prlV1lege and plunder and followed the dictates of his own heart and conScience toward Democracy.
 Says MT. Avis:
 The vaunted, much-boasted sur plus which lies in soporif1c seclusion in the treasury vaults of the state, or some bank, as the case may be. and to which the Republican party points With such pride through it's boss, J. Henry Roraback, was not accumulat- ca alone through tax on gasoline, but the hard-earned coin of the poor who seek harmless recreation in nov ing picture shows, dances and other channels of innocent amusem ent con- tributed largely toward it's up-buiId- Ing. Just why the poor should be bludgeoned to supply a movement of third-of-a- million dollars for cam palgn display purposes Is beyond the comprehension of thinking persons Men and women and young people toll 'n gloomy mills. offices and other places in order to eke out a doubtful existence, and then when the time
 
 soaked in order that the Roraback party may be able to tell the whole wide world; Just come and look 1t all is that the people are not N&ed for just looking at it.
 ''1 wish to call the attention of all who toll throughout the state to this exhibition of monumental nerve. The Roraback party invites you to look at our surplus
 No Republican Party.
 Tn order that it may be made clear that my references to the Rora- back party are correct, and that there Is mo Republican party in the state, [ call the attention of every voter in the state to the so-cal1ed Repubii- can primaries of a month ago, How hear Republican party" mentioned? Whose stamp was borne by the dele- gates selected? Throughout the state we heard of 'Roraback' men and 'Ull- man men,. Republican men were seldom if ever mentioned. Roora- hack swept the state. Therefore the laure1s of victory went to, and belong to, the Roraback party. The up remem brance of other days far in the misty past.
 ''It is proposed by David E. FItz- Gerald, in the event of his election to the governorship. that there will be no golden calves to lead the people of Connecticut astray as the Israelites were lead astray for awhile when they sojourned in the wilderness. Moses eventually lead the golden calf fdolaters back into the right path. and David E. FitzGerald is the identical Moses that is needed at the DIT esent time to tear down this golden calf surplus and place the money of which it was constructed back in the pockets of those from whom it has been taken.
 "Government By Me"
 q want to be Republican, but I can never be one by obeying the be- rests of MT. Roraback or the dicta- a slight difference between Republi- canism and Democracy. They both mean government by the people. Neither MT. Roraback or MT. Ullman believe in government by the people, but each believes in government for the people by me- This situation IS obnoxious and nauseating to me. and zens in Connecticut who think they are Republicans. when they are only R orabacks or Ullmanites can con tinue year in and year out. to inn agfne that they are Republicans Is the eighth wonder of the world to me.
 ''It is for the reason that I cannot stuIify my manhood any longer by wearing the stamp of Roraback or the insignia of Ullman, that I have decided to vote for a man who has proved himself a real leader. That man is David F. FitzG erald, who has successfully bucked the Roraback and the Ullman parties in the city or New Haven for six years. Real Re- oublican votes, as well as real Demo- cratic votes has made this possi- II O