The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-02
MILAN ADMITS CHARGES MADE
 BY SpELLhCY
Confesses At Casino Rally He Opposed Federal Re serve System And Claims
 He Was III When Child Labor Bill Was Voted On.

Declaring that he had been in the trenches at Washington for the past IT months; that he had stood up under the rapid fire of the terrible Demo- cratic senators who were always belching poison gas and using Prus- sian weapons of war;; that he was the savior of Connecticut from economic death; that he had been through the Hel1-fire of the national capitol and that on the eve of his martyrdom he wanted reelection to the United States Senate, Senator George F. Mclean, Connecticuts senior Republican sena- tor defended his action now under fire by Thomas J. Spellacy, Democratic nominee for United States senator. and attacked Spellacy for his stand on the tariff at the Republican rally held in the Casino last night and at tended by more than a thousand people.
 Charged by Homer S. Cummings, Democratic national committeeman from Connecticut, that he had opposed the child labor law, the direct cleo tion of United States Senators by the people and that he tried to block the Federal Reserve scheme, put into operation so successfully by former President Woodrow Wilson, Senator Mclean apclogized for the first de- claring that he had to be at his home because of sickness, the second that he did vote in the affirmative and the third that he did oppose a Federal Re-
 
 ocrats, notwithstanding that the Fed era1 Reserve system of President Will son saved the country from panic, an admitted fact by both Republicans and those opposing the Democrats.
 Block Ford's Plan.
 John T. King, introducing Senator Mclean, declared that men like the Senator would block a plan that Henry Ford wants put through to operate Muscle Shoals through issu- 1@J4 1- bonds," MT. King said. remind me of our last administration. It didn't cost anything so we issued the bonds.'
 One of the greatest things which puzzled Senator Mclean was the large amount of money spent during the war. He said that it cost the na- tion s43,000, 100000 to win the war. but he did not explain how the war was to be won in any other way but by spending the money.
 In part Senator Mclean said:
 My opponent made an address in new btll.-the F'ordney-McCumbe bi1l,-were @ crime in the sight of God and humanity, inexcusaib1e and in defensib1e; and asked him if he would not point out those rates which we had secured for the industries of Connecticut that in. his opinion were indefensible and eXtortnate. He de- clined to do this upon the ground that he had not sufficient information.
 My opponent did say that he thought the tariff on wool and sugar were indefensible and inexcusable and an unnecessary burden upon the American people. Anyone who knows anything about the situation with re- gard to the agricultural interest of the west, knows very well that the beet growers and sugar growers of the country are in greater need of a protective tariff than almost any in- dustry in the United States. They can make sugar in Cuba for a cent and four mills a pound, and as for the sheep, the industry fell of rapidly un- der even low rates of duty, and de- clined very rapidly under the Under wood bill. There is no industry in this country which needs protection more than the wool growers"
 Merritt Speaks.
 Schuyler Merritt spoke of the &C., 1 complishments of the Republican party, and said a Democrat from Connecticut would be absolutely 1 without influence in a Democratic Congress composed of a majority Of | Southerners.
 Seated on the platform were Judge | F. L. Wilder. Howard S. Challenger, Pasquale Vioni, Adolph Lederer, W. F. D. Fitzpatrick, Judge Paul L. Miller, Simeon Pease and Town Chairman Robinson