New Britain herald., 1924-09-15
STATE CELEBRITIES
 AT i. OUTING
La Toilette Wheeler Ticket Is
 Scored as Menace to Nation

Between 500 and 700 Republicans in and around New Britain and those prominent in the party the state assembled at Lake Comnounce Saturday after noon for the annual outing and sheep bake of the Third Ward Re- publican club of this city.
 All the candidates on the state ticket were there and practically every prominent Republican with the exception of Governor Temple ton was present. Noticed among the gathering were many women, al- most equaling the men in numbers.
 One of the hits of the afternoon program was singing by the Young Womens Coolidge club of New Brit ain, Keep Cool and Keep Coolidge, and another one written for the state campaign Hi and Jack"
 The dinner was served in the pa vilion. Tables later were cleared away upstairs 50 all could hear the speakers,
 Isaac Black, president of the Third Ward Republican club was toastmaster. In introducing the first speaker Mir. Black said last election there were 27 million voters who did not go to the polls and referred to them as "Ballott Slackers,"
 The United States is large cor poration according to Senator John H. Trumbull and the citizens are the stockholders and 1t is to their inter ests to see that they elect the proper officials to handle the corporation. He said the state of Connecticut at the last election cast about 5S per cent of its total registered vote while some states only cast 35 per cent.
 Bingham Praises Party Record Prolonged cheers and applause greeted Lieutenant Governor Hiram Bingham, acclaimed as Connecticut's next governor, when he arose to speak. He quoted President Coolidge in stating that organization is neces- sary to government and said with out organization an army would be- come a mob. He complimented Senator Trumbull upon his record as chairman of the senate committee On finances and said 1t was because of the work of that committee that a 20-year bond issue was being paid off year by year so that there would be no large debt to pay off at the end of 20 years He told of achieve ments of the party during it's period of control of Connecticut. politics mentioning the disabled veterans fund, the widows pension fund and said Connecticut is second to no state in the union in it's good roads. He said in 10 years the Republicans have reduced the state debt from 12 million dollars to practically noth- ing, and by means of the gasoline tax have placed the cost of mainte- nance of good roads directly upon the shoulders of the people who use 1 them.
 lI- He called the effort to repeal the gasoline tax as "demagogic appeal |. to the selfishness of the thoughtless voter"
 Referring to the La Toilette party he said it advocates higher wages for the railroad man and lower freight rates at the same time, and said Tt is that kind of thoughtless bunk that is put over to the thought less voters that is an insult to the citizens intelligence. The issue is clearly between Coolidge and con- mon sense and Utopian idealism and bunk"
 Begg Attacks Third Party
 The address of the day was de- livered by Congressman James Begg of Sandusky, Ohio. Congressman ! Begg severely fiayed the third party saying "The self styled progressives are against anything their party ad. vocates. Neither the Republican or
 Democratic progressives have any.
 thing constructive for in their plat.
 forms, but they have a long list oi
 things they are against"
 He said the third party move. ment, if successful, w6Gld mean tho
 end of majority rule in America ant
 would bring to this country @ sltua
 ton similar to the political situation
 in Europe. He said that the sam,
 situation would apply as is in Italy
 where the government will have |;
 good rule under Mussolini but onl, a revoutipn will prevent it from be
 ing ruled either by a tyrant or
 wealiling after the death of Mus
 solini.
 Pleading with the people to ge out and vote he said the countr 7 is being attacked so far as.the safer ] of our future is concerned as if ther were a foreign army on our bor . ders. When the attack comes subtl . and under disguise the averag $ American says it is political bunl . Its not political bunk. The las = congress had 107 democrats. 1O6 re Il publicans and 22 radicals. Magnu
 Johnson. senator from Minnesot l was elected by a smaller vote tha |, he had when he was defeated tn = year befWe. The discontented z
 to the p61ls. the contented sta - home. You've heard people say il
 government was rotten. You'll a ' ways get the kind of governmel that measures up to the ideals ( s those who participate"
 Congressman Begg said the Dawt d plan would do more to restore no a nal conditions in Europe than a ! the European nations put togeth < can do. He referred 10 the decrea q of over a billion dollars in the Ia q four years In the national debt ar Y offered to resign his office if anyol l within bearing could prove a sing "a Tn,ry,n,ra+Sr a o1r1af n iet ra tion Whit