The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-05-31
WHAT MIR. o'CoNNELL DIDN'T SAY

Empire readers no doubt read the following As sociated Press dispatch in last Saturdays paper rom Jersey City:
 Representative Jerry OConnell of Mon tana bitter foe of Mayor Frank Hague made a brief appearance at Pershing Field last night and was then whisked away by the po- lice before he could deliver prepared speech assaing Hague.
 It was the second time Congressman OConne1 had attempted to speak in Jersey City with similar results We haven't any idea what Representative O'Connell was going to say at Pershlng Field, pu' MT Westbrook Peger who writes so entertalny TOT the New York Word-Teegram, covered the previous address which MT. OConnell did not make at Journal Square in Jersey City and his report it strikes us' apropos of what the Montanan might have said at Pershing Field At any rate, here's Reporter Peglers report as it appeared in the Word-Telesram:
 Good morning Mrs Dorsey and did yez read the fearless speech that brave bold Con gressman Jerry O'Connell of Montana. didn't deliver in Journal Square in Jersey City? You didn't? My My! Mrs Dorsey that was a regular Parnell of speech
 No he didn't make the speech Mrs Dor sey He was going to make it and he gave out advance copies of it like, you know the way they do in Congress when they speak three minutes and then print 5000 words of patrio- tsm with, humor and philosophy In the Congressional Record
 asIt see,nss Mrs. Dorsey that there was crowd hanging around Journal Square so Congressman Jerry O'Connell didn't make the speech Most statesmen like crowds to hear their speeches. but Jerry is bashfu so when he heard this crowd was there he went back to Washington instead and the papers printed the speech.
 "Our forefathers," he was going to say, "were willing to lay down their lives that Liberty and Democracy might live. They ac- pIiSl1e fhpr bV a of government and nation which is today the mightiest and greatest under Gods heaven
 That form of government he didn't say, Mrs Dorsey "has been preserved because men have been willing to sacrifice their lives. Tonight awfuy happy and proud he was going to continue Mrs Dorsey, 'to come to Jersey City and raise my voice in protest against the most despicable and disgracefu dictatorship that exists within this nation of Tonight am happy and proud that come here to denounce man whose name is so despcable that it poisons my tongue to utter it.
 I dunno Mrs Dorsey maybe it was the night air in Jersey City that caused him to keep still tongue in his head. It is very bad air, Mrs. Dorsey, and likely to cause throat trouble Or maybe Jerry didn't want to poison his tongue. They were saying that lot of hoodlums waiting with rubber hoses in Journal Square, but that couldn't have been the reason Jerry didn't deliver his speech be- cause you right here where he was going to say T happy and proud that despite all threats against me I have come here to speak against man who. instead of holding high office should be confined in the penitentary at hard labor"
 That telling them Mrs Dorsey I mean it was writing them a letter, anyway.
 T have been reliably informed he didn't yell with defiant glare at the crowd that some silly, simple, idiotc people were going to