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REPUBLICANS FOR WILSON.
Thousands of Progressives Have
Announced Support of Dem
Ocratic Nominee.

who have sacrificed their party af-
filiations and come out in support
of Gov. Wilson's candidacy. More
than a score of these Republicans,
all of whom avow progressive prin-
ciples, are to be found this fall
fighting in the ranks with the for
ces of the New Jersey Governor
Their alienation from their old po-
litical kinsmen is due in almost
every instance to their convictlons
that the time has arrived when1
they should put aside mere part,
fealty for a cause based on higher
principles While ardent Republi-
cans at heart, they find absolutely
no inspiration in the leadership of J
President Taft because of his gen1
orally admitted reactionary be
liefs and they have no sympathy fol-
Col Roosevelt's third term move
ment Gov Wilson, in this crisis,
seemed to measure up to their es-
innate as true progressive andj
they decided to cast their political
fortunes with his.
Most notable perhaps among
these dissenting progressive Rel
publicans are Dr. Harvey w. Wiley,
the Governments former chief
chemist; Rudolph Spreckels, whose
war on graft and civic corruption in}
San Francisco has made him a nal
D~o fhnY
noted Boston lawyer-reformer; US.
Senator John D. Works, of Califor-)
mia; Senator Robert M. LaFollette,
who is devoting his trenchant pen
to Gov. Wilson's cause; Senator1
John ]. Blaine, of Wisconsin, one1
of Senator LaFollette's chief aides
in the fight for the Republican,
Presidential nomination; Jacob
Schiff, the noted banker-philan1
thropist; Claus A. Spreckels, tho
California sugar refiner, who has
spent fortune and fifteen years
of his life in a war on the sugar
trust; his brother, John d. Spreck-
els, publisher of the San Francisco3
Call, and a lifelong Republican,
Wallace Batchelder, lawyer and for
mer Roosevelt Rough Rider, who1
was the Third Term party's State1
chairman in Vermont until his split4
with Col Roosevelt; DR.. in. Hurry +
Health Officer of Indiana; DR.. VIM
Jay Schieffelin, wealthy philan-i
thropist and civic reformer;; Chas.|
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Public Accounts of New York; Jno. |
B. Rathom, publisher of the Provi- |
dence, R. l., Journal; Rev. Madison |
C. Peters, for years active in civic !
reform in New York; Erman ].
Ridgway, publisher of Everybody's
Magazine; Henry G. Niles, former
Pennsylvania State chairman of
the Lincoln Party; Samuel S.Fels,
manufacturer, of Philadelphia; Pow
ell Evans, manufacturer, Philadel-
phia, and a host of others of les
ser fame.
Dr. Wileys reputation of Presi-
dent Taft and Col. Roosevelt fol-
lowed his declaration that both IA
vored the big interests engaged in
defeating the purposes of the pure
food law. His exposures of the
malign influences at work in the
Department of Agriculture to I'M
dermine his public health campaign
Of
dals of the Taft administration. Con-
WINGED that President Taft was en-
tirely out of sympathy with his eff
forts to safeguard the public health
against food adulterators and "dop-
ers'' generally, DR.. Wiley quit the
Government service, and since has
been working zealously in Gov. Will
sons cause. Mr.. Spreckels, who
personally financed the San Fran
cisco reform leagues war on graft
and civic corruption in the Golden
Gate city, backed Senator LaFol-
lette in his fight for the Republi-
can nomination. Before that he
had been a leading factor in the
peoples fight in California to smash
the rule Of the Southern Pacific
Railroad in that State. In this
fight he stood behind Gov. Hiram
Johnson and helped elect him Gov
ernor of California. His war on
the San Francisco grafters, which
resulted in sending the notorious
he To i'm, e
900. Senator Blaine, who was Sen
ator LaFollette's law partner join
ed with Mr.. Spreckels in organic
ing the Wilson National Republican
League when the Wisconsin Sena-
tor failed to get the Republican
nomination at Chicago.
Claus A. Spreckels has not only
come out for Gov. Wilson, but has
the Sugar Trust, aided by the Re
publican high tariff, has for years
mulcted the American people out
of $15O,OOO,OOO annually. Senator
Works, one of the Senator's group
of militant Republican progressives,
declared that President Taft's
nomination in no sense represented
the sentiment of the rank and file
Of the Republican party, and that
Col Roosevelt's third term party
movement was based on hate, malice
and a desire for revenge. Wallace
Batchelder's refusal to follow Col
Roosevelt longer was one of the
most significant developments Of
the campaign. When Col. Roose-
welt insisted that Mr.. Batchelder
support only Roosevelt candidates
for Vermont offices, without regard
to their character or fitness, Mr..