The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-20
PROGRESSIVE ACTIVITY
 WORRIES STAND FATHERS
Secrecy of Progressives and Current Reports Cause Much Uneasiness-
 Taft Club Comes Very Slow.
STAMFORD
Special to The Farmer)


 Progressives and also for the element in the town which has longed for the breaking up of the select knot of po1i- ticians who have ruled the town for so long, but it's no fun for the ring Of course 1t would not do for the gang to exhibit any solicftude whatever but all the same every string that can be pulled is being worked to the limit to prevent defections from the ranks of the G. o. P. The line will be drawn strongly this fall and there will be no Democratic votes for G. O. P. candidates. That is a sure thing for there never has been as much enthu- siasm in that party since the war. The progressives are holding frequent meetings and at every one additions are made to the roster Of that party. It has leaked out that over 70 names were on its list last week and that at a meeting held last night this mum Der was almost doubled. It now looks as if the fight would really be be- tween the Progreseives and the Demo crats and that the G. o. P. will not be in the running
 Yesterday Frank E. Conine, who has been admitted to the councils of the elect. although with very little grace appeared with the preliminary roster of a proposed Taft Club
 The fact that MT. Conine has been selected for this work shows to what straits the bosses as they do not hesitate to style themselves have been driven. Mir Conine, like all new com CTS, was given the cold political shoul- der when he came to town and was obliged to break into the party by sheer force Of character. before he ob- tained recognition. He had the goods and the party forced to take him up much against the will of the ring. Now Mr. Conine is called upon to save the ship and he will not lose any time or neglect any opportunity to accom- plish this end. But he is too late. The die has been cast and Mir. Confne will not be able to hold that element which backed him when he attacked the controlling powers Tn fact Mr. ConiT1e first demonstrates that it was possible to break into the ruling class a thing which had been given up after many futile attempts. And now the rank and file of the voters will go a. little further and put the ring completely out of existence. MT. Conine has showed the way and 1t is easy Of course the new Taft club which will soon be launched will have a few names to start with. Everyone in town can give them off hand as we'll as those who read them from the roster That is easy but the rest will be more difficult. The 'FOld Guard dies but it never surrenders" and the pitiful spectacle of the extinction of this famous coterie will not cause much regret even among it's follow CTS. It has lived too long already. -
 Yesterday Superintendent Fred Starr Beardsley of Sealshipt Oyster Com pany made an inspection of the beds in the vicinity of Bridgeport to see how the set was coming on and just how. things looked on the under wa ter farms of the big company. The party found abundant indications of a heavy set in different parts of the territory and the trip was being ex- tended when the engine of the small motor boat which the party was using broke down. The boat was we'll out in the Sound when the accident oc- cured, and the five captains of the company's oyster steamers who had accompanied the superintendent in his inspection took turns in trying to make the old thing work. All the time the boat was drifting out in the Sound. The boat was not equipped with oars and couple of brooms were the only instruments of propulsion which the occasion afforded. These were pressed into the. service and while some were at work on the en- zine tte others took turns in padding towaSA the shore with the brooms. Nose Hyde in the Governor and taken aboard the steamer. The wind was blowing fresh at the time and the party would undoubtedly have pass ed a night on the Sound if nothing more serious had not occurred but for the timely discovery of the party by the captain of the steamer.
 Mrs. John McGahay died suddenly at her home on Stratford avenue, yes- terday morning at 6 o'clock. Mrs. McGahay had suffered from attacks of vertigo recently, but they were not re- garded seriously. Yesterday morning she called to her husband and com plained of being unable to breathe. A physician was hurriedly called but be- fore he arrived death intervened. Heart disease is assigned as the cause of the fatal attack. Deceased was Miss Marietta McQuire when she was married to John McGahay. She was Domestic in her tastes Mrs. McGahay found ample field for her energies in bringing up large family of children to whom she was ever a devoted and self sacrificing mother. Her three oldest children were born in Eliza town for 37 years, and during that time she gained the good will of ev eryone with whom she came in con- tact. Energetic, kindly and unsel- fish she had endeared herself to her neighbors. She will be sadly missed by her famlly, Dy the members or St. James church and by the whole com munity. Besides her husband, three daughters mourn her, Mariett, Rosa lie. and Eleanor all unmarried and l still at home. Four sons, John, Will l liam, Clarence and Francis, who are all we'll known, survive.
 Timothy Ryan, a Stratford boy, is l entered in the quarter-mile run at the 1 athletic games of the A. O. H. cele- 1 bration at Sea Breeze today The Stratford delegation will root for him. l
 A sale of Japanese articles will be | held in, the chapel of the Congrega- I tional church next Thursday, from 3 1 to D. m. If stormy the sale will l take place the next day. The eollec- ton consists of table covers of vari- | ous designs, water colers, dolls and 1 other objects of art recently brought l from Japan. Cake and cream will l he sn1d on the lawn