The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-26
BULL MOOSE
 GRAZING IN OLD 1: Il STAMFORD B A ! ]
hslgs B. Russell ehahnlan of.
 Meeting Which Enrolled , 75 Members

With an object of arousfng interest in the Bull Moose movement, those
 who are furthering the cause in Strat-
 ford. held meeting in the town hall last night, There were, all of 200
 present. sAd4igs B. Russeil,ss Chairman
 of the committee on permanent organ lination in4 stratford, convened the meeting and outlined what Had been done in Stratford and explained that. the committee on permanent. organi-
 Eation was at work and would be able to submit a report after the New Ha-. pr. w B. Coggswell was made
 chairman of the meeting4 Ernest Wall
 ker Smith of Hartford. Marcus Floyd of Tarinville and. pr. D. E.. Croft of
 New Haven were the speakers of the
 evening Senator Joseph w Alsop of Avon and Hon. Frank s. Butterworth
 of New Haven, scheduled to, speak,
 did not appear. Pledge petitions were
 circulated and about 75 signatures were secured of people. willing to give
 their support to the movement.
 Dr. CoggswelI said that he was het-I ter acquainted with physical ills than with political ills, but that he was convinced of the need of something different in the political life of the country He believed that Theodore
 
 carrying the new movement to vic- tory Mr. Smith was then introduced.
 He declared that the newspapers of this part of the country did not dare
 to print the true facts about the Chi
 cago convention. He then went on to
 tell of some of the gross frauds and
 plain steals that were pulled off by
 the National committee of the Re-
 publican party, pointing out particu-
 larly the contest cases of California. ,T1sY erfr1S, :
 Mr. Floyd gave stirring talk in which he urged that the voters break
 away from the yoke of bossisrn. He declared that Americanism should be held above Republicanism. and stated
 that the fact that the country went
 Democratic after two years of Presi-
 dent Taft was a pure and simple slap
 at his administration He said that
 the Republican party is today abso- |lutely dead, killed by a miserable kbunch with whom the corpse should be left for care. He said that Taft and his supporters have made a great
 cry against Roosevelt's stand on the recall because it would require changes in the constitution. They say Go
 not touch that sacred thing. the con- stftution. yet what did MT. Taft do?". said the speaker "After his own
 state repudiated him in the primaries and gave Theodore Roosevelt sub stantiaI majority of it's votes, quick
 goes a letter rom PfeSlueHI IaIt, to his political bosses in that state, in structing them to secure the delegates at large from him at all costs"
 MT Floyd naid splendid tribute to Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic can didate, and declared that he believed
 him a man earnest and sincere in his desire and hope to right some of the political evils of the country.
 Dr.fD- E. Croft of New Haven said that Connecticut has got much to do and that the first thing it. should do is to remove the seat of government from the Yellow building in New Ha- ven to the capitol in Hartford. He said that the people of this state don't own a single thing and that the cor porations have gobbled up everything. state committee has endorsed the wo-|
 man suffrage cause. The speaker caught the, spirit of the crowd with several stories.