The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-25
M. MOODY DOWNER' JOINS LOCAL BULL
 MOOSE. MOVEMENT
Another Prominent Repub-
 lican Worker Declares Himself Today As Roose-
 welt Supporter = Third Party Activities In Bridgeport Are Bustling.

M. Moody Downer, president of the Downer Hawes & Co.,, corset concern, and for many years one e the suo- stantial props of the Republican par ty in Bridgeport, today zignified his intention to give support to the Bull Moose movement. Mir. Downer, in a letter sent to Judge E.. P. Nobbs, con graduated Judge Npbbs upon having the courage of his convictions MT. Downer, holds nothing but contempt for the manner in which the nomlna- t1on was given to President Taft and Roosevelt was not given a square deal. He openly stated today that he would affiliate himself with the Third party movement and give all the sup. port to it that he can. MT. Downer is well known in Bridgeport. He was business, being senior member of the firm of Downer & Edwards. He served for some time as a member of the old board of Public Works, which department of the city government has been succeeded by the Paving and tive in Republican politics aE few years back. He was also at one, time a member of the staff of a Republi- can governor in the state.
 Names of those who are in sym patf1y with the third party movement and willing to pledge their support TO it are coming into Bull Moose head quarters surprisingly fast. The rooms which have been opened in the Franklin building on State street, are taking on an air of briskness- and there is much activity about them now A stenographer was, hired to- day to remain until after the election and the work of indexing the names and classifying them according to the voting districts, is going on. Pre- parations are being made for 8. thorough canvass of the city and an attempt will be made to ascertain the attitude of every eiector before No- yen ber. Literature is. being sent out and the campaign buttons, ordered 9 couple of days ago are expected elth- CT this afternoon or: tomorrow.
 It was expected that fully 250 will Haven, the 30th of this month. About 176 have already signined their in- tention, in writing, to attend A band will be secured to head the delegation and Bridgeport will make d big showing. J. w. Ceilings who is oFga anizing the Bull Moose Cleo club. expeetsgt0 have that singing or ganiEaffon perfected by then aTldf St wilt be heard from at the cnnven- tion and on the trip. RehearsAIs will be held this week and some original songs are in preparation.
 There will be a. large delegation to attend the Bull Moose meeting in night will include Senator Joseph w. Alsop. Hon. Frank s. Butterwortf and others and there is much local interest in the Stratford meeting.
 To ascertain the true sentiment as it exists in the rural districts about Ta.. ,l- A 4A To 0k~I edard and Noble Vincent made tour through Monroe, Huntin gton, Nichols, Newtown, Botsford, Stepney, HaWfey- vile and Shelton, yesterday afternoon. Mir. Stoddard reported today that he was amazed at the tremendous Roose- welt sentiment among the farmers. He said that he expected to find good deal of Wilson sentiment in the rural districts but only in one town did that appear particularly strong. New town is solid for woodrow Wilson, it would seem,'' said MT. Stoddard. .The other towns were all for Roosevelt. I am satisfied of that. We stopped and inquired at the farm houses and especially wherever we saw farmers about and asked ify they were ROose-s welt men. I can trutflfully say. that of the many men we interviewed this way, I should judge something like 300, only one was adverse to .Roose- 
 Roosevelt man or if there were any Roosevelt, men about and he replied, War should hope not I was de- cidedly pleased with the sentiment as we found it and it only goes to bear out the reports that we are receiving daily from men who travel in the rural districts. There is great deal of interestpin the fight this fall among the farmers and we met men yester- day who were able to debate and talk the third party cause until the cows come home. They knew RooseNelt's career from A to z and can produce more arguments as to why Taft shouldn't be reelected than imagin- ed there were. I understand that Shelton is strong Socialist town. We talked with men yesterday who declared that that. town would go strong for Roosevelt this fall"
 Attorney Henry B. Stoddard and John Taylor went to New Haven to- day to attend a meeting of the state committee of which they are mem bers.