The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-19
ISSUE THEIR
 PRE-PLATFORM
STATEMENTS OF BASIC PRINCE PLIES MADE AFTER MEETING OF PROGRESSIVES' COM
 MITTEE.
ALSOP HEAD OF SESSION
Plans For Mass Meeting July 30, When National Delegates Will
 Be Picked.


 state committee of the progressive party met at the Graduates Club, yes- terday afternoon, and discussed plans for the State mass meeting to be held at the Hyperion theatre in this city, on July 30. At this meeting the Ques-, ton of nominating a full State ticket will be discussed and if it is deter mined upon a regular State conven- tion will be called for the month of, September. :. The mass meeting will elect delegates to the national conven-' ton in Chicago on August 5. Those present yesterday were Jo- seph w. Alsop of, Avon, Ernest Wal ker Smith of Hartford, Rev. Charles ", Flint of Middletown; c; Warren. worth of New Haven, Yandell Hen derson of New Haven, Henry B. Stod- dard of Bridgeport, Harry c. Scof1eld of Stamford, John w. Jaeger of Wa terbury, c. H. Bird of Bethlehem, and Walter E. Garde of Hartford.
 . Before the meeting it was generally believed that Senator Butterworth would be chairman of the Hyperion mass meeting. Those who attended the meeting were serious and to an extent enthusiastic over the prospects for the new party
 s temporary chairman and treasurer, and w. E. Garde of Hartford, tenn porary secretary. It was voted to open State headquarters at once in the Connecticut Mutual building, Hart ford. Al special committee consisting of Frank & Butterworth, Prof. Yan- dell Henderson and w. H. Avis was appointed as committee on arrange ments for the State mass meeting of the 30th.
 The following names were added. to the temporary committees: F. E. Duffy West Hartford; Hon. F.. B.. Griffen, North Bloomfield; Pres. F.. $. Luther, JIG. Schwink, Jr., Meriden; Herbert Knox. Smith, Hartford; Edward Les zelle, Hartford; Walter sE. ,Garde, Hartford: Dr. F. J. Erbe, Waterbury; Dr. l.. w. Bacon, New Haven; F. H. Woodruff, Milford; Admiral w S. Silliman, New Canaan; John Taylor, Bridgeport; H. o. Daniels, Middletown; and w H. Avis. Whitneyville.
 The committee voted to meet at the Hotel Taft on Thursday, July 25, at 12 o'clock
 The Declaration.
 The following declaration was made:
 Although the platform of the new party has not been adopted and many
 
 before definitely committing them selves to the new movement, there seems to be a general unaninity on the basal purposes and fundamental principles of such party.
 >-s.'Foremost among these is dissat- isfaction with both the old parties and those in charge of their ma chimes. a feeling that they. have been controlled E. very shfewdly by political bosses. in the interest of privileged classes, so that the interests of the people at large have been betrayed and abused, and a further conviction that this :, has been frequently done by combinations of men from both parties Long, experience with hope long deferred has shown. that there is no hope for a real housecleaning within the old parties or reform from within, for which some of the ser wants of the alarmed bosses are again pleading; for men, able and good intentioned, are either forced out of office or made the tools or dupes of the deeply intrenched and powerful system of boss control on behalf of the privilege classes.
 'sThe dissatisfaction has been crys- talizing into desire for new move rflent built on broad lines, without re- gard to former party affiliations and without regard to old sectionalism. free from hampering traditions and
  which will be sanely and constructive ly progressive in accomplishment as we'll as in promise.
 saThe national convention at Chica- go resulted in leaving the shell of a discredited organization in the hands of the group notoriously associated with the Sreactionary program ana most acceptable to the interests that have controlled legislation at the ex- pense of the public. s'The Baltimore convention. resulted in a harmony which included as a ma ior part some of the most sinister groups of political and financial boss es in the country, and effected the re- mobilization or entrenchmenf or dls- credited state bosses who seek to ex- tend their sway and patronage lnto the national sphere.
 No Hope, They Say.
 'aThere is no hope from the Barnes Penrose- -Guggenheim remnant of the Republican party, nor, from the Hearst-Ryan. Bryan-Belmont-T aggart, Sullivan Murphy aggregation under an untrained leader.
 "There is further an awakening of the people at large to the fact that party regularity and party loyalty have been the greatest asset Of the crooked boss, scheming politician and privileged interests working through both parties; this, awakening, along with the example set by the plparIl- san combinations for the advancement of private interests, corporation con trol and fragrant bossism, has broken down servile partyism and prepared the way for the new party by making independent a large section of the out ragged electorate.
 s7The principles, ideals and senti- ments. having form and seeking ex- pression through the new party, are:
 "1. The attainment of government 1.-r ,nnn,nIo nn real representative