The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-15
FRAUD IN
 CALIFORNIA
Senator Works Brings Charges Against PrOgressives - Ad- vises Republicans to Support Wilson

:" OTkS or California mas 1SSQ3Q d SlSh- ed statement charging the Progressive Third Party movement in California with gross fraud and asking all Pro- gressive Republicans to vote for Gov ernor Wilson for President He also pointed out the impossibility of the Republicans carrying California for Taft because of the manner in which the Bull Moose leaders of that state fraudulently entered and captured the Republican primaries, and he advis- ed all Republicans in California and in other states where Taft electors are not on the Republican ballot, to vote for Wilson.
 Senator Works outlined the manner in which the Roosevelt men. not en- titled to a place on the ballot at the primary election, caused their candi- dates and voters to swear that they were Republicans in order to enter the Republican primary to nominate for office on the Republican ticket men who were not Republicans. but mem bers of the Third party.
 The statement pointed out that these persons, by means of false af- fldaVits, obtained control of the Re- publican state central committee of California and permitted Third party men to act in a Republican conven ton under the laws of California to place Roosevelt electors on the Re publican ticket.
 "The new party said Senator Works statement, ''is completely or | ali r>Ji cal machinery, and some of the men who are acting as members of the Republican committees in California are almo members of working com, mittees of the new party.
 'fNo kind of sophistry, or evasion can conceal the fact that this whole proceeding is fraudulent.
 The right and honorable thing for them to have done was to place their candidates on the ticket as Progress sives, by petition, so that every voter Pcould vote intelligently for whom he pleased. knowing whether he was vot- ing for a Republican or a Progress sive.
 They were not willing to come out fairly and boldly, as Progressives. To do that they would lose the votes of Progressive Republicans who did not believe in the new party and would have to surrender the power and pres tige of the Republican party. which, as Progressive Republicans. was with in their control.
 The whole thing has been a con temptible deception and fraud. Much
 
 of it has been more than that. It has been series of crimes. The can didates who ran on the Republican ticket, but who were Progressives, were fraudulently nominated and are entitled to no consideration at the hands of the people who believe in honest politics.
 "It results that the Progressives, who are crying out. Thou shalt not fraud, corruption and perjury, stolen the right of the Republican party to a place on the ballot and deprived thousands of voters of the right to vote for the candidate of their choice within their own party.
 Then what are real Progressive Republicans to do? They cannot con- sistently support Taft for two reasons. He was not fairly and honestly nom mated and he does not represent pro- gressive principles, or the sentiments of the masses of the people of the country. He is a reactionary him self, honestly, I believe, and with good intentions, but worse than that 
 and controlled by the worst class of trust magnates, reactionaries of the privilege class, and corrupt political nlanipulators and bosses in the country.
 Roosevelt is equally impossible. He is too new a convert to progressive principles to trust with the leader ship of a new party if it's object is to advance and maintain those princi- ples. He has never until now stood openly for progressive principles.
 He is all things to men to get votes. He has suddenly become an advocate of woman suffrage because so many of them are now voters and have become so without his help. He never was before.
 His party is not founded on prin- ciple but upon malice, revenge and disappointed ambition. If he had been nominated by the Republican convention, the Republican party would have been good enough for him and he would have accepted and welcomed the support of the men in the party that he now -denounces so viciously
 His new party is being managed in part and supported by as bad trust promoters and corrupt political bosses as those he accuses, and if elected it will not be by Progressives' votes, but by the help of those who care noth-