The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-02

 TO NOMINATE
 TUESDAY NIGHT
Speakers Bureau Will be Es- tabIished With Horace H.
 Jackson at Head

The focal Progressive party will
 nominate candidates for the State Legislature at mass caucus to be held in Warner hall, Tuesday night, Oct. 8, and at the same time a vote
 will be taken upon the advisabil1ty Of mon Council, the Board of Se1ectmen and Judge of Probate Court Dis trict chairmen and workers in the par ty met in headquarters, Polf building, last night It was an enthusiastic meeting and much progress was re- ported. The activity in each district showed that much is being accom- pIished. All of the district chairmen have been selected with the exception Of two and these will be decided by Town Chairman George E. MeIius to- day or tomorrow so that the complete list. will be ready for announcement by Friday
 There has been a good deal of delay in making up the list of district chair men as there have been several res1g- nations and men who were in mind for appointment found that they could not give the time required Four dis trict rallies for this week have been planned thus far, and others will be held lmediateIy so that by the mid dle of next week every district will be thoroughly organized and. ready for the campaign. The First district will Thursday night The Ninth district will hold a rally Friday night in dis trict Headquarters, at Ogden and Kos suth streets. The 10th district will have a, rally Friday night at district, headuuarters 42 Beach street. The Eleventh district will have big rally Thursday night. At these rallies there will be out of town speakers pr Delner H. Croft of New Haven ie among those who will speak ana many others from the State are prom ised.
 It was voted last night to establish a. speakers bureau which will have charge of securing speakers for all rallies in the city, and to develop list of local speakers as we'll It was suggested that Horace H Jackson would be the desirable person to be at the head of the bureau and MT Jackson will be asked to take up that work.
 was started. Bert E Barnes was named as chairnlaon# and ann ounced that these other, newspaper men of the city who are i'll sympathy with the movement, will serve on such a bu- reau: Clarence M. Agard and James Ke1rins, of The Standard; Lester B. Gargill and Earl Donnegan. of The has done considerable newspaper work from time to time.
 R. K. Marshall was placed in charge of the literature which is received from state and national headquarters It will be his work to see that the local party gets all that's coming to- it.
 : Treasurer Herbert M. Lyons report ed last night that thus far the finance committee of the party had collected $1, ,O81.07 and had expended from that $769. .06. There are several outstanding bills to be paid. It was also stated that about $500 has been collected but not turned in as yet by the different district workers. -ss. l
 C. w. Broadfield gave an enthusias- tic report of the work being done by the co1ored people, He was warmly applauded because of the encouraging report he made
 Samuel E. Vincent, candidate for Congress from the Fourth district, will speak at a big mass meeting to Herbert Knox Smith, candidate for Governor, will also speak at that time and others who make up the State Progressive ticket will be heard from.