The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-19
FLOOD BARES
 SCANDALS IN
 BULL MOOSE
Charges Repeating in Votes at City Convenfion---DiscIoses
 Machine Methods
Pioneers of the Movement Dis carded by Men Whom He Considers Self Seekers - No Financial Accounting Made

| John H. Flood, the insurgent men Der of the Bull Moose party, gave ar interview to- Farmer reporter t9ais forenoon in order, as he stated, ..tt have the matter put correctly before | the people who are interest ed.ss MT
 F'Iood has wlthdrawn- from the 1oca Bull Moose organ57a ton and declines to associate himself with those whe | are the avowed leaders He said T am dissatisfied with the @steam roller methods that are being enn- ployed by those who have managed to get control of the local n1ov ert went into this movement without the slightest desire for personal gair but because I believe in Theodore Roosevelt and want to see him get baf5eSa FnH Seu9re ,, de deal he deserves sdil for him and shall do everything in my power to further his sshances at the coming election But I don't be- 1ieve that to further his interests is is necessary for me to become affili- ated or associated with men who will stoop to such tactics as have been eTn- ployeG in the mana cement of the af- fairs of the local movement recenf1 y. s.e.sI was oneaof the gathering of s150 men who attended the first meeting in Varuna- hall. That was when the organfz3tion here got it's start. A committee was elected at that neet- ing from the floor and without any previous slate or anything that sa-
 
 ical procedure. That committee was elected in a mass meeting of citizens for a distinct purpose.
 Later a state central committee named by the state leaders. as local member of that state central commit tee In time there came to be four other Bridgeport workers added to the com init ittee. John Taylor, M. Moody Downer, George B. Melius and Bert E. Barnes.
 committee came into existence and certain local members of 1t got the idea that they were the whole thing in the eyss- of the state leaders then trouble began for the local committee on permanent organization elected at the Veruna hall meeting MT. Barnes was chairman of that permanent conn nldttee and was also a member of the state central committee That was about all the recognition that was given the local committee.
 'sAfter things got going an effort was made, so I understand, to have the local committed on z organization. take a back seat, die natural death and let things drift into the hands of the local men who were appointed to the state central committee. MT. Barnes was interested in seeing the movement go along without trouble and I know that he worked to that. end by patching up what trouble seemed imminent and he finally sue-7 ceeded after some trouble, in getting recognition TOT Ir1S -OflSlnaIs commit tee, which [ still consider the only le- gal committee properly representative of the local rnoyeme nt-
 MT. Steddard, Mr. Taylor and oth-i ers were not inclined to recognize the local committee but through efforts of MT Barnes and Fred w Tewne, Frank W. Rock and others they were made to recognize the committee to the extent of having that original com mittee make a report at mass meet ing held in Warner Hall. That mass meeting was called by MT. Stoddard without consulting with members of the sorig ginal7 committee and it was un- fair to those on the original commit tee that the meeting should be called without their having something to do with 7it The purpose of the meeting was to make arrangements for the New Haven state convention.
 -'At that meeting the original com nittee on permanent organization sim ply reported progress. After the state convention in New Haven this origin