The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-29
REPUBLICAN, PROGRESSIyES
 FOR WOODROW WILSON

Republican Progressives by score. of thousands are going over to vii son and Marshall. More than forty thousand Republicans have pledged themselves to Wilson through the Will son National Progressive Republican League. The League is making great accessions to mem bership every day Every addition to its ranks is a dirnin- ution of the forces on which the Third Term candidate was counting And the League is only one of the channels by which former Repubn- cans are withdrawing themselves from their former Republican utilization, and at the same time repudiating the Bull Moose party
 This wholesale abandonment of the Republican party, and it's accompany ing rejection of the Third Termer and his new party, is one of the most inn portant features of the closing weeks of the campaign. The Wilson Pro- gressive Republican League only com Yet 1t has accomplished for the Dem ocratic ticket 8 work as long and as wide as this country. It is a work which will be measured by continuous accessions to the ranks Of Democratic voters, up to the very day of cleo ton, and it will be productive of an immense increase in. the Wilson and oAAeD+-a ESok' @AAAc@JOAASJ dI hO polls.
 E. We'll toward the head of the former Republicans who have come out for Wilson is pr. Harvey W. Wiley the famous conservator of public health, the national champion of pure food, who was driven out of the adminis- tration by the interruptions intrigues of his enemies. That pr. Wiley will wfeld vast influence is unquestion- able. The people know him and trust him.
 Senator Robert M LaFol1ette, who ought to have been the Presidential candidate of the Republican progress sfves at Chicago, if there had been any sincerity in their claim to pro- gressdveness.z is devoting his pen to the cause of Wilson and ito exposure Of the pretense and humbug of the Roosevelt candidacy Senator Blaine, foremost supporters in the campaign for the Presidential nomination. is fighting side by side with I-aF,ollette now. s's=
 Among other leading Republican progfessives, who have arrayed them selves against both Taft and Roose- welt, and are identified by m mbership or .co-operation with the Wilson Pro gressive Republican League. are Ru- ooIph Spreckels, whose war on graft ana civic corruption in San Francis co has made him a national figure: Louis Brandeis, the noted Boston United States Sena- tor John D. Works, of California; Ja- cob Schin, the eminent banker-phil- Claus A. Spreckels, the California sugar ref1ner who has spent a fortune and fifteen years of his life in a war on the sugar trust; his broth er' John D. spreckels, publisher of the San Francisco Call and a life long Republican; Wallace Batchelder, lawyer and former Roosevelt Rough Rider, who was the Third-Term par tvs State chairman in Vermont until his split with Col. Roosevelt; Dr. J. N. Hurty, Health Officer of Indiana, who has just come out for Wilson; Dr. William Jay Schieffelin, wealthy philanthropfst and civic reformer: Charles R. Crane of Chicago; Ray mond B. Fosdick, former Commis- sioner of Public accounts of New York; John B. Rathom, publisher of the Providence, R. T., Journal; Rev.