The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-11
REPUbL|CANSQU|
TEDDY AND co
OVERTOW|LSON
Notable Former ProgTessives
Havo No Sympathy With
Third Term Movement.
MANY co ON THE STUMP
Crane, Wiley and spreckles
Brothers Jump to Aid of
New Jersey Executive.
MANY co ON THE STUMP
Special to The Bulletin.

New York, Oct. l0.-One OF the
most significant developments of the
present Presidential campaign has
been the large number of Republi-
cans of national prominence who
have sacrificed their party affilia-
tionS and come out in support OF
Gov. Woodrow Wilson's candidacy.
More than a score of these Repubfi-
cans, all of whom avow progressive
principles, are to be found this fall
lighting in the ranks with the forces
of the New Jersey Governor. Their
alienation from their old political
kinsmen is due in almost every in
stance to their conviction that the
time has arrived when they should
put aside mere party fealty for a
cause based on higher principles,
While ardent Republicans at heart,
they find absolutely no inspiration in
the leadership of President Taft be-
cause Of his generally admitted re-
dictionary beliefs and they have no
sympathy for Col. Rooseyelt's third
term movement. Gov. Wilson, in
this crisis, seemed to measure up to
Their estimate as a true progressive
and they decided to cast their pollti-
cal fortunes with his.
Most notable perhaps among these
dissenting progressive Republicans
are Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, the Gov
ernments former Chief Chemist
Rudolph Spreckles, whose war on
graft and civic corruption in San
Francisco has made him national
figure; Louis Brandies, the noted
Boston lawyer r-reformer; t. S Sena
tor John D works, of California;
Senator Robert NJ. LaFollette who is
devoting his trenchant pen to Gov.
Wilson's cause; Senator John ].
Blaine. of Wisconsin, one of Sena-
tor LaFollette's chief aides in the
fight for the Republican Presidential
nomination; Jacob Schiff, the noted
banker-philanthropist; Claus A.
Spreckles, the California sugar re-
finer WI no has spent a fortune and
fifteen years of his life in a war on
the sugar trust; his brother, John D.
Snreckles, publisher of the San
Francisco Call and a lifelong Re-
publican; Wallace Batehelder, law
yer and former Roosevelt Rough
Rider, who was the Third Term
partys state chairman in Vermont
until his split with Col. Roosevelt;
DR.. J N. Hurry, Health Officer OF
Indiana; DR. William Jay Schief-
feIin, wealthy philanthropsst and
lcivic reformer; jacob Schiff banker
Philan thropist; Raymond b, Fos-
dick, former Commissioner of Public
| Accounts of New York Chas K.
Crane, of Chicago; John b. Rath0m,
publisher of the Providence, r l.,
Journal Rev Madison c. Peters, for
years active in civic reform in New
| York, Erman J Ridgway, publisher
of Eyerybody's Magazine: Henry G,
| Niles, forme' Pennsylvania State
chairman of the Lincoln Party;
Samuel S. Fels, manufacturer, Of
Philadelphia; Powell Evans, manu-
faCturer, Philadelphia, and host OF
others of lesser fame.
DR.. Wiley's reputation of Presi-
dent Taft and Col Roosevelt follows
his declaration that both favored the
big business engaged in defeating
the purposes of the pure food law.
His exposures of the malign infu-
ences at work in the Department OF
Agriculture to undermine his public
health campaign provide one OF the
sensational scandals of the Ia1t ad-
! ministration. Convinced that Presi-
dent Taft was entirely out OF SYM
pathy with his efforts TO safeguard
public health against food adultera-
tors and 'dopers" generally, DR..
Wiley quit the Government service,
and since then has been working
I2ealously in Gov. Wilson's S cause. Mr..
Spreckles, who personally financed
the San Francisco reform leagues
war on graft and civic corruption in
the Golden Gate City backed Senator
LaFollette In his fight for the Re-
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