The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1912-03-25
FRED WARREN. CHAMPION
HECKIIER, 40 AGAIN
FACES PRISON


This is what President Taft thinks
of Fred D. Warren:
Observation-Disclosures Observation-Disclosures
And this is what Fred D. Warren
thinks of President Taft:
Observation-Disclosures taoinetaoinetaoi
If you are strong. able-bodied
man of the world, and want to know
what that means. ask any linotype op-
orator. But, if you are lady or a
clergyman don'tEfor the affection of
Michael-DON'T Do TT!
Fred D. Warren, champion ileckler
of the world and environs. is cele-
brating his fortieth birthday by
thinking sweetly solemn thoughts
about how it will feel to do a lock-
step and wear. a striped suit /
don't know why Fred is on the verge
of going to prison. 1 only know that
he is always on the verge of going
to prison, he being a Socialist edi-
lation. For. you see-to parody his
own masterpiece-if Fred D. Warren
occupies a prison cell, half a million
workingmen will simply raise-will
simply raise-a mighty yell! And then
the circulation barometer in the
northeast corner of Fred's paper will
go up, and UP, and up.
Fred d. Warren was born at Arco-
la, ILL.,, March "a, 1872, but now, it
is unnecessary to say, resides in Kan
sas. He was educated in the COM
mon schools and country printing Of
fees, and in 1890 settled at Rich Hill,
Mo-, and established the Tribune, a
weekly newspaper of Republican pro-
clivitieS. Socialism was just Begin
ming to make it's way into Missouri,
and the young editor began studying
it, with the result that in 1898 he
abandoned the Grand Old Party to
it's fate and pinned a red button on
re Tn he Mil
ic, new local paper he founded,
he preached the new gospel with such
effect that he attracted the attention
of Julius Augustus Wayland, the old
war-hoSS editor of the red flag par
ty, who invited him to come to Kan
sas and take an editorial job on the
Socialist weekly Of national circula-
ton conducted by Wayland. The lat
ter. after amassing a considerable for
tune in the newspaper and real es-
tate business in Pueblo, Col, had
thrown in his lot with the co-opera-
tive colony at Ruskin, Tenn. The
colonists didn't cooperate noticeably,
and Dayland withdrew and started
a Socialist paper in Kansas.
AS managing editor and now part
owner of what is perhaps the lead
ing Socialist journal of the country,
Warren has pulled off, many stunts
that would do credit to a Brisbane.
to write 1.-The Jungle" paying Sin
c. airs expenses while he was in Chi
cago investigating conditions in the
stockyards, and who secured the SER
ial rights of the novel long before it
appeared in book form and upset the
national stomach.
When Meyer, Pettibone and Hay
wood were taken from Colorado to
Idaho for trial, Warren raised the
cry of kidnapping" and offered a
reward to anyone who would kidnap
former Governor Taylor Of Kentucky
and return him to that state for trial
on the charge of completely in the
murder of Gov. Goebel. For that he
was indicted, tried and sentenced to
six months in Jail. President Taft
pardoned him but gave out a scath-
ing statement in which he charged
that Warren was anxious to break in
to Jail in order that he might play
the role of martyr. The latest charges
against Warren are the outgrowth OF
his exposure of alleged conditions at
the I1eavenworth federal prison.