The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-21
PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRAT
 IS WANTED

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 others of the opposition. Inspired sGorles had gone to eastern news papers that Hadley was to- be picked up By the Taft people as a dark horse
 candidate.
 When Governor Hadley reached Colonel Rooseveltss. rooms. soon after Colonel Roosevelt had read his an nouncement, he was asked to make clear his position and what he pro-
 p>eed to do fin Dase the convention s6ated the challenged delegates He sid he would fight the roll up to tho end of the parliamentary road and would then take such course aa he mfa1at think best He would not psomise to repudiate the convention 6y a bolt or to refuse 8 nomination at its hands.
 Soon after the conference. Hadley qu3exly left and did not return.
 hmong the Roosevelt supporters a difference of opinion was early deve- loped. On one side,a group of radi- cals- headed by Governor Johnson. of California. George l. Record. of New Jersey. tho Pinchots. James R Gar Held and ex-Senator Beveridse were for taking action regardless of party rsxularity, action which would of necessity separate the party Oppos- et to these were men like Senator Borah and Governor Hadley who re- fused to desert the regular party
 rhis adea was expressed by Victor Murdock, xof Kansas, an unQuestion- ed radical and eager follower of Roosevelt @
 sTsom tho i1rst day entered poli- tics have had party regularity driil- a into mesr heAsaid. could do or say anything. in1lde the party, but l mus n1ver .tot outside the line. Tne opposition has resd me out of the party a. ocoen t11n e but have always refused to 90. have seen this new party coming. For the last Tour 1houfs my heart has hardly been peaf- i'm a4 all. No
 The Kansan threw iup his hands m a reature indicating what the bolt wou31 cost him His enort at nam taini6e ssregularity' put Governor Deuesn on both aides of the fight. In the sconventfoii he fathered a Roose- velt resolut1on to purge the roll by vote of the unchallenged delegates but later called the Illinois delegates feeether and pledged them to stay f- the convention rather than join a walkout in the interest of Roosevelt.'
 The CtNRdRnia and PennsylvaniA deleeatioua took, a different stand. Proarseldvism U the regular Repub- licanism in these states and, Film ana Johnson quickly announced that their deleeations wore ready to walk out anA .taseQ n fast and as far as Roose- welt wished' to lead.
 nEolG syh8fnia' was of the same mind and there were some other fol- lowing but early today it was evil dent f&nafsfnany of tho RO0sevelt eiH- vsructed and sincere followers who wore willing to stiok to the limit un-i der the Republican standard drew the line at bolting with him The ex- treme radicals, like George T.. Rec ed. of New Jersey. say the Roosevelt following and the gtrength of the new party mQxln1ent is not to be meas-s ured by the numerical standard of hblt3ng fdelegatss.
 f~~fhis Fis a nation- wide movement s(Sd Record. today. It makes no diRerence what a few ssdelegafAs do htzy4n Cn4cak0.. If there a19 noe 4o deleeate6 to join in a walkout from thae 1odvention ifalI tAk dew pSrtyl movement q. not in the .least weak eoed. The efrength of ttfa movement is In Che hedrts Of the people and it cannot be, stopped or checked by any thing apS delegates may dosor refuse to do."
 Aithesisti fhs birth. of the new par ty will be given as the morning of Jnae 50. the determination to bolt vas reached the evening before AL most the Bame people were eathered ln tho inner conference at losl6, We'd naGday night, when word was brought that the credentiAl6 committee had decided to railroad the contest cases behind closed doors and without de- bate. - sss .ts
 Colonel Roosevelt stepped into the Crowded room. ''It's alf -off, F he snap ped. 'Tm done with them. Get our people out of that committee. Start b bolt at once.pA yell went up from those present. Everybody reach cd for the Colonel's hand. A long tension ended, . jubflation foll6wed after which cJnSultatdon was start ed which lasted far into the night.
 The Col0nePs less radical friends began urging reconsideration of the new party. The HadIey. program of exhaustlng all formal expedients was pressed upon Roosevelt until the coming of daylight The Colonel listened to all and then left to do some work with his secretary. The wofk was his valedictory to regular fly and announcement that he would % to the end of the road in making an independent fight '.for the rule of the people and for social and indus- trial justlce." FaColonel Roosevelt put in the en. ti<e morning in his suite conferrinr with. his heutenants. As soon as the convention was called to order fhs CQlonofs private wire to. the convens ton was put in operation and he 6pent the afternoon listening to ths yeport. During the after inc. Okla h0ma deleBation of Roosevelters start d movement to have a committee of the new party leaders go to Balti- more to meet with the progressiyes in the Democratic ranks with a view to Getting them into the new organi1a- tion in event of the Baltimore conven- tisn nominating | conservative cam E0R CAT.E !