The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-06
BULL MOOSE IS
 HERE TO STAY
Local PrOgressives Propose to
 Organize Permanently
Town Chairman MeIius to Call Meeting of Party Chairmen
 and Workers This Week i

The Bull Moose are here to stay. GraHified over the showing they made. as compared with that of the Repub- dican party, they propose to organize permanently. Local workers and dis trict c41airrnen will hold a meeting and decide on a program of procedure. It is intended to organize a Bridge port Progressive club, to maintain rooms if this is feasible, and to con- duct a campaign of education the year round The Women Progressives will give assistance in this work and meet Friday afternoon and decide some means of raising money. With the aid Of the women workers it is believed that much effective work can taaie people of the city relative to the merits Of the Progressive cause. Lit- erat1re will be distributed and one plan being. talked of IS to organize a speakers bureau fer the purpose of developing local speakers. Those in the party who aspire to do public an opportunity to be heard at meet ings of the club which will be fre- quenjt. Given this opportunity to ad- dress an a,udience it is believed that oped into a speaker and by the time the next campaign rolls around the party will have some workers who can go on the stump.
 The Progressive cause will be talked as much as possible, at church affairs. lodge gatherings and forth and every manner of effort will be made to sustain the interest in the move nlerat.
 Town Chairman George E. Melius said this forenoon that he had heard been working in the patty and every one insists that the Bull Moose party must coTtinaoe its work.
 .'The Progressive party has estab- Asled itself firmly in the political dife Of thiH nation and tIaere is no req son to expect that we are not going to continpe the local organization, I consider that every vote we received over the 2,00e mark is a victory Of couEHs made pre-election predictions s e,as we, we all xn9w f waat these are a Ia@ag consider that we won moral vic- tory if we didn't win a anaterial vic- tory. There Is another thing to be considered: It will probably be better for uD in the long run that we didn't win this year because had we elected Col. Roosevelt. we might not have supported him and consequently we would not have been able to carry in to effect the Legislation we advocated. We will be better able to sweep into office four years heGace.''
 Throughout the evening yesterday Progressive headquarters were crowd to get the retnrtss. The enthusiasm was not dampened a bit when the re- port came that Wilson had carried the Eastern States. Each return that w4s favorable to the Progressive party was cfBeered tizae and again, campaign songs were ssang and an enthusiast spent hal6 the night waving the large bandalaa banner out of the window. W. Tladeoua Lyon, who is a brother Of Cecil Lyon of Texas, the Bull Moose leader of that State was a. guest at headquarters last night and gave a rip r9ar4ng speech, in which he urged the Becal Progressives to continue their oEgautzatioTi. Mir. Lyon. who was for meray DeFnpcraft, comes from Waco, Texas, and was born Jan. 8, 1840, five years before Texas entered the Union. He Is Q splendid speaker and he aroused the local Bull Moose to wild eahh l,siasrn last night as he declared that the Progresstves have won 8 spfenf1id moral victory .this year and laavs the means of pushing on to rapid success if the right sort of work is done.
 It is understood that the local Bull Moose paTty will have an unhealthy deficit to meet as a result Of it's cam paign The local organization is said to have collected something like $i, 800. It's expenditures are believed to have amounted to something like $2,5DO It Is proposed to conduct a systematic campaign to raise funds fof. the party and the Women Progressives who have organized into a club will give material assistance in tfads work.