The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-08

gressive' movement today. He is one of the original progressives of the na- tion. His devotion to the interests
 made complete and generous con-. 1 tribution to the cup of it's achieve
 ments.s
 Prendergast reviewed Roosevelt's | public career, declaring: s While others talked he acted. My, candidate is the man courageous Iwhere the peoples interests have been menaced he has known no fear. and
 asked mo. quarter. There have been l none so powerful as to awe him and | before him the greatest captains of | industry have lowered their lances. : It | is inevitable that a man who has aroused the bitterest hatred of the | mighty of finance should have raised lup body of enemies who have fol- | lowed him through their diverse and linsidiuos agencies and sought and still 1 seek to destroy him. He is the only
 man in public life today of whom they have any genuine fear. Against their J opposition which for yindictiVeness has never been equalled in politics, l he has fought at times single handed. l With unfailing fortitude he met their atrocious assaults. This tribune Of
 the people has faced the forces of | privilege.
 saTo slicl a leader the hearts of nlil- 1 lions of Americans turn in this na- I tio11al crisis. Such a leader they ask l you to give them in this hour of their hope As he-crusaders of old pledged themselves to God and country so do I we consecrate our lives to the service l of that enduring democracy ordained 1 by the Divine power, and as the leader in this crusade I present to you Amer | ica's greatMst statesman and lson- 1 hearted differentiated Roosevelt. Roosevelt and Johnson today dis cussed their stumping plans. They l have practically agreed that Gov. l Johnson shall spend most of his time. in the east, while Roosevelt combs l the west.
 I Forty states will be visited, how I ever, by Roosevelt, with one main speech in each state, eliminating tail end train performances. Gov. John son had not decided today whether he will resign as Governor of Cali fornia to devote all of his time to | the progressive fight. California nor, following the example of Gov. | Woodrow Wilson. Roosevelt will make his first speech August 16 in Rhode Island.
 Roosevelt's big guns will not open
 fire until September, at the Minnesota
 State Fair.
 I Prominently mentioned today be- fore the national committee convened for places of the executive commit tee were George Perkins, Wm. Finn,
 Frank A. Munsey, George l.. Record,
 Medill Mccormick, Dr. H. w. Coe of ] Portland Ore, Frank J. Henry of Cal
 ifornia, Col. Cecil Lyon of Texas, and
 Timothy Woodruff, of New York.
 Informal caucuses of national com
 mitteemen, according to sectional i divisions, preceded the national com T nittee meeting today. Political situa-
 tions in each state were concisely pre- pared for presentation to the govern , ing body All declared for a straight , out and out progressive ticket in each
 state, without Republican fusion, as ' outlined by Col. Roosevelt.
 } The exodus of delegates, begun i'm : mediately after the convention ad- . burned last night, was practically 3 completed today. Few but the party I leaders remained. Early today in his ! hotel Col. Roosevelt and Gov. John g gates The Moo, hoo" cry of the f bull moose clan greeted the leaders.
 Tam glad to know just how a bull moose really sounds said Col. Roose- g welt. "I feel this. convention stands for something the old parties do not dream of. It was not typical of con- f Iventions of old parties which by their
 platforms tried to. conceal their real g plans. We do not promise the people more than we can give. I am sure s no body of men and women ever as- fl sembled with a more serious realiza-
 ton of their work. We don't prom.
 ise the millennium, but we do intend i, to try to make this country more de-
 cent ''
 Gov. Johnson told the delegates . that President Taft is the most lun- [ iliating spectacle in public life today" ''Gov. Wilson's speech said John : son, lis totally lacking in enuncia- z tion of any of the human principles . embodied in the progressive plat ? form.'' Col. Roosevelt, accompanied by his secretary, Mrs. Roosevelt and Sena- tor Dixon, planned to leave here at 2:45 o'clock this afternoon on the
 Twentieth Century Limited Gov.
 Johnson also returned home today.