The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19
PROGRESSIVES WORK UP MUCH
 ENTHUSIASM Leaders of Bull Moose From All Parts of State at
 Big Outing
OUTLINES PLAN FOR
 COMING CAMPAIGN
Preparing Circular Show ing How the Legislators Acts Measure Up to Their Platforms.

'T have been asking every Pro- Eressive I meet whether he knows of any one in his town district who voted our ticket last year who will not vCte it again and I cannot find on.,'' said Joseph ". Alsop of Avon, chairman of the Progressive state central committee at the Progressive party reunion at Savin Rock yester- day.
 That a campaign of education is necessary and the Progressive party must begin to build for the future was emphasized by every speaker at the reunion More than 200 members iCf the party and their wives, among them nearly a dozen from Bridgeport, lsttended the gathering. It was given under the auspices of the 49 dele gates chosen So the first National lcoIsventicn of the party in Chicago last fall
 The guests were the original 100 who signed the Progressive roll at Hart ford last July, the state central com i1aittee, the Progressive Service com iznittee, the eight elected representa- lives the candidates for Congress, the ;candidates on the state ticket, and flor the legislature and their ladies. sT'he dinner which was served at the iColonnade was also open to any mem lbers of the party who cared to at lfen5-
 E NT4n8S man of the dinner committee and i4oastmaster. Other members on the icommtttee were former Senator Jos eph V. 4lsop of Avon; George A. l1Scn1anS of Dznburyy and Frederic L.. Leighton of New Haven.
 MT. Smith introduced as the first speaker Herbert Knox Smith of Hart Eford. the party's candidate for gover- lncr at the last election MT. Smith lsaid in part:
 ~4.A fSa Hartford and it is the same old kind of Legislature we have had for years but I want to say now that it Is the Hast of that kind of legislature we shall ever have in Connecticut. We have 2 long hard fight ahead of us end we must begin a campaign of edz1- cation. It Is going to take lots Of time, lots of work and lots of money. T do not know whether we are going to win or not but I would rather fail lin an attempt to carry out the princi- iples of the Progressive party than win sat any other endeavor-"
 Mrs George A. Romans of Danbury .Sxho is a member of the Progressive Service committee. urged the women Ipreseut to take up the work She Eaid that if the wife of every Pro teresztve would give up one afternoon leach week to spreading the doctrines tcf the paxty much good would be ac- eomp1hssed-
 
 pro get right behind this movement hand rush it along to success" She maid in conclusion:
 we are the only party organized nor and aiming for the benefit of the Iro1,ntrv at large The partisan spirit 4hat develops at an election cannot be kept up during the year nor should 1t nt Is for to watch the party that Is hu power if we are not, suggest rene- t.dfes for conditions if we are asked, and n Stamford we had a judge who said hhat the Progressives could not have banners on the streets and he issued au injunction against us- That was ~n attempt to suppress free speech which never should have been put up lon the people of Connecticut. I am sg.ad 1t is now rubbed out, for Gov ernor Baldwin has refused. to reap Eooint the judge who issued it and MT. Sco1e1d. e member of our party, Is new a deputy judge of that court
 ''In Stamford we are carrying on Hhe kind of Progressivisn that is breaking down. party lines We have @even Progressives a committee of Ffteen that has been appointed to k1raw up a new charter for the city. What we are doing in Stamford. Pro Fressives can do anywhere and ali bur efforts should be along the line khat we win be remembered for the good things we do-
 
 rIared T. Paxton Hubbard, member of Abe Progressive Service Committee l who spoke next. we are going to 1 win but it will require time and SyS- 1 Item and we must be prepared for success when it comes. We want the | men of action In our government but i've want the men of knowledge and l study behind them We are different 1 4rcm the other political parties for in 1 hstead of following the lines of the least resistance, we-follow the lines of most | resistance It is the longest and the l hardest way round but it is the saf- | lest and the surest for the Progress ;sives'
 Former Senator Alsop, chairman of mhe State Central committee was in | sfroduced and really forced to make a 1 mr-eech. Toastmaster Smith had asked 1 tthat Chairman Alsop be given a ris- | .due salute but, after this was over. l fae cries for speech were so insistent 1 that Chairman AIsop was forced to | respond.
 we can count on the fingers of one hand the measures passed by the last f1eRislature which were for the bene- | 1t of the whole people of this state,' he said The Democratic and the Re- publican legislators were elected on lnne platforms but when they got to Eontanued on Page Two) ]