The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-19
G E. SHEPARD, BETHl;L, CONN.

! boss fame. Delmar E. Croft, who is playing the part Of the cats paw, Gutzon Borglurn and George A Ro- mans were also there. MT. Romans repudiated the proceedings and did his patriotic duty in reporting it to State headquarters and later at the request of the party state leaders published an accurate and full expo sure
 For time, at least, Mr. Borglum met with the promoters of the Purity Party.
 At the meeting of nineteen in Bridgeport before naentioned. MT. Borglun as chairman appointed a hand picked comnittee to do certain things, wh ereupon it proceeded with out authority to attempt TO commit the party to MT Hill and hand the Progressives over to the Republican or parent party as Mr. Borglun calls if.
 quote from Mr. Borg1um's press comInunication Of September 10th: sssThe papers tell us to-day the Pre- gressives have named their ticket for the list for Governor Why q this ? Why further estrange us from the parent party?'' MT. Borglum knows why, and every Progressive and in Prof. Fisher is in accord with the en- tire Progressive platform of 1912, that he worked vaIiantIy for the progress sfve measures before the last Con necticut 1egisIatures that he has de- cIared himself bitter opbonent the Republican as well as the. Dem ocratic party, and that he measures up to the reauir renents, as candi- date. on the Progressive ticket.
 MT. Borgium should know, as he apparently does not. that the Pro- 1 -.aE-- T enough tc nominate men from the Democrats party just as freely as from the Republican party when such
 men measure up to tn e high standard of true ProgressiVes. MT. Borglln has asked, if NProgressives accept MT. Fisher, why not Mir Hill He very well knows that Mir Hill refused to declare himself independent. that he is not in accord with the Progressive platform and that he would not de- clare himself against theA wrongs of boss rule in the Republican party. MT. BorgIum well knows that MT. Hill by his own statement is a vic- tim Of the bosses of his own party in that he was prevented from going to the United States Senate because a party boss said he could not, and at another time he was told if he wanted with twenty thousand dollars ($20.- GOOD. Yet knowing all this MT. Hill evidently has not the moral courage to help the people and the State free itself from crooked political bosses.
 MT. Borglum knows that MT. Hill trefused to make any kind of a stand against this boss mis-rule and he also knows that on Saturday, August 22d, at that unauthorized meeting of Re l pulolicans and Progressives a self de- clared boss stated that MT. Hill would make a statement in the papers on l. fnI1 9ae in Ixyi dentIy the Boss pushed the button for 1 low and behold the wishy, washy statement from MT. Hill appeared in the Monday morning Bridgeport pa per. At that unauthorized r7 7ee etf~7er the Republican Committee was told that MT. Hill had been eliminateo and that no statement would be o1 any avail.
 ask, Mr. BorgIum and you MT Independent Republican voter and represent a boss mis-ruled party and does he not eat out of the hand e1 1.-the Republican bosses, as much or as nttIe as may please them?
 l Col. Roosevelt said in his speech i on August 18th in Hartford. -sIt is foolish to make fetish of fusion or anti-fusion. If we fuse with the bos- ses and their machines, unworthy 1 people with unworthy principles we l would be guilty of treachery to every principle which we have adopted. The thing I most desire is to fuse with honesty and the decent rank and file l of both the old parties in the -effor1 I to do what is exactly as much thei1 I interest as is ours, an effort to de stroy the machines and bosses, to drive corruption from public life and to make possible real social and in dustrial Justice ?
 On that basis, MT, Borglum, the 1 Progr esSiYe party, now, and in 1916 will accept such men as Prof Fisher and reject such men as B. J. Hill and it will in no wise be necessary or ex- pedient for the -Progressives, as you seem to think, to combine only with Republicans It will be as, Col Roosevelt has stated a fusion with the honest, decent independent rank l and file of both the old rarties