The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-28
BOURBONS SEEKING
 SEATS IN CONGRESS
Progressive Element in G. o. P. Has Been OverthrOWn and Standpatters Win Nomina- tiOns.

1 Washington, Oct. 1S-Nominations for the Senate and House of Represen- tattves have now been completed in all sections of the country and the various campaign committees which have their headquarters here have compiled the lists of all candidates to be voted for in the, approaching e1ecl tion. With a few exceptions here and there the Democrats are shown to have nominated the men of their party who are now holding seats in Con gress. For the most part the new names which appear upon their list rare of men in districts now repre- sented either by Republican or Pro gressives.
 The Republican list is highly inter- esting. It shows that in most instances they have fallen back upon the old lin standpatters, many of whom were defeated either two years ago or four years ago, and that with here and there anT exception they have turned down the so-called progressive element of the party So far as the party organization and candidates are con- cerned the reactionaries are again in the saddle. and if the Republicans are successful this fall, there will be a grand revival of bourbonism in this country. In the primaries and in the nominating conventions wherever a progressive Republican essayed to be I his party's candidate for the Senate or House, he was defeated, and som e member of the old regime generally E some one who had been repudiated by 1 the voters, was successful in gaining < the nomination.
 | Starting in New England and nov ing Westward it is possible to see how i the reactIonary contingent in the Re f publican party has triunphed over tn ! progressive element and captured the { places on the ticket. In New Hanp- shire, for instance, there was grand rally to the standard of Senator Jacob ! H. Gallinger, one of the most pro- nounced of the reactionaries, who | has voted against every progressive measure since he has been a member < of the Senate, including the popular I election of Senators, the income tax, i the Chi1dren's Bureau, parcel post ex- tension and every measure favored yb , labor. In addition he voted twice for i Lorimer. dodged the vote to oust s.Ike'' 4 Stephenson, who admitted spending 2 < $1O9,000sto gain his election, and voted for Judge Archbold, who was inn 1 peached by. more than three to one majority of the Senate
 Also the New Hampshire Repubn- scans have renominated for Congress former Representative ffCy'' SuI1oway. for sixteen years one of the cogs in th e Cannon machine in the House and a | bourbon of bourbons They turned l down a real progressive Republican to nominate "Cy's
 Tn New York sBoss' Barnes won a
 signal triumph in having his man
 District Attorney Whitman, named fo1 l the governorship and as a choice be-
 tween two standpatters for the sena- I torship they selected Jimmy Wads-
 worth, former Speaker of the assem-
 bly,, a son of ex-Representative James 1 w. Wadsworth, another of 'Joe'' Can
 non's henchmen.. Young Wadsworth is l a, chip off the old block, reactionary | like his father.
 | In Pennsylvania the Republicans
 against the protest of more than 100,
 900 of their party, have nominated l Senator Boies Penrose, whose record as a standpatter it is not necessary I to recite here. The liquor interests and the railroad interests and every 1 naenopelistie interest in the Keystone State is back of Boss Penrose, who is making the fight of his life to save
 bourbonism in Pennsylvania.
 In Ohio they have named for the
 Senate, Warren G. Harding, stand
 batter, and 9 protege of former Sena-
 tor, <sF'ire Alarm F7oraker. The game
 was to renorninate Foraker. who was