The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-25
PR0CRESSIvES
 WON'T BE USED
 AS CATSPAWS ,. Endorsement of Minority Will Have Little Effect
 On Party Vote rMAJoRITY REPORT IS l AGAINST REPUBLICAN Members of Rank and File
 Determined to Have New Candidate

There is a fine row on among the Progressfves of the Fourth Congress sional district over the attempt upon the part of a small coterie who the rank and file say have ate mpted to usurp the leadership of the party. to sforce the party into a position of ae-s cepung E.. J.Hin as their eandfdatG
 There was a. meeting in this city yesterday of the committee which 9compFises the heads of the various town fc0narnittees in Fairfield county and a right merry meeting it was. It soonA developed that there was ele- ment in the committee which incIud-. ed s. E. Vincent and John Taylor of this city that leaned toward the can dfdacy of the G. O. F. candidate. E.. J. HILL
 Tn the debate which followed the Hill adherents in the committee soon ! discovered themselves in a helpless minority and plain words were spoken by those whe did not propose to be- come the tall to the Rep kite.
 The majority of the comIaftteennen said they would never stand for any such action and spoke up for a straight out party man for congress-. Such man they said was Attorney Henry B. Stoddard of this city and Mr. Stoddard was not unwilling to accept the nomination and campaign the district in the interest or the party.
 Gutxon Borgfum of Stamford who | supported the minority said that it might be well before adopting any resolutions to wait and confer with a committee of Democrats but the ma 1 jority of the comnattees were evident ] Iy of the opinion that the acards were stacked' for Hiu and they voted this 1 proposition down hard and went on I gressfva with their preference for gtoddard.
 Mr. Stoddard Is a. prominent young 1 lsswyer who has taken much interest ] in the Progressive party movement and has been one of its most active l started the propaganda Attorney I Stoddard was a delegate from Con- necticut to the first national conven- i ton Of the party held in Chicago in l 1911.
 The announcement today that mi i would racOnmend the endorsement o1 MT. HfIrs candidacy met with bitter denunciatfcn from a number of the
 enthusiastic partyOworzzers here. The
 congressional committee met with a
 cOmmdttee of Republicans in the. All
 gonqrfn club Saturday afternoon
 Yesterday after a. rather stormy ses-
 sion minority of the committee pre- pared the following report which they j will present to their brother Progress I sivese
 Resolved, That vve representative | of the Fourth congressional district in
 session on the 24th day of August 1914 ,are of the opinion that Mfr. F. J HiH has met in intent and spirit the principle of the resolution passed by the committee at it's meetins, August 1s, 1Nd4."
 This report Is signed by S. E. Vim cent and John Taylor Of Bridgeport
 GutBon BorgIum, Judge Harris Sco- field and RIA Reynolds of Stamford
 Percy B. Adams and Walter M. An sderson of Greenwich.
 4 number Of the rank and file o1 hthe Bridgeport Progressives when
 they learned of the minority commit
 tee report today said that under nc | circumstances would they vote for E ] J. Hill for Congress. Ferdinand Fox chairman of the finance committee and campaign manager of the party
 last fall when Horace H. Jackson ran for mayor said:
 "I know at least 15 members o1
 the party who say they will vote the | Democraefe ticket rather than vote
 for E. J. Hill for Congress. I should like to know who gave those mer authority to meet at the Algonquin club and decide that the Progressive would endorse MT. Hill. Very few
 members of the Progressive party II
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