The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-03-19
PERKINS WARNS
 OF 6. 0. p. OFFER
Tells Davenport Beware of
 Foes and Their Gifts.

New York. March 1s-George w. Perkins. acting as the-big stick wield- CT of the Progressive party in the ab- 8 final blow to any plans for gstting the Progressives and Republicans to- gether behind a candidate for gover- nor this fall. MT. Perkins declares that there is just as much chance of the two parties getting together in this state as there is of a snowbaIls sur viving in h-h-h-Hades
 MT. Perkins has no official status as boss of the state Progressives, but he is chairman of the Progressive state committees finance committee, and when he wrote a letter to Prof Fred erick. M. Davenport of Hamilton Col lege, Progressive candidate for lieuten- ant-governor in 1912, clouting the get together idea over the head, his word was taken as law.
 0. B. Phillips, county chairman of Lewis county and acting Progressive state chairman in the absence of Chair
 man T. D. Robinson. has sent copies of the Perkins letter broadcast throughout the state to county and city chairmen and committeeman of al sorts from state committeeme down Word has come back to Pro gressive state headquarters on Wash 1ngton square that the letter has been accepted as a final mandate. Here is what MT. Perkins said:
 My Dear MT. Davenport:
 have been thinking quite little of the remarks passed around yester- day as to the efforts of the Repubn- cans to work up some sort of a scheme
 by which there would be a harmony movement between the Repu b1icans
 and Progressives in this state this fnl1. do not know of the new name the Republicans have found to apply to this last effort of theirs, but one name to my ears is about as unpleas- ant another. Every day, 1t seems to me, makes it more and more plain that we are in for a knock-down-and- drag-out fight all along the line. The Republicans do not seem to realize that a great many of us pledged our honor in this cause some time ago and that
 reason, if no other. would be sufficient to make turning aside from the straight course impossible. In addi- ton to this L wonder what the Re, publicans think that the voters of this country would be doing if a few of us got together and arranged a com bination or consolidation of some sort t.
 The Republican leaders are sincere in one thing, viz. that they do not be- ieve that anything has happened ex- cept a row at Chicago in 1912 as to who should be nominated for the Presi- dency. They fail entirely to recog- nize the tremendous changes that have come dDo1T III the thoughts of the peO- pie as a result of the mighty evolu- ton that has been under way in re- cent years, and there Is no more chance of their old leaders or old principals ever again being acceptable to our people than there is for a snow ball to survive in Hades
 think that every one of us in this l state, whenever we see any sign of this sort of work going on, ought to hit it and hit 1t hard am writing you this letter to say whenever you | see any inclination to trade or deal or sympathize with the Republicans, I hope you will swat it and let us know down here, so that we can hit l it again where you hit it before.
 GEORGE w. PERKINS. | This letter was written on March g, subsequent to a conference between
 MT. Perkins and MT. Davenport up state. Subsequent to writing it Mir. Perkins went to Florida for a rest
 prior to beginning the labors of the campaign. MT. Lewis said today rel ative to the Perkins letter:
 This puts at rest all uncertainty as
 to our stand on the question of giving
 up the fight as a Progressive party