The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-11-30
PR0CRESSIvES TO
 OFFER CANDIDATE. FOR PRESIDENCY
Bull Moosers Will Have Ma tional Ticket in 1916,
 Latest Report.

New Y Ork, NOV. s5V---ILere IS CO po a Progressive National Convention next year. Where and when it shall be held will be determined by the National Bull Moose Committee at Chicago, January II. This was de- cided yesterday at No. 30 East For. ty-second street, where the executive committee of the Progressive Nation al Committee held an a1I-day pow WOW.
 For publication nothing was said about candidatesA But it was ascer- tained that in the meeting the name of Col Theodore Roosevelt was fre- quently mentioned, reports having been received from several states that one1 will make an excellent standard bearer.
 National Issues Next Year.
 This is the Statement that was is sued after the meeting:
 State issues which have comp1i=, cated elections during the past three years are /now a thing of the past The next election is a national one. It was on national issues that the Progressive party was born and poll ed it's greatest vote. The national the salient features Of the Progress sive national platform of 1912.
 Believing that the great Progress sive fndependent vote Of the country is just as firmly committed to these principIes as it was in 1912, the Pro gressives throughout the country are insistent on maintaining the organi= ration of the Progressive party with all vigor possible.
 Therefore the National Commit, tee of the Progressive party is hereby called to meet in Chicago on Jan. II, 1916, for the purpose of fixing the time and place of holding the Nation. al Convention of the Progressive par- ty to select candidates for the Presi- dency. and Vice Presidency of the United States and to adopt National platforrnt''
 Hope to Profit by Delay.
 This means the party leaders will have q. month in which to look over the ground after the National Conl- rnittees Of the Democrats and Repub- Iicans decide upon the dates for their respective conventions. Then. by setting a later date, the Progressives will be in a position to beneft from the knowledge of who the candidates of the other parties are to be before fixing on any candidates of their own.
 Some of those present in person or by proxy were: Herbert K.s Smith, Connecticut; William F1lnns Penngy1- V1sI111L A. V dn5 Nc1AGnDSTBs 99GAn-5 sy1vanias; Walter F. Brown Ohio :; Raymond Robinssz Illinois; William Allen White Kansas; Meyer Lissner. California; George c. Priestly, aOkIa- homa: Everett Colby, New .Jerseys Francis w. Bird, Massachusetts,: Ar thur N. sageE Missouri; F. cor-s rick, Nebraska; Edwin. M. Lee, In- diana; Ha1bert P. Gardner. Maine; c. w. Mcclure, Georgia, and George, W. Perkins, William Hamlin Chiids, E1on E. Hooker and Horace g. Will kinson, New York
 Perkins Enlists for the War
 MT. Perkins addressed 1.-the New York County Committee last night at Bryant Hall He recalled that the party boiled 4,000, 900 votes in 1912. and held that this meant 4, 900. 900 in depend ent voters had been created. The defeat of the proposed State Con- stitution. khe said, bore out his con-. clusion.
 stThe Republican party. is a party without 9 leader or platform,'' said MT. Perkins, sand the Democratic party is not much better of. 2
 Reports of assertions from the Pro- gressives were exaggerated, MT. Per lkins went on.
 sI'ye enlisted for the war, whether it be for four years, or eight years, or 12 years. he said.
 The county committee accepted the lfesfgnation of it's former chairman, Jacob R. Schiff.. William HaIpin wanted MT. Schif just dropped, stpe- cause has has enrolled as a Repub- ican.''