The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-15

fond of being monopoly ridden and
 monopoly robbed they should speed up
 and voted for Candidate Hughes. Michigan.
 Michigan Progressiyes.l .lhave organ
 ized a complete state campaign conn l mittee for the reelection of Woorow Wilson. This committee is headed by Charles P. Hoffman, who was chair man of the Speakers Bureau of the National Progressive party, secretary of the Michigan State Central Com
 mittee in 1912, chairman of the State
 Central Committee in 1914. and now
 a Progressive national committeeman from Michigan, who has brought to President Wilson's support all but four of the entire membership of the old Progressive party State Central Com
 mittee
 The Progressives of Michigan have practically declared for Wilson in a body.
 Montana.
 The Yellowstone Daily Journal,
 which for many years was issued un- der the management of Col Sam Cor don, long one of the wheel horses of the Republican party in Montana, has declared unequivocally for Woodrow
 Wilson. In announcing it's intention to support the Democratic national
 candidates, the Journal said: "Regardless of party affiliations we
 believe the best man now before the
 country for election to the Presiden-
 tial chair is Wilson. And further, we believe that his advocacy of world peace, his foreign policy. his program of preparedness, his red -blooded Americanism, and his administration
 of internal affairs are the wisest poli-
 cies the nation can pursue." New York. Two prominent New Workers, one Progressive, and the other a Re- publican, have announced their inten- tion to join the constantly increasing
 ranks of Wilson supporters. Richard Yelling, who was the Progressive
 member of the Civil Service Commis- l sion in Mayor Gaynor's administration
 and vice president of the Men sLeague for Woman Suffrage, is one of the re- cruits. He said: "In domestic mat
 ters the President has made such a
 remarkable constructive record that it seems to me Progressives are al-
 most bound to support him. Benjamin Wood, of 116 East Eixty-
 third street, is the other New Yorker
 outside the Democratic party who is going to support the President. He said:
 T am favorable to Wilson because of his forceful and dignif1ed corres- pondence with Germany; because I believe that President Wilson has had more serious problems to contend with on taking office than any pre- vious President and that he has handled those problems calmly, delib- erately bravely and intelligently Be- cause through diplomacy, he has demonstrated that "the pen lis
 mightier than the sword" and that,
 unlike others who have talked much
 and said little, Wilson has talked little
 and said much,
 Because, we are at peace while the
 European powers are wrapped in the
 meshes of war and bloodshed." Pennsylvania.
 Pennsylvania Progressives, besides
 having very definite grievances of
 their own, are still ranking under the insult offered the California Pro- gressives in MT. Hughes tour of that
 state. The latest expression of this feeling is contained in an editorial by
 the Philadelphia North American, the
 leading Progressive organ of the East,
 which says in part:
 "He affronted every decent and in- telligent citizen of that commonwealth when he alluded to Willie Crocker, a small-fry politician in the corrupt Southern Pacific clique, as "Califor-