The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-24
MOOSE VICTORY
 IN FAILURE TO : |NDORSE HUGHES
Bitter Row in New York
 State Meeting is Pleasing to Democrats.

journed Saturday night without in- dorsing the Republican candidate for President. asserted that they had won decisive victory. Failure te take action regarding either the na- tional or the state situation, they said. was a severe rebuke. to the na' tional committee for its indorsement of Hughes.
 tBainbridge Colby, one of the earl1- est of the returning stragglers from the latest Armageddon, after cooling off from the heat of battle, said:
 "The session was a stormy one, but that was expected in view of the an- nounced purpose of the meeting. The opponents of the plan to strangle the party were under the stress of strong feeling, but it was sound and honest feeling.
 "The collapse of the efforts to in- dorse the Republican candidate was dramatic. Every parliamentary de- vice and expedient was exhausted. but it simply couldn't be done. The loy- al Progressives refused to be deliv- cred and were undismayed by the claims of strength put forward at the opening of the meeting by the Hughes men. T
 N. Y. Progressives Now in Line.
 'The New York Progressives now take their place along with the Pro- gressives of Massachusetts. California New Jersey, Michigan, Indiana, Ken. lucky Missouri and the lengthenine list of othe. states which have re- pudiated the national commit tee.
 ''The national committee has been spurned and cast away as an unau- thoritative organ of the Progressive body, and the predictions and warn ings that it's action on July 26 would be repudiated have come home to roost with a, vengeance"
 Michael Schaap, vice chairman of the committee, who was also one of the leaders of the opposition to Hughes, declared the meeting was "very successful on the whole"
 '.The Hughes men," he saids took an adjournment to save their faces. because it was evident that if the resolution to indorse Hughes had been put to vote it would have been de- feated overwhelmingly. The noise and confusion of the meeting did not indicate that we did not know what we were doing. The confusion was due to the rulings of Chairman Johnston. who was inexperienced and who favored the Hughes men.
 "It was exactly the, me situation es was presented in the meeting two wears ago, when the ,Republican fac tion tried to deliver the party over to Hinman.
 ..I believe that the entire party will support Justice Seabury for gover- nor, no matter what our differences over national questions may be. The Syracuse meeting did not sound the death knell of the Progressive party. We shall still be united in state poli- tics. If the Seabury indorsement had been put to the vote every member of the committee would have voted for him."
 Perkins Is Silent.
 George w. Pefkins would not be on the effect of the Syra- cuse meeting when reporter made efforts to reach him by telephone at his home in Riverdale. At the Demo- cratic national headquarters in the street building the out come of the meeting was hailed, as a victory for President Wilson. The national committee, in it's weekly bulletin, issued yesterday, called at tention to the change of front which MT. Perkins has undergone in the past year in regard to the future of the Progressive party. A year ago, the bulletin charges, MT. Perkins said:
 "It would be more easy to make an argument for our affiliating with the than it would be with the And on Aug g, 1915, MT! Perkins said:
 "The idea of trying to deliver votes sn masse to another party seemed to be out of order and utterly unfair and seemed to be striking soNat the very heart of our whole organization hat, after careful consideration and with a number of our friends, decided to go to the Buffalo which was by far the largest one, and protest, in the name of the national organization, against any such action.''
 Democrats Are Pleased
 Washington, July 24.-Democratic leaders here are much encouraged over the political outlook in New York state because of the failure of the Progressive state committee to indorse Charles E. Hughes, Republican can- didate for President. They believe the refusal of the Bull Moose to be delivered as one man will mean many thousands of votes for President Will son! They think each Progressive will be guided solely by his own con- science and judgment on election day.
 Postmaster General Burleson, Sec retary McAdoo, Secretary to the Pres- dent Tumulty, Senators Walsh, Sim mons, Martin, Overman, Johnson of Maine, Kern, Taggart, Hollis and ot11- CTS expressed satisfaction over the re- suit of the Progressive meeting at Syracuse.
 q do not believe" said Senator raggart, that the men who followed Col. Roosevelt through the 1912 campaign and made such a WI eek of the Republican party will be de- ivered. now like so many cattle. just because their former leader caved In. The result in New York is on a par with that in. New Jersey, where the Bull Moose repudiated the bill of ale of some of their erstwhile leaders,"
 t'The efforts to whip the Progress sives into line for Hughes accord ng to the Chicago program have fail- ,1 said Sfotamopt frsuod hxy 10