The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-16
PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO INDIANA HOUSES PARTY
 TO GREATER ENDEAvORS

provided more substantial and valu- able improvements in the four years than the Republicans achieved in 20 has not been presented as intelligent ly as the circumstances warrant.
 Activity Looked For.
 There has been a decided improve ment in the Democratic plan of cam paign recently, and the coming of the President injected more Confidence and a bolder front on the part of his sup porters. Private deals of the sort that the old Tammany ane Republican ma chimes of New York were accustomed to negotiate are now to be discouraged and local issues subordinated to their proper places.
 A canvass of the state from one end to the other reveals much the same conditions as prevail in Ohio. The la bor vote Is unmistakably for the Pres idents His peace program is so rapidly gaining in popularity as to cause the first real alarm displayed by the Re- publicans. The Federal Reserve meas ure has been applauded wherever in- telligently explained. The Rural Cred it's Act has arousedS as much interest and approval as the Presidents efforts in the cause of peace.
 The criticisms of MT. Wilson's man. agement of the foreign affairs of the country by MT. Hughes and other re- sponsible Republican spokesmen have not fallen on responsive ears.
 F Catholics and Mexico.
 The only interest displayed by voters in the relations of the administra tion with Mexico has obviously been in spired by a propaganda 1naugurated by professional Roman Catholic. agi-. tators- It is the view of unprejudiced observers that the leaders and spokes- men of the Catholic Church in Indiana are opposing the President because of his refusal to comply with their de- hands that he compel obedience by the Carranza regime toNthe ambitions of the church leaders, even if such in sistence requires a resort to force and intervention.
 This movement, which is assuming widespread proportions throughout the country, particularly in the West, isl being extensively exploited by the Re- publican managers in Indiana. {t An observer is informed that t.the church is opposed to Mr.. Wilson; {; that "every priest in the country is secretly counselling his parishioners to vot& for MT. Hughes" that "that Cardinals Gibbons, Farley and O'Con- nell are fully aware of the undertak- ing and are in sympathy with it." Statements Unfounded.
 There is not the slightest justifica- ton for the latter assertion. of course. but the rank and file of the voters of Indiana do not know it. No word has come from any of the dignitaries | of the church to instance their disap- proval of the uses to which the pro- fessional agitators, who assume to speak for it, are making of it's in huences tsk
 Indiana is being flooded with 1itera- tpre intended to influence the minds of Catholic voters. A thick volume distributed by. '"sThe Catholic Church Extepsion Society of the United States of America" contains some outrageous attacks on the President, questioning both his personal and official motives in dealing with the Mexican problem It is entitled "The Book of Red and Yellow and the authorship of it is credited to Francis Clement Kelley. It is published in Chicago and several Catholic clergymen are given as spon- sors for it. The brochure has this subtitle: eBeing a Story of Blood and a Yellow Streak # There is little question that this publication and Others of a similar nature and purpose have exercised considerable influence over the minds of great many voters,
 H. L. Wilson Hard at Work. 1 Henry Lane wilson, former Am-
 bassador to Mexico, is the chief pro-
 noter of the Catholic propaganda
 against President Wilson. He has established himself here to direct it. Under his instruction literature, nov. Ling pictures and cart tail oratory are
 being provided by the, Republican l4campaign managers.
 I The ex-Ambassado is confident fht
 the majority of the, Catholic clergy are antagonistic to the President. He
 told one of his callers that 23 out of
 the 30 Catholic clergymen of Indian apolis were using their influence | against the President and in the in-
 terest of MT. Hughes <
 The Republicans are no less active 4 in appealing to the prejudices of the
 voters of Teutonic sympathies, though
 there is less pronounced oposition to
 the President on their part than was
 the case few months ago. They do not like him and are frank enough to
 say so. But they have been favor | ably, impressed by his manifest inn
 partiality in the Deutschland and U-5s
 submarine incidents and the failure
 of MT. Hughes tohndicate his exact at.
 titude toward the subject that most directly interests them. 3f I Would Bar the Colonel.
 | Democratic leaders note a. decided
 improvement in the temper of Ger man-American voters, particularly since MT. Hughes indorsed Col. Roose- velt's utterances about them. The Re.
 publican leaders have followed the ex.
 ample of their. brethren in Ohio and
 have crossed their fingers on the col
 onel. They do Iunf want him sent to the state, fearing tragic cons ,quences
 to their cause. So the colonel is tc
 be kept out of Indiana and Ohio, fol
 fear of the havoc he would certainl,
 create with Republican interests. - Il The Republicans would be just a. [; willing to have MT. Hughes keer
 away, too, until he sees his way cleal to bring a more satisfactory messag,
 to the German-American voters thai
 he delivered on his last visit; but O.
 the two they would rather have hin
 than Roosevelt. MT. Fairbanks, the Republican vic | presidential candidate is rerardad O