The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-24
OF ROOSEVELT ARE
 HURTING PARTY
General Dissatisfaction In Several States Over Com
 mittee's Work.

The complete collapse of the Re-
 publican campaign in Connecticut
 and the Wilson trend so strongly in-
 dicated in a number of straw votes
 taken independently through the state, as we'll as the canvasses of the political leaders, have filled the G. 0.
 P. management in the Nutmeg State with consternation.
 IS. O. S." is the call which has been wirelessed to the Republican National Committee. Money is em- plored. Big speakers-especia Roosevelt and Hughes are needed, so the call goes. if Connecticut is to be saved"
 Already assurances have been eX- tended that national help will be ex- tended to the sinking Roraback ship. Desperate efforts will be made to stem the tide. Here is the situation, as the New York Herald (strongly o-Hughes) eums it up in its issue of Saturday, October 21:
 Republican leaders in Connecticut have sent out a hurry call for help, according to information given yes- terday at the national headquarters.
 There is a strong Democratic drift in the State among the labor men
 the railroad employees in particular, and among the farmers who are talk ing the peace issue, it is stated. What kind of help is needed most Is not explained. but financial as- sistance will be extended by the na-
 tional committee. In addition both Charles E. Hughes and Theodore
 Roosevelt will go into the state inn mediate1y. MT. Hughes next week will speak at Hartford. MT. Roose- welt will go to Bridgeport, center ot the supposed trouble and the main
 munitions district.
 While the campaign managers will try to brace up the Connecticut l campaign, they will by no means di- vert attention from the larger states where it is now conceded the con- test is to be decided. These states are New York, Indiana, Ohio and
 Michigan Many believe New York is not doubtful, but the leaders by nc means feel certain They get dis
 quieting reports from upstate. They hear of polls showing that farmers are yeering to President Wilson or l the peace tissue. But on the whole
 they are less concerned about New
 York state than about Ohio and two
 or three other Middle West states The national and state Republi- can committees are not doing goot team work, according to reports Governor Whitman's supporters de clare they are getting little encour- agement from the National Commit tee This is believed to be the mair
 reason for the renewed activities o1 George w. Perkins at headquarters William R. Wilcox is devoting hi: l time. almost exclusively to Mir Hughes campaign Now MT. Per- ! kins has stepped in and is trying tc give the state campaign a boost. Every effort is being made to gel the dissatisfied upstate Republican factions into line This includes the
 counties where William Barnes in. l f1uence is strongest. Reports from Albany county show that MT. Barnes
 home district will cast its normal Re. publican vote for the ticket. But lit tie progress is being made in placat. l ing the anti-Whitman county lead. CTS, and this is the def1ection mos1 feared
 It is known also that the Repub- l 1ican leaders are uneasy because o1 Theodore Rcoseve1t's speeches MT Roosevelt will not go to Ohio, 1t is
 said, as was at first intended. His | militant expressions are not pleas | ing to German-Amer1cans and are
 frightening some timid voters who dc
 not like war talk, according to the
 reports.