The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-22
MCCORMICK SEES
 PR0CRESS|VES AS WILSON BOOSTERS
National Chairman Expects Moose Votes Will Re-
 elect President.

New York, July 22.-Confdent that the rank and file of the Progressives will vote for @heir individual choice for President regardless of the action of the national Progressive committee or the action of the New York State Progressive committee, in session at Syracuse today, National Democratic Chairman Vance Mccormick said yes- terday that if the Democrats got only a very small slice of the 100000 and more votes cast for Theodore Roose- welt for President in 1912, the success of the Wilson campaign was assured. He was sure Wilson would get many Moose votes
 Chairman Mccormick sat down yes- terday and figured out that the Re- publicans might get much more than half of the Progressive vote and then not wtnt MT. Mccormick demonstrat- ed his case by the State of New York in this way: In 1912, Wilson got in this state S55,0O0 votes; Taft, 5000, and Roosevelt, 39o,OoO. MT. McCor- mick pointed out that by allowing the Republicans three-fourths of the 39o,- 900 Roosevelt got, and adding that number to the votes Mir. Taft got. and adding the other fourth to the votes Wilson got, the Democrats would still have margin over the Republicans, with 7b3,000 votes as compared to the , G. 0. P.'s 74s.e00 on the 1912 basis.
 Therefore the way MT. Mccormick figured it out was this:
 If 2b per cent of the 1912 Bull Moose vote in New York goes to the Demo- crats, Wilson will carry the state; similarly, the Democrats will carry | kIx A sive vote; New Jersey will go Demo- cratic with 12 per cent. of the Pro- gressives voting Democratic; Nebras, ka. with 13 per cent; Maine, with 2t per cent; Illinois, with 20 per cent. West Virginia, with 27 per cent; Kan sas, with 26 per cent; Massachusetts with 45 per cent, and North Dakota with "A per cent.
 Big Moose Vote for Wilson. I According to reports I get from various sources" said Mir. Mccormick the Progressive state chairmen are far from united in the intention O, going oyer to the Republicans. ]. I hg- ure that we will get an even greater percentage of the Progressive vote east for Roosevelt in 1912 than that which statistics show will re-elect President Wilson. look for a. much larger vote for MT. Wilson than he got in 1912. Many Democrats in 1s1; did not know of Wilson. They know he had been governor New Jersey and that was about all they knew oi him politically. But. now Wilson 1. national figure and that VIII make a great difference. MT. Wilson ha. been tried and found not wanting" MT. Mccormick made public tele' gram he received yesterday from Ed, gar c. Snyder a Progressive leader or the Pacific Coast, who vas chairman of the Progressive state committee o. Washington in 1912. The telegram said: ff
 II believe that the bulk of the Pro
 gressive party will refuse to follov
 those members of the national corn
 mittee who voted to indorse Hughe. They who fought at Armageddo
 cannot easily be led into such a back
 ward course. They see through tn cloak now so artfully thrown abou
 the machine they fought in 1912. Tn Progressive party was not the crea
 ture of whim or the product of
 mere factional quarrel. The Pro T gressive party was not a enema party, although unfortunately sue
 idea was permitted to become wifel Il spread. The Progressives followe Roosevelt because they thought h
 was one of them and would lea
 them where they wanted to go. H
 lost his hold upon them when h
 broke the faith. He pledged then land he cannot now deliver, the vote q
 his dillusioned party.
 Il The Progressive party in 1919 cal ried this state by wide margin. I had the privilege of acting as chail man of the state committed. and Il have good reason to know that now speak for many thousands of tn voters of that party when I say W
 feel 1t our solemn duty to work an
 vote for the reelection of Presider
 Wilson. We believe today that M Wilson more than any other man ( adequate national prominence is tn effective exponent and champion ( tn essential principles upon whic the Progressive party was founded q T MT. McCormick left New York lat l yesterday afternoon for washingto to confer with President Wilson H , refused to say whether or not | would announce the Democratic can paign committee upon his return. H } didn't even want to say how man
 members it would have.
 Mallan Leads College Men.