The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-02
TIDE OF PREFERENCE TURNING
STRONGLY TOWARD PRESIDENT
wilson ALL REPORTS SHOW

Conn.,, voted for Roosevelt. Prior to
that he was a Republican. This year
he is for Wilson. 1.-THE Republicans"
| he says, "have failed to make out the
slightest case against the President.
He has kept us at peace
William Wilhelm of Pottsville, Pa,
State Chairman of the Progressive
Leagues of Pennsylvania, will vote
FIR Wilson. allow Roosevelt and
Clifford Pinchot can support Hughes
after he has admitted that he had a
conference with anti-American pro-
pagandists is a problem he says.
"All pro-Americans should vote for
Wilson"
Replying to an appeal to him to
join the Hughes Alliance, Henry An
drew, a prominent Progressive OF
Schenectady, N. Y, has given out a
statement explaining his reasons for
being for Wilson-the achievements
Of the administration.
Il voted for Mckinley, Roosevelt
and Taft, but this time I will vote
for Wilson," says Allen Peyton, a
farmer of Curry, w. Va.
when Hughes has the support of
every anti-American organization in
the country it is time for me as
patriotic American to vote for the
other fellow" says former Judge Ed
ward D. Leach of New York, for
many years a Republican and later
actively identified with the Progress
sive party. president Wilson's ad-
ministration has enacted more pro-
gressive legislation than the Progress
sives themselves ever hoped for
Arnold E. Waters, a Baltimore
ho,l/or mbo S11npOrto1 TO r. r,orl>-
ing for Wilson as ''the best all-round
statesman 1 know Of"
Another Baltimorean, who is an en-
thusiastic advocate of Wilson's re-
election is John H. Taxis, confection-
cry manufacturer. 81 have never
voted for a Democratic President be-
fore,'' he says, "but will this time"
Prof. c. E. A. Winslow Of the Yale
School of Medicine, says: II should
be false to all my ideals as an Amer
lean citizen if I did not recognize the
progressive and disinterested efforts
of Mr.. Wilson for the cause of hui
manity.''
Prof. Hiram J. Archer of Boston,
Mass, a Republican, has come out
for Wilson-"the only conscientious
and patriotic course for the American
whose sympathies are with the strug-
Cling masses"
Invited to join the Hughes Alliance,
H. A. Lewis of the Western Audit Co.,
Milwaukee, has announced that, al
though a Republican, he cannot sup
port Hughes. '"To defeat President
Wilson," he says, land undo all that
he has accomplished and thus pro-
claim to the world that for the exc
'cutive to stand truly for the inter-
ests of the United States is political
suicide would indeed bring a crisis.
Col. J.. B. Macdonald, = Inspector
General of the western department
of the Army, stationed at San Fran
cisco, says the President has followed
the only practicable course in his
treatment of foreign and Mexican af-
fairs and has saved innumerable
lives in consequence.
Theodore Roosevelt is, the Alex
ander Dowie of politics. says DR..
Clarence B. Straus, former Progress
sive national committeeman from
Virginia "Dowie stood by his people,
Roosevelt. hasn't. That's one Of the
reasons why I am to-day urging the
re- election of Woodrow Wilson.
Returning from a tour of the
United States, H. Alder, of the Koch
Adler Clothing Company, New York
city, a Republican, says the Demo-
Gratis will sweep the country. 'The
laboring people are almost solid for
the President"