The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-08
DUFFY, MOOSE
 DELEGATE, 10 HELP WILSON
sWest Hartford Progressive
 Issues Statement on q Position.

# Hartford, Aug Swallowing the ac- 'bSsor of the Progressive party confer
 nce in indianapolis, which decided f&ot to put any presidential ticket in ll 4he ,fie1d, Frederick E. Duffy of West 4f4srfford. progressive candidate for 2! !consr.ess in this district i-- 1914 has earne out for Woodrow Wilson.
 f Mr. Dunfy was temporary chairman {: nf the meeting of the progressive ' xe. te central committee at the Heu- < I&lein hotel, July a1. which elected x 16s1eeates to the Indianapolis confer ! snce. He is a prominent cattle I breeder of the state Wm- H. Avis or I iWhitneyviile, member of progressive sl state, central committee, has also icon,e out, for Wilson, and since the T news that the conference of California \ pvoeressfves unanimously endorsed l president wilson oi, Saturday reached fConnecticut, number of other prom x I1nent progressives in the state are said ' to be ready to announce they will vote N 4or Wilson
 MT. Duffy was asked, today, what N he thought 'the progressive party in 4 Connecticut would do in the coming II campaign
 7 .It can't do anything as q party, can it?'' he Queried in reply But zts1ts members can do much individually | I expect to vote for Woodrow Wilson Bor president"
 Delegates Back.
 Luther H. Trieschmann of this city md w. ". .Lpwerre of Colebrook. delee xates of the Connecticut progressfves jfo the Indianapolis conference. have I 1vaturned- MT. Trieschmann said the {frue progressives in this state would support Wilson in the Ispresfd ential campaign although party wise there had as yet been no formal Announcement to that effect. Mir. Arieschmann, with the dust of travel fatill on him, attended a conference of fproeressives in New Haven, Sunday, 1vhere 1t wasS decided 'to have Secre- .ffary James IS. Smith call another Imeeting of the progressive state cen fral committee in a few days, so that LhIessrs. Trieschmann and Lowerre tcould make report of the Indiana Ipolis conference and the committee j map out a course to follow in this <! state. MT. Trieschmann, who is also town chairman of the progressive party. expects to call a meeting of I Hartford progressives in a few days to ascertain what will be done in this
 city.
 Regarding the Indianapolis confer |tence. MT. TT1eschnann said there dEwere congratulations on every hand flor the stand of the Connecticut Pro- ifgressives who, by a vote of 19 to In 1.-the state committee, repudiated the faction of the Progressive national lcommittee in endorsing Hughes for tf-- 10 lconference was an inspiring one to a true Progressive and was attended by al the. finest lot of men he had even seen s:fogether, and he heard 15 or 20 of the lbrightest speeches he ever listened to lin any political gathering. Letters land telegrams were received at the conference from many states in which ifhe Progressives did not have time to get their state committees together land name delegates to the conference.
 Shining Lights.
 Mir. Trieschmann was impressed with the great influence of Bainbridge Colby of New York on the convention and with the way in which Matthew dHale, of Boston presided. John M. Parker of Louisville, the Progressive candidate for vice president Judge Albert B. Nortoni of St. Louis and Mrs Sarah H. Lyons of Minneapolis
 were prominent figures in the confer ence. Burton Vance of Kentucky and one or two other delegates to the con- ference were severe in their condem- nation of Roosevelt and George w.
 Perkins, MT. Trieschmann declared.
 Frederick E. Chase of New York, who campaigned through Connecticut two years ago for the Progressives, was at the conference and MT. TrIeEchmann felt that MT. Chase was
 doing valiant service for the anti- Hughes Progressives. Mir. Triesch- mann added he learned at the confer once .rat Herbert Knox Smith of iFarmington attended the meeting of tho Progressive national committee on uune 26 on the proxy of a Texas com- mittecnan.
 The report which Mir. Trieschmann and MT. Lowerre will make to the state committee will be full of details <. of the Indianapolis convention but it's results in general are summarized in