The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-03

ney of San Francisco has sent tele-
 gram from Los Angeles to President
 Wilson pledging to support him for re- election.
 The telegram, which is most sensa-
 tional, not only announces the deter
 mination of MT. Heney to work "ear-
 nestly and actively" for MT. Wilson S
 reelection, but in refusing to follow
 Theodore Roosevelt back into the Re-
 publican fold or to support Charles E.. Highes as the Republican standard bearer, MT. Heney assails the action of the Republican convention and con- demns MT. Hughes for accepting the nomination. MT. Heney was one of the delegates who left the Republican convention at Chicago in 1912 and helped form the Progressive party. The telegram from MT Heney pledg- ing his support to the President fell like a bombshel1 in Republican politi- cal circles here. It vii be used by the Democratic national committee as an important political document and widely circulated in the campaign.
 The Heney telegram was given out
 for publication by the Democratic
 committee. In Democratic circles i+ is interpreted as the forerunner of other pledges of support that will. come to
 the President from Progressive leaders
 who refuse to follow Colonel Roosevelt
 back into the Republican party.
 MT. Heney's telegram sets forth full ly his seasons for leaving the Repub-
 iican and Progressive ranks, and align Ing himself on the side of the Demo-
 cratic administration. He indorses in
 words of highest praise, tho record of
 President Wilson, iscluding his Ger
 man and Mexican policies.
 To my mind,'" says MT. Heney, .'the
 nomination of MT. Hughes represents the fruitfoh of the political corruption
 which was also successfully. practiced
 by the Republican national committee
 Tour years 70, under the guidance of
 the men have named"
 The men named by MT. Heney as having deprived Roosevelt of the Re-
 publican nomination four years ago and who are alleged by MT. Heney to
 have prolonged their power again to defeat the. will of the majority of the
 Republican voters" are Senator Pen
 rose of Pennsylvania, Senator W
 Murray Crane of Massachusetts. Will Hams Barnes, Jr., and Elihu Root of New York.
 DGTSOnAl l. tegrity or character of MT, Hughes. !, says MT. Heney, "but I do condemn him for permitting professional politf. cal tricksters to make a nation-widf canvass for his nomination while he
 was member of the Supreme Court of the United States, under an ap- po1ntment for life with the vast DO. tential power which accompanies that position"
 Some striking sentences in MT. He ney's telegram say:
 Tt is now my intention earnestly and actively to work for your re-elec- ton as President"
 1T cannot follow Theodore Roose. welt back into the Republican party while it is still controlled these same men,
 Hughes represents merely the con. sent of Penrose, Crane and Barnes te permit the Republican party to have as its candidate man selected b, themselves, who, therefore, if elected President. would be disinclined to at tempt to destroy the continuance O, their control of the nominating ma
 chinery.
 T cannot vote for or support him (Hughes). ! Personally, shall not vote for any Republican candidate for President thereafter, as long as the corrupt con. trol of the nominating machinery oi the Republican party is permitted thus to continue in existence" Through your personal efforts al President most of the other important blanks of the National Progressive platform of four years ago have al. ready been enacted into law by Con. gress.''
 r MT. Heney, who is native of New York, was a practicing lawyer in SaI Francisco when he was urged by Phi1ander c. Knox. Attorney Genera during the Roosevelt Administration to undertake the prosecution of ths famous land fraud cases in Portland Ore. He obtained the indictment among others. of the late Senator Mitchell of Oregon. He has been z
 stanch personal friend, admirer ant ! follower of Colonel Roosevelt, and as
 serts in his telegram that he would l Loyalty and vigorously have supported Roosevelt if he had accepted the Pro gressive nomination.
 | r. f1Su0y 5 tol0SIdIIl gives IllS ISeL son for refusing to support Mir Hughes in part as follows.
 -Four years ago, after the fiasct
 of nominating MT. Taft, with the ait l of dishonestly seated delegates and O. delegates who were representatives O.
 a mere handful of office-holders il the Southern States has been perpe trated against them, al majority O.
 the Republican delegates who hat been legally elected fom those Statel
 having a preponderant Republican vote reassembled in Chicago and or ganized the National Progressive Par ty. The primary and paramount pur pose of the organization of the Ma tional Progressive Party was to place in the hands of the voters of eacf
 and every political party, through tn, iinstrumentality of a national direc Presidential preference primary law the power for a majority ofsthe voters
 of each political party to nominate it, candidate for the Presidency. Al
 thoughtful men among the Republican
 delegates who organized that Pro gressive movement realized that tht manipulation of national political con ventions by corrupt methods of invisi II ble Government through politica
 bosses constitutes an ever-continuint menace to the very existence of thu Republic itself. Every serious-m mind cd person must realize that a Republi | can government in fact cannot con