The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1916-11-02
INDEPENDENTS in
GREAT MOVE TO
WILSON BANNER
Persons Unhampered by Pc
litical Ties Recognize
Worth of President.

New York, Nov. 2.-As the cam
paign draws to a close, the drift Of
Independent political opinion in favor
of President Wilson becomes greater.
From San Francisco word came to-
day that Rudolph Spreckles, a Pro-
gressiye Republican, who is as active
in civic reform as he is in. business.
and who financed the San francisco
Graft | prosecution, has announced
himself for President Wilson.
The same message brought the
news of like decision by the noted
Progressive ex-Chief Justice Matt L.
Sullivan, of the California Supreme
Court. 1t also told of the resignation
from the Republican State Commit
tee Of H. L. Baggerly, editor of the
San Jose Evening News and Albert
I. Loeb, a prominent San Francisco
lawyer, who was a Progressive lead
er. Both are working for the Are-
election Of Mr.. Wilson.
Bishop F. L. Mcconnell, of Min
nesota, sent the following message
to-day to Joseph M Price, Chairman
of the Executive Committee Of the
Woodrow Wilson Independent
League:
IT heartily favor the election Of
Woodrow Wilson, and I deeply regret
that I cannot come East to make
speeches for him.
Mr.. Price also received word to-
day from Seattle, Wash, that Robert
Moran, former Mayor of Seattle and
founder of the great shipbuilding
Company, The Seattle Construction
and Dry Dock Company, which built
the battleship Nebraska, a lifelong
Republican, has come out for Presi-
dent Wilson.
The message which came from
George r. Martin, Secretary of the
Washington Branch of the Indepen-
dent League, states tat there are 81
affiliated Wilson Leagues in the state,
with a total membership of 21,700.
Senator Gore of Oklahoma wired
Chairman Mccormick from Spokane
to-day that he is confident that the
President will carry Colorado, Utah,
Idaho, Oregon and Washington.
Chairman Mccormick received a
letter to-day from J.. r. Kerr, Chair
man of the Democratic Central Com
mittee, of Yuma, Arizona, in which
the latter tells of many prominent
Republican and Progressives in
Arizona who are announcing their
support Of President Wilson.
Mr.. Kerr declares that more than
half of the members of the Women's
Woodrow Wilson Clubs Of the state
are former Republicans.
From Pennsylvania comes equally
enthusiastic Wilson news. Adolph
Marcus, one of the principal mer-
chants of Scranton. a lifelong Repub-
lican, and John M. Harris, one of
the leaders of the Pennsylvania Bar,
who has often stumped the state for
the Republican candidates, have both
announced their conversion to the
cause of President Wilson.
Even in rock-ribbed Republican
New Hampshire, the drift is the
same. Prof. George A. Wicker, Of
Dartmouth college, who was Chair
man of the Progressive State Com
mittee four years ago; F. w. Love-
joy, of Nashua, who was a prominent
member of the committee; and Frank
A. Musgrove, editor of the Hanover
Gazette, who was secretary of the Re-
publican State Committee in 1910,
then Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives and State Auditor, Secre-
tary Of the Progressive State Com
mittee in 1912 and a delegate to the
Progressive Convention in Chicago
this year, all announce their support
Of President Wilson.