The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-01-11
Bull Moosers Solid
For Colonel, Assert
Leaders At Chicago
Will Surely Have Ticket in Field, Says George W. Per
kins-Roosevelt's Name is Foremost in Declaration
of Presidential Nominees Endorsement of Republi-
Candidate Not Probable, is Belief of Many
Progressives.

| While George W. Perkins declared
emphatically that the Progressives
! have a ticket in the field, the state
ment was construed as meaning that
let, either that of the Republicans or
one of their own.
| Colonel Cecil Lyon of Texas, who
mas been a familiar figure at many
Republican conventions and who fol-
lowed Colonel Roosevelt into the Pro-
gressive party, was emphatic in the
assertion that the Repu blicans must
nominate Colonel Roosevelt.
Much Discussion of Hughes.
How about Hughes?'' he was asked.
well, for my part, Hughes wouldn't
satisfy me, He has been out of poll
tics for a long time, and we do not
know how he stands on many mat
%ters. And, besides that, I don't be-
11eve the Republicans will nominate
MN, or that he would accept the nom
nation if they did. I believe that if
the nomination were offered him he
would reject it, perhaps in some spec
tacuIar manner, so as to set a prece-
supreme Court of the United States
out of politics.
Gen. c. D. Elliott of West Virginia
here, took issue with Colonel Lyon
saying that Hughes might be accepta,-
ole to many of the Progressives,
though he did not believe he would
be nominated.
the most active Bull Moosers of 1912,
also insisted that the Republicans
must nominate Roosevelt if they de-
sired to win the election, but in dis
cussing candidates other than Colonel
Roosevelt who might be acceptable to
the Progressives, he mentioned Gov.
S. w. Mccall of Massachusetts,.
n of
Hughes was heard frequently in coma
versations with various Progressives
as one who would be supported by the
Progressives if nominated in the Re-
publican convention. Senator A. B.
Cummins of Iowa was another whose
name was mentioned favorabIy.
Mr.. Perkins was the host at a ban
quet given to 125 Progressives last
nigt at the Blackstone hotel. He and
cambridge Colby of New York were
the speakers.
"a Fight to the Last Trench"
In the course of his after-dinner
address Mr.. Perkins said:
Finding, as we do, at this hour of
crisis in the affairs of the world the
so-calIed leaders of the Democratic
and Republican parties utterly unable
to rise to the occasion, it behooVes US
to deliberate earnestly, unselfshly,
periodically, and by our action to-
morrow show the people of this coun-
try that we are thinking of the needs
of the people.
s"The course we take must be CON-
structive, not destructive. And when
we announce the result of our delib-
erations, whatever it may be, we must
announce it in no uncertain manner,
and after we have announced it we
must be prepared to back it up to the
very last trenc.'
Mr.. Colby also naturally used mill
tary illustrations in developing his
thesis, which was that the Wilson adj
rninistration has failed to protect the
American people and the American
flag against law1ess acts of be1liger-
ents.
Better he exclaimed. 'tthan long
waiting for the corroboration of what
is known for the certif1cation of the
obvious, and proof of the conceded in
matters where the lives OF Americans
are involved, and in which our power
and disposition to avenge insults upon
our nationality are openly der1ded;
better, say, in tone and substance,
is the policy reflected in the famous
message sent from the Treasury De-
partment on Jan. 20, 1851, signed by
John A. Dix, Secretary of the United
States:
eff any one attempts to haul down
the American flag, shoot him on the
spot