Mohave County miner., 1916-11-04
INDEPENDENT RUSH TO WILSON
 IS STEADILY INCREASING

Wilson is making to the independent voters of the country are being re- ceived at New York headquarters daily in increasing numbers from all sec tions.
 No more significant or impressive sign of the trend of current political thought is furnished in the present campaign than these daily announce ments of influential Progressives, for mer Republicans and independent vot- CTS who are rallying to the Wilson standard. A few sample reports fol- low:
 CONNECTICUT-Although he car ried torch in Lincoln parades in 1860 and 1864 and voted the Republican ticket for nearly 50 years, Henry c. Freshour of Bridgeport, Conn.,, has joined thousand of other Republicans by enrolling with the Woodrow Wilson Independent league to support the president for reelection. In doing so he says:
 q was born and bred a Republican. In '6O and '64 I carried a torch for Father Abraham and l would have voted for him in '64, but lacked one year of being old enough. I never voted anything but Republican until four years ago, when I became con vinced that the Republican party was anything but what Abraham Lincoln had made it or intended it should be. In 1912 I became a Progressive and am now what you might term Pro- gressive Democrat, from my feet up."
 CALIFORNIAN Woodrow Will son Independent league of San Fran cisco has issued a statement addressed to Fellow Progressives of California" which says in part:
 How can the Progressive voters of California support the candidacy of Charles E. Hughes after the disclo- sures of the latter's recent visit to this state? Hughes is a reactionary in thought and action and never bore anything more than a mere empty semblance to a man of progressive ideas. He owes his nomination for the presidency to the political bosses, Penrose, Barnes and Crane, who man. aged the Chicago Republican conven- ton this year, and he is already re- spending to the urging of that class"
 DELAWARE - Progressives here have joined the movement of inde- pendent Republicans to smash the Re publican state machine, which is seek ing to re-elect Henry A. du Pont to the United States senate. This means a third state ticket in Delaware, aimed to overthrow the regular Re publican organization. The Progress sives have adopted a separate party platform in which they point out that "the Progressive party of the United States was born in 1912 as a protest against political theft and against the reactionary domination of the Repub- lican party by a small band of politi- cal freebooters."
 Many Delaware Progressives, be- lieving that the most effective means of destroying the Republican machine in the State is to support the Democratic candidates, both state and national, have openly declared for the re-elec- tion of President Wilson.
 MINNESOTA-An impromptu or ganization of a Wilson club, non-parti- san, of Duluth, illustrates the remark able strength of the president among the independent voters of Minnesota. The suggestion came from a member of the Pioneer cub that some stand ought to be taken in the present cam paign, and practically all the members of this organization enthusiastically approved the idea. Immediately a Wilson club was formed which is to make it's special appeal among inde- pendent voters. It is to be known as the Hillside Non-Partisan Wilson league.
 MISSOURI-In a signed statement, made public in Kansas City, Louis A. Laughlin, one of the most prominent members of the Progressive party in Missouri, withdrew his name as the Progressive candidate for congress from the Fifth district and announced his intention to vote for Woodrow Wilson for reelection as president. MT. Laughlin is chairman of the Pro gressive city committee of Kansas City and was a delegate to the recent Progressive. national convention in Chicago. He was a classmate of Theo- dore Roosevelt at the law school of Columbia University in New York.
 NEBRASKE-R. E. Heckert, hotel proprietor of Lexington, Neb., who has been an ardent Republican all his