The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-20
EXPECT WILSON TO ASK AID OF
 PROCRESSIvES
Social and Industrial Jus tice Will Be Points in
 Appeal.

| Appeal.
 | New York, July 20-President Will
 son in his speech of acceptance ex- poets to make a very strong appeal to
 the Roosevelt vote of four years ago.
 That, it was learned last night, is
 the reason why the notification cere-
 mony has been postponed indefinite
 ly.
 Chairman Vance c. Mccormick of I the Democratic National Committee,
 upon his return from Washington. 1 where he conferred with the Presi- | dent announced that at the President s I own request the date previously set for | the notification, Aug. 5, had been can- l celed. President Wilson, Chairman | Mccormick said, was anxious to have Congress adjourn before he made his l speech of acceptance.
 The President" said MT. McCor- mick, realizes that the next few weeks, until Congress gets through with it's labors, will be very busy ones and feels that he should not take on | any engagement that will interfere | in the slightest manner with his inn
 portant duties to the nation, hence his request that the notification cere- mony be put off. After Congress has adjourned, the President hopes to be in a position to devote himself to his campaign for reelection but not before"
 Important Bills in Congress. Congress just now has before it for consideration National Child Labor I,s1 pensation bill. The President real
 izes that the fate of these two meas ures may have an important bearing
 on his chances of reelection and is determined that both must pass. With these two bills passed by Con-
 gross and signed by himself, he will
 be able in his speech of acceptance to appeal to the Roosevelt vote of four
 years ago on the ground that he as
 President and the Democratic Con-
 gress in cooperation have been in
 strumental in placing on the Federal
 statute books the bulk of the
 Roosevelt program for Social and
 Industrial Justice.''
 Should the expected Republican filli-
 buster in the Senate keep Congress
 in session beyond Aug. 20. the date | ojurnment, Chairman Mccormick inti-
 mated, President Wilson may regard
 it advisable to consent to an earlier
 notification, even though the Demo-
 cratic legislative program at that
 time may not have been rounded out
 nor lend itself quite as readily to the
 purposes of the Democratic national campaign. Ia day by Chairman Mccormick that
 labor department had been opened at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee. The new de- partment will be headed by Robert S. Hudspeth, the Democratic National Committeeman from New Jersey, Henry Skiffington, Commissioner or Immigration at Boston,, it was an- nounced, will resign from that posi- ton and enlist in the Wilson cam paign as an aid to MT. Hudspeth in the labor department.
 "No Administration has ever done as much for labor as has the present Democratic Administration at Wash ington," said Chairman Mccormick
 "It will be the object of this labor
 department to present to labor all over the country the benefits confer-
 red upon it by the Wilson Administra- tion."
 May Be Farmers Bureau. | Chairman Mccormick intimated that the Rural Credits act, which was signed by President Wilson yesterday, did as much for the agricultural class i of the United States as the various la
 bor measure recommended by Presl-
 dent Wilson will do for the worklns classes. In connection with this, MT. McC Cormick intimated that an arg1cul- tural bureau in all likelihood would pe developed to exploit what the Wilson administration had done for the farm- CTS.
 A great deal of comment has been caused by the failure of Chairman Mccormick to. announce the person mel of the campaign committee, though nearly a month has elapsed since the national convention. It was suggested yesterday that unforeseen difficulties | had arisen, and that President Will
 sons O. K. had not been given to the | lists made up by Chairman McCor- mick, to whom the task of selectlhs l a campaign committee was left 1. One difficulty, it was suggested yes- fterday, was in obtaining ProgresslVes l of real calibre for members of the Democratic campaign committee. Pres ident Wilson, it is said, is anxious that there should be quite as many
 Progressives on the Democratic cam
 paign committee as there are on the Republican, and that the Democratic
 Progressives should be men who stood for as much in Colonel Roosevelt's old party as did those who have accepted places on the Republican campaign committee.
 l. Mir Mccormick said some time ago that a good many Progressives were
 holding off, from Joining the Demo- crats in support of President Wilson, because they were anxious to near what Charles E. Hughes, the Repub- lican nominee, had to say in ms
 speech of acceptance before they crossed their Rubicon. In connection | with this it was suggested yesterday that with President Wilson making | his speech of acceptance some weeks after the Republican nominee had
 made his. it would afford him a sp1en- did opening to outbid MT. Hughes in