The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-16

 VOTE INCREASES
 TOWARD WILSON
Coast, Middle West and East All Report Big Drift to
 President.

As the campaign progresses the In- dependent drift to President Wilson gains momentum and volume through out thes country.
 The weeks reports to the Wood row Wilson Independent League bring word that fifty-six new branches of the League have been established in Southern California;; that the \organi- zation has been extended to every large community of North Dakota; that the Presidents success in avert ing war and in passing the Child La- bor Law has won the women's vote in Colorado; that in the State of Washington ninety per cent. of the Progressive and Independent voters have declared for Wilson; and that in
 the great States of New York and Illinois, the swing of the independent vote to Wilson approaches a stam- pede. 1 Conservative estimates in Southern California are that 85 per cent. of the Independent and Progressive vote of that State will be for the President, which will mean his carrying the elec- toral vote of California by the larg- est majority ever given any candidate.
 Isidor Jacobs, who organized the Northern California Branch of the Independent League. is now in New
 York and states that it is only a ques- tion of how large a majority the Pres ident will obtain in California. From North Dakota, Melvin D. Hildreth, General Secretary of the
 Wilson League in that State. reports:
 I have just returned from a two days tour across the northern part of the State. We had special train and at every town there was an or
 ganized club to assist in the work of the distribution of literature. I never before have seen such enthusiasm. Wherever an indoor meeting was held it was necessary to turn hundteds of people away. And the outdoor meet
 ings were attended by enormous crowds. I ain firmly convinced that the farmers of the State are for Will son. While it is certain that the State of Maryland will be for the President, it is interesting to note the fact that one of the leading citizens of the lit- tie but important Quaker community of Sandy Spring, Maryland, shows how the Quaker vote of the entire, United States will be cast. Allen Farquhar writes the Independent League as fol- lows:
 I am an enthusiastic supporter of Woodrow Wilson, though it is not on
 partisan grounds. It is because he stands as great rock in weary land; he Is progressive, without be- ing revolutionary; he Is safe, sane and sound, without confusing conser- vatism with a standpat stagnation; he has too clear an intellect to believe that a great nation like America should still wear hampering swaddr- ing clothes-miscalled "Protection"- which interfere with the natural laws of trade; his record is without fear and without reproach, whatever scandal leaps tp light he never can be shamed.'' and-best of all-he has kept us out of war.
 It is President Oldham. of the Washington State branch of the In- dependent League who says that at least ninety per cent of, the Progress sive and Independent \vote of that state is for President Wilson.
 In Illinois, as in other. sections the ''billion-dollar train" of the Hughes Women's Alliance has set the people liiihhAu6. hC AdNlSu SdTIOI1dl oXIllDl- tions, the elaborate breakfasts and lunches. the general of luxury that goes with this train have been given such publicity that. the people through out that section have had it brought home to them that these women cam paigners represent the moneyed in- terests of Wall StreeA
 The Springfield, H.. branch of the I'm 1Avr l.. ed for about a week, is swamped with applications for membership.
 A Hon. John M. Parker, nominee of the Progressive party for the vice. presidency, refuses vigorously to sacrifice his political principles or be traded away by leaders who have as- pirations and ends that make prin- ciples secondary.
 MIR. HUGHES POSITION