The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-30
PROMINENT PROCRESSIvES ISSUE
 ], APPEAL FOR WILSON REELECTION
Endorse His Record of Achievement and Repudi-
 atenG. o. F. so>O Obviously } Liable to Disintegration.

New Tori. oct 3o.-Endorsing r<he record of achievement of the Democratic Administration and repu- diadng. the Republican party, 'so ob- iviousiy liable to diEnteEration. 50 TO- actionary in it's deeper purpose" a 1 group of the mort prominent Pro ,gresstves of the country has issued m appeal to all Progressives to help along tho canSe of good government by votinE for the reelection of PreA- { dent Wilson.
 !. The signers of this appeal are John M. Parker of Louisiana, vice-Presi- ldentiAl candidate on the Progressive
 ticket; Badnbridge Colby, the New York lawyer who twice nominated Theodore Roosevelt for the Presi- dency at the Progressive National iConvenfdons; Rev. Percy Stickney Grant, rector of the Episcopal Church lof the Ascension in New York city; Matthew Hale, Progressive Chairman xof MaAsachusetts; Amos F. Pinchot, publicist and social worker and brother of Clifford Pinchot; Rev. Washington Gladdep, of Ohio, famous minister and author; Ole Hanson, who twice missed election as United States Senator from Washington state by only a srnan margin; Francis J. Heney, noted for his prosecution of the graft caseS in San Francisco; J. ! A. H. Hopkins, Progressive Chairman sey of Colorado; Walter Lippman, editor of the New Republic, New York; Judge Albert D. Nortoni of St Louis, who recently resigned from the bench to work for the re-election of President Wilson: Walter E. weyl. one of the editors of the New Re- public: L. Roy Slater, Progressive leader of Washington; L. H. Treisch- mann, a leading Connecticut Progress sive; HenrN M. Wallace, Michigan Progressive leader; 4nd Prof. Charles lZeublin, long a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago
 Their appeal to Progressayes fol- lows: ~
 Tho purpose of progres9ivism is to translate the old longing for social Justice into a practical program The Progressive party of 1912 filled that purpose- The progressive spirit is not dead, and this year, as always, it must choose the most effective i'm stfpment available.
 Though some Progressive leaders have Joined the Republican party, we fail to see in the platform of that party, or in the mon who control the organisation, or in the utterances of Mr. Hughes. any indication whatever lthat Progressive principles have &C., companied the leaders. The Repub- 1ican party to-day consists of irrecon- clliable factions. without common conviction and without leadership. It Is a party so motley in the makeup. 50 obviously liable to disintegration, SO reactionary in its deeper purposes, that in these years of crisis and anx- iety it cannot be Trusted with the governmeht of the nation.
 'sThe Democratic party is for the present united, experienced in action and controlled on the main issues by progressively minded men. It has a record of achievement, and, though we are far from agreeing with ali that has been done, we believe that the party has proved tits good faith, its progressive purpose and its practical ability. It is entitled to the votes of those who in, 1e12 followed principles rather than personalities"