The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-04
0NvERS|0NS TO
 WILL SON BANNER
 INCREASES DAILY
Many Prominent Men ill Kentucky Desert Ranks
 of Republican Party.

New York. Nov. 4.-Reports Of 1 conversions to the cause of President Wilson continue to pour into the Democratic National Headquarters. The originator of the full dinner pair' slogan, used in the Mckinley campaign, is one of those who have come out for the President. He is David G. Baillie of Los Angeles, Cal. In Kentucky many prominent Re- publicans and Progressives have an- nounced their intention to vote for the President. Among them are Judge Randolph H. Blain, one-time Republican candidate for circuit judge of Louisville; J. L. Belcher, a wealthy farmer of Bowling Green; Audrey Adkins, a Progressive leader of Covington; Dr. H. l.. Hendren, for ] many years a Republican worker, of 1 Pineville; George T. Ragsdale, in l structor in the Louisville Boys High school; J. R. Eskridge, former Re- publican member of the legislature and county prosecutor of Brecken- 1 ridge county; B. F. Proctor, Progress sive State e1ector, of Bowling Green. Another convert is G. F. New burger of Joplin, Mo-, Progressive candidate for state senator in 1912 and formerly 8 Republican. He says: l I believe Woodrow Wilson when he states: We have not only carried out the pledges of our own party, but | we have almost completed the plat form of the Progressive Party" A Republican all his life, J. C.. Marsh, of Lake Wawasee, Ind:, an- ! nouncing he will vote for Wilson, says: ."The people of this country are in the position of stockholders in a great corporation. whose President has been paying dividends on the common stock. The concern is four ishing and there is no reason to make l a change"
 1 Many old soldiers are among those l coming out in support of the Presi- 1 dent. A. E. Streeter of Lincoln, Neb., who was a member of the First Wis consin Cavalry, writes: 1T have i voted for every Republican candidate for the Presidency from Lincoln to Taft, but I am not for Hughes. l 1 have no use for traitors" Judge Richard Winsor of Seattle, 1 Wash, writes: Every move that Hughes makes and every move that i the 1raillionaires behind Hughes make ! IS nak1nS IIOuSGI1CS OI FOtCS AoA W Al son.
 D. w. Perkins. Republican, oi Saco, Me: ''I shall vote for Wilson in 1916 as I doubtless should gladly l have done for Lincoln in 1864. l After interviewing 600 Progressive delegates from all sections of the country, Owen S. Jones, Progressive leader of Albany County, N. Y., ex- or,f of Inc n- derance of Wilson sentiment. with the exception of one delegate, says MT. Jones, ''every man I talked to
 was strongly in favor of the Presi- dents reelection"
 Prof Wendell Henderson of the Yale Medical School one of the lead CTS in the Progressive movement in Connecticut, says: "Any American who puts American first must vote for President Wilson"
 Other Progressives, who will SUD-
 portt Wilson, are Wallace Thayer and
 Frank c. Ferguson both of Buffalo
 "I am a Republican, but Wilson
 will have my vote,'' says William H
 Ebsary, a contractor, of Buffalo. I "I supported Roosevelt in 1912
 says Judge William Osbury Parsons
 of West Virginia, ''but now he has
 abandoned us and stands hand in 1 hand with Penrose, Root and the other reactionaries. I am for Will
 son."
 George F.. Hedrick, President o1 the Painters and Paperhangers' in
 ternational organization, heretofore
 Republican, in a speech recently al
 Albany, told members of his organ lization that he would vote for Presi-
 dent Wilson.
 Another railroad head also has an
 nounced his approval of President
 Wilson's administration. Emory l.
 Coblentz, president of the Hagers-
 town & Frederick Railroad, says
 Everyone must have mental pie ture of the domestic achievements ot
 the Wilson administration, and every
 one must have noted by this time the
 utter failure of the severest critics
 to attack these achievements success
 fully
 wilson is the right man in the
 right place at the right time, say:
 Prof. E. S. Loomis of Wooster, O. '. am for Wilson now for the same req . son that my father was for Lincolr . in 1864" Capt. Nehemiah H. Means of Els , worth, Me- says he twas a Lincoln : Republican, but is now a Progress ; sive Democrat and will support Will son." 1T don't want green hand a
 the wheel until the gale is over. , says Capt. Means, who is an old sail ing master.
 "I am not a Democrat; I am { Republican of the Lincoln stripe, bu not a Republican of the Barnes-Pen se-Roosevelt stripe," says Dr Frank Vroonlan of Washington, D. c. who has come out for President Will . sons reelection.
 Not only has Dr. Charles T. Bayli : ADD CONVERSIONS
 of New York, a prominent Progress l sive, announced that he will suppor : President Wilson, but he has gone ol : the stump. ''Give the President fou l. years more to crown the great worl 3 he has begun," declares Dr. Baylis. Joseph Fielder, secretary of thu jefferson County (Ohio) Trades ant l Labor Assembly, and hitherto alway : a Republican has become a strong ad vocate of President Wilson's re election
 , The Rev. Dr. Paul Moore Strayer t pastor of the Third Presbyterian y churcho Rochester, N. J., also is fo I Wilson. ''I know of no other man,
 he says, ''who could have handles
 more successfully the Mexican an'
 foreign situations