The sun., 1916-08-25
BACON TO PRESENT
CAMPAIGN VIEWS
In Chautauqua Address To-
morrow Will Give His
Stand.

Robert Bacon will present his views on
preparedness and the problem Of u for
eien relations tomorrow night before the
ChautauQua assembly at jamestown.
This will he his first speech since he an
nounced his candidacy for the Republic
can Senatorial nomination.
This meeting. like all Chautauauas.
will be Of n ~non-politicai character. Mr..
Bacon therefore will discuss these mat
ters without reference to his candidacy.
But the unity II will afford for
him to meet the people Of the State. his
supporters feel. will be OF great assist
ancc 10 him.
The hopes OF those who are backing
Bacon that he Will prove n winner over
Calder In the primaries rest largely upon
the appeal which they believe he will
make TO the thousands OF voters who
Invariably enroll but who seldom take
the trouble to vote In the primary This
vote is uncontrolled by the organization.
As a rule not more than IS per cent OF
the enrolment usually takes the trouble
to vote. 50 that IL viii, be seen that this
element II induced to vote by an appeal
based on patriotic grounds such As the
Bacon people are planning to make.
easily could swing The election. The Re-
publican enrolment this year 10 73s 900.
That Is almost $4,000 more than the Re-
publican vote " years ago.
Expect Progressive Votes.
Politicians have found 1t hard TO ac-
count for his tremendous enrolment OF
Republicans except on the theory that
many. foreseeing the break up Of the
Progressive party. wanted a chance this
year to have a say on the Republican
side. The Bacon people believe that In
view OF these unusual circumstance they
have a good chance OF corrallirg enough
: votes for Mr.. BACON to win. even with
most Of the organization leaders stand
ing by the pledges Calder has button
holed from them In the last two Years.
With a View OF reaching the enrolled
voters and appealing TO them TO support
Mr.. Bacon as the better fitted to repre-
sent this state In the Senate, Il commit
tee OF lawyers and college men ~ to be-
gin work at once. with headquarters at
the Murray Hill Hotel. Every enrolled
Republican voter is to be asked this year
10 rSard i. as a patriotic duty to vote
In the primary.
Mr.. Bacon will stop on n Buffalo to-
morrow on his way to jamestown, and
while there will confer with western
New York Republicans. On September
. he Will steak at Geneva before "a
crowd Of farmers II country people
on the subject OF Preparedness.
Among other things the letter Of
Elihu Root asserting Mr.. Bacon's pres
ence in the Senate would be Of Immense
value to Mr.. Hughes Is TO be sent to
every enrolled Republican. because of
Ma. Roots own experience In such mat
tiers. this, IL is believed. will have great
weight with the uncontrolled element
Not After German Votes.
The Bacon-Caldcr contest again as
ton!shed politicians yesterday. II was
Mr.. Bacon's frank avowal Of the fact
that he was not neutral with respect To
the war, n WAS not going to make any
bid for the German vote.
This announcement OF Mr. Bacon's
was evoked by the yelled attack or his
attitude toward the war made by the
Calder people the day before ana by an
editorial in NJ Stats zeitun1 calling
MIN al unmasked u%nncutral"
81 am an avowed %unneutral," said
Mr.. Bacon. "as h shown In public state
ments ! have made from time 10 time
before ] entered this contest. I have
not changed my mine since. I do no,
believe that IA strict neutrality of the
spirit is possible. There can he a sort
of Official neutrality assumed, hut in
dlvidual neutrality ~ the spirit is i'm
possible to my mind"
Mr.. Bacon said he did not care to dis
cuss woman suffrage except to say tina
ho Endorsed the Republican platform,
/. uttcrance on this subject. II. may w
, that the passage % n constitutional
/, amendment would he advisable latel
on" he said. "but at It's time I am 70,
/, the platform rs adopted by the party
Representative Calder will be back IL
this city to-day from one of his trip.
through the state, Mr., Calder Is con
inning his campaign activities largely Il
visiting organization headquarters II
various localities and giving talks. In
o'drntally picking up pledges to add I,
h's already large number The Calde
pcor'e Insist they have every confidence
In these pledges holding good on prt
mary day and are busy putting then
away and card indsxing them.