The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-07
PR0CRESSIVES REVOLT AGAINST
 COP. NOMINEE
Moose Leaders Decline in Many States to Greet Re-
 publican Candidate.

From California to Maine the Pro- gressives are now in open revolt against the domination of the Hughes presidential candidacy by reactionary Republicans. The break between the Progressives and Republicans which started in California has swept to the east and is now a menacing actuality which is confounding the Hughes cam paign managers. Uprisings against the present campaign methods of the Old Guard Republican organization of alarming proportions have broken out in practically every western state visited by MT. Hughes upon his pres ent tour.
 Within the past few weeks the split which had been developing in the east has become wide open in Pennsylvania. Delaware and New York; and during the past few days Bainbridge Colby, of New York, one of the foremost Pro- gressives of the nation, has been stumping the state of California with a stirring message to the Independents and Progressives of that. state in sup port of President Wilson's reelection.
 Colorado Progressives complain that are being accorded the same kind of treatment which was meted out to Governor Johnson of California, to wit: that they were excluded from all ofncial participation in the Hughes speechmaking tour of that state. An gered by the attitude of the stand-pat Republican machine, Governor Carl son, candidate for renomination as a Progressive-R refused to at tend the Hughes meeting in Denver.
 PrOgressives Think for Themselves
 Commenting upon the treatment be- ing accorded the Progressives by those in charge of MT. Hughes presidential candidacy, the Los Angeles Tribune sums up the situation in this fashion:
 For some time it has seemed quite certain that our reactionary friends and brethren could not be happy with the Progressives either in or out of the Republican party. With the Progress sives in the Republican party the re- actionary element constitutes decided minority and the Progressives are not tolerant of dictation by the old-time bosses. Citizens holding progressive ideals have acquired the habit of thinking for themselves and are not easily led, commanded, controlled, ca joled or fooled.
 In Pennsylvania the open break was largely precipitated by an editorial in the Philadelphia Inquirer, a pro- nounced Hughes supporter, which charged the Progressive party of Cal ifornia with stealing the Republican party in 1912 and accusing Governor Johnson of now posing as Repub- lican and as such allowed to contest for the senatorial nomination. in Cal ifornia. To this attack the Philadel- phian North American (Progressive) retorted with an editorial unsparingly condemning Mir. Hughes attitude to- ward Progressives and demanding that the Republican candidate tell the vo- ters of the country what he means by his declaration that he is "the spokes- man of the national Republican par ty."
 In Delaware a third ticket has been announced byf fanti-machine Republi- cans in opposition to Senator Dupont, who Is seeking renomination as the regular Republican candidate.
 Embarrassment in New York.
 The situation in New York State is equally alarming to MT. Hughes cam paign managers. There Governor ignoring the regular Repub- lican organization, has opened up in- dependent campaign headquarters; and the primary fight for United States senator between Wm. N. Cal der and Robert Bacon has further disrupted the party. Further embar- rassment has been caused in New York state by the announcement of the New York Tribune, which boasts of its history of fifty years as Repub- lican journal, that it would bolt the renomination of Governor Whitman, who it will be recalled led the fight for MT. Hughes nomination at Chicago and made the speech placing his name before the Republican convention.
 Commenting upon the situation in New York state, the New York Herald, which. is supporting MT. Hughes, an- nounced that the Republican mana gers admitted that the Progressives were slipping away" from MT. Hughes.
 A contrast to the Progressive re- publican ranks is furnished by the wig orous campaign which Bainbridge Colby is conducting in Maine in be- volt and factional strife within the Re- half of President Wilson. In his message to the Maine voters MT. Col >by referred to President Wilson as lone of the sincerest and soundest Progressives," and propounded this question to his audiences: How can any true Progressive hesitate to sup port President Wilson for reelection in the face of this impressive and il- lustrious record of consistent devo- ton to the ideals of Progressites 9"
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