The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-01-20

PRogREssIvEs New York, Jan. 20.-George W Perkins, leader of the faction in thu Progressive Party that protestet
 against the election of John T. Adams
 as vice chairman of the Republican
 National Committee, returned iron
 Albany Yesterday feeling we'll pleased
 with having obtained the promised support of Governor Whitman in hi: fight against the Old Guard element
 in the Republican organization. MT 1 Perkins would not discuss his con
 ference with the Governor, but 1t was learned that he felt satisfied tha1
 when the Republican National Com
 mittee met it would rescind the action
 of the Executive Committee in elect ing MT. Adams.
 Neither would MT. Perkins go into
 details regarding his threat made al Albany on Thursday that if the Re- publicans did not do as te Progress | sives wished they would form another
 party or revive their own organ1za- tiou to fight the Republicans in State
 and national elections. His plan, how ever, did not meet with approDatlon
 outside what is known as the Per kins-Roosevelt combination among the .Progressives. A number of Pro-
 gressive leaders who threw in theii lot with President Wilson at the last election, ridiculed the idea that MT. Perkins could control any important strength in the party. ''Who gave MT. Perkins the right to call himself a Progressive or to as- sume to speak for the Progressive
 party?'' asked National Chairman Mathew Hale of the Progressive party. 'Mr. Perkins, by his own claims, is Republican" t
 John R. Taylor, head of the presen, Progressive organization in Kings county, made this comment:
 "How does MT. Perkins dare to use this word we in talking of what th' Progressive party will do? At every point in the Perkins statement IS what we will or will not do. He Is no longer a part of the third party, Who would follow him back into the
 
 tried to kill? He speaks of Colby and r when both of them are now Republicans. Of course mean Everett Colby of New Jersey, and not Bainbridge Colby of New York, who is a real Progressive. The very act of MT. Perkins in closing National Progressive Headquarters here IS ln- dicative that he has no more 1nteres! in Progressivisrn. And l notice that all these telegrams which he IS re- ceiving are coming, not from Pro- gressives, but from men who have re- turned to the Republican fold, ana are now kicking because they have not been able to arrange their own little personal deals with the various Republican State organizations"
 Chairman Hale, it was learned yes terday, has sent out call for a pre- liminary organization meeting Of the new Progressive party in this state, to be held at Albany on Jan 27 MT. Perkins has not been invited to at- tend. Asked what would be done if the Republican National Committee is not called to consider the action or its Executive Committee in electing MT. Adams, Mir. Perkins said:
 CT can only refer you to the old song we used to sing in our church choir. Lead Kindly Light. One Step Enough for Me- Let them meet ana decide what they have to offer and then we will decide what will De done."
 will you call meeting of the Pro- gressive National Committee to de- eide what steps to take?" MT. Perkins was asked.
 .sWhy, no," he replied. 1T mean we will confer about future action The National Executive Committee usually acts for the party in the interim pe- tween campaigns, and l am chalrman of that committee. Our fight IS not against the rank and file of the Re- publican party, but against the ma- chine of that party, which for years has refused to allow the voters to have voice in party affairs. That is what caused the split in 1912.'
 Does it mean a revivification of the Progressive party?" MT. Perkins was asked.
 q don't know was the reply. Il say what this will lead to, but I do know that it means vigorous ac- tion.'
 MT. Perkins continued to ieCe@Ve numerous messages yesterday back ing him up in his fight on the Repub- lican Executive Committee.
 Charles S. Bird of Massachusetts wired: ''I would tell the Republican National and Executive Committees to go to the devil. They will hang them selves"
 William Finn of Pennsylvania sent this message: "If the committee does not act fairly, sever your connec- tions."
 Other senders of messages were IT, wing K. Taylor, I. R. Kirkwood, J. R. H. P. Gardner, H. B. An derson, w. L. Ransom. John A. Kings bury, A. L. Garford, J. c. Shaffer, R. s. Sheridan, Hamilton Fsish. IT,, Henry F. Cochems, H. N. Jackson, w. H. Childs, Henry L. Stoddard, P. s. Ste- phenson, D. H. Carroll B. A. Knapp, 6. D. Pope, and G. T. Taylor.
 Chairman William R. Wilcox of the National Committee said yesterday that he had taken no aIion regarding a meeting of the National He will go to Washing ton next week to confer with leaders of the party there. Asked if he thought MT Perkins would he ahIa to