The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-10-16
REPUBLIC ARE DESERVING
 SEN. HARDING
Each Day the List of Defec- tions Keep Mounting Up
 Hamilton Holt to An nounce LOO Noted Repub- licans Who Have Joined Revolt Against Harding.

Samuel A. Lewisohn of 61 Broad-
 way, son of Adolph Lewisohn, has am nounced his intention to vote for Cox. MT. MT Lew1sohn, who was district su- pef1ntendent of the War Risk In-
 surance Bureau for New York and is treasurer and executive committee member of the Citizens Union togeth- CT with many other good government assoc1atlons, made clear his decision ! in q letter to Herbert Parsons, i Il thoroughly agree with your stand. l am an enrolled Republican, but Sen ator Hardlngs recent utterances in dlcate that his election may mean too desperate a. gamble of our joining in real league to enforce peace It lis obvious that the present League must be used at least as d foun,la- uon, or we will gee nothing. It is therefore my intention to vote for Cox.''
 Fisk CongTatuIates Parsons. Among the many congratula tions for his 'bcld stand on the central is /, sue of the campaign which MT. Par l sons is receiving daily from Demo- i crats and Republicans alike, is one
 rom Haley Fisk. president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company i William Grant Brown, a. lifelong Republican and noted constitutional 1 lawyer of New York had this to say 1 of Harding and his stand:
 | 'Harding's last assertion about l scrapping the League and hoping to
 get all the nations of the world to 1 accept his own, has about forced me | to vote for Cox.
 Assuming that the Republican
 party will put through the League i who can support party that goes
 before the people with a lie on its | lips? How can we have faith in a
 man who has not enough stability a and l character to take some stand some l where? He is sufficiently we'll in- formed to know that the League | could be ratified, subject to our con | iCin ,- way in two hours. It's all bunk fo1 l the purpose of winning votes!"
 ] Holt Wins Advocates.
 l Hamilton Holt, who was the first
 publican party on the League issue l said today that his petition, ad. 1 dressed to Republicans and Progress.
 sives," had already been signed by 100 prominent Republicans in al
 sections of the country. It will be | made public Sunday. In the petition
 will be set forth why so many leaders
 in in various political sections have
 "bolted' Harding and the Republican 1 wing that is for both Harding ant | the League at the same time.
 | We have some remarkable name:
 and some we never thought we couIt get" said MT. Holt. "Every one i.
 regarded as a leader among Republi l More Pro-League Recruits.
 The number of lifelong Republi l League Independents on the Leagut issue was increased this morning b, | several prominent Republicans, edu ! cators, and writers, a S well as man l service men from all parts of tn, country. Morton D. Hull, who for ter years was Republican representativ, in the State Legislature of Illinois also sent word that he had repudiatet Harding and the Republican party Prof. Henry P. Smith of Unio1 Theological Seminary, lifelong Repub | lican, wrote that he had voted fo | many Republican Presidents ant hoped to vote for many more bu this is. the only time I will ever hay,
 the opportunity to vote for the League
 of Nations" Mrs. Smith, wife O Prof. Smith, and their son. Preservet 1 Smith. well known writer and re 1 search worker at Harvard University will also vote for Cox
 ! Choosing a President is a passins | matter, but the League of Nation | goes on forever" wrote Mrs. Charlott, | Perkins Gilman. prominent writer | suffragist, and former Republican. | Service men scattered throughou the country. have written in of thei lfntention to vote for Cox and tn, l League. The general trend of thei
 letters is that they fought oversea and they don't want to have to 2, 1 across again, and in earnest word that carry conviction they write tha I the League of Nations is their hop, of world peace.