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m "STOP! LOOK! LISTEN!" THIS PROGRESSIVE LEADER ADVISES FELLOW PROGRESSIVES New Haven, Conn., Nov. 3. ''In port and promises to advocate""pro advocating the re-election of Pres. , gressive' legislation, but in every Wilson I do not appeal to the Pro- speech criticizes the splendid pro gressive leaders who were misled by j gressive measures Wilson has en the siren voices of the old guard at acted into laws. If his speeches Chicago. They have picked their ' means anything they mean that table and there is nothing for them to do now but eat and keep silent. But I believe the bread the G. O. P. is putting before them is exceeding ly bitter In their mouths." , The man who spoke was Prof. Yan deH Henderson, professor of physi ology in the medical department 01 Yale university.- Henderson was one of the Original members of that un usual band of men who surrounded Roosevelt in 1912, when the Progres sive party was formed. He was vice chairman of the Connecticut- dele gation to the first national Progres sive convention, and he showed the faith that was in him by running twice for congress as a Progressive Hughes would work to have those measures repealed. "When I see the extreme partisans of the 'allies and of the Germans both supporting Hughes', I am forced to believe that he is getting ready to bunco one or the other, or that he himself has no ideas on the subject. "His criticism of the Adamson 8-hour 'law is utterly insincere. It will draw to him the support of the men who always oppose every social reform, every effort to improve the condition of the wage-earners. The Adamson bill was a good progressive measure. "I am sick of his Lusitania speech es. He is always saying he would in the Third or Yale district He i have made such a bluff to Germany stirred up the dry bones of New Bng- that he would have scared the kaiser, land's recationary Republicanism as One thing he has never dared to an few ever, had done. Now he Is out swer is what he would have done making speeches for Wilson and if Germany had called his bluff and hopeful that the latter will carry thia, sunk the Lusitania anyway, doubtful state. "But what we progressives want "When Hughes was nominated," to know is not how effectually he he told me, "I fully expected to vote would bluff the kaiser or England or for him. Then I began reading his Carranza, but what he would do as speeches and became convinced that regards our great internal policies. he either didn't Know wnat progres- we Know wnere renrose, Crane, sive measures were, or was not jn the slightest degree interested in then. "Hughes is surrounded by the same men who gathered around Taft Smoot, Lodge and the other reac tionaries, who are running his cam paign, stand on these things. "To my fellow progressives I would and is exhibiting the same habits of say: 'Stgp, look, listen!' Back of the mind. ' nious enmtiness of Hushes' nrofes- (Nbte Ex-President Taft also is a professor at Yale.) "It is absolutely clear that Hughes is the candidate of reaction, stand-, natism and special interests. He says in every speech that the country, 'needs bold leadership and in every speech he himself dodges every, fs- sue. He asks for progressive sup- j pious emptiness of Hughes' profes sions you may hear the ominous creaking of the old standpat ma chine. "What can you think of the intel- lectual sincerity of Hughes, who will express his unqualified approval of the extreme p'ro-ally speech of Roosevelt, and then, in a few days, allow the extremists on the otheg