Show PROGRESSIVE I SUPPORT NOT I IfOR fOR WILSON WILSONN N National a t i ion o n a l I Committeeman Ickes Disposes of Claims of Wholesale Defections Mode Made by Bourbon Managers J STEVENS GIVES LIE TO REPUTED UTTERANCES Analysis of Situation Shows Overwhelming Percentage of Former Progressive Party Members l for Hughes UTAH UTAH SAFELY G. G 0 O. P. P I N V NE ESP YORK Nov No Harold HaroM 2 Harold L L. Ickes Progressive national committeeman committeeman committeeman com- com I from Illinois and now pow a member o of the western Republican campaign committee took notice to today today today to- to day of the time Democratic attempt to tomake tomake tomake make it appear that there is a strong Pr Progressive ive de defection to Woodrow Wilson on I- I t sK il A h f Mr tIre Ickes said The Democratic national committee has hns resorted to misstatements of ot facts In an effort to make it appear that Wilson lIson Is receiving a a. considerable Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- support A statement sent out from Now York Tuesday was to the tho effect that eleven en of or the tho nineteen members members mem mem- bers hers of the tho resolutions committee o 0 of the Progressive c national convention con in 1912 ha had signed a n statement In favor of President ent Wilson The Thc fact Is that tho the resolutions committee of oC tho the Progressive convention convention convention conven conven- tion in 1912 consisted of ot one member from each state and territory fifty fifty- two In all all Instead o of nineteen as lS claimed by b the Democrats Eleven Ele out of two fifty Is in not much to boast of or especially when it is considered that of the tho eleven cleven signers of ot the Wilson Uon statement five represented southern states all of or which arc normally Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic and In only two of ot which Is tho the result In doubt this year yean Moreover orco cr of tho the eleven en signers four foul were ero former Democrats who naturally would bo be supporting supporting sup sup- porting Wilson lIson as tho the result of ot the re realignment realignment re- re alignment of the major parties William Allen Atlen White is quoted as indorsing tho the statement This Is a willful willful will will- ful misstatement of fact Mr White has hns been ant and Is supporting Hughes Bushee publicly and ho has Issued a statement denying that he lie had Sighed he l Or r Indorsed this Democratic document Isaac N. N Stevens of oC Colorado is quoted as one of the tho eleven signers Mr 11 Stevens telegraphed the following message As R a members of ot the reSOlutions resolutions resolutions reso reSO- committee national Progressive Progress Progress- ive 1 convention conY of ot 1912 I signed nd a statement giving credit to the present a administration for enacting man many of ot its planks Into law I never indorsed tho the present administration otherwise and am supporting and nd Intend voting for Mr 11 Hushes Hughes I Roster for or The fact Is that Progressive tI 91 leaders I generally and an overwhelming percentage per per- of tho the Progressive rank and I file are arc supporting Mr 11 Hushes Hughes Colonel Roosevelt Roose has been stumping stumping- the tho country country country coun coun- try for or Hughes As Result a of Governor Governor Gover Gover- nor Johnsons Johnson's efforts California is safely within the Republican column Such Progressive leaders as Raymond Paymond Robins James James' R R. Garfield Gifford Pinchot J J. J Men Allen Senator Miles Ines Mosea Mose Clapp Albert r Bc III go Congressman John r I. I Nolan Willlam Willlam Will Will- lam Dudley Foulke Arthur L L. Garford Medill rc McCormick G George or o W. W IV Perkins O OJ Oscar cai- cai Straus Winston Churchill Everett Everett Ever Ever- ett Cob Colby Charles Bird Henry F F. Cochems Henry A. A Joseph Jo- Jo Joseph Joseph Jo Jo- seph II Ih Dixon I. I II n. od Leslie Combs Chester II H Rowell oll Meyer Liss Liss- s- s ncr ner Dwight D B. B Heard Ben Den Griffith Clarence e P P. Do Dodge go George White Milton Milton Mil Mil- m- m ton D D. Purdy Casper Schenk G. G D D. DI I Pope and in fact practically all an o or J Continued lc on D ge e 2 2 MOOSERS NOT FOR MR WILSON Progressive National Corn Coni- o of 0 Illinois Will ill SuP Support port Hughes b I Continued From Page Pago 1 the effective I leadership of ot the tho Progressive Pro Pro- reg IYe party part Is actively ly supporting pro pro-I Mr Ir on the tho stump and other other- wise Four fifths of the tho Progressive I national committee are for tor Hughes After Atter a n careful canvass of or the Progressive Pro Pro- pro pro-I situation It In ever every state within within with with- in tho the Jurisdiction of the tho wc western tern headquarters I am satisfied that th If I Mr will 11 hold tho the Republican I vole volo and anti of ot that there can be no doubt he will ho be overwhelmingly el elected t d In somo some states 5 of or which Kansas ans s Is a type ope thore than 5 95 per cent of or the Roosevelt vote In 1912 11 will ho he o added de to the Hugh Hughes A vote In 1816 1916 In some same states th percentage will win not run so high butIn butIn but butIn I In no state will Rill less than 85 So per cent of ot tho the Progressive vote support Hughes I am not making this statement state stat ment meat from guesswork I have havo corresponded cone corre j spon ed with thousands of or Pro Progressives i In this western territory and I 1 have o had hat direct r reports ports from practically rr c every western state stale b by men sent out from thc these O headquarters to study stud local lo- lo lo local cal l situations and to report actual facts tact In a few stat states s of which Utah Isa Isa Is ds dsa a type where at nt the outset It appeared that tho the Progressive c vote was WI so BO disaffected disaffected dis dis- affected that the state to might go o Democratic Democratic Dem Dem- active organization org work has ha ha l been pon done among Pro Progressives es with the result that the Pro Progressive vote rote supporting supporting sup sup- up- up porting Hughes will average crage with the theother theother theother other states Tho determined effort eort being made in these latter days daR of IC f the campaign tc line tine up the tho Progressive vote ote for Mr Ir I Wilson lon demonstrates two facts First that Mr Ir Wilson Is dc desperately In need of that vote ot and es re that thal without It he ho cannot cl w win In Second that the Democratic management realizes that the overwhelming percentage percent of or the Pro Progressive C vote I in is for tor Mr Hughes If Mr 11 Wilson did not need the Progressive Pro Pro- g vote so 90 ba badly l as his managers now con confess eli Pro Progressive speakers on special trans tran would not be hurrying through ml middle western states and If it ithe he has leas this vote veto now as his managers tr try to make malte It Il appear ho would woul not have o to be going after it with a dragnet drag drag- net So far tar as the Progressive vote voto Is concerned we are read ready to go to the polls This Is an Intelligent vote ote and cannot be he stampeded stampede to the Democratic column 1 |