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Show SAYS PARTIES WIDE 4 APART AS THE POLES! ALBANY. N. V., Feb. C Tho Ropub- j llcstii party and the Progressive party, In their public expressions on the ques- tlon of Individual rights, "arc as wide : apart as tho north polo and the south ; pole." OthcrwISH there Is no great d!f-forsncn d!f-forsncn in the concrete proposals of tho two parties. William Bamot', Jr.. olmlrman of the Republican state committee, made this assertion tonight at the annual dinner of the Albany county Republican or- ' ganl7jitIou In reply lo the suggestion thai j the "Republican and Progressive parties amalgamate. "At Its convention In Baltimore," ilil ' Mr, Barnor, "tho Democratic party, ox-1 pectlnp victory through tbe assault npo., ( Republicanism by a part of lis , fornu-. ; membership, wan discreetly silent .011 thw question of indUhlual rights, but tiK-.v ar thousands of men who voted for Mr. Wilson who think as wo think on thi.r cubjoct, and ulso thousands who think as tho Socialistic mind thinks. No man can foretell when the Democracy must undergo the tamo treatmont that the Republicans experienced at Chicago ii, 1012. But it Is a matter of lime only, when tho Democrats will insist upot. knowing for what thoy ate voting as the Republicans and .Progressives Insisted Mi tho last campaign. While nucoesnry dl- , vision In Democratic thought Is impending, impend-ing, It is rather strange to hear of tho 1 proposal that tho Republican parti and 1 tho Progressive party amalgamate." I |