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Show SAYS PROGRESSIVE PARTY IS GAINING Medill oVTcConniclc SpoakB to tho Oregon Members of Now Political Organization. Or-ganization. PORTDAIvTJ, Ore., April 11. That Uio Progressive partv is better organized organ-ized than- ever before and is gaining strength everywhere, was the declaration declara-tion tonight of Medill McConnick, vice chairman of the national committee of that party, in a speech beforo the Portland Port-land Progressive organization. "In stato after state," he said, "men and women are meeting as you aro here tonight, to counsol together, to draw closer tho bonds of union thnt wo may tho better carry to others the message which inspired tho 4,000,000 which were joined with us in the lat campaign. For tho first time in generations we have in the land a party of men and women professing common principles, subscribing subscrib-ing to a single political code, and actuated ac-tuated by the samo purposes from ocean to ocean, in Oregon rr in Ohio, in Maine or Massachusetts. By thi code and bv these principles our lenders are bound to us and bound to one another. "As for the Republican party, I be-liovo be-liovo it faces another Hnlit. The Democrats, Demo-crats, too, give ienfi of a split, judging from tho attitude of Clark and Underwood Under-wood in opposing Wilson." , Mr. McCormick loft tonight for Seattle. |