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Show 1UED TO ATTEKD-M ATTEKD-M Y0HEE1G Progressives Preparing to Arrange for Reorganization Reorganiza-tion at St. Louis. An invitation to attend the Progressive Progres-sive conference to be held in New York City December 15 was received yesterday yester-day by A. T. Moon, Progressive national committeeman, in a telegram from Matthew Mat-thew Hale of Boston, acting national chairman of the Progressive party. The invitation was read yesterday ; afternoon at a special meeting of the Progressive state committee in the office of-fice of Secretary X. A. Robertson and it was decided "that Mr. Moou should attend the conference or that a telegram tele-gram should be sent setting forth the views of the Utah Bull Mooters in connection con-nection with the reorganization of the national Progressive party. On account of pressing business and the short time before the assembling of the conference it is probable that Mr. Moon will be unable to attend. However, no definite decision will be made until further information is obtained ob-tained from Mr. Hale. In his telegram he said that a letter explaining the plans in detail would follow. I According to press reports from the east, the New York meeting is to be a sort of a preliminary to the general conference which is to be held a little later at St. Louis. Mr. Moon plans to attend the St. Louis conference. At the meeting in New York City it is planned to form a nucleus for a new and broader broad-er organization which will be perfected perfect-ed at St. Louis. In his official call for the New York conference Mr. Hale sets forth that the liberals of the nation must organize, regardless re-gardless of their past party affiliations and reeardless of their choice for president presi-dent this fall. "We Progressives always have been more interested in the success of the principles for which we are fighting than in the existence of our party as a separate entity," says the call. ""We always have been ready to support either of the old parties" when either of them commits itself to a really liberal lib-eral programme. Until then, however, we are not Democrats, we are not Republicans;, Re-publicans;, we are Progressives. I ' ( We are unwilling to compromise with the old guard of either party. We ; are willing to co-operate in every way with tho liberal element of either'partv. We stand ready to help President Wilson Wil-son at all times and in all wavs in his fight to liberalize the Democratic party, and we stand ready to help Hiram : -Johnson of California fight to liberal-: liberal-: ize the Republican party. "Sooner or later the liberal element i of all parties and of all sections, north j and south, east and west, will unite to form a really coherent and really na-I na-I tional liberal party perhaps under one of the old party standards, perhaps under un-der a new standard and will complete the work begun so splendidly by Wood-row Wood-row Wilson and Hiram .Johnson." |