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Show GEORGE W. PERKINS SENDS ULTIMATUM Republican Leaders Told What They Must Do to Please Progressives. NEW YORK, Jan. 17. Fortified by telegrams and letters sent to him by Progressives from many parts of the eountry, George V. Perkins today laid down an ultimatum to the Republican leaders that the harmony plan proposed yesterday by the subcommittee made up of members of the Republican national committee's executive committee "would not be acceptable to the Progressives. Mr. Perkins said he had a conference with Republican National Chairman W. R. Willcox, in which he told the chairman chair-man that the proposed "supplemental committee" to be made up or Progressives Progres-sives and Republicans provided for in the harmony plan would not do. He renewed his demand for a meeting of the full national committee to take up the question of Republican-Progressive co-operation. Among others, he made public a telegram from Coleman Du Pont. Republican national committeeman committee-man from Delaware, indorsing his stand. "This committee as proposed will be impotent," Mr. Perkins said. "We want a committee representative of both parties, which shall have real powers. pow-ers. This is a crisis in the affairs of the Republican party and we want to see what the Republicans a.re going to do about it. "If they don't want us Progressives witb them to oppose the incompetent Democratic administration, why, we want to know that, as a basis tor our future action. If they do call the committee com-mittee together and it refuses to act, that will be the basis of our future action. ac-tion. But, whatever their attitude, this is the time to declare it, not on the eve of the next national election." The telegram from Mr. Du Pont, as given out by Mr. Perkins, read: "You are right. The action of the executive committee yesterday worked a great iniury to the Republican party." William A. White of Kansas wired: "Glory in your spunk. Go to it." Mr. Perkins also had a conference with Theodore Roosevelt on the matter. John Hays Hammond, president of the National Republican league, wrote to Chairman Willcox urging him to call together the Republican national committee com-mittee to take up the situation. Mr. Willcox said today that he had as yet taken no formal action in connection with the harmony plan controversy, but had met and talked with many Republicans Repub-licans and Progressives about it. |