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Show PROGRESSIVES LAY PLIS FOR FUTURE i ATLANTA, Ga Feb. 14. After a conference con-ference of Progressive leaders here today, to-day, at which plans were laid for the south to be well represented at the national na-tional Progressive conference at St. Louis April 12, Chairman Mathew Hale of the Progressive national committee announced an-nounced that President Wilson would be invited to address the St. Louis conference. con-ference. The president will be invited as a ''liberal ''lib-eral Democrat." ajid Senator-elect Hiram Johnson of California also will be asked as a "liberal Republican," Mr. Hale said. John M. Parker of New Orleans, who 1 was "-candidate for vice president on the Progressive ticket, told the conference to-: to-: day that national prohibition, woman suf-i suf-i frage and universal military training i should be among the planks which Progressive Pro-gressive leaders should put before the country in 1920. Resolutions were adopted adopt-ed approving his speech. A series of resolutions res-olutions also were adopted recommending that the St. Louis convention consider these subjects, and among others those of uniform marriage and divorce laws, nationalization of the public school system sys-tem and public ownership of public utilities. Other resolutions adopted pledged the delegates to stand behind the government govern-ment as "good Americans" in the present pres-ent international situation and urged that Progressives in the north, east and west "stand by their contract of 1912" and help build up the Progressive party in the south. The delegates also pledged themselves them-selves against "compromise with reactionary reac-tionary elements' of other parties, but Invited co-operAtion of "liberal elements." |