Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-07-30 | Page 13 | Victory, Moose Cry on Return from Syracuse

I u TORY MOOSE CRY CRyl ON RETURN FROM SY SYRACUSE Progressives Say They Won and Party Did Not Hear Its SI Death Knell TY N W YORK July Hughes Anti 29 Hughes Anti Progressives back from the meeting of or at Syracuse which t h he statE committee adjourned i urn without without ind Indorsing the Be- Be ll publican candidate for President asserted as asserted ns- ns I decisive that they had won a a. regard regard- arde ard- ard Failure to take action r i gard-i victory victor e national or the state the In ng Ing Jelther either reb rebuke re- re a 8 severe sl situation ul they said was I for its Ita i b buke lie to the national committee j I indorsement In of ot Hughes j I Colby paid aid butI butla but I session was a a. stormy one The fhe he of ot the anno announced announced an an- at was waa expected in view that I l a t. t of or the meeting The no purpose the of or the plan to strangle opponents party were under the stress stress stress' of str 1 g feeling but it was sound and honest st feeling efforts to In- In The collapse of the the Republican candidate was dramatic m tlc Every parliamentary de- de I rice I and expedient was exhausted but I The loyal it simply couldn't be dope Progressives refused to he be delivered and were undismayed b by the claims of strength put forward rd at the opening of th tile the meeting by the Hughes men New NeVI York ork Progressives In Line The Now New York Tork Progressives now I take their place along with the Progressives Pro Pro- of Ma Massachusetts California New Jersey Michigan Indiana Kentucky Ken Ken- tucky Missouri and the lengthening Ken Ken-I list list of of other states which have repudiated repudiated I the national committee The national committee has been d and cast away as an thor organ of or the Progressive body and the predictions and warnings warnings warnings warn warn- ings that its Ha action on July 26 would be repudiated j have come home to roost ronet with a a. vengeance Michael Schaap vice chairman of or committee the who was wall al also o one of or 1 tho the leaders of the opposition to meeting was declared the Hughes very successful on the whole arite Hughes men he lie said took an an- adjournment to save their faces face because It was waa evident that if it the res reso- reso reo I o- o to indorse Hughes had hall been blen I have been de dee defeated defeated de- de p put t to o a vote it would e ted overwhelmingly The noise I ot of the tho meeting did not indicate that we did not know what w we were we were doing The confusion contusion was due to the rulings of or Chairman Johnston 1 I was inexperienced and who favored fa- fa 1 ored the tha Hughes men It Tt was exactly the same situation astie as all tie presented in the meeting two twe 1 years YE ago when the Republican fac- fac i tried to deliver the tha party part over to tt 1 Hinman L 1 believe that the entire party willi will 1 support 1 Justice 8 S Seabury for O governor e i tS I l matter no-matter t what t our differences n over national questions may be Th The Syra Syra- I meeting did ld not sound the death I j n of the Progressive party We Wu shall still be united In state politics If It the S Seabury b indorsement had been beer put to the vote ever every member of the committee would have ha voted for him Perkins Is Silent George V. W. Perkins would not be In In- In At the Democratic national headquarters In the second Forty-second street huil building the of or the meeting hailed as aa a victory for fOT President lion J on The national committee in 1 bulletin called attention tot to t change of front which Perkins lies has in past year In r regard tp t to Ie future of or the Progressive party I ar ago the bulletin char charges chars s Per- Per 1111 said JU t would be more easy to make ana an ana anai a ai for tor our affiliating with the ther r I than it would be lie with the if It publicans And AmI on III A August U 9 9 1915 1915 I Ij said ald j I 1 The Idea of tr trying o ng to deliver votes en i masse to another party seemed scented to ta of order and utterly u unfair ands and s ed to be striking so at the very I 1 ih of our our whole organization that a. a of mr r ca careful ful consideration and consult consulta consul- consul t ta n with a a. number of our friends I 1 II de rt I ded to go 1 to the Buffalo meeting g I was by far the largest one and p pj test in the name of the national organization ug against I t any such mch action