Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-06-11 | Page 36 | Progressive Party Prostrate; Ply Pulmotor

PROGRESSIVE P RT f PROSTRATE PLY J 1 r Peevish Partisans artisans Pum Pu p New Life Into Dying f Moose i if li liBy By KARL A A. BICKEL ti CHIC CHICAGO GO June 10 Nation Nationally Nation Nation- N ally known Progressives gathered at t the University club tonight to i apply the to their prostrate prostrate pros pros- J party organization No attempt was made by these men mento mento to minimize the effect of ot the body blow the party suffered late today when Colonel R Roosevelt virtually declined its Ita nomination for president In effect ac according according according ac- ac cording to the views of ot Progressive radicals who tonight are determined ac aa ever not to accept a a. candidate approved approved by the Republican old old guard the colonel colonel col col- col- col end onel in effect read himself out of ot the ranks of at the political organization which was created to elect him in 1912 Among the men who attended the tile meeting were GIfford Pinchot of Pennsylvania Penn Penn- sylvania Hiram Johnson of California Raymond Robins of ot Illinois Victor Murdock of ot Kansas Merle D. D Vincent of ot Colorado and others who have made the Progressive fight In their various states and have been strong in the party party par par- ty organization durin durin the last four years I do not believe that the Progressive party Is dead declared Pinchot The Progressive party is more than a a. mere organization for political office It personifies a national spirit spirit spirit-a a demand for for- fora a freer and better government government- and that spirit spir t cannot be subdued and 4 J will demand a national expression Four years of ot work on the part of ot the Pro- Pro i has bas given the ideal t. t of the party too great an impetus It must live Prior to this conference the national committee of the party meeting Immediately Immediately immediately Imme Imme- following the dramatic reading of ot Roosevelt's Roosevett's telegram and while the delegates were still blindly groping about for leadership had determined to togo togo go ahead and elected executive an committee committee com corn of six to take up the immediate problem of ot continued organization The executive committee consisted of William Allen White of Kansas Harold I L. L Ickes of Illinois Matthew l Hale of Massachusetts l Chester Rowell Rowen of California California Cali Call fornia Pearl WI Wight ht of Louisiana Gor George W. W Perkins of New York William Flynn of ot Pennsylvania and G G. G t D. D Pope of Mich Mich- igan They set June 25 as the date of their next meeting In the meantime It Is stated stated stated- a sub without power to act will go to Oyster Bay hay and hold told a final conf conference rence with Roosevelt No effort It Is stated will be made to plead with t the colonel o to pick C up the Progressive S I standard t which I hundreds d S of of f the delegates here tonight believe bellev him to have dropped but at t this meeting e a full U understanding e ff 11 g will la be e arrived I at r e be between between be- be t s f tween the members of the party organIzation organization organ organ- and their one time Idolized leader The national committee elected Victor Murdock chairman Matthew Hale vice chairman O. O K Davis secretary and E. E H. H Hooker treasurer Keen edge was given the 4 Lion tion o ot othe the Progressive leaders to get t to t Roosevelt and give him a first hand f t count of ot what the they con consider lder some of t the e v significant features of the proceedings of the past wee week by the statement made tonight ht by Senator Smoot of Utah one one of or the Republican n conference committee which met with the Progressive comm com com- m What hat has as occurred he said salli Is what pen and I lo foresaw what r ti- ti the the an and Republican believed Tga would conferees fJ happen hap hap- have been working for tor Many Iap of the groups lg of delegates ld about tI the Progressive 0 national u were bitter in their denunciation of the colonel hut but on the whole the rank and file me of the th delegates apparently had settled settled set set- tied upon a II program of or personal re restraint re- re s in expression Fully gathered about the doors and In the corridors lea leading to t the e com Icom- committee room where he national committee commit commit- tee was meeting and eagerly questioned members of the committees as they came out as to the results of the meeting meet- meet Ing The debate in the national committee committee com com- was hot at times Charges of ot mismanagement In handling the convention convention con con- were made freely and the sinister sinister sin sin- ister suggestion that a a. poison gas gas' squad had been at work was offered y