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Show LEAVE THE 1 TAFT PARTY I Progressives in Colorado rfl Will Form New State ) Organization jfl ' fU Colorado Springs, Colo., Sept. 18. iM In announcing thnt he had severed H his relations with the Republican a party and was joining the Progres-- mm slves, Philip B. Stowart, Progressive M Republican candidate for governor, who was defeated at the primaries is- sued the following statement last ; night: H5 'I have fought for the last sW of months with all the powers 1 had to JI realize my ideas of Just government, ilM within the Republican party. The nfff Republican party in this state has re- ftK jocted my position nnd I accept the iriK result without complaint. My only jV honorable recourse is to renew the JS' fight, side by ''side with men of: con- lj victiona like my own.". 'w1- W Stewart last 'night mailed his rea- ignation as chairman of the Republi- IjfeB oan county central committee to Sec- t$V retary B. F. Law. ;M Following this Stewart, Merle D nfll Vincent, Benjamin J. Griffin, Carl A jxJHfl Blckel and Clarence P. Dodge, Pro- Hf gressivo Republican candidates, sent -3 the following telegram to. Colonel H! Roosevelt who will be hero Thursday SI afternoon. tffil "Contending squarely for the prln- 4 ciples which you typify-, wo of kindred gr jt convictions have completed our fight M 3! before the Republican primaries for S m the realization of those 'principles m ry through tlie agency of that party. The I ;. returns are now In and from them it $ ''' appears that that party in this state 9 refuses to be an agency to this end. m "vi The course we chose was the only one IS' V; open when we began to fight " last gt- ,. February and which we have prose- &';v. cuted with what energy and power we rfc5' have had for six months past. Mod- featy iffed by subsequent happenings, it 5lJ still seems to us the logical course rB to follow here. The event has proved HJj otherwise. Our services -are at yoifr iEcl command whenever and. wherever wo K 9 can aid " a&M Attorney Genoral Griffith was tha J only one of the signers of the tele- g3 gram who was a successful candidate i.- at the primaries on the Republican Sjf ticket. He was nominated for a sec- jX$f on'd term as attorney goneral. " &- |