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Show 00 THE LEAVENING POWER OF PROGRESSIVES. Frederick M. Davenport, Progressive Progres-sive candidate for governor of New York last fall, has reached the conclusion con-clusion that the place for the Progressives Pro-gressives is back in uie Republican ranks and he has issued a statement to that effect In which he says that Governor Brumbaugh, although a rock-ribbed Republican, has proved a most progressive leader, and the Progressives could help him only by supporting him in tho Republican primaries. pri-maries. Otherwise, he asserted, the machine legislators would get to "Harrisburg and snap their fingers at the governor and the people " , "In Washington and Kansas," the statement continues, "tho Republican party machinery I3 bad and inefficient ineffi-cient and government is in the doldrums. dol-drums. And progress will halt in these states until tho two great groups once more coalesce. In Illinois Illi-nois the path of patriotism 'and hope is the union of the anti-Lorlmer Re-publlcanforces Re-publlcanforces with tho 200,000 Pro gressives of 1914. Tne time is rlpo alBo for that" "In California, Johnson and his men could work with any party. They could control tho Republican party in on fight if they went into its primaries. pri-maries. In tho other states of tho . 1 , . , i west and in most of the states of the east there is no real Progressive party strength left at all." By the Progressives going back to the Republican party, that great organization or-ganization becomes the strongest force for real reform. |