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Show RETURN OF SENATOR POINDEXTER. Commenting on the- return of Sen-, Sen-, ator Miles Foindcxter to the Repub lican party, the Herald-Republican says: "Senator Miles Poindexter was the last Progressive in the United States a senate and his abandonment of that j party marks its official disappearance jt) as a separate political organization. I I Xothing of such far-reaching political I I significance has occurred intr- the I I Republican party schism began In 1 1912, Doubtless t"o excellent rea- sons actuates the Washington states I man in returning to the party of his 1 earlier allegiance. One of them is 'I found in his consciousness that what 1 ever progressive principles are writ- 1 ten into legislation must be by action 1 of the Republican party and the oth- I er Is purely selfishness since It deals ' wjtb bis realization that only throuph I the Republican party may he guaran- :l- tee hiB personal political future The one is a testimonial to the progressive F character of Republicanism, and the ; other reflects the growiDg confidence, throughout the nation that the party of protection is returning to its own " Senator Toindexter was one of the stalwart's of the Progressive movement. move-ment. His declaration of confidence ;n the future of the Republican party indoubledly Is due to the fact that nearly all the Progressives are todaj back in the fold, where their influence influ-ence is making for reform. What really has taken place is that the Progressives have absorbed and assimilated the Standpatters, and thus United i the Republican party is the most progressive force In the United States. The Democratic party eventually rmi8t undergo the same tranforma-Hon, tranforma-Hon, on the men from Tammany Hall and the Roper Sullivan will control and make It the great renctionarv organization or-ganization of our national politics. |