The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1910-04-15
PROGRESSIVE RFPUBLICANISM
As Defined by Judge POindexter, Candi-
date for United States
Senator

Spokane, April 1.-THE charge
that Progressive Republicans are plan
ming a new party movement is one that
is made and kept alive by their enc
mics within the republican party, :"
states Rufus R. Wilson, secretary Of the
Progressive Republican League. Moth
ing could be further from the truth.
Progressive Republicans, of whom
Judge Poindexter has made himself one
OF the leaders, simply contend at this
time that the republican party should
fulfill the pledges which it made when
it last asked for vote Of confidence
from the people, and that it shall put
itself in harmony with the aroused ma
tional conscience which demands that
hereafter political and corporate hon
esty shall be held to as strict an ac-
count as personal honesty, while the
poor man shall be assured OF as square
a deal as the rich one. Those repub-
licans who see fit to oppose the fore
going will find that they have outlived
their own usefulness to their party.
They will also find before the end of
the contest for party domination now in
progress that Judge Poindexter and all
the other Progressive Republicans are
not outside of, brt very much within
the party"
Nj Wilson also stated that Judge
Poindexter had lately prepared state
ment Of what Progressive Republican
ism stands for, Of which liberal use
would be made in the coming cam
paign in this state. Judge Poindexter' S
pronouncement is as follows:
Progressive Republicanism stands for
the conservation OF the natural re-
sources of the federal domain, as op-
posed to the stand-pat policy of parcel
ing out to private interests, without
adequate compensation, these vast pos
sessions OF the people. II favors the
extension OF the forest reserve system
into the mountain regions Of the east.
1t stands for strong and effective
government control Of railroads and the
regulation OF rates thereon, as opposed
to the reactionary policy of non-inter-
ference. 1t stands for competition in
trade, as against the machine policy OF
monopoly. 1t is in favor of strength
ening instead of weakening the Sher-
man antitrust law and OF enlarging the
powers OF the interstate commerce
commission; of giving this commission
the power to fix rates and power to put
its orders into effect.
In view Of the fact that the two lat
ter subjects are the most important
sources OF litigation in the federal
courts, Progressive Republicanism ia
vors the appointment of impartial and
unbiased federal judges, rather than
those whose service and association
with the trusts and public service cor
porations which are the subject of this
regulation has caused them to pre-
Judge this public question.
We are in favor of the sane and
wholesome policy, so successfully inau-
gurated by ex-President Roosevelt, of
dealing with wealthy criminals the same
as with poor ones; and that land frauds,
and rebate conspiracies to defraud the
customs should be vigorously prose-
cuted, and that the principals as well
as the tools and dummies should be
punished, regardless Of great wealth or
station.
Progressive Republicanism favors a
liberal and business-like policy of in
ternal waterway improvement, and the
immediate issue of bonds for that work,
if necessary, as opposed to the indif-
ferent or hostile attitude Of the reac-
tionaries towards this great public
work. 1t advocates permanent tariff
commission, with full power to investi-
gate and report all facts necessary to an
enlightened tariff schedule, rather than
the grab and barter system of Aldrich
and Cannon.
We advocate a reorganization Of the
United States senate so that the inter
ests and the sections which have so
long entirely controlled it shall share
their influence with the entire country.
W. ave foy a more indenendenf Snirit