Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-09-03
ANTI-TAFT
fight IS On WITH
FULL VIGOR
LaFOLLETTE is The LEADER
viii Push War on President
In All States

Washington, Sept, 2.-Campaign
headquarters have been opened in
Washington in behalf of the candidacy
.of Senator Robert M. La Toilette, and
the contest for the control of the Re-
publican convention of 1912 by the
progressive element of the party will
be pressed with vigor.
Senator La Toilette has remained in
Washington since the adjournment of
Congress to be in close touch with the
establishment of headquarters and the
plan of the progressives for pushing
the fight into every part of the country.
The progressive Republican, or "a
Toilette, headquarters are in charge Of
W. M, Howser, who was Secretary of
State of Wisconsin when Senator La
Toilette was Governor of that state.
The campaign is already well under
way. Organizations are being perfect
ed in all parts of the country.
1t is the intention to make a fight
against the denomination of Taft and
for the promotion of progressive prin-
ciples and for the naming CT progress
.sive Republican delegates to the con-
yention in the interest of the nomina-
tion of a progressive. Senator La
Toilette is the man behind whom the
Iprogressives will make their stand.
Come Out Against Taft.
The announcements from the Middle
West during the past few days, IN
which Senators Bristow and Cummins
have come out for La Toilette and
against Taft are to be followed by sim
liar announcements from progressive
leaders everywhere.
Medill Mccormick, former editor cf
the Chicago Tribune, and who married
a daughter of the late Senator Hanna,
of Ohio, has associated himself with
the progressive Republican movement
and its headquarters in Washington.
He has been here during the past
few days in consultation with Senator
LaFollette on a quiet mission and is
laying careful plans for the devel-
opment of the progressive movement
in Illinois. He is in thorough sympa-
thy with the movement already inau-
gurated in Illinois to take the State
delegation to the national convention
of 1912 from Taft.
No announcement is to be form
ally made for the present of the candf-
dacy of Senator LaFollette for the
presidency.
The fight is to be a lively one from
the very start of the campaign, now on
in full swing, and it is to be made II
contest for the adoption of progressive
platforms wherever Republicans as
semble in state or local conventions.
No State To Be Neglected.
The fight is to be made for pro-
gressive principles in those states in
which the progressive leaders believe
they have the best chances of success;
but it is not to be neglected in other
states.
The object of the campaign is to get
control of the delegations to the ma
tional convention, dictate the platform
and dominate that gathering.
Well in advance of the national con-
vention the Republi an Insurgents ex-
pect to control the delegates from Wis
consin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Ok
lahoma, California, Washington, Kan
sas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana,
Oregon and Iowa.
The fight for control has already
been started in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Wyoming and Nevada.
Emissaries of the league will be sent
into the south, where every effort viii
be made during the next six months to-
make an anti-Taft fight.