Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1911-02-18
THE PEOPLE
ARE TO RULE.
Nine Progressive Senators, Six Gov
ernors and Thirteen Representa-.
tives Among the Founders.

was taken in Washington, D. c., Sat
urday night when the progressiv,
senator's and representatives met ans
adopted declaration of principles
The declaration is sig ned by min.
Republican senators, the governors o
, six Republican, states, thirteen repre-
sentatives in Congress and twenty
three others. The organization is t.
. be known as the National Progressiy
Republican League and it's object Ii
to "restore popular government t.
the United States"
!, The league will work for the cleo
tlon OF senators by the people, cor
rupt practice act, the initiative, refer
endm and recall, primaries for the
election of delegates to national con
ventions and primaries for the cleo
ton Of all elective officials.
| The signers are:
United States Senators-Jo Jonathan
Bourne, Jr., Oregon; Albert j. Bever
idge, Indiana; Joseph L. Bristow, Kan
8 s.; Norris Brown, Nebraska; Albert
b. Cummings. Iowa; Moses e. Clapl
Minnesota; Joseph M. Dixon, Mon
tana; A. J. Gromna, North Dakota;
Robert M. LaFolette, Wisconsin.
Governors: Chester H. Aldrich, N,
naska; Joseph M. Carey, Wyoming
Hiram w. Johnson, California; Fran
CHS E. McGovern, Wisconsin; Chase
S. Osborne, Michigan; and w. R.
Stubbs, Kansas
Representatives-Henry Allen Coop
er, Wisconsin; William ]. Carey, Wis
consin; c. R. Davis, Minnesota; E.
H. Hubbard, Iowa; G. N. Haugen, l.
owa; Irvine L. Lenroot, Wisconsin;
G. A. Lindbergh, Minnesota; Victor
Murdoch, Kansas; E. H. Madison,
Kansas; E. A. Morse, Wisconsin;
Johnh M. Nelson. WISCONSIN; Geo.
w. Norris, Nebraska, and Miles Poin-
dexter, Washington.
Other signers:
Alfred L. Baker, Illinois; Ray STAN
nard Baker, Massachusetts; Louis D.
Brandeis, Massachusetts; Charles R.
Crane, Illinois; Frank L, Dingley.
Maine; James r. Garfield, Ohio;
Hugh T. Halbert. Minnesota; Francis
j. Heney, California; Frederick C.
Howe, New York; Fred S. Jackson
(congressman-elect), Kansas; e. Clar-
ence Jones, New York; William Kent
(congressman-elect), California; Geo.
5. LOTUS, Minnesota; William L. La.
Toilette (congressman-e elect, Wash
ington; Clifford Pinchot, Pemsylva-
mia; Amos Pinchot, New York; James
A. Peterson, Minnesota; George l..
Record, New Jersey; Gilbert Il. Roe,
New York; w. S. U'Ren, Oregon;
Merle D. Vincent, Colorado; William
Allen White, Kansas.
The declaration of principles fol-
lows:
We the undersigned, associate our
selves together as the National Pro-
gressive Republican League.
The object of the league is the pro-
motion Of popular government and
progressive legislation.
Popular Government Thwarted.
Popular government In America has
been thwarted and progressive legis-
lation strangled by the special inter
ests which control caucuses, delegates.
conventions and party organizations
and through control OF the machinery
OF government dictate nominations
and platforms, elect administrations
legislators, representatives In Cong
ress and United States senator's, and
control cabinet officers.
Under existing conditions legisla-
tion In the public interest has been
baffled and defeated. This is ew-
denced by the long struggle to se-
cure laws, but partly effective. for
the control of railway rates and ser.
vices, the revision of the tariff In the
interest of the producer and consumer.
statutes dealing with trusts and COM
binations, based on sound economic
principles as applied to modern in
dtstrial and commercial conditions,
a wise, comprehensive and impartial
of the banking and
monetary laws, the conservation of
COAL oil, gas, timber, water powers
and other natural resources belonging
10 the people, and for the enactment
of all legislation solely for the com
non good
Just In proportion as popular gov
has I'm certain states super.
'eded the delegate convention system,
Ind the people have assumed control (
" the machinery of government,
has government become responsive to {