Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-07-06
PROGRESSIVE BANQUET
Meeting to be Held in Near Future
! of Political Significance

SoA ASoAuCAIS VI 4NOA III DdhOIo 10 a
mong the events talked of in the
linear future at Fargo. A speaker of
national Importance is expected to
Ibe present.
On the committee that has been
lappointed to make the arrangements
for the Fargo banquet and jollifica-
tion are Treadwell Twitchell, J. A.
Buchanan, A. w. Fowler, Judge A. G.
Hanson and Emerson Smith.
+ The Grand Forks Times, quoting
H., N. Johnson, one of the promoters
| of the affair has the following: Mr..
johnson says:
4 Progressive Republicans of North
Dakota, in the organization of state
lbranch of the National Progressive
IRepublican league, will not follow in
kthe footsteps of the Minnesota branch
| in the endorsement of presidential
candidate" !"
"The purpose of the Progressive
Republicans of North Dakota will be
entirely Independent of any prefer
ence so far as candidates are con-
cerned at this time. We do not want
| to. give the league the appearance of
| being organized for the benefit Of this
or, that man; that is not the real
purpose of the organization" said
| Mr.. Johnson to an Evening Times
representative the other day.
"It is our purpose to organize
league that will be made up of men
believing in progressive principals,
| and by that I mean principals such
as are generally recognized as being
| those for which the Progressive Re-
| publicans over the United States have
been fighting. AS wide publicity as
| is possible will be given to the plans
for. the big banquet, and all who are
] in any manner interested as Progress
sive Republicans will be welcomed y
Not a Candidate Affair
"Tne committee that has been plac-
ed in charge of the arrangements has
laid down plans which, If carried out,
will result Id no undue prominence
being given to any man who may in
the immediate future loom up as
candidate for this or that office. The
league will not be launched under
the cloud of a personal machine for
this or that man, either in the state
political circus ring, nor in the ma
tional field"
With this plan of action laid down
by the Progressive Republicans for
their get-to-gether feast in Fargo
next month, the leaders of that fac
ton believe that the very best of
results can be obtained.
Commenting on the meeting the
Times says:
The action taken by the North Da-
kota Progressives is somewhat diff
ferent than that taken by the Mime
sofa Progressives, who, at their
meeting, endorsed the candidacy Of
LaFollette for United States presi-
dent. North Dakota is operating un-
der a new law in the election of it's
delegates to the national convention,
the delegates being chosen by popular
election of the parties at the primar-
les. BY this same method the choice
of the parties in the state of their
presidential candidates will be regis
tered, and the delegates consequently
will go to the convention instructed
for this or that candidate.
Discussing New Law
Politicians of the state are prone to
forecast what will happen when the
first presidential preference election
is held. The supporters of this or
that candidate for president will
doubtless have their individual tick
cts in the field, and with four or five
candidates for president, the array of
national convention delegate candi-
dates that will be gathered will be
somewhat out of the ordinary.
When the Progressive Republicans
meet in Fargo and effect the organ
ization of the branch of the National
Progressive league, there is a bare
possibility that the new plan of elect
ing delegates will enter into discus
sion at the hands of one or the other
of the speakers, but that is not at all
certain. II the wishes of those most
deeply concerned in launching the or !
ganization movement are respected.
nothing will be said of that nature
Progressive Republicanism will be
the entire theme.
Mrs. J. G. Harrigan, formerly Miss
vesta Moxom of Jamestown, writes
from Colville, WASH, that Gene