Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-12-11
MOOSE WANT tn.
FOR 1915 LEADER
Colonel Calls G. 0. P. PerSecu'
ton of Mrs. LongStreet, of
Georgia, Contemplate.

CHICAGO. Dec. 1l.-Ihe natlohdl
committee Of the Progressive party TO-
da, went into session prepared q
mss definitely on the plans presented
- +bA national conference yesterday Tor
,aor-,anent organization. The sessions
tag;ns at the LaSalle hotel shortly pc
fore noon. 1t was expected tnat they
uou1d frame resolutions embodylns the
ideas of organization presented ana
+bet the executive committee would De
s,o,ovared to go ahead with the work
of carving the organization FORWARD
along the lines mapped out
~ The resolutions, it was expected.
would urge the organization of a dues
having membership to carry on a ma
tion-wide campaign Of education that
/. IN begin at once. The educational
ooronaign. it was expected, would be
c.rrjed forward through six bureaus
40 suggested by Miss Jane Adams In
nlan submitted to the conference yes
terdav and which was greeted with APP
nIause by those who attended the SEES
sions.
For Weekly Newspaper.
II was expected also that the COM
roittee would adopt specific plans for
+he work of organization in the var1-
ors states. carried on largely by the
men who headed the campaign that mas
inst ended A weekly newspaper and
nossiblv a. monthly, to be the of1cial
organs Of the party, are also to be es-
+sb1ished If the committee carries out
+he recommendations Of the conference.
II was expected also that series of
resolutions embodying the sentiments
If the conference would be presented.
These would pay especial tribute to
Colonel Roosevelt, 1t was said, embody-
ing the remarks of B. Fay Mills yes
terday, In which he referred to the
colonel as the natural candidate of the
nartv in 1916 1t was expected also
that the resolutions would urge the
colonel personally and the party to
take even a more advanced stand re-
garding the judiciary than that indi-
Gated in Roosevelt's Columbus speech.
"contemptibIe," Says Colonel.
Colonel Roosevelt, speaking last night
at the family dinner" of delegates, de-
clared the Republican administration
was spending "its last days" in punish
Ing small postmasters and postmts-
tresses who had Joined the Progress
sve cause"
Never has there been a more igno-
Bile ending to once great political
party" said Colonel Roosevelt. It's
after election The administration is
safe from everything but mourning the
hearty contempt of all good men and
all good women. 1t couldn't get at any
Of the big people and so 1t is work.
ing out its spite on the small ones.
Could anything he more contempt
BILE than the administrations persecu-
ton of Mrs. Helen Longstreet, the
widow Of General Longstreet, who has
been a Georgia postmistress and who
had the courage and high -mindedness
10 indorse the things for which the
Progressive party stand?"
Colonel Roosevelt congratulated the
Progressives for having formed a par
ty which knows no sectionalism.
In concluding his speech, Colonel
Roosevelt said:
This country won't be good place
Tor any one TO live in unless we make It
a good place for every one to live in,
ana that Is just what the Progre ssivs
party intends to do"