The Glenwood post., 1912-09-07
Refuse to Join Third Party On Plead.
ings of Senator Dixon. Persist in
Their Hypocritica| Position
SOME PLAIN TALK FROM Dixon

consistently withdraw their names at
this time from the republican primary
ticket.
This tentative offer made by the
progressive state leaders having been
agreed by the leaders of the progres.
sive party in Colorado immeditely to
place their full progressive state ticket
in the field to be voted for in the ap-
preaching elections.
81 have read the statement issued
this evening by Messrs. Stewart. Vim
cent and Griffith, in which they cite
conditions in the states of Pennsy!-
vania, Kansas, South Dakota. Nebraska
and one or two other states, as being
similar to the situation that confronts
the progressive voters of Colorado. IN
the states above cited, the progressive
state tickets will go on the ballot under
presidential electors openly pledged to
the support of Roosevelt and johnson
as the nominees of the national pro
gressive party. In Colorado, l find
this situation does not prevail. The
republican electors named in Colorado
are not pledged to the election of Roose
welt and Johnson, but are pledged for
the republican nominees, Taft and
Sherman.
Gin my opin ;on, it is an Illogical sit
uation that would seek to name a So
called progressive state ticket running
under an electoral ticket openly pledged
| to the election of Taft and Sherman.
1t would place the nominees of a state
ticket thus named and going on tn,
official ballot under Taft and Sherman
electors, in most embarrassing and
equivocal situation.
"The national progressive party has
no allegiance or affiliation with either
| the republican or the democratic par
ties. 1t is as distinctively anti-repubi-
can as it is antidemocratic. Its pra-
ciples and it's platform are distinctively
opposed to the policy and the leader
ship of both the republican and the
democratic parties. In every state of
| the Union the progressive party hos
either named. or will name. full and
complete state tickets, going on the
ballot under the national progressive
electors pledged to the support of
Roosevelt and johnson. 1t is true that
in four or five states where, owing to
the peculiar conditions of the election
laws, the progressive party, after the
legal primaries had been held, could not
90 upon the official ballot except as
Independent nominations and with no
party distinction. In these four or five
states, where the republican party had
become entirely progressive and its
electors and nominees for state offices
were entirely progressive and openly
supporting the nominees OF the nation
al progressive party for president and
vice president, the progressive voters
of these states are temporarily using
the machinery of these nominations al
ready made as the only method of Civ
ing full expression to the progressive
sentiment in these few states.
"Such condition does not prevail in
Colorado. Under the election laws of
this state, the progressives can place
their electoral ticket and their state
candidates upon the ballot as straight
progressive party nomination.
!, 'While we welcome the support of
voters of all the old political parties
who still feel that they desire to vote
for some portion of the state nominees
of the republican and democratic par
ties in the state of Colorado, We advise
all men and women who intend to sup
port Roosevelt and Johnson to vote also
with the progressive party of Colorado
, in the nomination and election of the
progressive party state ticket. 1 think
. our friends who openly announce their