The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-12-10
ROOSEVELT RULES
OUT REPUBLICANS
FROM HIS HOSTS
Bull Moose Crowd Will Herd
Alone, Is Dictum of Pro-
gressive Leader
ONLY ONE PARTY AND
HE IS ITS PROPHET
Colonel Takes Command of
His Forces on Eve Of Con-
ference and Issues
Statement

CHICAGO. Dec. s.-There is but
one Progressive party and Roosevelt
Is its prophet. Such is to be the
proclamation of the Bull Moose con-
ference that begins at the LeSalle
hotel tomorrow.
There Is TO be no fusion of the ad-
vanced Republicans, and the out and
out Rooseveltians. And that Is the
dictum of Colonel Roosevelt. himself.
Republicans, who still call them
selves by that name, must deny their
party name and submit to the Bull
Moose brand, or else be considered as
enemies Of the common good and
fight as reactionaries. That also Is
Roosevelt declaration.
None shall have the right to be
considered "Progressiyes' unless they
submit to the name. Progressive. Pro-
gressives by another name are spuri-
GUS, SO also says Colonel Roosevelt,
and what he says the Bull Moose
conference will say when the time
40 pass resolutions shall arrive
I'VE are the heirs of the Republi-
canism Of Abraham Lincoln. and Of
| the Republicans who fought in the
War Between the States declared the
colonel today. in his own language
He was speaking to the Bull Moose
| mem bers OF the Illinois legislature.
but he was speaking for the Bull
Moose party and himself. which all
| understood.
Our opponents. he said, also, ARE
making loud professions of lip loyalty
| to progressive principles. Make them
show up, or back up"
| What Colonel Roosevelt said and
| did in the course OF the day was
| just about all that happened in the
| preliminary day of the Progressive
| conference. There were others in
| town, many others, but they did not
count, except as an audience. All
told, the advance guard of the Moos-
ers today numbered perhaps three
| hundred. The time was given mere
| ly to making ready for the events
! OF tomorrow. and Wednesday. And
those events were foreshadowed with
| moderate certainty.
The thing of chief Importance TO
come out of the conference. In the
present view of the leaders. Is to be
| a declaration for concerted action
throughout the country. That is to
say. there Is to be a definite and
agreed upon Progressive platform to
be followed throughout the nation.
Bull Moose legislators are to fight
for the same laws in Illinois. that
their brethren fight for In California.
or Vermont, or Montana.
Also there is to ze a national pro-
gram And II Is TO be understood that
there shall be no compromise with
any other party. or the members of
any other party. Minor matters will
be questions of finance and propa-
ganda. The conference tomorrow Is
TO be an open session OF the Progress
sive national committee. Colonel
Roosevelt is TO be the first and the
! he haS inia
the law others will be heard.
What Is said at the conference
though. liz not to be binding. The ma
tionals committee is to act Wednesda,
after ii has taken counsel tomorrow
Such was the decision of the national
executive committee today.
The meeting of the executive com
mittee was merely for the purpose O
making up the days program Sever
Of the nine members were prasent
namely: Chairman George w. Perkins
Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon, Miss Jane
Adams, George Priestly, of Oklaho
ma, Charles Fl. Thompson, of Vermont
Waiter F. Brown. of Ohio. and Colone
Chauncey, of Illinois: the absentee.
were: Judge Ben B. Lindsey, Of Colo
RADIO, and William Finn, of Pennsyf
yania. Colonel Roosevelt was presen
for a few minutes.
Program For Convention.
The program as arranged for tomor'
row is as follows:
Convene In the ballroom of the La
Sale hotel at 1890 A. NJ. with Chair
man Dixon, Of the national commit
tee. presiding.
Speech OF Colonel Roosevelt, to b.
followed by a buffet luncheon
Report by Miss Jane Adams, OF tbs
subcommittee on organization. and OF
education.
4 Address by" Or: Walter Weyl. On th'
methods of organization and finance
followed by the English Liberals, ant
German Social Democrats.
General discussion.
For the evening there is to he thu
beefsteak dinner, when. perhaps. AL
bert ]. Beveridge will be given {
chance to speak. Mr.. Beveridge wa,
among those present today.
Finn True to Moossrs.
PITTSBURG, PA, Dec. 9.-The Pro
rressfve party is to remain one o
the dominant parties in Pennsylvania
and william Finn is not going bacl
into the Republican party. Finn wen
TO Chicago tonight to attend the Pro
gressive conference tomorrow.
my course in the future, both II
the nation and IN Pennsylvania viii
he determined by the action of tn
Progressive conference" said Finn II
view OF the statements by Roosevelt
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