The Washington times., 1912-08-17

Colonel Roosevelt and Governor
johnson, the two foremost speakers IN
the cause of the Progressive party are
going to change pulpits" for a few
weeks of the campaign.
Colonel Roosevelt will go West ana
Governor johnson will come East.
They will cross paths at Columbus,
at the date of the Ohio Progressive
State convention, and both will speak
at a huge meeting or meetings. The
occasion Is going to be made the big
est thing in the Progressive campaign
this year.
It is expected to afford the first real
dramatic climax OF the Progressive
light, and to initiate the determined
fight Of the Bull Moose party to cap
ture the home State Of President Taft.
Arranged By Dixon.
This Columbus meeting has been ar
ranged as part of a carefully-laid plan
of Chairman Dixon. of the Progressive
is to start East on August a. speaking
at some of the State conventions and
other gatherings on he way. Colonei
Roosevelt, right after the Vermont
election on September 3, will start
West.
| the continent are being arranged with
reference to having one or the other
| of the two oratorical big guns OF the
new party address each convention. a
| regular train dispatcher's schedule has
| been made out for the conventions, IN
| which the national committee and the
| State organizations are cooperating,
with the purpose Of making Is possible
| to have either Roosevelt or johnson at
each convention and to pull on huge
| State rally to the cause.
Johnson Will Explain.
| Governor Johnson is wanted In the
East to tell people all about what the
Progressive movement, as a construc-
| tive program, means. He knows, be-
cause he's the man who carried Cali
fornia, wrested 1t from it's old machine,
and proceeded to pass the Progressive
laws. He is going to explain what those
yaws have done and are doing for
California. what they will do for other
States, what the national significance
of the whole movement is.
weeks in the East, that will be very
| similar to that which won California
for him. In that fight. he went to
every city, county. town. and hamlet /,
| went by rail when 1t was possible, by
automobile when necessary by wagon
would avail. He is a horse for work.
| capable in q campaign Of tlring MS
travelling companions to death, ana then
them for their lack Of staying quality.
Governor Johnson's addresses are
straight t-from-t sort, tant
never fail to make good with his AUDI
ences. He Is second to- none as a vote
making campaigner.
1t is because of his intimate knowl-
| edge -of the detailed purposes OF pro-
-I.l l~aA ~. l. 10 he
Put in the East; the East, which has
more need than the West to learn Whal
It is all about. to receive assurance thai
1T will not hurt business, but rather vii
what better things political have meant
for California; of what they have ac'
complished for Los Angeles. San Fran
cisco, and the other aggressive cities o
, ment in material ways that have beei
coincident with the rise OF the new
thought.
. Just now, the progressive organization
; Colonel Roosevelt. following his grea
meeting at Providence last night, which
gave the shivers to New England con
! servatism, is in Boston today. He vii
, where the Republican party is hopeless
; | ly shot to pieces, and the Democrat
not much better as result of the ney
3 psrty's advent
Expect Second In Vermont.
3 The Progressives don't claim tha
D they will carry Vermont but they d
! think they have an excellent chance t
run second. and to get all three partie
4 right in a neck-and-neck bunch. If the
i do this they will feel that tremendou
i victory has been achieved. Report
!, from the State, as well as from the res
q of New England. have justified tn
positive declaration that Taft will nc
, carry a single State in New England
v two months ago that section was &C
| counted his stronghold.
q But New England is getting the sam
/ notions that the Progressive West ha
e had for a long time. In the borde
9 States, where agriculture is the basl
n industry, Taft Is weak because OF hi
q reciprocity program; in the manufactul
ing States the Industrial classes are