Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1912-09-27
Big Republicans To Help Wilson.


Philadelphia Record of September 21st.
: Convinced that the only hope of pro
eressive reform in America under presen
political conditions is in the election O
Governor Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. group o.
Republican Progressives, substantial bust
ness men who have been conspicuous in
every progressive and reform fight in Penn
sylvania in the last decade, last night
formed league to promote Wilson's cleo
ton.
Among those present at the opening
conference. which followed correspondence
with Mr.. Spreckles, were Lewis j. Kolb
head of the well-known baking firm Henry
C. Niles, of York, the independent leader
and organizer in every reform movement
in Pennsylvania politics in years James
A. Develin, banker, treasurer of the Blan-
kenburg Campaign Committee in last year s
primary election fight Samuel S. Fels
manufacturer Walter Wood, manufacturer
| Whhdih H. iiohdi' AhohldS N rOIt' JI'
Max Levy. Samuel Young and Albert E
Turner, besides Powell Evans, who was
active in the formation of the Republican
Nomination League in 1911, whose purpose
was to wrest control of the Republican
party from the bosses. George Burnham
Jr., president of the Keystone Coal and
Iron Company the well-known political re-
former, sent his regrets. but expressed his
favor of the plan.
The league will work in cooperation
with the National Wilson Progressive Re-
publican League. which has recently been
organized. under the guidance of Charles
R. Crane and Mr.. Spreckles, former ar
dent supporters of Senator Robert M. La
Toilette. to advance the interests of Wilson
in every State. Mr.. Spreckles, who ex.
changed fluctuations yesterday by wire
with Governor Wilson, on the occasion OF
the opening of Eastern headquarters of the
league in New York, and received the
hearty thanks and best wishes of the can.
didate, was extremely optimistic of the
outcome of the campaign.
I'VE are making surprising Roadway in
every part of the country" he said. I'VE
have received literally thousands of letters
from Republicans in every State pledgine
their aid and their influence in the cause
and telling Of most hopeful reports Of Re-
publican support of Wilson in their local.
ties. We have fine working organization
in California, where practically the whole
La Toilette strength, approaching $4,000
votes, will 90 sOlidly for Wilson in Novem-
Der. New York reports are extremely graf
flying. while Massachusetts has shown a
substantial basis for hope that real pro.
gressives there will join with us to elect
Wilson. Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio. all are get
ting into line, and in each of those States
we have been cordially received and helped
by substantial Republicans who believe in
the progressive cause and who see in vii.
sons election the surest basis for carrying
out the progressive policies in which w
believe.
I'VE are for Wilson not only because w
believe in him and see in his record al
augury of greater achievements, but alsC
because it is the only course open to meT
who wish to see the Republican party saved
for future usefulness in the progressive
movement. We cannot support the Re
publican nominees. for they are not pro
gressive we cannot leave the Republican
party and follow Colonel Roosevelt into {
third party, for that skaters the Repubi
can party and undOes much of the worl
already accomplished by progressive Re
publicans toward making the party o
Lincoln an instrument of progress and re
form. To leave the Republican party finall
now is to leave it in the hands of tn
bosses and the reactonaries. 1t wOul'
mean that we must start all over again L
build up an organization to achieve gu
ends.
Wilson is the nominee of the progress
sive Democrats, who believe substantially
in the things we believe in. He is pledge
to carry forward progressive policies. II
is the only candidate who would have
chance to carry them forward in the mex
four years, for he is the only one that wOul
have a Congress in sympathy with hin
We propose TO vote for him and to supper
him, but not to sever our relations wit
the party Of Lincoln. which has done grea
service and is capable of much more. com
posed. as it is. Of sincere progressives in 1t
rank and file"
Henry c. Niles, one Of the best know
independent political thinkers. writer's an
speakers in Pennsylvania. was even NOR
specific in his reasons for joining the Viii
son movement. las progressive Repub
lican refomer." he said. Il cannot fOllo'
Roosevelt, for | remember too well tina
during all his administration when W
we're having bitter reform fights agains
the Republican Old Guard in Pennsylvania
the whole power Of Federal Government
was turned against us and was used by tn
Penrose- Quay Machine for its own ends.
Theodore Roosevelt never once thre'
the influence Of his position or even hi
personal sympathy into the reform cause
This is a matter Of record. Knowing as
do. and knowing that. in contrast to thai
Woodrow Wilson has exerted every powC
Of his position as Governor to defeat col
rupt legislation, bossism and reactionar
influence in New Jersey, am confider
that his administration at Washingto
would be, so far as il could properly
used, on the side Of reform and decor
popular government in every State in III
Union"
Carrying his declarations into practic
Mr.. Niles will stump the State for Wilson