The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1912-10-11
MANY REPUBLICANS
TURN TO WILSON
FORTY THOUSAND REPUBLICANS
FOR WILSON AND MARSHALL.

New York, Oct. 11.-More than forty
thousand progressive republicans have
pledged their support to Governor Will
son through the Wilson National Pro-
gressive Republican League. These
figures are taken from the enrolment
lists ofthe league, which now has
headquarters in New York, .Philadel-
phia, Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee,
Pittsburg and San Francisco. The
organization of this league, the influ-
ence of Which will be significant in
the November election, is the result
of little more than six weeks work,
That it has become nationwide is due
largely to the activities of Rudolph
Spreckels, the wealthy San Francisco
reformer, who has spent the past ten
years in an uncompromising war on
all forms of graft and governmental
dishonesty; DR.. Harvey w. Wiley the
governments former chief chemist,
and Senator John ]. Blaine, of Wiscon-
sin, law partner of Senator La Fol-
lette and his aide of the senator in
his fight for the republican presiden-
tial nomination. These men, like
many thousands of Senator La Fol-
lette's loyal supporters? were deeply
disappointed at the failure OF the re-
publican convention to name a pro
gressive candidate Not realizing on
the hopes of Senator La Toilette they
would have been satisfied with pro-
gressive of the type of Governor Had
ley, of Missouri, or Senator Cummins,
Of Iowa. They declined to follow Col.
Roosevelt out of the republican party
because they had no sympathy with
the Third Term movement. The fight
to purge the republican party of its
reactionary element should be made
within the party they held, and not as
adherents of the Colonel, who to the
former La Toilette supporters is in no
sense a progressive.
Soon after the Chicago convention
Rudolph Spreckels called meeting of
group Of leading progressive repub-
licans in. Chicago Inaddition to Or.
Wiley and Senator Blaine, Mr. Spreck-
els consulted with Senator La Toilette
and Louis Brandeis, the noted lawyer
and reformer. They gave their warm
Endorsement OF the league movement.
Other meetings were held in San Fran
cisco, New York and Chicago, the re-
suit of which was decision to sup
port Governor Wilson because he in the
judgment of the league members, rep
resented the highest type of progress
sive leadership.
Early in September the league was
formally launched and since then an
aggressive campaign has been going
on to crystalize Wilson sentiment
among progressive republicans
throughout the country. The opening
Of the headquarters in New York and
San Francisco was followed by
branches in Philadelphia, Pittsburg,
Chicago and Omaha In Philadelphia,
Mr.. Spreckels enlisted the support OF
Henry G. Niles, former Pennsylvania
state chairman of the Lincoln party, a
widely known reformer; Powell Evans
q manufacturer; Samuel s. Fels, man.
ufacturer; Louis J. Kob, banker:
James A. Devlin banker; Thomas R
Fort, Jr, and George Burnham, Ir,
all militant republicans of the reform
type. In Pittsburgh the league has the
support of H. / McClintock, George
R. Wallace, l. C. Woods, Dr. ] P. Shaw
A. Leo We'll, A. M Thompson, c. ID.
SculIy and DR.. A. s. Hunter, all OF
whom were engaged in the war on
graft in Pittsburgh tnat uncovered
corruption in the city council there
two years ago
Senator Blaine will direct the work
in the middle west from Chicago
while Mr.. Spreckels and DR.. Wiley will
direct the campaign from New York
Thousands of pieces of literature ex
planning wry Governor Wilson should