The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-10-18
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 infiu-
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-
III,
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
I 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
a group of leading progressive repub-
Iicans in Chicago. Inaddition to Dr.
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 we're held in San Fran
cisco. New York and Chicago, the re
suit of which was a decision to sup
mort Governor Wilson because he In th'
Judgment of the league members, rep
resented the highest type of progres
sive leadership.
Early in September the league wa
formally launched and since then al
aggressive campaign has been goinl
ON to crystalize Wilson sentimen
among progressive republican
throughout the country The openin
Of the headquarters in New York an
San Francisco was followed D
branches in Philadelphia, Pittsbure
Chicago and Omaha. In Philadelphia
Mr.. Spreckels enlisted the support Q
Henry C. Niles, former Pennsylvanl
state chairman of the Lincoln party,
widely known reformer; Powell Evan
a manufacturer; Samuel S. Fels, maj
nfacturer; Louis J. Kob, banker
James A. Devlin, banker; Thomas
Fort Jr., and George Burnham' Jr
all militant republicans of the reIori
tvne In Pittsburgh the league has IN
support of e. l. McClintock' Geore
R. Wallace, I. c. Woods, DR.. }. T. sha
Leo We'll. A. NJ Thompson, Z. l.
Scully and DR.. A. S. Hunter, all
whom we're engaged in the war 9
graft in Pittsburgh that uncoVere
oorr,ntion in the city council tnel
two years ago.
> senator Blaine will direct the woi
- tho middle west from Chicag
while Mr.. Spreckels and DR.. Wiley w
diraet the campaign from New Yor
rhousands of pieces of literature g
nlaining wry Governor Wilson shou
receive the support of progressive ]
publicans are being sent out from u
various headquarters and new mel
hars are being enrolled at the rate
several thousand a week.
At the close of the present campail
Il is the intention of the league o
GERS to meet in convention IN y
cago and decide upon the future cour
Of the progressives in the republic
party. The probability Of the eiec'l
Of Governor Wilson being strong
their belief, they hold that an ent
roalignment of the republican party
imperative.
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