Arizona republican., 1912-12-18

 sive party was fighting. without re- gard to whether the matter was in trOduced by a democrat, progressive or republican.
 The only real difference in the national committee was on the vote as to where the national headquarters should be maintained, the two cities in question being New York and Washington, and Miss Keller's mo tOn in favor of New York with a legislative reference branch at Wash ingtCE as well as a publicity bur~au ir that city. prevailed by a vote of t!irty-two to twelve
 Large numbers of newspaper men attended the conference, not only rep
 resentatives of the big papers like Munsey's papers, the North Ameri can of Philadelphia, the Journal of Boston, and the Kansas City Star. but large numbers of representatives of small papers, and arrangements were made through the national committee for the organization of a national progressive press association and meeting of about fifty progressive newspaper representatives was held to start this movement, at which it de- Veloped there has been a remarkab ble growth in those papers supporting the progressive cause. In Indiana when the campaign started there were eleven papers supporting the progress sive party, there are today ninety-One; in Colorado at the start the progress sive party had practically no news paper support, today there are forty papers in that state supporting the progressive party, and in Missouri fOrtythree papers are now support ing the prOgressives; and while in the recent campaign the efforts in practically every state were focused entirely on the national candidates, nineteen progressive members of the house of representatives were elected, and twenty congressman elected as republicans will affiliate with the progressives. In the senate such sen | ators as Clapp, Bristow and POin- | dexter will lead a vigorous and fight 1 ing group of progressives.
 "One of the most interesting state ments to the conference was that made by Dr. Weyl. the author of a most remarkable book on American conditions known as The New Dem | ocracy Dr. WeyI presented a clear | cut, definite plan by which small con- | tributions to the progressive party | through a systematic method may be regularly made through hundreds of 1 thousands of members rather than by | a comparatively few; thus carrying out the plan so successfully put in | operation by the German socialists. In furtherance of this plan many pledges were secured at the Chicago conference from representative men throughout the nation, agreeing to contribute quarterly specific amounts | toward the campaign of education which will be carried on
 | Another interesting statement made at the conference showing the real i strength of the progressive movement.
 was a statement made by Col. Roose-
 welt and supplemented by J. P Gib- son, progressive state chairman of 1 Idaho, showing that in that state, all though the official printed ballot of the progressive party had been thrown out by the supreme court, twenty five | thousand progressives went to the polls and wrote in on the ballot cor
 rectly the names of the progressive 1 electorS-While two thousand more l wrote in the names but with some | technical error, had these two thous- and ballots which were thrown out,
 been counted as they would have been | had printed ballots been allowed Idaho would have cast a majority for Roosevent instead of for Wilson. l Among the many interesting men and women who addressed the con- ference were Theodore Roosevelt, Sen atOr Dixon. Gov Stubbs of Kansas,
 Oscar Strauss, Senator Beveridge, Geo. w Perkins, Wm. Allen White. Jane Addams. Maude Elliott Howe, daugh-
 ter of Julia Ward Howe, and Clifford | Pinchot
 | No speaker offered the slightest
 suggestion of fusion or compromise
 but there was, throughout the entire conference a desire to welcome to the
 ranks of the progressive party all men and women of whatever previous po- litical faith who were willing to fight l steadfastly for those principles em-
 bodied in the recent platform of the
 progressive party. To such men and
 women the latch string of the pro-
 gressive party will be found a long one
 | Col Roosevelt himself was in su- l perb condition, the very soul of good humor with no sign of chagrin over the fact that he failed of election He seems to have entirely recovered from his wound and like good sol dier is more interested in the success of the progressive principles for which he made so splendid a fight. than any T personal success of his own which might be involved His influence throughout the conference was SC wholesome and inspiring that one was reminded of what one of his promin-
 ent enemies recently said that if you
 wanted to hate Theodore Roosevelt