The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1912-01-04
OHIO INSURGENTS
REJECT AN AV0WAL
Refuse to Indorse La Toilette as
1912 Choice.
VOTE FOLLOWS LONG DEBATE
Declare, However, Wisconsin Senator
Embodies Principles of Movement
and Is Logical Candidate
to Garry Them Out.

Columbus, O.. Jan. Progressive
Republicans OF Ohio met here. formed
permanent organization, adopted a
declaration of progressive principles,
but voted 80 to 50 not to give their
Endorsement TO United States Senator
Robert NJ. La Toilette as a candidate
for the presidential nomination.
After refusing the Endorsement OF
the league. the delegates voted, 81 to
| II, in favor Of a resolution as per-
sonal expression of the delegates nam
Ing Senator La Toilette as the living
embodiment of the principles of the
progressive movement and the logical
candidate to carry them to successful
| fruition."
Vote After Long Debate.
The vote came after a three hours
debate on the floor of the convention
and was on the adoption of an amend
ment to the report of the resolution
committee, which mad been unanimous
! ly In favor of not naming a candidate.
Clifford Pinchot, who declared that
he spoke only for himself and in no
way for Colonel Roosevelt, and for
mer Secretary Of the Interior Garfield
were the leaders in the debate against
! giving any candidate an Endorsement.
! Senator Works of California and Sen
! ator Clapp of Minnesota were vigorous
! in urging that the Ohio progressives
| concentrate their efforts in working
| for the election of Senator La Fol
| lette
| Resolution Is Adopted.
The resolution, which was adopted
and which had been submitted to the
! resolutions committee by Pinchot,
Walter l.. Houser and John d. Fack-
Ter, temporary chairman of the Ohio
organization. read as follows
We are opposed to the denomination
| of President Taft. We hereby declare
| Il to be the determined purpose OF the
! Ohio Progressive Republican League
to work in harmony and unison to
nominate a progressive Republican for
president, recognizing as fellow pro
gressives all who hold the principles
| for which we stand, whether they be
! for the presidential nomination Of Rob
ert NJ. La Toilette or Theodore Roose-
welt or any other progressive Repub-
| lican.
We assert the essential unity of the
progressive movement throughout the
entire state and nation.
We favor the election OF delegates
who will favor the nomination of a
candidate who will fully represent the
progressive principle.
Like Chicago Platform.
A declaration of principles adopted
unanimously was substantially the one
prepared by committee appointed
at meeting Of progressives Of the
Western Reserve. On the question of
national policies, it followed the lines
of the platform adopted by the pro-
gressive conference in Chicago.
1t declared for a substantial and
ule by schedule, preserving the pro-
tcctive tariff principle, the measure Of
which shall be the difference in wages
and raw material at home and abroad"
To this end nonpartisan tariff board
| with full power to compel testimony
and to report to congress was advo-
Gated.
Other planks of the platform de
clared for popular election of Unitej
States senator's. the Pinchot- Roosevelt
conservation policy. national incom
tax graduated upward and the aboli
ton of needless public positions.