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Senate Report Post Office Progressive Republican Sena
Bill Disputes Hitchcock. tors Not With Roosevelt.
EXPENSE NOT CONSIDERED LA Toilette NOW LEADER
Called Items With Invitations Oyster Bay Have
Which Treasury Is Charged. Ignored.
REFERENCE PARCEL POST WILL STICK OLD PARTY
for Elk onels Been Thrown
LA Toilette NOW LEADER
Invitations to Oyster Bay Have Been
Ignored.
WILL STICK TO OLD PARTY
Wisconsin Senator Asserts That Col
: onel's influence Has Been Thrown
to the Reactionaries.

The progressive republican senators de-
sire The country 10 understand that tho
bull moose candidate for President no.
only has no part In the fight thev are
making just now for lower tariff duties.
but is not sincerely in sympathy with the
course they are pursuing. Some Of these
progressives have within the last ten
days heard directly from the third te,mer
TO the effect that he does not expect the
tariff to be the chief issue in the coming
campaign.
He has planned 10 sdestep il as he al
ways has in the past. The progressives
say he wants 10 make the trust question
the issue and they have notion that his
program is to pretend 10 be fighting the
trusts while he Is conducting his cam
paign with money alleged 10 be contribute
ed by steel trust and harvester trust
people
Senator la Toilette of Wisconsin has
come back the real leader of the
progressives in Congress. The adoption
OF his bill revising schedule X or the
wool schedule of the Aldrich- Payne tariff
bill by the Senate restores him TO the
progressive leadership in Congress. Those
insurgent republican senator's who with
some reluctance supported the third term
candidate in the pre-convention campaign
are now telling the Wisconsin senator that
they are with him ia FolietteD. that they
realize that he is responsible for the pro-
gressive movement within the republican
party. and that he is the man TO continue
to lead that movement.
The progressive republican senator's ard
representatives have, with possibly two
or three exceptions opposed from start
to finish the proposed new party. The
outlook today rs that not a senator, with
| the exception of Dixon. will join the new
organization. This decision on the part
of the progressive republican senators
seems to be final Senator La Toilette
has had much TO do with the choice the
progressiyes in Congress are making.
La Toilette Accuses Roosevelt.
Ever since the Chicago convention he
| has been hammcring into the minds OF
the progressives the statement that
Roosevelt has opposed the genuine pro-
gressive movement within the party since
the day 1t was started in Wisconsin.
Senators Bristow of Kansas and Bourne
of Oregon have been reluctant to say
that they would not follow the third
| termer into q new party. but the general
expectation Is that sooner or later they
will MAKE the declaration. They are for
| Roosevelt as against Taft, as are some
of the other progressive senator's. but
| they are not willing to join the third
termer In an attempt to wreck the repub
lican party.
/
| representatives received several days ago
advance proofs of an editorial which Sen
| ator La Toilette prints in his weekly
| paper today. and they We're greatly ina
pressed with what the Wisconsin senator
says in this article. especially the fol-
| lowing statement:
1 Roosevelt. while ne was President. Of
fered no cncOura cement to the progres-
! sire republicans who We're struggling
! with the old machine bosses to enact
direct primaries and other progressive
statutes. His influence was openly on
| the side of reactionaries. His appoint
ments Were the most active agents OF the
| opposition. In Wisconsin federal Office
I. holders We're lobby agents for the cor
| porations and spent their time almost
| wholly 1T the state capital during lcgisla-
| tive sessions
! The following paragraph also has at
| tract.d the attention OF the proeressiyes
| in Congress:
| Not until about five months ago did
Roosevelt make his so-cilled declaration
of principles. shortly thereafter h. aban-
doned any attempt to discuss his prn-
ciples. In ignoring issLes he lured the
| President into campaign bitterly
personal that by the time the Chicago
| convention came on the frenzy and pas
| sion aroused subordinatcd everything "a
a fierce scramble TO seat delegates and
| procure the nomina ion.