The broad ax., 1912-11-02
TIE WOODROW WILSON Ma
TroNAL PROGRESSIVE REPUB-
LICAN LEAGUE.
Continues to DO Effective Work Tor
His Election 70 the Presidency OF
the United States.

The western headquarters Of the
Woodrow Wilson National Progressive
Republican league are located on the
sixth floor of the Mccormick building,
in this city, and in the latest state
ment issued by the managers Of the
league, states that "As the campaign
draws to a close, it is certain that
Woodrow Wilson win receive more
than 100000 Republican votes for
president.
William Randolph spreekels Of San
Francisco, president Of the league, and
Senator John 8. Blaine of Wisconsin,
one Of the vice presidents Of the league,
are wen pleased with the work accom-
plished by it and they are both positive
that:
ga number Of strong Republican
states have been placed in the Wilson
column by these men who said that
Wilson would carry them with the aid
of Progressive Republican votes.
"Not only will the Progressive Re-
publicans vote in large numbers for
wilson" said Mr.. Spreekels, .''but it
is the intention Of those who disap-
prove Of Taft but who will not submit
to Mr.. Roosevelt's attempt to disrupt
the Republican party, to 60 right along
with the Progressive Republican move
ment, reorganize it and place it upon
the same substantial footing it held
prior to the national conventions this
year when it was led by the fighting
Republican insurgents in the United
States Senate"
A national convention Of Progressive
Republicans viii be held next April
in Chicago, at which each state viii be
asked to have representation. The
movement will be recognized and a
four years fight will be begun to
purify American politics through the
medium Of the Republican party.
Mr.. Spreckels said that California
would be carried for Wilson by the
aid Of Republican votes Senator
Blaine said that the same would hap
pen in Wisconsin. Frank E. Packard,
editor of the Bismarck IN. d. Times,
in a written report. said that Roose-
welt viii not get as many votes in
North Dakota as he did at the Presi-
Dental primary when he was defeated
by Senator La Toilette, and that Will
SON viii carry that state.
Among the other Republican states
placed in the Wilson column by Re-
publican votes, according to the an
nouncement, are Minnesota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Michigan and Ohio. The list
of names gathered by the league has
reached a total of more than 100000.
This number of letters, each contain
ing literature, has been mailed from
the headquarters. Progressive Repub-
lican organizers have visited the states
where the Progressive Republican
movement is strong.
Louis D. Brandeis, Of Boston, and
other Progressive Republican speakers
have been on the stump working for
Wilson. The same work has been car
ried on in the East from the New York
headquarters Of the league in the
Metropolitan building, and on the
Pacific coast from the California head
quarters in San Francisco. The mem
bers have chosen this method Of re-
buking those who left the Progressive
Republican movement to start the
Third Party.
"The tremendous success with which
our league has met indicates clearly
that the Progressive movement lies
properly within the Republican party
and that the Third Party will fail"
said Senator Blaine.