Arizona republican., 1913-01-18
Resolutions Are Adopted at
 Mass Meeting Hedging Party to Elimination of Politics in the Approach ing City General Election
WILL NAME WARD
 CONMITTEEME\
This is the Extent to Which Progressives Will Go in the Event a Citizens Ticket is Placed in Field to Fill the City Offices

In mass meeting last evening tn" progressive party of Phoenix adopted resolutions. drafted hy a committee of fourteen appointed earlier in the week pledeing tn party to work for the elimination of partisanship in the nomination of candidates for the of ficcs 10 be filled at the approaching general election and the selection of the personnel of the proposed city charter commission. The resolutions further pledged the party to partici- patton in the city primaries only to the extent of nominating and elect ing committeeman for the several wards of the city to the end that city organization for the progressive party be established and had in the city agreeable to the laws of the state relative to party organization. In presenting the resolutions Chair man Wilkinson stated that it was the purpose of the party to identify itself with q non partisan movement such as 1t is understood is contem plated under the name of a citizens party which will place ticket in the field composed of men who are known to be broad minded. unhamp- cred by party utilization and whose Identification with such a movement would of itself he a guarantee of its sterling character.
 There was a general discussion Of the position the progressive party should occupy in the face of the re- solutions. While some were of the belief that a working organization was necessary to carry out the pur- pose of the resolution, it was finally decided that for the present the pro- eressive party should refrain from nIacing such an organization at work and thereby create the suspicion that it was insincere in its determination 10 advocate nothing not non-partisan Tn moving adjournment the provision was made that the progressive party should hold itself in readiness to re spond to a call of the chair for an other mass meeting. and that the chairman should issue such cal whenever it seemed that the party really had work to perform. rms provides d means of becoming acuV' in the event a citizens ticket Is no nlaced in the field and it appear! that the progressive party must tak' the initiative
 The resolutions adopted follow:
 WHEREAS. the Progressive part is mindful that every political part owes it's life and power to the peopi of the community where it exists and is merely the means of etIectih the will of those composing the party and whereas. it is evident that th sentiment of a large majority or LII citizens of the city of PhoenlH IS LII" inc welfare and prosperity of our GU and it's inhabitants will be pest SUI served by eliminating poiltlcaI Pdi u sanship in the administration o1 LII citv's affairs. and that such reSui' can only be realized by the adopllo of non-partisan methods in the seleC tion of the officers to administer u affairs of the city. and whereas u nropressiye party believes that nunicipal affairs it should accede
 the wish of the majority of the pee nle of the municipality when theret inc people would not be injurious affected or party principles Vlolate' THEREFORE,
 RF TT RESOLVED that the men hers of the progressive party, res dent in the city of Phoenix, in ma meeting assembled in the city hs of said city the 17th day of Janua' 1913. pursuant to call for the purpoS fill refrain as a party from nomlha ing party candidates to be voted at the ensuing city primaries to inc various city offices at the cl election to be held in the city
 Phoenix on the first Tuesday m Mi next. provided a non-parusan ucN is placed in the field.
 AND BE IT FURTHER RES''L- ED. that in such case the progressi partv as q party will only parucipa in said city primaries to the eXte of nominating and electing comm ttemen for the several wards Tn city. to the end that city orgaIilz tion for the progressive party may
 established and had in the cltN' asI able to the laws of the state relau to party organization.