Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1913-12-30
BULL MOOSE PLANS
PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES IN
NEARLY EVERY CONGRESS
SIGNAL DISTRICT.
DEClDEDAAT BIG CONFERENCE
Many Republican Members View the
Prospect With Alarm, While the
Democrats Naturally Are Hiqh-
Iy Pleased With II.
BY GEORGE CLINTON

BY GEORGE CLINTON.
Washington. = Democrats. progres.
| slVe-HepuDllcans and conservative Re.
publicanss in congress are known to
be deeply interested in the plans of
the Progressive party for the mex,
congressional campaign. 1t is definite
ly known that the party leaders in
tend to nominate candidates for CON
gress In every district in the country
except probably in some few districts
In the southern states where the Pro
gressiyes think it would be hopeless
to nominate anyone even with a view
OF giving their party foothold from
which to advance in the future
Several Progressive representatives
in congress and members of the par
tvs congressional and national com
nittees have just finished one of the
most important conferences which the
party has held since the campaign of
1912 was brought to a close. 1t can
be said truthfully that the congress
sional campaign of 1914 is on. The
Democrats and Republicans here. and
especially the Republicans are keen
ly Interested in the development of
the Progressives' intentions and cam
paign methods
The Progressive leaders at their
New York meeting, which was attend
ed by many party men from this city,
made an analysis of the returns from
all the congressional districts in the
1912 election. On their return to
Washington the Progressives who
took part in the conference said the
regret of the party was that it did
not put more candidates in the con-
gressional field Is months ago. Our
study of results" they said, showed
that instead of 20 members of the
present house of representatives we
would have double that number if
candidates had been nominated in dis
tricts which we thought were hope
less, but which upon a study of the
returns We now know might have
been carried"
Worries Many Republicans.
Republicans in Washington. of
course, are ready to deny the Pro-
gressiye claim that they could have
carried number of congressional dis
tricts that they did not carry, but it
Is evident that the Republican repre-
sentatiyes in congress from a good
many districts are worried over the
prospect of having Progressive oppo-
nents in their districts next fall.
From personal point of view Repub-
lican members of congress, represent
tatives and senators too, have a deep
er interest in the results of the Pro
gressive conference than they have IN
the matter a cabling an extraordinary
convention of the old party.
There Il a sitrong hope apparent
among Republicans, which it is need
n Ies to say is not shared by the Demo
| c,fs,, chat something will happen be-
ggeen now AID next fall to get the
Republicans and the progressives to-
gether SO that only one candidate will
hs in the Geld in each congressional
district against the standard bearer of
Democracy. The Progressives still in
sist, however, that amalgamation is
impossible and that they will have a
candidate in every district and that
in the next congress the Progressives
will be represented not by a small
minority of 20 members, but by twice
that number.
The Democrats, of course, look on
the intention of the Progressives with
open countenances of joy. Meantime
the rogressive-R Republicans and the
conservative Republicans will go on.
with their efforts to induce the Pro
gressives to forego their intention and
1t is understood that various kinds of
propositions will be made to them of
a progressive nature in order to Fin
duce them to be good"