The Lamar register., 1913-10-01
BULL MOOSE NEAR EXTINCTION
Astonishing Change in Illirois ami
PENNSYLVANIA Elactfons Prove
Rapidity Of Disintesl.,tion

patty - SSACA o4Ay oNmitLou htit
by the men who keep in touch with
national politics. 1t dwindled to-
third place in the Third Maino dis
trict; it has lost out in Pennsylvan-
ia. and will not figure in the APP
Maryland election. us ev-
idenced by the primaries.
A few progressive leaders here
are still keeping w a bold front
and declare the party will put up
tickets in nearly all congressional
districts next fall. A campaign
committee has been organized and
arrangements are being made to
make a showing.
A few months ago this attitude
would have been regarded as ser
ious matter; today. with conditions
changing SO rapidly. tho menace is
not so great, becsuse the rank and
file of the progressive party mas
shown that it caunot be kept in line
In the opinion :of many in both
the old parties. ills going TO be
more and more difficult to hold the
progressives together as a distinct
organization. The Republicans who
allied themselves with it were Tor
the most part men who repudiated
the action OF the Chicago CONVEX
ton. who didn't Ike Taft. and who
thought the time had come for a
little house cleaning. They have
had 1t: he .sxrcr1Iuce has been BIZ
ter. and while.--t Assc have boon
worth it there is little disposition
TO see it prolonged.
AS it becomes more and more o.
ident that the republicans and the
.. Ugr.ssives cannot get anywhere
by maintaining separate organiza-
tions. wi lille by uniting they can per-
petuate their ideas of tariff and
at the same time put republicans in
power, there is bound to be a coal
ition.
Che outcome of recent elections is
the handwriting on the wall. Recent
iy, several heretofore strong pro-
gressive members of the house have
publicly announced their return to
the republican party, and others are
doing everything short OF this to
reinstate themselves before it is
too late. Governor McGovern, who
was the Roosevelt candidate for
chairman of the Chicago convention
mas announced his candidacy for the
United States senate as a republi-
can; former Governor stokes OF
New Jersey. a Roosevelt delegate
to the Chicago convention, is now
seeking the gubernatorial nomina
can.
Sizing up the situation to date,
Representative Mondell of wyoming
said: 1.-The Third Maine district
started the ball rolling when it
elected a republican in district
that gave Wilson a big plurality last
fall, with a Bull Moose ticket in the
field this time as last. The recent
Pennsylvania primaries showed the
same trend. Everybody remembers
how Roosevelt swept that state last
year, securing Its electoral vote
with an aggregate of 477,OOO votes
and with the republican candidate
a bad third. But the republicans
came back.
Gin Philadelphia the republicans
polled over $4,000 votes, more than
all the combined opposition. The
candidate for the dis
trict attorneyship, aided by all the
power of Mayor Blankenburg, poll
ed only 10000 votes. All over the
state the disintegration of the
Roosevelt following was complete.
In the senatorial districts of the
state, where members of the state
central committee were chosen, the
regular republican organization
showed such strength that the
will be reorganized on