The Detroit times., 1913-01-25
get TOGETHER"
TALK DOESN'T
APPEAL TO HILL
Detroit Progressive Declares
Merger of His Party With Re
publicans Is Impossible
SAYS STEAM ROLLER Is
STILL ACTIVE IN G.. o. p.
Points to Selection of Stand-Pat.
ter rs Convention Chairman
as Fresh Instance

In view OF what We are hearing
discussed among our Republican
friends and reading in many OF our
different periodicals about get to-
Sether, referring particularly TO the
Progressives and Republicans getting
together | was much amused at what
happened in The meeting In our city
this week OF the Republican state cen
! tral committee, and judged from
press notices that IL was another Bay
CITY or Chicago steam-roller affair on
the part of the stand-pat members OF
that committee says W. H. Hin,
progressive candidate for congress
man-at-large in the November election.
i cannot agree with the article OF
our friend Frank ~ Mnnsey. in which
he advises the Progressiyes and Re
publicans TO get together. As [ I'M
derstand II, the Progressive party was
formed To carry out certain principles
OF reform. the matter OF holding Office
was secondary matter, and il seems
TO ME the results accomplished were
something phenomenal A party only
80 days old polled over 900 900 votes
and | wonder how many realized that
nearly 100000 of those votes were
Democratic; that we elected over
1000 members IN the different legisla-
lures; that we ale first or second
party in 81 states that we elected
several congressman, and now have
the satisfaction today OF finding that
only President-elect Wilson is advo-
eating the carrying out OF our Pro
gressive platform, but Gov. Sulzer, OF
the great state of New York, and our
Gov. Ferris OF Michigan. are practical
ly advising the same thing. II seems
to me IL nothing more were accom-
plished. we are we'll repaid for the
fight We have made. for the people are
aroused and the officeholders realize
that they must give. us these reforms.
For instance, only a few days ago
our state senate passed a resolution
favoring the election OF our senator's
by direct vote.
Il wonder what Mr.. Munsey will
say regarding the action taken by the
Republican state central committee
this week in electing a stand-patter
for temporary chairman, notwithstand-
Ing the fact that members of both
houses Of the legislature had petit
toned them and six out OF the is
members present. urged them TO nom
mate some Progressive Republican for
| chairman. but. IL We can believe the
press II members who had framed mp
who should be chairman, in the same
old stand-pat methods. simply went
through the form OF putting over the
old caucus methods, as 10 men voted
solidly one way all the time. This is
great induccment for men who left
the Republican party because they
were tired OF the machine methods &c
come back and get together,
1T would seem 20 me, II we can be
lieve what we read in the press, thai
! IL would be we'll for what is left o.
| the Republican party to get togeth
! err for they seem TO be scrappine
every time they have meeting and
this results in the old machine com
! ing out on top. What is left OF the
| Republican party is not any more
| harmonious than IL was year ago
and the Progressive element OF wha'
is left of the Republican party, and
in my opinion. a large percentage o.
the Democratic and Socialistic par
ties will come to orr side IL we ad
here TO our principles and fight fol
them regardless OF securing office.
for one, do not care what party
whether Democratic, Republican, Pro
gressive or Prohibitionist. puts the
measures, for which the Progressive
party stands. into law What We wan
are the laws written upon the statute
books not only Of the national, but o.
the different state governments, and
so far as I am concerned. do not
care whether we get the Offices or not
except for the purpose OF passing
these laws for tle benefit OF the peo
Pile believe the Progressive party
should stand and fall on its own prin
ciples and platform.
I'VE must not lose sight OF the fact
that hundreds OF thousands Of Demo
Gratis voted with the Progressives In
the last election. l believe row tha
the lines are we'll drawn We should
educate tn. soter "a a comprehen
leiea-e f what the Progressive parts
stands for, aud that then there vii
be no question as TO the results II
the next four years. What there II
left OF the old stand-pat Republican
party, Is divided almost as much al
it was a year ago; one-third OF then
want progressive methods and two
thirds OF what is left are still stand
patters who wish 20 run the party II
the old boss way and not let tn
people control"