Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-10-27
MERCER SPURNED
BY PROCRESSIvES
Party Leaders Prepare to Garry
Out Plans Laid by Duquoin
Meeting.
WILL FIGHT FOR OFFICES
Candidates viii Be Placed in Field
In Every District of State,
II Is Announced.

Springfield, H., Oct 21.-"No ANAL
gamation, no quarter asked or given
is the answer of the progressive state
organization in Illinois to the prelim-
mary harmony conference of progress
sive and republican legislators held
in Springfield during the state fair.
The official reply of the progressives
came at roundup of the party leaders
from the Cairo congressional district
held at Duquoin under the authority of
the reorganized progressive STATE COM
mittee.
1t was the first OF a series to be held
in strategetical political centers in each
of the main divisions of the state, and
unless signs fail the action taken in
Duquoin will be followed all through
the state, eliminating probably in a
state convention at which the edict
will go out that if there is to be any
amalgamation it will have to be free
will proposition on the part Of the re-
| publicans and thai the republicans
viii have to come into camp and ac-
cept the progressive platform.
WILL OFFER MANY CANDIDATES.
| The progressives threaten to start a
nominee for congress in each of the
| twenty-five districts of the state, a
single nominee for the Illinois house
of representatives in each of the forty
one senatorial districts, and nominee
| for the state senate in each of the
twenty-six districts which elect in
November Of next year.
/ 1t has been announced before that
there will be progressive nominee
rect primaries in September in pre-
paration for the election in November
All plans also are made for progress
sive state ticket.
The final touches on this program
were placed a. the conference held
last week between Governor Dunno
and Raymond Robins, the new chair
man of the progressive state commit
zee. There is plenty of talk that Mr..
: Robins himself is slated to make the
race for United States senator. Har-
old Ickes, the head Of the progressive
organization in Chicago, has quit as
an aspirant for membership on the
new public utilities commission at a
$4,000 salary, and it will not be sur
prising that Governor Dunno appoints
Frank H. Funk to this job. If Fur
does not, land the utilities place, it is
probable he will be a candidate for
the United States senate. backed by
tho d0uyr et q fa rrnOraSciupg
PRAISE FIGHT ON PuTERBAUGH.
At the Duquoin roundup resolutions
we're adopted injorsing the work OF
the women in the Fifth supreme court
district election, in which the republi
can candidate, Puterbaugh, was de
feated by Craig by reason of the heavy
progressive vote cast for Shay
The progressive legislators who
, took part in the Springfield confer
, ence have been called to the carpe,
, and have recanted. Senator George
W. Harris of the Evanston district, il
was said, was on the verge of having
: mass-meeting called 10 denounce
: him. He issued a statement directly
. at variance with the talk he had made
in Springfield Representative r. E
Sherman had hurry-r:p call to pub
licly deny his connection with the
l Springfield conference.
Progressives are expecting an earl!
announcement from Governor Dunno
which VIII cause further worry to re
publicans over the minority patronage