The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-12-18
Progressives in Wisconsin
Give up Plan of Putting
up a State Ticket.
ARE FRIENDLY TO MCGOvERN
Governor $ Friends Seem to Have Won
Full Victory and Progressives May
Have no Candidate for United StatesI
Senator in wisconsin.

There is absolutely no likelihood of
any ticket being placed in the field by
the progressive party for the state
nominations or Of the progressive party
having any candidate for the Office of
United States senator from Wisconsin.
The progressive party plans in this
regard have been practically abandon
ed. Gov McGovern has won his point
in this regard, and whatever progress
sive party support there is in this state
will probably go to the governor not
only in the primary, but also at the
election. In some ways this abandon
ment of the plan for a progressive party
state ticket in Wisconsin has earmarks
going to confirm the story that the pro-
gressive party may not make it's next
battle as separate political party, but
that there will be a return of the pro-
gressive party organization to the re-
publican ranks, with an attempt to
nominate Theodore Roosevelt on the
republican ticket for president in the
next presidential campaign.
That this would be the next move
Of theRoosevelt men has long been the
story of the eastern states. Chairman
Barnes of the republican state central
committee Of New York, who is bit
ter oppanent of COL Roosevelt, has re-
Gently mace public statement in
which he said the republican president
tial nomination was the next Roosevelt
goal, and there are many who stand
high in the progressive councils of this
state who seem to think that Mr..
Barnes had pretty accurate knowledge
Of the Roosevelt plans when he gave
out that interview.
So far as the Wisconsin situation is
concerned the decision of the progress
sive party not to run a progressive state
ticket in Wisconsin was with the
knowledge and without the opposition
of the eastern leaders of the party.
What is more, it is very probable that
before Martin Patterson Of Superior
withdrew as the candidate of the pro-
gressive party for governor and before
John Strange of Neenah announced
that he might be candidate for the
republican nomination for the office of
United States senator instead of the
progressive party candidate both men
knew their action would not be dis
pleasing to the progressive party man
ayers in the nation. There are still
few of the progressive party leaders in
this state who are talking separate
state ticket and who still claim that
there will be progressive candidates for
the state offices and for United States
senator in the next election.
Their voices are becoming fainter and
fainter, however, and one Of the best
known Of the progressive party lead
ers in the state who three months ago
was shouting for separate state tic
ket has gone so far as to say that most
Of the progressive party leaders would
be satisfied with the gubernatorial can
didacy Of William H. Hatton for the re-
publican nomination, it was not felt
name had been mentioned for the re-
publican nomination, it was not feyt
by the progressive party leaders that
there was any further need of separ-
ate progressive party state ticket
This statement merely meant that the
MeGovern leaders had had their way
and that the progressive state ticket
idea had been abandoned. So far as
Mr. Hatton is concerned he has never
been in any way affiliated with the pro-
gressive party and his candidacy was
merely used by the progressive party
leader as an excuse in trying to give
an explanation for the abandonment of
the progressive party state ticket plan.
Before the progressive separate tic
ket plan was abandoned there was as
a matter of fact an important confer
ence between Gov. McGovern and sew
eral of the progressive party leaders at
Madison. AT that conference it was
urged strongly by friends of the gov
ernor that no state ticket be placed in
the field by the progressive party in
this state and that, of course, too, that
the party place in the field no candi
date for United States senator. Later
there were conferences between Wiscon-
sin progressive leaders and the leaders
of the party in the nation and at these
conferences the Wisconsin situation was
discussed with the result, it is said, that
the Wisconsin leaders found the lead
ers ef the progressive party in the ma
ticn n no wise opposed to the abandon
ment of the plan for a separate pro-
gressive party ticket in this state.
After these conferences in the east
came the conferences in this state.
which preceded the announcement BY
Mr.. Patterson Of his intention to with
draw from the gubernatorial race Ink
lings Of the talks in some Of these con