The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-05-12
OPPOSE HARMONY
Progressive Leaders Are As
sembIed Here Today.
Perfect Plans to Organize New
Party for Campaign.
AVOID THAT June meeting
The TrOutman-StOne Call Does
Not Lure Them.
Determined to Win i'm the End
by Themselves.

There will be no Progressive alliance
| with the Republican party in Kansas
in 1914 if the voice of the Progressive
leaders of Kansas are recognized and
observed by the voters That fact was
made clear this afternoon at a con-
ference of a score of Progressive lead
ers from all parts of the state who met
in the National hotel to talk over plans
for the future.
Following on the trail of the Trout
man movement for a reunited Republi-
can party in Kansas, David Hinshaw
of Emporia, representing the national
Progressive committee, today called
the Progressive workers together to
discuss the harmony program and lay
plans for the future Hinshaw doesn't t
want harmony and admits it. Most of
the other Third party workers quietly
admit that they feel very much as
Hinshaw does. Only Sunday U. S.
Sartin, chairman of the state Pro-
gressive central committee. issued a
statement in which he advised the Pro-
gressive of the state to dodge the har-
mony program and stay away from
the meeting in Topeka June g. In
Springfield, Illinois, Walter Roscoe
Stubbs, former governor of Kansas,
declared that there could be no pro-
gram WHICH would Dr1nS together the
ProgreSSiVeS and reactionary wing of
the Republican party. If any of these
men have changed their opinions since
coming to Topeka, there is nothing in
their conversation which indicates as
much.
Before the conference adjourns this
afternoon, the Progressive leaders will
put in shape their own program for
the 1914 campaign. They will arrange
for a state. congressional and county
tickets - everything from governor
down to road overseer-each man
riding patriot and follower of the
new political cause. If the ticket wins,
all right. If it loses, the leaders will
keep right on the firing line and never
give up. That was the line of CONVEX
sation which came from the deter
mined Progressives before they went
into conference this afternoon.
1T isn't a question of winning -
said Progressive enthusiasts. "It isn't
a question of office or patronage. It's
a question of principle We don't
and we won't join in any harmony
meeting that means a return to the
old crowd. We would rather go it
alone and lose, if necessary"
That same determination seemed to
be deep rooted and in the breast Of
every man who came to Topeka today
to talk things over" from the Pro-
gressive party angle. They are oppos-
ed to a harmony meeting that means
a return to the old crowd and they
frankly admit that they think the
Troutman meeting means a return to
the ranks of the old line Republicans.
At the conference this afternoon,
the following persons were either
present when the meeting opened or
had promised to be in Topeka during
the day: U. S. Sartin, Kansas City,
chairman of the Progressive state
committee: w. r. Stubbs, J. L. Brady,
James Mitchell, and Miss Helen Ecker.
secretary Progressive state commit
tee, Lawrence; David Hinshaw and c.
A. Stannard, Emporia; George e.
Tucker, Eureka; ]. H. Mercer, Cot
tOnwood Falls; Senator A. K. Hinkle
Morris county; Henry c. Sticher, Mrs.
Alice r. Cassidy, F. NJ. Miller, c. R.
Messerley, Usage City; w. NJ. Gray,
Chanute; Joel Hobbs, McLouth; o. w.
Dawson, Great Bend; H. G. Liver
more and Henry Lanter, O1athe; J. w.
Jenkins, Mcpherson; Robert Postle-
thwaite, Jewell City, Robt. Armstrong.
Bellevile; Charles Dillon, Manhattan,
J. K Codding, Lansing; Peter Shiras
and DR.. Harlan, Ottawa, and N. D.
Weltv WamegO.