Arizona republican., 1913-04-26
New Party Claims Attempt
 at Revision is Not Gen uine on-Partisan Effort = to Reduce the Excessive
 Duties
SHOULD STRIVE
 FOR PROTECTION
Already It is Seen That Same Secret Preparation Prevails as Obtained in Drafting Payne-Ald1.ich Bill
. eBy Q. K. Davis The Republican

| (By O. K. Davis The Republican Washington Correspondenty WASHINGTON, April 25.-At the close of two days meeting of the progressive national committee. held at the Hotel Manhattan, New York City. April 18th and 17th, the com mittee issued a statement outlining the party's plans for future activities, setting forth again the party atti- -tude on the tariff, and calling atten- tion to the fact that in preparing the tariff bill now pending in congress the democrats have employed pre- cisely the method employed by The Republicans in framing up the Payne Aldrich and other Republican tariff measures. The statement. says: 'SThe progressive party was formed to put into effect certain principles clearly set forth in the platform adopted at the progressive national convention in Chicago last year. The settled purpose of the pfogressiyes everywhere in maintaining and dew eloping their political organization. is the accomplishment of legfslation. national and state. which will put these platform principles into effect i've operation. The first objective, therefore is straightout political or- ganization in every congressional district and county of the country for the nomination of progressive candidate in each of the 435 cOns es- sional districts next year and for the nomination of governors and legisIa- tive candidates in each legislative district of the country this year and next year. fS
 There is neither prospect nor possibility of any amalgamation or combination of the progressives with either of the old Tory parties: The Republican party, under permanently reactionary leadership. presents no hope of genuine progressive achieve ment. There can be no progressive democracy because the democratic theory of states rights and progres- sive legislation are incompatible one with the other There must be no policy which will prevent our using every governmental power of the na- that power is appropriate to serve the cause of the people.
 "Th method by which the demo- cratic party at this moment is hand ling the tariff is precisely the meth cd that has given rise to abuses in the past. the method that insures preference to special influences and prevents genuine nonpartisan ef- fort to reduce excessive duties. A permanent non- partisan tariff com mission with ample power to find out and report upon the facts. whose duty it shall be to lay before con- gress the information without which congress cannot act intelligefttly of fers the only way of remedying the abuses that have grown into our tariff policy.
 "The progressive party believes in a protective tariff which shall equal ize conditions of competition be- tween the United states and foreign countries, both for the farmer and the manufacturer and which shall maintain for labor an adequate standard of living. Already we see under the democrats the same secret preparation of schedules that ob- tained under the republicans in the Payne -Aldrich bill. Already we see the same revolt among certain mem bers of the house and senate against schedules and the necessarily-vetled implication that patronage will be given or withheld accordingly as 1t is necessary to bring those men back into line. The organixattQn of the house committees has been delayed for the purpose of ~influencing men to vote as the leaders demand. under the fear of not. obtaining rAcognttion on important committees.
 "The progressive party has added treason for encouragement in the re- suits of recent elections. The latest test was that in the 18th congress sional district of Massachusetts on April 18th. This district was car ried by the republicans in November with a vote of over 16,O00. At that election the democratic vote Was sap- proximately 13,O0O and the progres- sive vote nearly 5000. At this spe- cial election which was carried by the. democrats. the republicans lost over 1000 votes. the democrats about coo of their November vote and kthe progressives only 175.
 Returns from the. recent state wide election iu Michigan ara 3tfll coming in. The present. indica atio4s are that the republicans pealed about 105.000 votes, the democrats about 100000 and the progreSsfSes about 0.000. This result is more than sat-