The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-15
HE STANDS FIRM
Lieut.. Governor ingalls, Won't
Leave Progressive Party.
Follow ROosevelt's Lead, He
Tells Kansas Voters.

Atchison, Kan, Oct 15.-In a strong
statement issued today, Lieutenant
Governor ingalls, leaves no doubt about
his attitude toward the new Progress
sive party and declares that where
Roosevelt leads, ne will follow. In
gals urges the Kansas Progressives TO
stand firm for their principles and
urges that it is not necessary to wait
until they may see what Wilson Will
do" but to prepare to make fight in
the coming campaign
That Governor Hodges and the state
administration is putting Kansas back
in the days before the Boss Buster
uprising. is the assertion contained in
Ingalls, direct slap at the present rule
in Kansas It is, therefore, to the Pro-
gressive party that the voters must
look with hope. according to the view
taken by the lieutenant governor.
No eIntion of His Candidacy.
In discussing the political situation
ingalls, lodges all reference to the
possibility of his own candidacy for
governor Yet ingalls,, 1t is claimed.
has the refusal of the Progressive
nomina ton. In fact, within the last
few days the matter has been checked
back to the Atchison man and the
! Progressive leaders are now waiting
for his answer. Whether, therefore,
! ingalls, statement at this time is of
| more than passing political Importance
| to his own political convictions and
| the situation in the state and nation
| is as follows:
| There is no question but that there
is a feeling of doubt in the breasts of
| the great mass of voters as to what
| their future political alignment will be-
| This is even true to some extent with
regard to those who are nominal Dem
| ocrats and the demarka ton between
| the liberal and conservative forces
/
| more particularly among those outside
| of it will not be clear and distinct I'M
til after it is known what Wilson will
/ do
so far as I am concerned, however,
my mind is made up. I propose to
| remain in the Progressive ranks and l
| can see no rational reason why any
man who has been identified with the
| Progressive forces in Kansas should
abandon his political principles now
merely for the sake of expediency. 1
realize that there is q determined
| movement on foot towards the ANAL
gamatiOn of the Progressive and Re
publican parties in Kansas. This
| movement has its origin and inspira-
ton in the desires of certain pseudo
| leaders to affect the organization of a
| fighting force, which will lift from the
seats of power the Democrats in this
state. l have no patience or sympathy
for those who are animated solely by
| such partisan motives. They are SIM
| ply false leaders bereft of political
ideals. Those of US who have been real
progressives in the Republican party
and did all in our power to make and
/ keep that party responsive to the
| hopes, aspirations and present needs of
! the people in state and nation, know
| the bitter and hateful opposition with
which we have been continually beset
! in the past 1t was an ugly and pro-
! lOnged contest, which grew in bitter
ness from day to day. The Repub-
| lican organization in Kansas at the
! time of the Chicago convention was as
progressive as the national Progress
/ sive party which came into existence
| the following August, and the Repub-
| lican' platform was equally as pro-
| gressive. We fought the fight out
again, and those of US on the Repub-
| lican ticket classed as progressives
still hoped against hope that we could
! of our efforts. a Progressive was de-
| feated for governor and every other
| Progressive on the ticket elected went
| in by reduced majorities.
Lauds the New Party.
"Why, then, keep up this fight
within the ranks? Every Progressive
or liberal today has a real political
home. Why not get into it and stay
, there and discuss and help to solve
the live issues of today rather than
and gone past The Progressive party
/ has a great program, humanitarian
in its origin and practical in its APP
| plication. 1t makes a strong appeal to
those of US who are earnestly striving
to make political conditions in this
/ country better. 1t is a party of the
present and the future and was born
out of the necessities of the times 1t
is a vital, living force, representing
! specific, concrete and rational ideas.
1t is open to those who may come
with the wish to work in harmony for
a definite, fixed set of principles.
! 1T makes no difference what Will
/ son does" The principles of the Pro-
gressive party will live and sooner or
reactionaries, not by standpatters, not
by compromises and amalgamation-
/ lists, but by Progressives.
$50 far as Wilson is concerned, if
/ he does make good we will take
him into the Progressive party, but
/ it is hardly possible that this apostle
| of a New Freedom who remains an
restoration of the ruinous and archaic
/ competitive system as applied to in
dustrial affairs, could ever become a
| good Progressive
/ The Big National Issues.
Il do not entertain any hope that
/ the Democratic party will ever become
4 the progressive party under the lead
! ership of President Wilson or anybody
/ else 1t is true that the Payne-Al-
! drich tariff law has been repealed but
/ it is by no means certain that the new
| tariff law will reduce the cost of living
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