Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-21
SIXTEEN AND PERHAPS TWENTY.
FOUR TO WORK As INDEPENp.
EMIT PARTY IN HOUSE.
OTHERS MAY WORK WITH
PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATION
Republicans Elected BY Progressive
Constituencies in Uncomfortable Po-
Standardization to Remain Regular
or Join Insurgents is Problem They
Must Solve.
Especial Correspondence


f! Washington, March 21-At least six
teen and perhaps twenty-four mem
bers of the lower house will line w
with the progressive party forces ir
the present congress. The progressive
party men will confer a short time be-
fore the extra session and lay theiI
plans for the session and the names OF
sixteen are given as certain to so into
such conferences.
a dozen more, according to the pro-
gressive party leaders, are likely to &c
into the progressive party conferences
in short time.
The sixteen who are known to be
progressive party men are:
Bryan, of Washington; Falconer, OF
Washington; Chandler, of New York;
Hinebaugh, of Illinois; Thompson, of
Illinois; Copley. of Illinois; Murdoch.
of Kansas: Stephens. of California;
Bell, of California: Nolan, of Califor-
MIA; and six from Pennsylvania, name
", Ripley, Temple, Kelly, Norm, Wal
tiers. and Lewis.
To these may be added Young and
Helgeson, of North Dakota; Lafferty
and Sinnott, OF Oregon; Treadway,
Winslow, and Rodgers, of Massa-
chusetts: Anderson. Davis. and Lind
berg, of Minnesota: and .Ainey and
Porter, of Pennsylvania
Comprise Formidable Body.
Were all of these to join the pro-
gressive party forces in the house. it
would make total of twenty eight.
This would be a formidable body.
Those who have kept track of develop
ments in congress in recent years
know that it was not the numerical
strength of the insurgents in the house
or in the senate that made them so
potent a factor. 1t was the zeal and
enthusiasm with which they went
about things, the earnestness and in
telligence with which they fought. In
the same way, if the progressive party
men in the house, tho not large band,
proceed with cohesion, intelligence and
persistence, they are certain to make
their impression before the present
congress is far advanced
Moreover. the fact the progressive
party men are going TO be allowed
places OH some of the important COM
lLiltttS, DIS lIIeS nave Dttu IeO ~
Leader Underwood they will be, will
strengthen the position of the pro-
greSsive party men.
Men on Fence Uncomfortable.
A number of men in the house, OF
the progressive republican type, are
sweating blood over the situation in
which they find themselves. They
have been elected as progressive re-
publicans but they are confronted with
the fact that it will be only next year
when the congressional campaign is on
again. The question they must solve
is whether to go over to the progressive
party and run on that ticket or try to
remain in the republican party. If they
remain in the republican party, the
progressives will bring out candidates
against them. In this situation, sew
eral men in the house who sat on the
fence for long time, have gone over
completely to the progressive party,
whose militant leaders already assert
with the most positive conviction that
the progressive party membership in
the house is going to show a large gain
after the next elections.