Arizona republican., 1913-12-09
Observations. of David $. Hins haw Representing the National Committee After a Tour of Western Part of Country.
THERE'S NEVER HINT
 OF AMALGAMATION
What the Recent Elections Have Taught. They Have Furnished An Inspiration to Continue the Fight to the End.

In the course of a tour of the country, David & Hinshaw, representing the national progressive committee in the organization department, New York, arrived in the city yesterday to make a study of the situation in this state. MT Hinshaw will leave for Albuquer- que this evening Everywhere he has been and that is in all the states west of the Mississippi river except three or four he has found a growth of pro- gressive ideas and an increasing de- termination to fight for them.
 Speaking of the recent elections, MT. Hinshaw said: "One of the most strik- ing results was that of the mayoralty election in Louisville. In that city of southern tendencies and traditions, the progressives polled 23,0OO votes, the democrats 26,000 while the republicans cast only 16,0O0. The significant thing was not the small republican vote but the large vote of the progressives on the clear issue of a white mans party.
 Aside from the thoroughly rotten condition of the republican party as shown by the Chicago steal, though it purports to be a national party, its functions are purely sectional In the | west and the middle west it pretends to | be progressive; in the east, it is openly standpoint and in the eouth it is nothing More than that it cannot build up party in the south in a thousand years. It will take longer than that to wipe out traditions and memories of carpet bag rule.
 Tn Maryland the progressive party l got off on the wrong foot, through hav- ] ing selected leaders of amalgamation i tendencies. They were clever men who could talk a bird off of a bush but the | issues were not clearly and capably i presented. But We have no more req son to worry over the result of the elec- tion in Maryland than the republicans 1 have to worry over every election that has been held in the south in the last . fifty years.
 Tn New Jersey the chief aim of the i progressive party" was to defeat the l hyphenated progressive republican 1 Stokes and to poll as many votes as possible for Colby the progressive can dfdate Though there was no chance i of his election more than 10000 votes i were cast for him.
 ! Tn MaSsa chusetts with a strong candi- date in the field early and good po- litical and financial organization, the progressives broke the back bone of the republican party in the state and the progressive nominee ran several thous- and votes ahead of the vote of the pre- vious year. The republican party was pushed into third place, its nominee was overwhelmingly defeated and
 Freedom shrieked with laughter
 As Augustus Gardiner fell.
 Aside from the election of several progressive mayors and the part the party played in the mayoralty contest in New York in which We forced the nomination of Mitchell and were largely instrumental in the election of the fu- sion ticket. it has been demonstrated that wherever there was an election of consequence where university regent or a superintendent of schools was to be chosen, and in bye congressional elections. the progressive movement has shown surprising and refreshing strength in all parts of the country and not the slightest tendency to amalga- nation either on the part of leaders or distinct third party lines
 "In the Indiana conference there was an attendance of 2O00 In its meetings the question of amalgamation never came up. The sentiment was unmis- takeably in favor of going ahead on distint third party lines.
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