The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-05-16
He Predicts Kaiion-Wi Pri-
mary Election For Next
President
Progressives Declare They Will
Not Unite With Regular
Republicans
G. 0. P. Senators Are 0ppos.
ing Confirm tioR of Several
Appointess

Harrisburg, Pa, May 14.-Secretary
of State William Jennings Bryan adj
dressed the Pennsylvania Legislature
on the distinction between democracy
and aristocraCy.
He predicted that before another
general election the presidential pri.
mary will be so general that theye
will be no need to hold national con.
ventions and that presidential nomi.
nees will be named not by party lead
ers or bosses, but by the people.
Secretary Bryan came here to speak
at the Jefferson anniversary dinner of
the Central Democratic club of Har-
risburg and was invited to address
members of the legislature
Jefferson, a century ago, spoke of
two parties" he said, lone was the
Democratic party and the other the
Aristocratic party. The Democratic
party is that party which tries to bring
the governm mt nearer the people and
the Aristocratic party is that which
desires to restrain and obstruct pop
ular government.
Says Platform Is Binding.
1T is important to know whether
the executive representatye. is holding
to the Democratic idea or the Aristo-
cratic idea. 1t is settled principle Of
this country that platform is binding
upon every man that runs on that plat
form. Some men violate platforms be-
cause they say they cannot violate
their conscience.
mo man should violate his con-
he should violate his party platform
It means that his conscience should
begin to work before he is elected and
not afterward. A man who violates
party platform and betrays his party
and the people is criminal wors
than the man who embezzles money.
The day of the boss is gone The
people will write their own platform
hereafter and send their own repre-
sentatives to legislative halls. And
venture to say that we have seen the
last of the great national conventions.
Il predict that before another presi.
dental election rolls around the presi
dental candidates will be elected not
by bosses or party leaders, but by the
people"
Will Not Unite.
Washington, May 1.-THE state
ment is made in bulletin issued at
Progressive headquarters that the get
together conference held Monday at
Chicago does not represent the great
mass of Republican voters and that
Senators Cummins, Kenyon and
Gronna and Governor Hadley are
speaking only for themselves.
The bulletin says further that the
Progressive party has nothing in
common with the Republicans and
that leaders at Chicago are wasting
their time if they hope to have the
Bull Moosers with them in the get
together movement.
Reference is made to the boss
ridden" Republican convention held
in Chicago in 1912. In this connec-
ton, the Progressive bulletin says
"the leadership Of the Republican
party has not changed in personnel
or in character since that conyen-
ton"
The bulletin says in part: These
gentlemen met in Chicago on their
own invitation, by their own author
and nobody else. Their intention to
go back into the party which they
denounced last year and which in
turn denounced them is not support
ed by the public word or act of any
recognized Republican leader.
$50 far as the Progressives are
concerned there has never for mo-
ment been a possibility of a favorable
response to such an invitation"
Opposed to Appointees.
Washington, May l4.-Senate Re-
publicans began their first big fight
on President Wilson's nominations
when the appointment of w. j. Harris
of Georgia as director of the census,
succeeding E. Dana Durand, was taken
up in executive session.
The Republicans forced roll call
after roll call on question of pro-
.cedure and in support of tactics which
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