The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-29
Progressive Leader Is Opposed
to Harmony.
Addressed B. M. Gathering at
Springfield.
NOT ACTING IN GOOD FAITH
He Declares Offer of Regulars
Is a Bait.
Differences Between Factions
Too Great-Kansas Politics.

Springfield, ILL.,, April 29.-Speak-
ing before the delegates to the state
wide Progressive conference in Spring
field this afternoon, Walter Roscoe
Stubbs former governor of Kansas,
declared that there was no common
ground on which the advocates of true
progressive measures could unite with
the men who clung to the ancient
traditions of the Republican party
and championed the standpat, con-
servative policies as urged by Pen
rose, Barnes, Taft, Crane, Lorimer and
Guggenheim and the ''under-Republi-
can BOSSES
The message which Stubbs brought
to the Illinois Progressives. was en-
Enthusiastically received. In his speech,
the Kansan branded the harmony pro-
gram of the Republican Regulars as
an effort to secure control of state
and national patronage and not as an
evidence of good faith or confidence
IN the policies laid down by the new
party. StubbS questioned whether
MulVane and Curtis in Kansas would
support a harmony candidate for
United States senator in 1914 if the
ing to their eyes. He urged that if
the old line leaders of the Republican
party are acting in good faith, that
they should make a new declaration
insure a genuine peace pact. The
differences between the Progressives
and the Regulars were clearly defined
in the Kansan's speech and the tongue
lashing which Stubbs administered to
the leaders of the old crowd was re-
ceiVed with noisy approval.
The Stubbs Speech.
In his speech here this afternoon,
Stubbs said in part:
The character of the politicians
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ty and their relation to the cofporate
wealth of the nation is an important
consideration in the harmony pro-
gram that is being promoted by the
standpat Republicans throughout the
country. If the Progressives should
go back to the Republican party, the
very same national Republican COM
mittee who robbed them of an over
whelming victory at the Chicago con-
vention last year would have exactly
the same power to control the nomin-
alton in 1916, and the standpat Re-
publicans who waged a BUSH whack-
ing campaign against all Progressive
candidates on the Republican state
and congressional tickets will be free
to again vote the Democratic ticket
where Progressive Republicans have
been nominated.
rs it possible that Progressive vot-
ers can now be convinced that reac-
tionary Republicans who last year
were willing to wreck and ruin the
a Progressive
Republican nominated or elected have
during the last few months been con-
verted and now sincerity wish to work
and vote for Progressive candidates
and policies? Lest we forget, it might
be we'll to call attention to the fact
that the reactionary politicians. both
Republican and Democrat, have for
almost a score of years exerted pow
erful influence in opposition to pro-
gressive legislation both in congress
and throughout the legislatures of the
several states.
"They have been the most potent
factor in securing the appointment of
federal judges and federal officehold-
ers, friendly to the big corporations,
trusts and monopolies, and have been
the political machinery through which
the corporations have distributed their
millions during political campaigns.
These reactionary Republican politi-
clans who now propose to go into a
harmony deal with the Progressfves,
have also fought the political battles
of the corporations in state and nation,
and secured special privileges and pro-
lection for trusts and monopolies from
congress and state legislatures, the
value of which is beyond COM
prehension of the human mind.
Progressives Won't Come Back.
''It seems but yesterday that the Re-
publican bosses declared the Progress
sives were not Republicans and de-
nounced them as Socialists, Populists,
fit for Republican support. Now they
find themselves in such a desperate
political situation that either person
ally, through near progressives or po-
litical attorneys, they are frantically
calling to the Progressives to come
back and save the Republican party.
What are the terms and conditions
which are to be the basis of the pro-
posed harmony deal? What particu-
lar governmental policies, principles
and platform pledges for state and ma
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