Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-20

WILL NOT Join
REPUBLICANS
State Committee Decides to
Advance Individual Tickets
in Every District.
Especial to the Evening star.l

TRENTON, June 20.-The Progress
sive State Committee yesterday after
noon decided that there will be no
union between this party and the Re
pubicans at the coming election. The
delegates decided that there will be
Bull Moose" candidates in every
county.
Everitt Colby. last years unsuccess-
| ful candidate for governor was pres
ent. and expressed his views in favor
of a straight Progressive ballot.
An out and out Progressive will be
| placed in nomination in every Con-
gressionai district against the candf-
dates of other parties was the sub
stance of a resolution unanimously
agreed upon by the party leaders. 1t
was positively decided not to indorse
the Republican candidate for Con-
gress in any district Another reso-
luton adopted provides for COM
mittee of five Progressives TO map
out the Congressional campaigns III
the various districts.
Plan Big Meeting.
Asbury Park was decided upon as
the place for a monster Progressive
rally during the summer and COM
mittee of three will be selected later
to make plans for the convention.
! York and Pennsylvania will be in
vited to this conference.
| George L. Record sought to have
the New Jersey committee go on
record as opposed to the continuance
| of George w. Perkins on the Ma
tional Progressive Committee, as the
result of the controversy with Amos
Pinchot The committee speedily
tabled the Record resolution, which
received but three votes out of the
twenty-five cast,
! Frank b. Jess, of Camden, chair
| man of the State committee, ex-
pressed q desire to resign the chair
manship because he will not have the
| time to devote to the active direction
| of the Progressive campaign this fall
| He was prevailed upon to remain
chairman until such time as the
matter of his resignation can be pre-
sented at a regular meeting of the
| State committee.
Mr.. Jess said his faith and interest
| in the Progressive movement / 9
! stronger than ever but he felt that
| the campaign this fall will be OF
such great Importance to the cause
| that some man able to devote ms
entire time to the campaign should
have the State chairmanship.
Everett Colby's View.
| The meeting was called to consider
the political situation from various
aspects and to make preliminary
| plans for the coming campaign. 1t
was held in the Mercer County Pro-
gressive League rooms. The avail
/ ability of possible Congressional can
didates and the adoption of a tenta-
tive platform or declaration of prin-
ciples were topics slated for consider
alton.
Before the meeting was held former
Senator Everett Colby said that
straight Progressive tickets had been
decided upon in different cities and
counties, and that he thought the
plan would be indorsed by the State
committee
The suggestion that in certain cir
cumstances the Progressive party
might indorse the candidacy of Re
publican nominee of known Progress
sive ideas upon his acceptance of the
principles to be enunciated by the
Progressive party was hardly con-
sidered Mr.. Colby, in conversation
before the State committee took ac-
/ tion. remarked that it might be un-
fortunate to pit a Progressive candi-
date against a progressive Republican
! in a case where such course might
result in the election of a Democrat
| OF standpat proclivities.
| The practical difficulty which would
be encountered in working out such
a plan, Mr.. Colby added would be
the uncertainty of knowing in ad-
vance who would be the nominee OF
| the various parties.