Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1914-10-29

having haQ no state ORGANIZE
ton, it has yet only a few
chances in which to give Pro-
gressive political facts to the
general public as such facts real
~ exist.
Through the long established
Republican press, the Stand-Pat
Republicans, (who are only the
remnants of the old disrupted
Republican party as the vote OF
1912 shows and 1914 will con-
firm), are making many false
claims and predictions about the
Progressives. And many who
read these papers and no others
really believe what they publish
to be true.
The Baxter Springs News hav-
ing a large circulation through
out Cherokee County, and this
county having previously been a
hotbed of Standpatism, and the
county having no Progressive
working organization and no
county ticket, we desire to make
a denial based on facts through
the columns of the News for the
benefit of Cherokee County read
ers of few of the many false
statements they are making.
The first and most absurd
claim they make in Kansas is:
The Progressives have about all
gone back to the Republican
party, which is not true. They
base their claim on the Progress
i've primary vote of about II, 600.
This is 5000 more votes than
Progressive leaders were count
ing on, from the fact of there
being no opposition or contest on
the Progressive state ticket. con-
sequently 100 votes or even less
would have nominated the entire
ticket. Many thousands of Pro-
gressives took advantage OF the
above fact as the vote in No
vember will show" to help NOM
mate county candidates they
wanted, especially when there
was no full Progressive county
tickets. From the same fact
many thousands more did not go
to the polls at all; therefore,
there is nothing in these facts to
indicate that the Progressives
have gone back to either party.
William Allen White, the Kan
sas Progressive National Commit
teemau tells US out of the los
counties in Kansas the Progress
sives have 70 counties organized
with a full county ticket, and 19
more with a majority county
ticket, making in all % counties
organized and working. So far
as we have been able to learn
this is a far better showing than
either of the old parties in Kan
sas are able to make. Neither
does this fact prove that the pro-
gressives are going back. They
have claimed that Henry ]. Allen,
Progressive candidate for govern
or, had gone back to the e. y.
P.-that he is a Standpat, and
he would resign his nomination
Immediately after the primary.
Has he done it? In fact he and
Victor Mnrdock are campaigning
to the largest and most enthusiast
tic audiences of any other candi-
dates for any Office in Kansas.
They even claim that Johnson
of California, Progressive candi-
date for Vice President in 1912,
had gone back on the party.
johnson is the Progressive can
didate for governor in California
to succeed himself. Does this
mean he has gone back on the
Progressive party?
The Republicans want the Pro-
gressives to return to the Repub-
lican party, giving as their rea-
SON for so doing, to help them
beat the Democrats. If beating
any political party is the highest
motive and greatest inducement
for support a party has to offer,
il is far better for the people to
put that party out of existence
by their vote as quickly as pos
sible. The Progressives have
far more honorable and lofty du-
ties to perform for humanity
than to help Republicans beat
Democrats.
The Republicans tell us we
are a Democratic Aid Society, "
which only helps elect Demo-
Gratis. Let us go back some
years and prove how untrue that
statement is. 1t is an undisput-
ed fact that from 1860 to 1912
there has always been more ke-
oublicaus than Democrats IN the