Arizona republican., 1914-04-21
THE SERIOUS
 BUSINESS 0F
 PR0GRfSS|VES
Members of Party Follow Conference with Grand Partaking of Festive Meat and Hear Some Cracking Good Speaking.

l ones to the vocabularies. the pro- gressives of Phoenix, entertained visitors to the party conference, fixed q point from which to date time and paved the way for the keenest com petition that Arizona will have ever experienced in her political fights. 1 It was a banquet, but as Toastmas- ! ter P. H. Hayes claims, man does 1 not live by bread alone His mental self was as well dined as that part of him which exercises the eating function.
 The last course. was scarcely on the table before the toastmaster arose to announce the purpose of the ga thering and the first ex- 1 of Guenthers Cafeteria opened and there entered guests bidden guests, MT Molloy the first speaker said so. 1 George Olney, J. l.. Hubbell J. c. Adams. John J. Birdno, Fred Bowler, | J. P. Lavin, Dr. Carl Pace, c. NJ Shannon, they came in and sat down. Molloy. seeing them, welcomed them, saying:
 T take the responsibility for bring ing these, my friends to our board. ] Long have their ears been deaf to the things which they shall hear this night And it will be good for them to hear what we are going to say
 MT. Hayes had just started the en- thusiasm to running high by his 1 a11Y al haf hn a any intention of amalgamating with any other political party.
 "On June 6, 1912" pursued Molloy, the firm of Hubbel, Adams, Molloy and others was dissolved. Negotia tions begun on my arrival for a re- entering into this partnership have failed. It was causing them to fail that prevented me from preparing a good speech.
 The speaker digressed briefly to pay ribute to his well beloved friendly enemy. Don Lorenzo 1 In speaking to his subject. The Future of the Progressive Party" MT. MOlloy called legends out of the past. He recited the tales of James II and made simile thus:
 How many people have watchfully waited on Woodrow Wilson this year past and have said, oh for an hour of Roosevelt
 The combination proposed between the progressives and the republi- cans he said reminded him of a wedding between youth and beauty and age and decrepitude. And to prove which of the two parties was decrepit, he cited that little known fact of the falling of the 1912 vote of the republicans below that of the | dying whig party fifty years before.
 Molloy is an excitable and an ex- citing speaker He burned into those guests of his the fact that they were merely there to listen, and that they were not even parts of the stage setting for this most happy show.
 The reception that Mrs. E. Y. Phil lips got was usually enthusiastic. Il was just like the ovation she always receives. For this keen woman worker in the progressive ranks is recognized as d speaker of moro than ordinary ability. She was tC tell about woman's part in the ad- vance of the party She did so witt the interpolated humor of Uncl, Remus. the quizzical interjections o1 housekeeper. The most notable !, saying of hers was: There is noth
 ing in this talk about woman's in terest in politics breaking into thu home Why. right here in Phoeni'
 it was the middle class homes. wher' there is an actual contact witt economies that supplied by far thu biggest number of woman voters a our last election"
 We are steadfast because we d'
 not do like the other parties: keel our principles in moth balls and onl. bring them out once in a while whel needed. There is no expediency il our political arrangements sai' Dwight B. Heard, the next speaker. The siren song of the would-b ] iamalgamators falls on uninterestet ears.
 We. are here now to begin fight We started it today in the confer | ence. Our organization has beel [ none too good, but we cannot mum , Der the progressive victories tha | were ours the past year. Now we ar
 starting out with q mighty good or ; ganization and we have just begul to fight
 Mir. Heard concluded with thi
 quotation from Lincoln:
 Having thus chosen our course let us renew our trust in God an
 so go forward without fear and wit l manly hearts
 T recall the birth of the republi I can party said Dr. C. s. Dains c
 Tempe. and I remember the par my father and his father had in ii
 am glad I came from the sam
 state as that party. It was gran
 old party-that republican party C
 1856 (hastily)
 But it fell It ran on the rock: Disaster overlook it after it had pu f the keystone of sovereignty in tn !arch of the union The progressiv
 party is the republican party-t 6 1856. With the same duty, almost : the cementing of that keystone. w ! do not need to put it in again, br
 we must build a foundation and SUI
 porting structure to keep it there. ' We must keep to the flag. fo
 lowing it and revering it-wheth' Huerta salutes it or not