Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1914-02-20
BULL MoosERs MEET.
TAX, Feast and Nominate Henry
- Allen For Governor

attended by representatives from a
majority of the COUNTIES OF the state.
Following the morning meeting of
the. ProgressiTes in the Grand opera
house, the MoOsers; some 400 strong
according to the press reports, gath
cred in the .parlors of the National
hotel to urge the candidacy of Henry
]. Allen, Of Wichita, for governor.
Congressman Victor Murdock declar>
ed that the third party workers Of
the state should take the Wichita
publisher by the collar and, push him
INTO the fight, and that is what the
convention virtually did, Allen final
ly declaring that he would make the
race, although t5e did not want to
do so.
o., S. Sartin. state chairman of the
Progressives. urged the nomination Of
state, congressional and county tick
cts. and his mentions of Roosevelt,
MurdOck and Allen occasioned Noisy
applause. A part Of his speech was
as follows:
The hydra+headed reptile we must
fight is the little ring in every court
house in Kansas. whose members
want. to Keep their jobs. These men
can be for Curtis or Capper or Bris-
tow or anyone else, and are pathet.
ically appealing for harmony, and the
state candidates are about as bad.
AT the meeting here one year ago,
the friends. Of Bristow were here and
Arthur CapIar was here in person.
They. have gone to accept seats in
the front. row in the band wagon of
a party which stands with one foot
in the grave. But our fight is only
begun. We are going to have horse
in the senatorial parade, but we viii
be driving red-haired horse, and
the men. who next August are for
Bristow will in November be found
voting for Victor Murdock.' It
m his morning speech MurdOck
said: in part.
We are here bEecause we are tird
of traAficking with the crowds of re-
dictionary oldline politicians. We be
Eeve in our party and principles and
will succeed because Of our convic-.
tons. Mhn with convictions were
never beaten by trimmers and strad-
dhrs, and we will not compromise
with any set of reactionary pol:ti;
clans. Bristow has said that the Pro
gressiNe party is made up of gener--
ais with no followers, and / throw
the challenge back in his teeth. The
Progressives are all generals and are
fighting for a cause that will win. be-
cause it is a. common cause =.
Murdoch characterized the Kan
sas Day Club banquet as a meeting
of the pussyrfOoted politicians with
their pockets filled with salve and
ointment and declared that the Oper1
alton on the cause of harmony iII
Kansas bad begl so successful that
the patient had died.
Senator Beveridge spoke as follows.
But 1t has been said by so callsd
Republican Progressive politicians and
office seekers here in these prairi.
states that the Republican party IS
at hast becoming progressive. Only
three years ago as a senator of the
United States Twas abused for u.s.
ing the term Progressive Republican.
Yet there was some reason for that
name at that time. Some Of US who
wehs Republicans had been dong all
We could for many years.to make the
Republican party the liberal party Of
America.
The reason why the holding Of a
Republican conMention this year to
reform the southern frauds was SUP
pressed was because that convention
wOubd have been forced to tell what
the Republican party stands for, and
THE Republican party cannot today
state what its principles are.
Mr.. Brishow wants to run for SEN
ator as a Republican in Kansas; and
Mr.. PenroSe is running for senator as
a Republican in Pennsylvania and Mr..
SmOot will run for senator as a Re-
publican in Utah, and so viii Mr..
Cmmins as a Republican in Iowa,
and in Iowa and Kansas Mr.. Cum
Minis and. Mr.. Bristow say that the
Republican party means one thing,
while in Pennsylvania and Utah Mr..
P@rose and Mr., SmOot say that the
Republican party means another thing
The truth is that the Republican par
ty today means one thing IN one state