Bisbee daily review., 1914-10-02
BULL MOOSE DRY PLANK
 IS EXPOSED
Party Stampede EnSueS Follow ing Plank Endorsing Dry Amendment"- Candidate In Pima County WithdraWS
DangIe Bait In Face Of Women To Influence Their Votes - Most Party Members DisfaV- or Meditation Of Party
fRY A. Q. Ross, Jr.l

] Ht pun MuDets duEflluE AAAu AAt peth Of the political nut have struck a hornets nest, and turned loose in their camps thousands of little stinging insects. which bid fair to drive the members of the party to water, or 10 the ranks of another par ty. The stampede has already start ed, and as the stings grow in severity the pandemonium in the progressive ranks takes on intensity. It is hard to say where 1t will lead some say to the adoption of the dry amend ment. But a causual observance of
 the earliest results would lead to the belief that the funeral knell of the party will follow the political au- gering which opened the Genis pro hibition kernel 10 the progressive platform.
 Following is the hornets nest. taken from the progressive platform as adopted and approved by the mem bers of that party in Phoenix. Tues day. September 29:
 Section XXI
 "Ths Progressive Party, standing
 as it does for those things that up- build society, and against everything that tears down and destroys the so- cial order, supporting those thinss which make the individual more ef- { fcient and opposing those things which tend to lessen that efficiency,
 working for the upbuilding and en- " -F -fT InmfHfFg4aHa htrct-
 ness and against any business that
 prsys on the aPPetites and passions
 of men, advocates the adoption of the so-called Dry Amendment to the
 constitution of Arizona"
 The first actual cry of the stung
 came yesterday from Tucson s. E. McWade progressive candidate for
 corporation commission, according to
 the most authoritative information.
 has withdrawn from the race since
 the adoption by the party of the plank
 going on record for the "Drys". He
 made this announcement yesterday. l He is the first of the progressiyes to Iact
 However, promises are that he is mot the last Locally there was uni
 yersal complaint yesterday of the adoption of that one plank by the Bull Moosers in their convention. The Bisbee and Warren District progres-
 sives joined in their statement that
 the plank does not represent the . voice of the party.
 That plank" said one member of the party yesterday, ifs a political bait dangling at the noses of the wo-
 men of the state The Bull Moose leaders in Phoenix, including Heard and Young, fearing that they would ? not be strong enough on their pro b gressiTe blanks, have added their pro ? hibition plank, aud Vacillated theiI party to the ranks of the prohibition ists.
 q have other proof of my state - 'ment. l have here a letter which F came this morning from Phoenix. In F it is a statement Of prominent
 Phoenix progressive, one of the lead . CTS in the convention. I'll read it: ( We VIII now endeavor to influ 8 ence Nelson to withdraw from the @ senatorial race. We can then throw e our support to the Chain men aAC l- to Chain. In this way we will re D ceive back more than the bread VI a cast On the waters
 s There" continued the progressive f "is the attitude of the progressiY' i- leaders of the state. Tbey have mad @ their party the organ of another par s ty and separate organization. 8 doesn't look like victory for us h " the November election"
 E The generally expressed opinion O i the progressives was an echo of th
 withdrawal of NcWade and the state a ment of the local member. There W no doubt that a strong dissenting el' 8 ment has sprung up in the party wit d the passing of record faYoring pr' 70 hibition. There is however, some el' m ment of suppositiop in how muc 70 tbis element vill divert from the e e- fecuveneSs Of the party
 " A flash estimate however. draw
 fron the statements of several Bu at MoosepS. would lead Co Che copclusio