Arizona republican., 1914-10-20
PROGRESS|vES STOOD AGAINST
 COMPETITION
In Spite of a Night Filled With Other Compelling Attractions There Was a Good Attendance at the Y. M.. C. A. Stadium

Against the fiercest sort of compe- tition that could have been devised, against competition quadrupled, the progressive meeting at the Y. M. c. A. stadium last night drew out d fair audience The ladies who were there by their very presence mani fested their selfdenial for the prin- ciples of progressivism. It was no light sacrifice to forego the great event of the year, the annual Fash ion Show, which began thronging tEe streets in the early evening and kept them thronged until late at night. Reside, there was the automobiler parade, the meeting of the medical association and the opening night Of the Y. M. C. A. lecture course
 At eight o'clock a fair number cf men and women were seated in the stadium. Mrs. F. N. Phillips had been secured to preside. She had been obliged to cancel an earlier engagement and she did So as fur ther proof of her loyalty to the principles of progressiveism. In a brief but taking address she spoke of the devotion of progressives to the doctrines of the party and of the earnestness of their desire for human welfare and for. good government. She then introduced Hon. George U. Young who said that in view of the fact that the principal speaker of the evening would be Hon. E. $. Clark, of Prescott. among the fore most orators of the state, his own remarks would be brief. He spoke i hardly ten minutes and in that time he described campaign conditions as he, Dr. Nelson, candidate for tte United States senate and Captain Alexander for attorney general, had found them in their tour of the nor thern part of the state and Pinal county. He said that the candi- dates had been given the greatest encouragement. They had received l rollers of support from members of ! tie two old parties who had broken loose from party ties and were now going to vote for men and principles Mir. Young said that as result ot his observations, he was proof against disappointment or surprise in the event of his election In con clusion, MT. Young declared his firm stand on that plank of the state platform endorsing the dry amend ment. That he had not dilated upon | it in his speeches throughout the state was because that, in the divi- sion of topics among the candidates who travelled with him that subject had been assigned to Captain Alex ander.
 Mr. Young was followed by Dr. Nelson, who. beside declaring the firm stand of the candidates for the dry amendment, confined his re- marks entirely to national subjects and especially those in which Ari-
 zona and the west were more deeply interested: a broader scope of the
 health system and the further con-
 servation and development of the natural resources of the west
 He reiterated the declarations Of the progressive national platform if
 favor of scientific tariff legislation; 1 he declared in favor of national wo
 man suffrage and in this respect he
 alluded to the inconsistency of the l democrats. He denounced the pro
 posed Colombian treaty and the dem-
 ocratic violation of the campaign
 pledge of that party when it repealed
 the free tolls provision of the Pana. | Continued cn Page Two)