The Taney County republican., 1914-09-24
Flock Back Into Republican Fold
From kansas city journal

signed rom the county centra! com
mittee OF that party, headed by E.
Mont Rely and Charles E. RAIDER, and
followed by T. R. Bartlett, who has
quit the Progressive state committee,
with seventy five Progressive party
workers who temporarily ieIt the
Republican party 10 follow
Theodore Roosevelt, marched in
to the assembly room at Repub
lican headquarters, Tenth and Walnut
streets, last night, Over 500 ward
workers and prominent Republicans
we're holding a meeting, and when
the returning host put in an appear
ance there was demonstration that
lasted fully FIVE minutes. The Eleventh
ward band struck up Aud Lang
Syne" and the words were sung by
the assemblage. The homecomers
were assigned to seats on the plat
form and upon quiet being restored E.
Mont Rely feced the enthusiastic
crowd,
81 presume you are wondering il
any good can come out Of Nazareth, ."
he observed.
well, I'm going to tell you that
no good can come out Of the bunch
Of alleged prOgressives I have left. l
will not be dictated to by the twin
brothers, the Ellises. I'd rather 60 out
and make speeches for Tom and Joe
than toady to the Ellis twins. Theo
dore Roosevelt is alright on everything
but the recall OF judicial decisions.
I take issue with him night there.
I'm coming back as progressive
to help you Republicans to clear Jack
son county Of Democratic misrule and
extravaganza. The Republicans and
the real Progressives with fusion
ticket can do it. ! have voted the
| Republican ticket for twenty-five years,
and never knew Of any time it was
tied up with the whisky ring. The
/ Progressives want TO fix it so that w.
P. Borland can be returned TO con-
Ercss. That is their scheme, and it is
being lostered by the son-in-la OF a
certain well known gentleman who out
Of the goodness OF his heart has dug
up the money to pay salaries to these
alleged Progressives who are running
the party now and who never contri-
buted a cent toward il in all their
lives. They are only alleged Pro.
gressives.
There is no Progressive party in
/ this state or county now. What there
| is left OF it, as | view it, is an aid So
ciety to the Democratic party and I
want none Of it. What I want 10 see
is the Republican party and the real
ProgreSsives get together from my
ward clear 10 the White House. The
fusion ticket we propose 10 put in the
field will get two-thirds Of the votes oI
real Progressives and clean and honest
Democrats, and it is bound to win.
Mr.. Reilly gave a history Of the
failure Of the movement 10 unite the
Progressives and Republicans on q
fusion ticket. He said the progress
sives, as now constituted, were never
sincere and would not have dealt even
if the Republicans had conceded every
office TO them,
Don't be fooled by the talk that
the Progressives are running a county
ticket" warned Reilly. There is
not a Progressive on the ticket
What are they then7" asked the
crowd.
"A conglomeration owned and con
trolIed by the big boss at Eighteenth
lid Grand" replied Mr.. Rely.
Chas. E. RAIDER, who was secretary
Of the Progressive committee, nation
al elector in 1912 and secretary o
the Progressive State League, saic
there were no more Progressives il
Kansas City, as the party is constituted
by a few men who set themselves up a
bosses 10 browbeat and dictate.
Henry M. Beadsley, a forme
mayor who has been lukewarm to-
ward Republicanism for the last fe'
years, announced his return TO activ
duty and his resolution TO serve tn
party in the future with the sam
, loyalty as in the past.
Leslie Lyon said that the return {
the men, who had been led away b
the Progressive movement was proc
, of their patriotism TO Jackson count