South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-02-11

PLYMOUTH. Ind. Feb. 11.-Rec-
ommendatiOn 10 the state central com
mittee that John L. Moorman. OF
Knox. be made republican state chair
man, and the election of Perry Smith.
Of Warsaw. TO the 18th district chair
manship, TO succeed Fred. Woodward
of South Bend. resulted at the repub-
.ican convention here Tuesday after
noon, AT the conclusion OF "a sort of
reconciliation OF antagOnism" pro-
gram, which, according To- 4. b. Farm
valid, chairman of the progressiVes is
an insult equal 10 the one put on aL
Warsaw two years ago. and repeated
on larger scale ~ Chicago
Begging bun MOoaers 70 drop their
antlers and take on again the elephant
tusks eXpostulaung with them in tle
name of Abraham Lincoln. William
Mckinley and--Jim Watson admit
ting for a change that the rcpuhlicau
party was wrong in its managerial
program i'm 1912. ard. that the strcn-
nous protest of the progressive
against ''standpat' rule. was justified
but traitorous: us:-promising 20 Junk"
the old warehouses and then 10 turn
the conduct of party affairs into
younger hands, without letting the
old hands gO;-making the ''welkiu
ring with glorious achievements or
the 9. q. p. and the calamitous re-
suits OF recent tariff making
swearing. by the eternals. that 20
longer remain outside the republican
fold must be an act OF traitOrism. as
wicked as that OF Benedict Arnold -
batting the progressiVes back. IN
short, as If with a cup OF sOft-sOap
covered with frostiug, and then
smashing them square i'm their noses
as If with a clenched fist, and, as n
presuming IL would surely make them
like it,-these things, together with
the election Of Smith and the recon-
mendation OF Norman. have set the
progressives determination To stay by
themselves more firmly than ever
The Gem theater was the scene o.
the magic operations. They began au
o'clock. HOnOred by the presence o.
almost as many democrats as there
were both republicans and prOgreS
siVes. the seats crowded 10 capacity
would have been hlled back 10 about
the ninth row, with nearly twice that
many vacant rows rearward. Retir-
ing Dist. Chairman Fred Woodward
finished his job with mOdesty and dis
patch
"'The district committee has sug-
gested that ! propose the name Of A.
r Martin OF south Bend for your
temporary chairman" ne said. and
then asked. will you have him ,"
II was all so well cooked and dried
that the election was astoundinglr
unanimous Kenneth Todd OF tn
South Bend Tribune and four other
republican editors Of the district re-
corded the remainder of the perform
ance in the capacity OF secretaries.
Martin Walls for Panic.
The temporary chairman held his
Job 10 the last. As a token of au-
probation for the manner in which
he recovered the flag from the dust
into which il Is being trodCcn Ia
Mexico; put the Underwood tariff iaE
on the hummer. closed the factories
and turned the Workiuguen into the
street, formed a bread line in south
Bend Chicago and everywhere that
fades the famine i'm china into
midsummer nights dream explained
10 the bull moosers why they seeded.
and carefully evaded the truth Of their
being kicked out. glorihed the pro-
gressiVlsm OF the new republicanisW,
even though ilnconsistently lament
ing that the "old-time. stalwarts musJ
be shelved' fJr these and a few 9th
er brilliant flights of oratOry. the tenn
pOrary chairmanship was made per-
manent, and the election of "a dis
trict chairman was about all lhat WAS
left
About all"-but not aI o. uas
necessary in this connection that ths
bull moosers he given 10 under-tarH
that while welcome 90 come o4.k
they should come back they mIFt "a
Cept The hon. James Watson OK Rush
VILE al his face value and almos
promise never TO Try TO dump him.
This was vOuchsafed bv Andrew Jaci
son lfickey o. laporte in placiu-
Perry Smith. The prOduc5 oi q morn
ing caucus before the convention. uo.
because ne is progressive ln princi
pie, but because he was "a stand
patter". as Hickey himself put b.
Martin had eulogized Watson o. the
skies cas- hi- -husum friend 'It lS
20 bad 20 have tU ~lelve him. al0n-
with other great leaders in the party
achievements hc lamented. "but We
can do 10 for the sake or the party and
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