Bisbee daily review., 1914-07-25
PIMA BULL MOOSERS
 REJECT OVERTURES
 FROM REPUBLICANS
Conference Splits Because G. O.. P. Leaders Refure To Surrender
 Their Party Name

TUCSON July 2l-Reiecung the suggestion by republicans of an amal- gamation plan by which Roosevelt on a Progressive platform would be run for president on the c. o. P. ticket in 1916, the executive committee Of the Pima County Progressive Club in charge of the present campaign. turned down the peace proposal pre-. sented by J. Lorenzo Hubbeu repub- lican candidate for United States Sen ator, and J. E Morrison, former Uni
 ted States district attorney at a meet 1 ing held last night at the headquarters of the club in the Hewitt building. l Hubhell and Morrison. who are tour
 ing the state in the interests of the union of the two parties, arrived in Tucson yesterday from Yuma. where
 they succeeded in getting an agree ment for amalgamation between the
 leaders of the two parties, neither of
 whom, it is stated are numerically strong
 The two leaders met with the com Imittee at their headquarters and had a conference lasting more than an hour Besides Hubbel and Morrison l there were present a number of local republican leaders. among them Frank Crofoot Kirke Moore. Charles
 Bell, Charles Bent and Dr. George Trouman.
 | The progressives present, included Tom King Marshall. president of the
 Pima county Progressive Club. Paul
 Fernald chairman of the executive committee, William Watson. Ben Dan
 iels. P E. Howell, F B Work. B. F.
 Bates, B M Stanley and k. B. Bold man
 The plan for the amalgamauon of
 the two parties was presented in de. tail by Mr. Hubbell. His proposal was that the republicans accept the progressive platform and indorse Roosevelt for president in 1916: that the name Republican" be accepted by the progressives. and that the mat. ter of the organization be left to the coming primary, where the precinct committeeman and other officials for the party machinery will be selected
 In regard to the county ticket Hub bells plan was that the progressive candidates should re-file as repubB. cans and that each man, republican and progressive, should take his chances in the primary, the winning candidates to be supported by both parties under the republican name.
 State candidates were not discussed but Hubbell made it plain that in the interests of harmony, any of the re- publicans distasteful to the progress ives would withdraw in the interests of full harmony
 After Morrison had spoken along the same lines, and the matter had been discussed, the proposition of the two republicans leaders was turned down absolutely and finally The req sons for the refusal were stated later by Paul Fernald. chairman of the ex- Iecutive committee who said: "Our reason for turning down the proposal to amalgamate the two par ties was mainly because of the fact 1 that the progressive party in the state lis the dominant party as shown by the election and it is not logical for
 us to assume the republican name
 when we are the dominant party If the republicans who wish to amalga-
 mate believe in the progressive plat
 form let them join the progressive par
 ty and accept the progressive name "
 After the proposition had been def
 initely refused the two republican
 leaders accepted the situation in good
 humor and the meeting ended in the
 best of feeling.