South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-10-15
BULL MOOSE IS
NOT ALL IN YET
Rank Republican Organ so IN
terpretS Banquet to George
w. Perkins.

Special 20 NeWs-I1mes.
INDIANAPOLIS. oct. 15.-That the
progressives OF Indiana and L. s. A.
are very much alive and propose, az
a party. TO night all alOngs the line IN
the next campaign, is admitted here
by the indianapolis News, republican
(alleged independently newspaper, pas
ing it's conclusion upon facts and senu-
ment9 expressed at the progressive
banquet in honor Of George ". Per-
xins. national chairman. at the Denl-
son hotel, Tuesday night. me news
report OF that meeting seems 10 Dear
out the admission. According TO the
paper, party workers from various
parts OF the state were present VII
liam Dudley Foulke OF Richmond vas
the POSTMASTER and the speakers were
Mr.. Perkins. Jackson Boyd, Green
castle; z NJ. Lee. Muncie; w A Pier
son, New Albany; Clifford Jackson
Huntington, and W. D. Headrick, IN
Mr.. Boyd, who is the state chair
man of the party. in opening the
speech making, said the two ola par
ties were alike. He said the repuDh-
cans a few years ago sent some OF
their members TO prison. Later the
democrats sent some Of their MEM
berz TO prison and are now trying 10
send some more 70 prison.
We are going 70 organize the en-
tire state" he said I'VE are going 10
put state ticket IN the field; ticket
in each district. county and township
that's what we are going to do.
Telegram From Beyeridge.
Mr.. Boyd introduced Mr.. Fouke, the
tOastmaster. Mr.. Foulke read the fol-
lowing telegram from Albert j. BeVer-
Idge, who is at Richmond, Va:
"dreetings to Indiana progreSsives:
The adoption OF cur economic princi-
pies means the Industrial independ-
ence OF America and permanent pros
perity for the nation. Our principle
OF national defense means the coun-
fry'a safety. Humanitarian principle
means the better living Of the COM
mon people. The nation and the world
will accept these principles because
they mean universal well being"
Mr.. Perkins paid a tribute to Mr..
Beveridge and the latter's record in
the senate.
"Beveridge said there was an invis-
lie government" he said. He said
this In his speech at the progressive
convention at Chicago The distin-
guished chairman Of the convention
that preceded ours by three weeks did
not know that there was an invisible
government But after thinking Ii
over for three and one-half years that
same chairmans finally woke up TO the
fact that there had been an invisible
government for many years, and be
said so a few weeks ago. That man
was Elihu Root"
Full Ticket I'm New York.
Mr.. Perkins said the progressives
have tickets nominated and filed in
every county IN New York state. He
said there was In the city of New
York the best organization the pro-
gressives have ever had.
In the south, he said, the progressive
cause is growing. This was especially
true ia Georgia, Alabama and Louis
lana. He predicted the election of a
progressive governor in Louisiana. He
said the party was in good shape in
the west and northwest, and he eX-
pressed satisfaction at the situation
in Indiana.
In the constitutional convention in
the state OF New York" he said, Mr..
Barnes said. in a debate with Mr..
Wickersham, that he did not oppose
Mr.. Roosevelt in the republican ma
tional convention, but that he opposed
the things that Roosevelt and his
friends were trying To write into a ma
ticnal platform. This statement dis
proves the charge that the formation
of the progressive party was due to