Bisbee daily review., 1915-08-04
MURDOCH DECLARES
PROGRESSIVE PARTY
WILL START AGAIN
National Committee Chairman
Says He Has Made Canvass
OF West and Bull MOoSerS viii
Enter 1916 Race.

Enter 1916 Race.
MT PLEASANT. Aug. 3.-victor
Murdoch Of Kansas, chairman of the
Progressive National Committee.
made the following statement:
81 have just completed a three
months personal canvass of the situa-
tion with the Progressives in the cen
trail West and on the Pacific Coast
and after making it am ready to say
Inatfootedly that we, Progressives. are
going into the 1916 fight as party
and to win.
Moreover, a meeting of representa-
tive Progressives held this month in
New York City reported the same CON
ditions in the East that ! have found
in the West and they are lining up
for the next battle This also is the
| sentiment of the Progressive National
Committee. We viii hold our nation
al convention early and nominate
| ticket
The great convention battles of
1916 will not be over candidates, but
will be over platforms The storm
will rage, not in the Committee on
Credentials, but in the Committee ON
Resolutions The bourbon Republi-
can leadership viii not only insist on
a standpat candidate, but will fight
for an unstined and unequivooal en-
doTsement of the administration Of
William Howard Taft including the
Payne-Aldricn tariff bill.
The Democratic leadership like,
wise win point with pride to the
equally lamentablo Simmons Under
wood tariff bill against a Bryan in
lsurrection of the first magnitude
which viii cancel the one-term pre-
sidential pledge and other Bryan pro
paganda; and the Progressives viii
reiterate and re-emphasize their Chi
.cago platform Of 1912. That platform
remains the most nearly perfect utter
ance of the principles of Abraham
Lincoln of modern times.
"Botn i'm it's protest against the in
roads OF privilege fattehing in an era
Of gross matcrialism and in its prac-
teal program Of concrete economic
remedies, the Progressive platform
has become to understandfroErasa
has become TO hundreds of thousands
of aggressive Americans the ark of
the covenant and there is not a town
ship anywhere without its group of
Gittites devoted wholly aud solely to
its preservation.
THE Progressives have the right
plan for the tariff and other economic
issues, including the trust problem.
The Democratic leadership, after two.
and half years trial has signally
failed fin solving The nations economic
questions. It's tariff law, slammed TO.
gether under the old log rolling lead
ership is utterly unproductive of any
of the results previously claimed for
IT, It's trust legislation founders, its
attempts at development Of ocena-eo
ing craft have hzzled. That this is
the judgment of the voters is amply
evidenced by the tremendous anti De
mocratic sentiment that has developed
at the polls at virtually every election
in the last two years. At many OF
these elections the voters cast a Re
publican ballot because he believed
The Republican leadership had learned
its lesson and would hereafter take
the Progressive path
But now the voters know for
certainty that. when the Republican
leadership has been restored 10 power
ii has shown more, not less, reaction
airy tendencies, as is notably eviden-
ced By the actions of the legislatures
IN New York, Ohio and Massachusetts.
Hand in hand with the Progressive
proposition to encompass social and
industrial justice, goes the necessity
of solving the great economic prob
lens of the country, not on the basis
of the political ADVANTAGE. of which
practice both the old parties are in-
famously guilty, but on the basis Of
service to society
Everywhere I found these Progress
sives who made the fight Of 1912 with
the idea uppermost eager now to
continue the hght Whenever they
have had a chance 20 make good they
have done so.
"The spectacle Of Republican reac
ton ia New York and Ohio. in con
trast to Progressive achievement i'm
California under Governor Johnson, is
dramatic portrayal of the need of
the new strong patriotic party of pub
lie service. Therefore the Progres-
siye party viii go on with It's fight
straight out natfooted."