The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-01-14
DEMOCRATS MUST
 PREPARE FOR FIGHT
 SAYS O. R. HUNDLEy
Returns From Chicago Con- fident Republicans and Progressives Will Pre-
 sent Solid Front

'"rhe democratic party might as well
 make up it's mind to meet a solid front,
 said Judge Oscar R. Hundley, who re- turned from Chicago yesterday, 'in the union of the republican and progressive parties, in the fight for the presidency this year. I attended the Perkins dinner, and meeting of the national committee of
 the progressive party at Chicago Forty six states and the Hawaiian Islands were represented at this meeting, and the ut most harmony prevailed
 The progressves have no fight or com
 plaint to make against the rank and file of the republican party. They voted for Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 and gave him the nomination for President, of which
 he was deprived by a few political bosses, and they voted for him after the progress sives nominated him So we are going to | go back to the people, and if they want
 Roosevelt for President, and will say so they can get him on the republican ticket as well as the progressive ticket. | If the people prefer some one else for the nomination, and a nomination is made | by the republican party of a man and a platform fairly expressive of the pop
 ular will. then the progressves will all line up and give loyal support to the l ticket Some of the issues fought out. ! in the last campaign will not be insisted | upon, notably the recall of judicial de- ! cisions' which has gone to the scrap pile.
 Progressives Twill urge the following among other issues:
 "A broader nationalism to make an ef- | fac of Il a.11 i,oIf | trial justice at home and the protections i of American citizens and rights abroad. The constructive federal regulation | rather than the destructive disruption of efficient business organiza zations-behavior and not size being the test.
 "A permanent tariff commission to be lnonpartisan. and the immediate revision Of such schedules as the conditions of the war have made unjust or as are neces- sary for the preservation after the war Of industries newly established here whose necessity the war has demonstrated. "A provision for equal suffrage" The republican party has through its
 national committee acted with equal earn estness in getting together, by the adop- ton of the following qualification of cleo tors in the coming contest for delegates The republican electors of the several I
 states and the District of Columbia Alaska, Hawaii, Porto Rico and the Phil ipine Islands and all other electors, with out regard to past political affiliations who believe in the principles of the repub- lican party and indorse it's policies are cordially invited to unite under this cal in the selection of delegates to the said CT invention.
 Asked about the probable nominee Judge Hundley said At this time Colo nel Roosevelt is without doubt the most commanding personality spoken of and
 his nomination is highly probable though by no means certain. With Roosevelt eliminated, Justice Hughes, H. D. Esta- brook and Borah seem to be foremost in the order named"
 speaking of the social season in Chica-
 go, Judge Hundley said: Chicago is talk Ing especial pride just now in it's grand opera and it is indeed wonderful I saw the opera or Aida presented on Tuesday night in most gorgeous and superb scale The dance is still the rage. and the new dances are especially popular