The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-01-14
Harvester Trust Man Says
Both Must Agree On
One Man.
THINKS THE COLONEL
CAN BE SIDETRACKED
National Conventions To Meet
In Chicago On The
Same Day.
Special to The Daily Tribune.

Chicago, ILL.,, Jan. 11.-Thera will
be no Progressive party this year, if
the Republicans grasp the olive
branch proffered today by George W.
Perkins and other leaders in meet
ing of the Progressive National Com
mittee here.
"We are hopeful that 10th parties
will agree upon somebody and it
need not be Mr.. Roosevelt" said
Perkins
The fact that the committee decid-
ed to hold it's national convention on
June 7, the same day thu Republican
national convention will convene here,
is taken as further evidence that the
Bull Moose are going to try and cud-
die up into the Republican camp.
The message from Cci. Roosevelt
follows:
Il send you my heartiest greetings.
We, as country, are facing a great
world crisis in which for the last Is
months this nation has fallen far
short of its duty both to its own peO-
pie and to the law-abiding and Justice
loving nations of mankind.
There is a crying need that we
shall cast aside all purely partisan
considerations and disregard all but the
vital issues affecting the national life
and shall strive intellectually for
sound Americanism which shall in
sist that every man who is within our
borders shall be an American and
nothing else. We must GO Justice to
our ouwn people at home; we must in
sist that they have justice when
abroad.
eve must insist upon the most thor
oughgoing preparedness to protect our
rights against all possible attacks by
any aggressors. Such preparedness
is the best guarantee Of any honorable
peace.
eve must ever remember that there
cannot be such preparedness in things
material unless there IS also that
preparedness of soul and spirit which
alone renders a nation fiji to perform
its high and difficult duties in ma
tioanal and international, life.
Theodore Roosevelt"
Chicago was selected as the unani-
nous choice for holding the conven
ton, and the week of June 7, when the
Republican national congention will be
in session.
Progressive party leaders have made
reservations for 500 hotel rooms and
have options on theAuditorium Thea
ter and Orchestra Hall for the week Of
June 7. This was disclosed in con-
nection with the plan to hold the
party's national convention simulta-
neousIy with the Republican cOnven-
ton.
Every state in the Union, with the
exception of Arizona and Mississippi,
was represented at the meeting.
The session this morning was in
formal and open. Discussion of the
time and place for holding the nation
al convention of the party developed
practically unanimous opinion that it
should be convened in Chicago. There
was some difference Of opinion, how
ever, as to the date. William Allen
White of Kansas favored June 7, and
several others supported this view.
Others proposed Jun ID or later, and
few thought the party should meet
before the Republicans. The qucs-
ton was settled at an executive
session of the National Committee late
today. George w. Perkins presided
this morning and John w. McGrath
of New York, secretary TO Col. RoOse-
welt, acted as secretary.
William Finn of Pennsylvania was
among those who urged holding the
convention concurrently with the Re-
publican convention. He said the
Progressive movement in Pennsylva-
MIA Was in better shape than in 1912,
when the party polled more than 4OO,-
900 votes in that state.