Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-08-03
Moose Drive Not tierding as Leaders Wish. =
Attempt to Deliver ProoreSSiveS in Elephant
Corral Is Failure.
new JERSEY REPUDIATES The BILL OF SALE
Edgar c. Snyder, Washington State Chairman.
of Progressive Party, Hot in DenunCidtion
of the Chicago Betrayal

UceH uOMluduC uuTluS the laSC IOur
years it's record of public acts has
been one of retrOgression and not of
progress. No better example of this
need be sought than the showing Of
our own Republican majority in the
last legislature of this state. The
flagrantly reactionary legislation then
passed would be throttling our liberty
as individual voters and our home
rule powers as self-respecting and
governing communities, if we had not
fortunately possessed the power of
compelling these vicious measures to
be submitted to vote of the people.
THE Progressive voters are first Of
all Independent voters. That is why
they left the old party and that is
why no man and no newspaper organ
and no machine can now deliver their
vote. They think for themselves and
they will deliver their own vote. That
is why l feel confident that the bulk
OF the Progressive vote will in reality
be cast for Woodrow Wilson,"
Hanson Challenges Poindexter.
Ole Hanson, the Progressive leader
in the state of Washington, is very
sincere in his belief that this is not
time for partisan politics or at
tacks upon the President.
"As American citizens, as Progress
sives, 1t is our duty at this time to
silence the harsh criticisms and un-
thinking partisan prejudices and stand
by our President" said Mr.. Hanson
III recent interview.
Mr.. Hanson ran for the United
States senatorship in Washington in
1914 and polled ss,2s2 votes. He il
anxious'to engage Senator Miles Poin-
dexter, Of the same state, in a Joint
debate. Mr.. Poindexter was elected to
the senate as a Progressive, but now
says he is a Republican. The follow
ing is telegram sent by Mr.. Hanson
to the Democratic national commit
tee:
I'VE can carry Washington Can
you shame Senator Poindexter into
debating with me the subject, Shall
Wilson Be Returned" Poindexter is
afraid, and, like Hughes, is a trimmer.
Both have endorsed the American
flag, but refuse to get down to funda-
mentals. Have challenged Poindexter
repeatedly, but to no avail"
California Progressives for Wilson.
Isadore Jacobs, prominent business
man who is leading the Independent
movement in California, has sent q
communication to the Woodrow VIII
son Independent League, 2SO Madison
avenue, New York, in which he says
that the non-partisan movement is
just as strong in the northern part
of California as in the southern end
OF the state. .4.--r
each day." said Mr.. Jacobs, I'VE
are getting letters from old time Re-
publicans and Progressives asserting
that they will work and vote for VIII
son and that it is their purpose to
attend the conference which is to be
held in San Francisco, August s, and
whoop 1t up in true western style.
Mr.. Jacobs says the majority of tho;
Progressives in California will be for
President Wilson. AS an indication Of
the type of business men who arc
heading the Wilson Progressive move
ment in California, the following ia
quoted from Mr.. Jacobs message:
"A permanent Progressive organiza~
tion has been effected in San Franz
cisco. It's officers are:
president, Joseph s. Thompson.
president Of the Pacific Electric COM
pany, of San Francisco; secretary, Mr..
L. A. Ireland. of the MyseltRollins
company; Eugene Smith, president OF
the Monarch Oil company, and of the
Eugene Smith company, is a member
of the executive committee, and is out
in the state actively organizing Pro-
gressives to work for Mr.. Wilson. Tha
movement is being financed in CALI
fornia by local contributions"