The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1916-01-14
MOOSERS OFFER
PEACE TO C. 0. P.
"DuSt TO Dust" Party Ceremony
Is Performed.
CONVENTION TO Met JUNE I

Progressive National Committee Ready
to Eliminate Roosevelt Statement
indicates an Almost Unconditional
urrender-Anything to Beat Viii
son, is Strong Note.
CHICAGO In a frank straight
forward statement to the American
people, as Mr. Perkins termed it, the
Progressive national committee in SEES
sion at the Congress hotel opened the
door for the complete amalgamation
of the Republican and Progressive
parties.
The declaration fixes June Z as the
date of the Progressive national con
VentiOn, the same as that fixed by the
Republicans and also in Chic.
1t declares for a reunion Of - par
ty strength, the return of the Progress
sives to the Republican fold in orGe1
that the present Democratic admin
istration may be turned out.
Dust to Dust" Statement
While the official statement, held by
some of the generals to be the dust
to dust and ashes to ashes" page in
the history of the Progressive party
bears the signature of national com
mitteemen to the Chicago conference,
it is understood to embOdy exactly the
views entertained by Colonel Roose-
Tbaf tbo DrOUrocciUoc foo will
not insist on the nomination of Colonel
Roosevelt by the Republicans as the
price fof amalgamation was the speci-
fic statement of George w. Perkins,
who arranged the conference and who
was understood to speak excathedra
with respect to Colonel Roosevelt.
''We are all hoping" said Mr.. Per-
kins with deliberation, as the news
paper men took down his words, that
both parties will agree on somebody
and it need not necessarily be Mr..
Roosevelt"
Hughes Second Choice.
The real purpose of bringing the
Progressive convention to Chicago the
same week the Republicans meet n
June is to force, if possible, the nonli-
nation of Colonel Roosevelt by the Re
publicans. If they fail in this they vii!
accept some other Republican, prefer
ably Justice Hughes.
Just how many second choices the
Progressive leaders have is not yet
disclosed
hot he fOr
NAL statement should be taken at its
face value and not containing some
thing between the lines not intended
there. eve are simply open and frank
with the Republicans" he added "Our
country comes first. We believe it is
in danger. We require Americans tc
stand together behind real leadership.
We hope for peace between the old
parties. We are willing to go a long
ways to secure that reunion. But we
will not surrender principles The
statement should be read in that light
and if it is there can be no misundey.
standing"
But some insisted on reading be,
tween the lines and one of the inter
pretations gOssipped in the Florentine
room was that Colonel Roosevelt, who
sent a message of greeting and again
emphasized preparedness as the big.
gest issue just now, is ready to clasp
hands with the Republican party on
the defense and honor planks.
Roosevelt Roasts Wilson.
The Rooseveltian emphasis was
placed on the following punches" in
the declaration:
final safeguard and civilizations last
bulwark.
THE Wilson administration has re-
pudiated the faith of our forefathers
which made the American flag the SUI
ficient protection of an American citi-
zen around the wcrld.
at has suffered American men, wom-
en- and children to be slaughtered in
Mexico and on the high seas, Ameri-
can property to be destroyed and
American liberty to travel and trade to
be subject to the arbitrary and lawless
coercion of foreign belligerents
1T has stood by while the law of
nations disappeared from the earth,
without adequate protest or offensive
resistance.
ct first among American administra-
tions has shown the supine spirit
whose sure consequence is the con-