The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-05-11
Declare for Peace. but Not at
Any Price.
Select Fairbanks as Running
Mate for L. R. 80
AWAIT REPUBLICANS MOVE
Will Go to Chicago With Olive
Branch Extended.
Perkins Discusses Conditions
Acceptable to Moose Party.


New York. May 11.-For president,
Theodore Roosevelt of New York; for
vice president Charles Warren Fair
banks of Indiana.
This is the ticket the bull moose
party will ask the Republican and
Progressive national conventions to
unite upon at Chicago on June Z.
The Progressives will go to Chicago
with an olive branch in hand. They
are for peace, but not for peace at
any price
All of this was decided upon at an
all-day session of the Progressive ma
tional executive committee and issued
later in the form of a statement by
night. Asked to explain what he
meant by saying that the Progressives
were for peace but not peace at any
price, Mr.. Perkins said:
Have But One Candidate.
The Progressives will go to Chi
cago in conciIiatory spirit toward
the Republicans. There will be no
precipitate action by our convention.
We have but one candidate. He is
Colonel Roosevelt. If the Republicans
say they do rot want him they can
suggest their first choice. But it is
that choice"
The meeting was attended by Col
Theodore Roosevelt, Walter +. Brown
of Ohio, Herbert Knox Smith of Con-
necticut, Matthew Hale of Massachu-
setts, E. II. Hooker. w. A. johnson,
w H. Hotchkiss, Horace Wilkinson,
iWilliam Chadbourne, Henry L. Stod-
dard, Oscar s. Straus, Bainbridge
Colby, William Hamlin Childs and
William l.. Ransom of New York, II.
ID Of Mafr U-1s
and e. a. VanValkenberg of Pennsyi-
vania- c. T. Dodge of California and
Harold l. Ickes and B. F. Harris of
Iilineis.
Perkins, Statement.
At the conclusion of the conferences,
Chairman Perkins issued a statement
in which he said:
THE Progressive national conven-
ton will consist of complete delega-
tions from every state So great is the
interest that number of states will
send delegations, all allowing each del
egate half vote. There will be up
ward of 1000 in attendance.
Reports from various states
show that the American people have
become impatient of leaders who hold
that comfort, prosperity and material
welfare are above honor, self sacrifice
and patriotism; that we need a re-
awakening of our older Americanism.
Our people are demanding that prin-
ciples and policies shall be proclaimed
and carried out by a man who has the
wisdom to formulate them and the
manhood to uphold them. ssa
Patriotism Above Partisanship.
I'VE again pledge our party to e3p-
proach the consideration of the issues
involved this year without any desire
to revive partisan bitterness If the
Republican convention is Responsive
to the patriotic spirit that brought
the Republican party into being and
Il
tury, it will meet this crisis in a spirit
of broad patriotism that arises above
partisanship. Should the effect fail
the responsibility for the result will
not rest upon the Progressive conven-
tion, but on shoulders other than ours
In this turning point in world his
tory we will not stick on details. we
will lay aside partisans1ip and preiu-
dice. But we will never surrender the
principles for which we stand and
have stood and will follow only "a
leader who we know stands for them
and is able to put them through We
are for peace, but not peace at any
price,
Chairman Perkins was asked
whether any other Republicans wers
discussed for first place.
Discussed Other Candidates.
we talked about several" he re-
piled, but we are going to wait ana
see what answer the Republicafls
make to our desire for Rooseveltss
nomination on both tickets before we
consider anybody else.
TO date, ISL delegates to the Re-
publican convention have been chos-
en- Only 25e have been pledged, which
leaves 542 uninstructed. An attempt
Is being made to create the impression
tnat all or these uninstructed dele
gates are against Roosevelt This IL
not a fact They are as likely to vote
Tor Roosevelt as for any other man. All
of them want to choose a candidate
who can win, and Colonel Roosevelt
we feel, is that man"
Only Man to Beat Wilson.
Great enthusiasm was manifest nv
those at the meeting over the Rooss-
veit-Fairbanks combination. 1t was
recalled that this pair swept the cou,1-
try in 1904. 1t was felt they could
repeat their triumph in 1916 and be
the most powerful ticket to defeat
Wilson and Marshall
Il. r. Won't Be I'm Chicago.
The third party leaders expect Colo
mel Roosevelt to make a "keynote''
speech at Kansas City on Decoration
day The colonel has practically
abandoned any plan for further
supporters wanted him to make the
Kansas City speech the first of a
series which would conclude in time
for the former president to reach Chi
cago when the Republican and Pro-
gressive convention hosts were assem-
bling 1t is understood now, however
that the colonel. anxious to Indicate
his policy of non-interference is con-
siderine abSeuting himself from the