Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-06-13
They VIII Be Asked to Make
Their Home In the Demo
cratic Camp
QUESTION is, WHEN IS
INVITATION TO Be SENT
Bitterness Of Bull Moose
Leaders Over Roosevelt
Action Is Intense
By Lowell Mallett

tUnited Press staff correspondent
st. Louis, Mo, June 13.-PIans for
kidnapping the progressive party's
four million fatherless" voters, I'M
der full headway shows signs of diff.
Guilty today. Cautious old line demo.
cratic leaders headed by Senator Tar
gart succeeded in hOiulng up the auieis
move planned by Chairman MeCombs
and others to bring the leaders of the
TO St. Louis The matter was too i'm
portant for instant decision, TaQgart
said, and swOn several others to his
view tnat the platform should be-
drafted before the progressives wera
invited.
Urging that the progressives should
be asked here to offer suggestions be-
fore the platform is completed, the
initiators of the kidnapping scheme
went ahead lining up support today.
Many big democrats, as fast as they
reached the city, were enlisted in the
movement. Secretary Of Agriculture
Houston was one Of these. The par
ty has been working out many of the
ideas advanced by the progres Yves
four years ago le said, and there is
room for the progressives in the par
ty.
Wants Quick Action
Homer s. Cummings national com.
mlttee's choice for national chairman,
joined Chairman McCombs in advoen..
cy of immediate, definite action, as
opposed to delay and only a general
invitation. The last named course
would provide only for certain plat
form declarations intended to be at
tractive to progressives. II would not
include the granting Of hearing to
progressive leaders.
Urey Woodson, Kentucky national
committeeman, Joined the forces urg.
ing definite action.
"Why not2" said WoodsOn. ITS
a long call from the republican plat
form, adopted at Chicago to what the
progressves stand for. We come
nearer giving them what they want.
Most bull moose leaders would be
good democrats merely by changing
their name. ="
" We ought to get the rank and file
Of the progressive party" said Cato
Sells, Texas committeeman. "'It ap.
pears the party organization may 90
out Of existence. There is intense bit
terness over the way the members
were treated by certain Of their lead
ers. This bitterness is most acute,
perhaps among those leaders who were
progressives because they believed in
the 1912 platform. There 3 o chance
for these in our party"
Would Play Fair
w. W. Marshall, Iowa national COM
mitteeman said he wanteA to sec plans
worked out for taking over the pro-
gressiyes.
Opposition to the plan mas grown out
of the fear that it would bring q big
radical element into the party that
would be hard to handle, so the would
be kidnapers charged today. They say
the fear is unfoundes.
"If the democratic organization is
to be more important than the party
membership" said Of the leaders,
"then we haven't anything TO offer
the progressives, that true. That Is
why they left the republican party and
that is why their new party has been
wrecked If we going to invite
them in, let 3 not do it under false pre-
lenses, Let's bring them in on o real
understanding of what We propose to
do. The first step in that direction
would be to have as many OF them
as possible here while we work oub our
own platform and program. "