Bisbee daily review., 1916-06-27

] .
 and represent the realization of the
 true American, the democratic ideal in | both peace and war.
 i Sooner or later the national princl-
 ples championed by the Prosressives
 of 1912 must in their general effect be
 embodied in tn estrncture of our na- I tioral existence With all my heart | I shall continue tO work for these
 great ideals shoulder to shoulder
 win the men and women who, in | 1912 championed them: and I am
 sure that these men and women will show 9 like loyalty to the other. the
 frrdamertal ideals which the events
 of the past two years have proved to 1 be vital to the rermanency of our
 national existence. The method by which we are to sbo wour loyalty 10
 these ideals must be determined in each case by the actual event. Our to the ideal and not merely to the
 name and least of all. to the party
 name
 The Progressive movement has been given an incalculable impetns by what the Progressive party has done
 Our strongest party anta gonists have accented and enacted into law or em- bodied in their party platforms. vir- tually many of our most important principles. Much has been accom- plished in awakening the public to better understanding of problems of social and industrial welfare. Yet :s the people under existine conditions are not prepared to accept new par ty.
 It is impossible for us Progressives to abandon our obnvictions. But we are faced with the fact that as things actually are the Progressive Nation al organization no longer offers the means whereby we can make these
 convictions effective in our natioal life Under such circumstances. our duty is to do the best We can. and net to sulk because our leadership is re- because the people have to put us in to believe that the course we advo- cated was in tn ehighest interest of the American people is aside from the question. It is unpatriotic to re- fuse to do the best possible merely because the people have to pu us in position to do what we regarded as the very best. It remains for us, good humoredly and with common sense, to face the situation and endeavor to get out of it the best that it can be made to yield from the standpoint of the interest of the nation as whole
 This was the situation at the open ing of the present year. It was clear ly evident that unless cataclysm oc- cured the Presidential election would result in the choice of either the Re- publican or Democratic nominee. The present administration. during it's three years of life. had been guilty of shortcomings more signal than those of any administration since the days of Buchanan. From the stand point of national honor and interest, it stood an even lower level shan the administration of Buchanan. No ad ministration in our history had done more to relax the spring of the na- tional will and to deaden the national Within the Republican party conflicting forces were at work There were men among the organiza- tiOn leaders who advocated a course of action such as offered no improve ment upon the Democratic position, aud advocated the nomination of can didates whose election would have represented no improvement upon the Democratic position and advocated the nomination of candidates whose election would have represented no improvement upon the continuance in office of MT. Wilson. If such course were followed it would obviously be- come our duty to run a third ticket. But it was plainly our duty to do ev- erything honorable in order pre- vent such a necessity. to do every thing short of sacrificing our most sacred convictions in order to secure the alignment under one leadership of the forces opposed to the continuance in power of Mr. Wilson and the Dem ocratic party
 In my judgment. the nomination O. MT. Hughes meets the conditions set forth in the statement of the Progress sWe National committee, issued last 1eAhudiyr anu tiiH OWH in my judgment. be merely a move in the interest of the election of Mir Wilson. I regard MT. Hughes as a man whose public record is a gua,- antee that he will not merely stand for a program of clean-cut straight out Americanism before election. but will resolutely and in good faith put it through if elected
 He is beyond all comparison better fitted to be President than MT. Will son. It would be grave detriment to the country to re-elect Mir Wilson.
 shall, therefore. strongly support MT. Hughes. Such being the case, it Is unnecessary to say that I cannot accept the nomination on a third ticket. l do not believe that there