Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1916-08-03

CuOIIS " whip tuc 1AOSA CooASCo iiSO
line for Hughes, according to the
Chicago program, have failed.
The stirring scenes at the meeting
of the Progressive State Committee
of New Jersey, in Newark, when the
Bull Moose hotly resisted the attempts
of certain leaders to pledge the party
in that state to the Republican ticket,
was a warning that Progressives are
not going to submit to the destruction
of their principles nor to the barter
of their votes.
BY a vote of Z to 5 the state COM
mittee of New Jersey Progressives
repudiated the action of the national
body at Chicago. and will not pima
itself to its actions.
The managers of the Presidents
campaign feel that they have every
reason for qualification with respect
IN tho Bull Moose and Independent
vote. Hundreds of letters and COM
munications have been received at the
national committee headquarters the
headouarters Of the woodrow wilson
1ndependent League and at the White
House from Progressives, ana ne
nubl,cans as we'll, who declare their
intention to vote this year for VIII
son "the man who has kept US OUT
of war;"
New Jersey Revolt.
The Progressive party of New Jer-
sev as represented by its state COM
mittee. refuses to indorse the candi-
dacy Of Charles E. Hughes, although
a strong effort had been put fortn oy
Everett Colby, a pioneer Progressive
of the state. to swing the comm'''ee
that way. o,,
when the meeting of the state COM
mittee was held in Newark, July to'
J. A. H. Hopkins, chairman leo tne
aoh+ AGAINST endorsing Mr.. Hughes. A
resolution was submitted by VIM. +.
conk,,ng. of Blairstown, reciting that
the delegates to the national conven-
tion at Chicago had exceeded their
authority by endorsing the candidate
Of another party. The reso'"tion
further said:
"Resolved, by the New Jersey state
committee, that the Progressive party
Of New Jersey will not be bound oy
the action of the national committee
in indorsing Mr.. Hughes candidacy
This resolution was carried by a
vote of to 8.
Chairman Hopkins read to the COM
mittee a letter he had written TO COL
Roosevelt recalling the opinion tna'
Mr.. Hughes might perhaps turn out 10
he "another gold brick" This letter
caused much amusement among those
present.
disqualification to Go Back Now
For Progressives to go back to the
Republican party now would be SELF
stultification, and would be an admis-
sion that they had never been sincere
in their progressive professions, ac-
cording to Edgar G. Snyder, chairman
of the Progressive party in the state
of Washington in 1912. Mr.. Snyder
is supporting Mr.. Wilson because he'
the President, "has given US pro-
gressive leadership and has done much
during the last three years to make
effective the essential demands OF the
Progressive party platform"
Mr.. Snyder insists that II Mr.
Roosevelt was sincere four years ago
when he said that the bosses and the
special interests had brought the Re-
publican party to a shameful end'
then it cannot be expected that the
Progressives can 60 back now with
out a clear showing that the old par
ty has been purified and has rekindled
within it "that fire of lofty endeavor.
"The control of invisible govern
ment over the machine of the Repub-
lican party has never been relaxed
but has been strengthened and con-
firmed," declared Mr.. Snyder.
wherever the Rpublican party has