New Britain herald., 1916-07-21
DEFIANT AND MOOSE TOGETHER
publiCanS and ProgressiVes
 Plan for Campaign in Fall


 Flew York, July 21-It was like Old 8lne Week when progressives and #ublicans sat together .in council #terday at the initial meeting of & Hughes Campaign Committee. It s the first time since the parting Sthe ways in 1912 that representa- #7s or the stand-pat element that 8yed In the republican party and 8resentatives of the element that se- 8ed had met in the intimacy and se- Aslon of an executive session for the HpoSe of cooperating in a common Hlsc.
 Those who had come to the meet With fear and trepidation that kne one would start something" Snt away enthusiastic over the suc- Fs of the experiment. George w. arktns, executive chairman of the pgressive party, and William R. kllcox, chairman of the republican nttonal committee, in interviews aft the meeting were unanimous in flaring that the developments made Happy augury for future harmony sd solidarity. s-harles F. Hughes, republican 6minee for president and indorsed the progressive national commit s, appeared and made a speech. He Is received with marked enthusiasm his republican, n-progressive audi Ice of thirty. AfterWard he sat |wn with the conferees at a luncheon Fen by Chairman Wilcox.
 Introducing Mir. Lincoln.
 MT. Hughes in his speech, which hs brief, emphasized the necessity of |rmony in the campaign and dwe1t particular on the necessity of in- ring republican control of the next hate and house of representatives. F declared that not since the days Lincoln had this country stood face face with a crisis such as the pres We stand face to face with prob- fns of the greatest importance which amor for solution and which must solved right" said MT. Hughes. Ehe time has come when we must lew our national problems from the fountain top, not from the bottom the valley"
 
 |ughes Campaign Committee was i'll Icret session in a suite on the eighth Dor of the Hotel Astor a committee republican senators and one con- bsed of republican members of tho ouse were meeting in similar seclu- lon on ,the fifth floor. They were onferring on ways and means to lake an effective campaign for tho lection of republican senators and representatives in sufficient number to rest control of both branches of ongress away from the democrats he campaign committee, too, con- dered this problem, which altogether as one of the most important ques- nd progressives.
 Pacific Coast Absentees.
 The campaign committee is com osed of seventeen memb bers, of 'hom six are progressives. Of these, 1irteen attended the meeting, the thers being represented by proxies. -embers of the campaign committed -ho attended were: John T. Adams Rep.) of Iowa, Everett Colby (Prog) New Jersey, Frank w. EstabrOOk Rep.) of New Hampshire, James R arfeId (Prog.) of Ohio, James A (RepD of Indiana, A. T -ert (Rep.) of Kentucky, R. B. How Il (Rep.) of Nebraska, Harold l. ckes (Prog.) of Illinois, Alvah H Tartin (Rep.) of Virginia, Herber arsons (Rep.) of New York, George y Perkins (PrOg) of New York scar S.. Straus (Prog) of New York nd Charles B.. Warren (Rep.) o1 -ichigan. Four members of the committee from the Pacific oast were William H. Croc- CT. (Rep.) of California, Samuel A erkins (Rep) of Washington, Ches. 1T H. Rowell (ProgD of California nd Ralph E. Williams (Rep.) o1 regon.
 All the members of the committe