The Washington times., 1916-06-11
MOOSE HEADS BUSY
|US|NG PULM0TER
Some Assert "Polson Gas"
Squad Caused Alleged Mis-.
management Of Convention.

CHICAGO. June 1L-Nationai,y
known Progressives gathered at the
University Club last night to apply the
puimotor TO their PROSTATE party or
ganization.
No attempt was made by these men
- minimize the effect Of the body b'1w
che party suffered when Colonel RI ,se-
welt virtually declined its nomination
for president. In effect. ACCORDING 10
tho Views of the Progressive radicals
who tonight are determined as ever
the the y RepSB i Hoid Guard, the
Colonel read himself out OF ths re wss
OF the plitcal rgonizatin wnich WIZ
created elect himo In lsH. ,,o
Among the men who ATTENDED inc
meeting were clifford Pinchot. u fenn-
sylvania: Hiram johnson. OF ScNWu' W.
tor Mirdook. Of Kansas; N. d. Vim.
cent. ~ Colorado, and others VINO nave
made the Progressive light IN tne..
various States and have been strohS y.
the party organisation during the last
four years.
Does Not Believe Party Dead.
IT do not believe that the Progress
sive party Is dead" declared Pinchot
THE Progressive party Is more than
q mere organization for political Of
fee. It personifes a national spirit
a demand for a freer and better GOV
ernment-and that spirit cannot be
subdued and will demand a national
expression. Four years OF work on
the part OF the Progressive organ
ization has given the ideal OF the
Rsvfe..SS TOO great an impetus - must
Prior to this conference. the ma
tional committee OF the party meet
msd r.sSns f0 AoS..Se the t als
gram, and while the delegates were
still blindly cropping about for leader: :
ship. had determined to go ahead and
elected an executive committee Of sig
continued organisation:
The executive committee consisted
Of William Allen White, of Kansas;
H HAZE Or ies Ms:. Sf nGs M es
Rowell, OF California; Pearl Wright,
OF Louisiana; George w. Perkins, OF
New York: William Finn. OF Penn
they set June Is as the date Of their
next meeting. In the meantime, II Ia
said a subcommittee, without power
to act, shall go to Oyster Bay and
hold hold Anal conference with RoOse-
VIII Reach Understanding. :.
No effort. 1t is said. will be made to
plead with Roosevelt to pick up the
Progressive standard. which hundreds
of the delegates here tonight believe
him to have dropped. but at this meet.
Ing a full understanding will be arrived
at between the members OF the party
organization and their one-time idolized
leader.
The national committee is made ur
OF Victor Murdoch chairman; Mathew
Hale. vice chairman; o. X. Davis. sec
rotary. and e. II. Hooker, treasurer.
Keen edge was given the determine.
ton of the Progressive leaders to gel
to Roosevelt and give him a irst-hant
the Significant features Of the proceed.
ings OF the past week by the statemen,
made today by Senator Smoot Of Utah
one of the Republican conference com.
nittee which met with the Progressive
rWhat has occurred" he said. ri,
what foresaw and believed woult
happen, and what the Republican con
ferees have been working for"
Some Denounce T. r.
Many Of the groups Of delegates abou
the Progressive national headquarter
were bitter In the denunciation Of tn,
Colonel. but on the whole. the rank an,
file Of the delegates apparently ha,
settled upon program of persona
restraint In EXPRESSION.
Fully 300 gathered about the doors an
in the corridors leading to the commit
tee room. where the national committee
members OF the committee as they cam
out as to the results OF the meeting
The debate in the national COMMITTEE
was hot at times.
Charges Of mismanagement of tn
handling of the convention were freel
made, and the sinister suggestion tina
a"poison gas" SQUAD had been at wor
was offered.