The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-09-07
MOOSE TO PUSH
FIGHT FOR WILSON
MICHIGAN rROsEEssIyks Ef-
FECT A sTATE oRGtNIZA-
TON At DEvWOfT.
Resolutions Adopted Lsud the Nd
ministration Of President VII
SOM ampsisn Committee
" Named.

are supporting President Wilson.
THE Henry M wsllaes named in the
article Is we'll known In Waxahachie,
being president OF the Wsxahachie
Gas company. The report In the
Times says:
Leaders OF the national progress
sive party OF Michigan met In the
ballroom OF the Hotel statler. Wed
nesday afternoon and evening. and
organized a state campaign commit
tee for the reelection OF Woodrow
Wilson. Every county In the state
was represented and the delegates
showed the greatest enthusiasm.
From the remotest counties of the
Upper Peninsula came progressives.
paying their own expenses. eager
to have a hand In carrying Michigan
for tho president.
The conference adopted a resolu-
tion strongly endorsing President
Wilson and pledging the members
TO work for his reelection. This is
the first state In which such action
has been taken. but similar activity
is TO be carried on In the eight
other states where the progressive
party made a good showing four
years ago. The example set by the
Michigan p~rogressives Is expected to
encourage the other states to ex-
pedite their organizations and get
to work.
Significance attaches to the fact
that the campaign committee p
pointed contains the names of every
member Of the old progressive
party state central committee In
Michigan save four, and these four
we're not active, but held their posi-
tions purely Tor the honor accruing.
Thus IL Is seen that the progress
sive party in Michigan has been
turned over to President Wilson.
Officers of the campaign commit
tee are. Charles F. Hoffman. Jack
son, chairman; Ernest G. G~earheart.
Grand Rapids. secretary, and John
r. Smith. Detroit. treasurer. Mr..
| Hoffman was chairman of the
| speakers bureau of the national
progressive party and secretary of
the Michigan state central commit
tee In 1912, chairman of the state
central committee In 1914. and now
a national committeeman.
MIR. G~earheart, the secretary, Is
also secretary of the state central
committee of the national progress
sive party. John f. Smith, treasur-
er, was chairman of the Wayne
county committee of the national
progressive party In 1912, and is
now chairman of the state central
committee Of the national progress
sive party.
Now that the state organization
has been perfected, county organiza-
tion meetings will be called. and an
Organization placed in each of the
So counties in Michigan. In addi-
ticn to thai there will be city COM
mittees in the larger cities which
will work with the county commit
tees.
Henry NJ. Wallace. of Detroit. a
member of the national progressive
committee for the election OF Wood
row Wilson. who presided in the
meetings, is enthusiastic over Will
sons chances.
After plans of work and organiza-
tion had been discussed for several
hours, the following resolution was
adopten:
We. the members of the national
progressive party of Michigan, in
conference assembled at Hotel Stat
Ter. Detroit. Michigan. Aug. so, hav-
ing no candidate for the office of
president of the United States, ow-
ing to the illegal and unwarTanted
action of our national committee, de-
clare for the reelection of Wood
row Wilson. who has so ably dis
tinguished himself by the numerous
progressive measures for which he
has stood, and the passage of many
OF which he has secured: notably
the child labor law, the keystone of
the progressive party industrial JUS
tice planks. and who az the present
tire is championing an industrial
disputes act.
All genuinely progressive voters.
} sincerely believing in the principles
enunciated by the party at it's birth.
} still believe that the necessity for its
continued existence is as great to-
day. If not greater. than ever before.
The importance of maintaining the
progressive party as a seIslrates aud
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