The copper era and Morenci leader., 1916-07-07
HENEY FUR WILSON, CAN'T FOLLOW T,R.
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California Progressive Tells President He Won't Vote Republican Ticket While Present Bosses Rule.

WASHINGTON, July 2.-Frances J. Heney, the California Progressive leader, has addressed letter to President Wilson expressing his pur- pose to work for the latters election. He says he cannot support Mr. Hughes because he was nominated by convention controlled by the men who dominated the dishonesty. seated delegates" that nominated MT. Taft four years ago.
 | Heney was one of the most active of the Roosevelt leaders during the 1912 campaign. He openly charged Barnes, Crane and Penrose with be- ing crooks" and burglars and stirred up something closely approx mating a riot on several occasions In his letter to the President Heney has this to say about the same men:
 By depriving Roosevelt of the Republican nomination four years ago Senator Boise Penrose of Penn sylvana, Murray Crane, the Senator from Massachusetts, and William Barnes of New York, with the aid of such men as Elihu Root, who was the Permanent Chairman of the con- vention, continued their control of the Republican National Committee and thus prolonged their power again to defeat the will of the majority of the Republican voters.
 And they have now once more in- sured their control of the Republican National Committee for another four years, with the continuance of their power to again defeat the will of the Republican voters in 1920 and there after indefinitely, so long as we are without a Presidential preference pri- mary law.
 Can't Follow T. R. | Under the circumstances cannot follow Theodore Roosevelt back into the Republican Party while it is still controlled by these same men. If he had accepted the nomination of the Progressive Party at Chicago this year would Loyalty and vigorously have supported him, because he then would have represented the basic principles upon which the Progressive Party was founded, to wit, the right of the ma jority of voters of each political party to nominate it's own candidate for President without any few men pos sessing the power to prevent it.
 Tt is reasonably certain that MT. Hughes was not the first choice of 
 publican and Progressive voters in the United States. Hughes represents merely the consent of Penrose, Crane and Barnes to permit the Republican Party to have as it's candidate a man selected by themselves, who, there fore, if elected President would be disinclined to attempt to destroy the continuance of their control of the nominating machinery of the RepubH- can party, and their power thus to reward him with renomination for an other term.
 T do not question the personal in tegrity or character of MT. Hughes, but I do condemn him unQualifiedly for permitting professional political tricksters to make a Nation wide canvass for his nomination while he was member of the Supreme Court of the United States under an ap- pointment for life, with the vast potential power, which accompanies that position. Personally, I shall not vote for any Republican candidate for President hereafter as long as the corrupt control of the nominat- ing machine of the Republican Party is permitted thus to continue in ex- iStence.
 IaudS Mexican Policy.
 Please permit me also at this time to offer my heartiest approval of the policy of your Administration toward Mexco. It seems to me that you have consistently and amid great difficulties and discouragements, striven to treat that unfortunate neighboring nation with that patience and forbearance winch one powerful and enlightened nation ought to ex- ercise toward a much less powerful and much less generally enlightened nation, and from which it has al ready acquired partly through con- quest and partly through purchase magnificent empire of territory and natural resources and in the minds of whose people therefore there must naturally exist apprehension as to the unselfishness of our motives and the disinterestedness of our actions.
 Your temperance, restrained but lofty exercise of the powerful weap- ons of diplomacy have kept this coun- try safely out of the terrible struggle in Europe, without any sacrifice Of American honor or prestieg, and you have wrung the most important con- sessions from belligerent foreign rul- CTS while steadfastly maintaining the dignity, peace and safety of the United States. Arguments that we should replace experience with inex- perience in this vital field will be without avail"