Bisbee daily review., 1916-01-04
HUGHES OR COLONEL WOULD SECURE THE
 PROGRESSIVE VOTE
Massachusetts Progressive Leader Declares Progress ives Would Support Jurist or Roosevelt This Fall.

AaSSacnuSeLtS, to GeOrSe w. feThlnS, chairman of the executive committee of the Progressive National commit. tee. Mir Bird, as the progressive can didate for governor in 1912, received 116,OO0 votes and, again, as candi- date in 1913, received 126,0OO votes, defeating the republican candidate by over 10000 votes. H< Mir. George w. Perkins, Chairman of
 the Executive Committee, National
 Progressive Committee, New York,
 N. Y. 1, My Dear Mir. Perkins:
 The Progressives, more than two million strong, await with much in terest the action of the National Pro- gressive committee which meets in ! Chicago on January 11th. We are ] largely anti-Democratic and yet many of us will vote the Democratic ticket rather than support a reactionary Re publican candidate. or subscribe to a narrow, stand-pat platform.
 | sponsible leaders of the Progressive party should declare, in no uncertain words, what they propose to do in the national campaign of 1916. This is no time to temporize, to finessee, to play the dog in the manager. The re- sponsibility for failure to unite Pro- gressives and Republicans into solid anti-Democratic body, should be put squarely up to the Republican organ ization. The responsible leaders of the Republican party should be made to understand, in clear terms, that the nomination of a reactionary, or sec Ond rate candidate will widen the breach of 1912, and insure the'election of President Wilson and the control of Congress by the Southern democracy. They should be told frankly and pub licly, that if the Republican leaders force upon the country a reactionary candidate the Progressive organiza- tion will put into the field straight ticket which Progressives of all par ties can conscientiously vote for.
 This is not the time to adopt mid dle of the road platform, or to waste effort in the serious consideration of "favorite sons" Grave dangers threat en the country, both in domestic and international affairs. Preparation for war is essential, but preparedness in industry is of equal importance. Enor- nous business difficulties are ahead of us at the expiration of the war. To take the tariff out of politics, through the creatioR of a tariff commission, is absolutely essential to the welfare of both' labor and capital. Above all we must re-create virile and consis- tent foreign policy that will re-estab- fish our responsibility and rank among the nations of the world. These. and other great questions, make it imper- ative that past political differences and petty feuds be put aside and that the Progressives lead the way to unite the anti-democratic forces in nominat- ing a candidate courageous enough, able enough, patriotic enough, for the herculean task that the next presi- dent will have to face.
 There are two men, and two only, who have a ghost of chance to de- feat President Wilson next November Justice Hughes and Colonel Roose- welt. Either would be acceptable to the great majority of Progressives; either would be satisfactory to the rank and file of the Republican party.
 MT. Hughes, as Governor of New York, was independent. efficient and courageous. Undoubtedly he would make a great president. Tlfere are some, however. who feel as he evi- dently does, that a Supreme Court Justice should not step from the bench to political fight. There are some who realize that MT. Hughes opinions on the issues that will be paramount at the next election are un- known. It may be that he believes in President Wilson's Mexican, Euro pean, tariff for revenue only. business prosecuting policies, and, if he does, his nomination would obviously be an absurdity. However, Justice Hughes is strong man and would be support ed by Progressives and Republicans alike.
 Theodore Roosevelt was a great president, a strong executive, who called to his cabinet the ablest men of that time First of all he is a pa triotic and loyal American. At all times, under all circumstances, he has hit hard for Americanism, for the national honor and for our national responsibility in the work of the world. Had he been president during the past three years the crimes done in Mexico would have been averted; the Lusitania would have been afloat and our rank among the nations of the world nothing to be ashamed of. | Col. Roosevelt is thasonly prominent public man who has protested effec- lively. and openly. against the crime of Belgium; the rape of American wo- men in Mexico and the murder of American citizens on the ocean Other public men have tucked and lodged and played the coward He has swept aside all shams and called