New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-15
Will Call Every Progress
sive Office Holder to
Work for Wilson.
BIG INDEPENDENT"
COMMITTEE TO AID
Organizations To Be Formed IN
Each State and Financed
by the Party.

lFrom a star Correspondent Of The Tribune
St. Louis, June Livery Progress
sive who has been appointed to Fed
eral job by President Wilson viii be
called on by the Democratic campaign
managers TO line up behind a move
ment TO deliver the Progressive vote
to the Wilson and Marshall ticket next
fall. This plan to help capture the
Progressives has been decided on by
the Democratic leaders in their infor-
NAL talks here concerning the Pro-
gressive situation. and it will be set in
motion soon after the convention sd-
journs.
The President has been extremely
partial to Progressives in disposing OF
patronage. and there are several choice
places in Washington held by members
Of that party. The object of these ap-
pointments was TO keep the Progressive
party alive, the belief being that a
third party would insure the reelection
Of Wilson. 1t is similar 10 the plan
followed by the President when he was
Governor of New Jersey. He gave all
the minority places to the Progressives
and ignored the Republicans. The Pro-
gressives ran a third ticket, and the
result was the election Of a Democrat
to succeed Wilson.
To Enlist Independents"
One Of the first things that will be
done, according to the plans Of the
Democratic managers, is the forma-
ton OF large national committee
composed Of "independent' voters,
mainly Progressives. The member
ship of this committee will probably
run up TO $50. Then a committee OF
independent" voters will be started
in each state. with similar commit
tees of independents" in the larger
cities.
The plans call for a campaign for
the reelection OF Wilson and Marshall
entirely separate from that Of the Dem
ocratic National Committee. The in
dependents" arc to have headquarters
Of their own. and independent man
ayers will run things. The "indepen-
dents" will even be asked 10 contrib
ute some money, but they won't have
to. as the Democratic campaign chest
will be at their disposal at all times,
providing their demands are reasona-
ble-and the Democrats will place n
broad Interpretation on the word
reasonable"
Henry Morgenthau. ex-Ambassador 10
Turkey and the principal financial
hacker If the Wilson campaign, was the
originator of the plan for the commit
tee OF independents" In discussing 1t
Mr.. Morgenthau said there would be
several Republicans among its mem
bers. but that Progressives would prob
sblv make up most of the committee.
McCombs Dodges Task.
Some Of the Democratic leaders want
ed Chairman McCombs TO appoint a
committee Of leading Democrats 70
confer with a committee Of leading
Progressives with view 10 getting
them into line for the reelection Of
Wilson. The chairman, however,
frowned on the plan, saying that he
would leave all such matters TO his
successor, who, he hoped, would be
chosen on Saturday.
That the Democrats consider the Pro
gressive vote necessary for the sue
cess Of the Wilson and Marshall ticket
is shown by the fight now going on
under the surface for the adoption of
a platform that will contain all the
Progressive doctrines. The fight start
ed early in the week and reached an
acute stage to-day, due 10 the insistence
of some Of the rampant Democrats
from the West.