Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-05-11
PROGRESS|VES NOT
TO INSIST ON 7. R.
Want Him Named, but Will
Yield if Republicans Nomi-
nate Right Man.
PERKINS MAKES PEACE BID
Refers to Inevitable Outcome of
Failure to Reach Common
Understanding"

NEW YORK, May 1o.-The Progress
sive party viii not insist upon the
President Of the United States. if the
Republicans will name a candidate at
Chicago who stands for prog rcssive
principles, and is able to put them
through" according 10 statement
made here tonight by George w.
Perkins, after a meeting of the cx-
ccutive committee of the Progressive
National Committee
We, Of course, are for Colonel
Roosevelt" declared Mir. Perkins. and
shall suggest his name TO the Re-
publicans. II they reply that they will
not agree on the Colonel. we shall ask
them TO name their man, who ought
to be as nearly unanimous choice as
our man. We are willing TO be rea-
sonable for the sake of harmony"
Mr.. Perkins's statement supple
ed general statement issued by tho
executive committee. in which il was
said:
"If the Republican convention is re-
sponsive to the patriotic spirit that
brought rhe Republican party into
a century. II will meet this crisis in a
spirit of broad patriotism that rises
above partisanship. Should the effort
fail the responsibility for the result
will not rest on the Progressive con-
vcntion. but will rest on other shoul-
ders than ours.
FOR PEACE. nut NOT
FOR PEACE At ANY PRICE
tory, we will not stick on details. We
Will lay aside craftsmanship and prcju-
dices. but We will never surrender the
principles for which we stand and have
stood. and will follow only a leader
who we know stands for them and is
able 10 pu' them through We are
for peace but not for peace AT any
price
II was said that the Republicans and
independent voters in general had re-
spondcd 'understandingly to the senti-
nents expressed" in the appeal made
last January by tho Progressive Ma
tionai Committee for Republicans and
proeressives to get together"
II was added however. that there
is an element In the Republican party
leadership which seems 10 be giving
more thought and attention TO what
that party Is against. and whom il is
against, than II what i; is for and
for whom IL is for. Therefore, VIC
again call attention 70 our Chicago
statement as To the inevitable outcome
Of failure 10 reach common under
standing
Delegates from every state Will at
tend The Progressive National Conven-
ton. which will he held at Chicago
simultaneously with the Republican
convention, il was announced \ num-
bcr OF States will send double delega-
lions, allowing each delegate half Il
vote. and the total number will be
upward OF ! 600 The program for the
temporary organization OF the convcn-
ton will be announced next week
COLONEL. ROOSEVELT SITS
At HEAD Of TABLE
After the forenoon session OF the
committee, George W. Perkins enter
tanned the members at lunch. Colonel
Roosevelt was present, and sat al the
were: Walter =. Brown, of Ohio: Her
bert Knox Smith of Connecticut; Mat
thew Hale. of Massachusetts,: ii. p
Gardner. of Maine; w D. Lewis, OF
Pennsylvania; e. y. Dodge. of Colorado; +;
Harold L. Ickes. of Illinois: Henry H.
Stoddard and Oscar S. Straus. of New
York; William Finn and H. a. Van
Niakcnburg, of Pennsylvania. and b. T..
Harris. of Illinois