South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-07-07
State G.O.P.H
Hard Job Getting
ProgressiUes.Back
CBy a stan correspondent

(By a STAFF Correspondent
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind, July g.
When the Indiana progressives had
turned the picture Of Roosevelt to
the wall. a brand new portrait Of
the colonel was procured and has
become the chief attraction at the
headquarters OF the republican ma
chinists at the SEVERN hotel. Jack
Henly. machine secretary. says that
jim Watson. Jim Hemenway, Harry
New, Joe Healing, Jim Goodrich.
Charlie Fairbanks and the other
bright and leading lights Of that
aristOcracy OF intellect and char
acter called the republican machine
Of Indiana" Of which Chairman
Billy Hays loves so much 10 talk,
have not been so tickled about any
thing for many months as they are
10 see that picture. Jack knows.
But there has been no great rush
Of progressives, since Toner and
Stillwell, 10 assure the machine that
they will vote the republican ticket
in Indiana in 1915. AS Charlie See
lrit remarked in the Washington
Herald. Why is StillweU anyway"
The attempt TO deliver the indie
pendent progressive vote" at Chi
cagO. and getting the votes Of four
millions of Independent men and
women, are two decidedly different
propositions AS the indianapolis
News said after the bosses had done
their worst TO annihilate the pro-
gressive organization, there are
four million voters concerning whose
political action both the republicans
and democrats would be glad 10
have more information than is now
available"
After Progressives.
All the power OF the republican
organization is being put into ac-
ton TO try and induce progressive
votes. The same men, so far as
Indiana is concerned who worked
SO hard in 1912 TO drive the pro-
gressive voter out of the republican
party. who resorted TO corrupt pri-
nlaries, who held a pOnce-regulated
Indiana state convention. and who
drove the most powerful steam roll
er that ever crushed honest dele
gates in a national convention. are
in 1916 working just as hard to
coax the progressives back.
They are working backward"
was the composite expression of the
meeting of progressive leaders who
met the other day and resolved in
favor of an Indiana progressive state
convention. The methods used by
the party murderers in Indiana are
the same as those used at Chicago.
The Chicago illy-concealed works
v as the result Cf agreements reach
ed at the famous Gary Roosevelt
dinner in New York several months
ago There was a deliberate plan.
according TO conservative progress
ives, TO murder the progressive
party. nominate either the colonel
or Hughes. and, if Hughes. have the
colonel lead the progressive vote to
him and have all the states fol-
low. Fine if it had succeeded.
Old Guard Gets quarry
In Indiana Jim Watson, Charlie
Fairbanks. Harry New, Jim Good
rich, Joe Healing and Jim Hemen-
way are named for all the offices
and the good things coming from
the machine organization, and then
they invite progressives to come
in, the waters fine" But the only
way the progressives get in is to
use their voting strength in handing
10 the arch conspiratOrs more power
than they ever possessed before.
Progressives have been unable TO
see a single progressive promise
held out.
During the primary election Jim
Watson was telling the voters that
Harry New would never do. New
was the man who had driven pro-
gressive voters away in 1912. Harry
New was going up and down the
state saying just as bad and worse
things about Watson. The progress
ives believed them both because the
prOgressives knew they were tell
ing the truth.
Now Watson is praising Roose-
Welt and New. New is praising Wat
son and Roosevelt. New says any
man who will not vote for Wat
son is not wanted as a voter for
New The republican machine sends
greetings TO the colonel at Oyster
Bay and the progressives of In.
diana. through their organization,
repudiate the acts of their national
committeeman in voting 10 indorse
Hughes and Fairbanks. and they
even ask a reassembling of the pro-
gressive national convention to
name a candidate.
Fairbanks to Go?
Meantime the Indiana national
committeeman tells the progressi res
that while he can not possibly see
how any progressive can stomach
the republican senatorial and state
ticket, he has assurances that "a
movement is on foot TO remove
Fairbanks from the ticket because
progressives nowhere will support
him. and that Hughes knows he can
not be elected unless progressives
support him" He looks mysteri-
Gus and says ne can not tell how
he knows about the Fairbanks re-
moval or how il is 10 happen. but
he assures his hearers he has talk
ed 10 Hughes and the colonel about
lots Of things.
To all OF which several speakers