Arizona republican., 1916-10-26
Special to The Republican,

NEW YORK. Oct 25.-Henry F. Cochems, progressive national com mitteeman from Wisconsin, called on Chairman Wilcox at the republican national headquarters today and an nounced himself for Hughes. Mir. CoChems attended the meeting of the progressive national committee at Chi cago on June 26 and joined with John NJ. Parker, Matthew Hale, Bainbridge Colby and the others who opposed the action then taken by the committee in adopting a resolution endorsing the action of Colonel Roosevelt in sup porting Governor Hughes.
 "l am for MT. Hughes for president said Mr. Cochems today. 'l am affir- matively for him. I use this expression to distinguish my position in the cam paign from that of a number of progressive state chairmen, commit teemen and others conspicuous in the progressive party who have declared themselves for MT. Wilson. They are negatively for Mir Wilson. Nothing has occurred since the dissolution of the progressive party to change the position of these gentlemen toward Mir Wilson. At that time, they were furiously in rebellion against the con duct of his administration. l have gone through the same mental ordeal of protest and rebellion against events in Chicago with the same temptation to engage in d vendetta against some of the leaders of the progressive party in their convention whose actions dis approved.
 These excellent gentlemen I know from close intercourse since that con Nsgmffnr1 hnfrg AaplnraH fhat,,sA1xsae fAf Mir. Wilson, not because they approve him. his party or his principles. They have made their judgment out of re- sentiment Their rebellion has taken them to an inhospitable party home They are not and will not be comfortable there. No progressive measure has been passed since the progressive convention by the Wilson administration. save two: First, the provision in the revenue bin for q tariff commissions; second, the pro- vision of a national child labor law Both of these are eleventh hour re- cantatiOns and both are shams. The first act of the administration was tC abolish the tariff board, to ridicule. ii and it's functions as an invasion of the constitutional right of congress. Moth ing has changed the heart of convic- tions of a congress controlled in botf branches by a southern democratic caucus Nothing except an insincer, measure of penitence shrewdly offered as bait to credulous progressives
 "Mr. Wilson, in his book on consti- tutiOnal government of the United States. vigorously assailed MT. Bever idge and a proposed national chilC labor law upon the ground that it Wa, an invasion of the rights of the states an absurd eXtravagance,' and an as sault upon the federal constitution. / southern controlled congress passed this bill-a congress drawn in it's con tfolled majority from states whicl have passed no social justice legisla tion. from staes in which the cOndi tiOns of child and woman labor-O labor generally-is the most outrageou in the union. Mir Wilson's reelection means a southern caucus cOntrolle, house and senate. a sure foreclosure O the realization of hopes dear to tht heart of progressives-the very ark 0 their covenant.
 l am for Mir Hughes because hi sterling personality and square jawel firmness insAre progressivism in ou International affairs and a two-eye' vision, a humanitarian vision an treatment of our foreign relations, be