The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-25
PROGRESS|VES IN SOUTH WILL MEET
 ID REVIVE PARTY Will Assemble in Atlanta in February to Plan Organ
 ization in South ALABAMA MEN WILL
 ASSIST IN REVIVAL John M. Parker, Victor Murdock and Other Leaders Will Attend Meet ing---George O'Bear to Head
 Local Progressives

Leaders of the progressive party Mississippi river and north of the Ohio will meet in Atlanta on February IA and with the aid of progressive lead CTS of the southern states will make the first attempt at a really solid or ganization of the progressive party in the south. This meeting is expected to be largely attended, with Texas, Missouri and Arkansas progressives being represented along with the northern and eastern leaders. This con ference will be preliminary to the na- tional conference, which is scheduled for the early spring in St. Louis.
 National leaders will be present and participate in the affairs of the con ference. Col. John M. Parker and Chairman Matthew Hale of Boston will attend and it is tentatively announced that Victor Murdook will be present provided he returns to America in time for the occasion. Frederick H. Chase secretary to the national committee, Is in Atlanta preparing for the event
 The purpose of the conference Is to launch a movement which will result in cohesive, solid organization of the progressive party in the southern last national campaign many sections of the country have come to think of the party as demora1ized organiza : tion and that it has been currently believed to be on the decline On the contrary, it is claimed that the prin- ciples which were incorporated in the platform of the party at it's inception still govern it's acts and the same req sons for the necessity of such a party still exist.
 With view of dispelling the belief that the. party had weakened since the last campaign, as well as to properly place before the public the real req son for the existence of the progress sive party. a resolution was unani- mously adopted last December, ratified by the vote of 36 states and carried unanimously, as follows:
 RENEW THEIR PLEDGES
 "We reaffirm in every detail the platform adopted by our party at it's birth in Chicago, in August, 1912, and declare our adherence to every tenet of the programme.
 We are unwilling to compromise with the old guard of any party We are Wiling to cooperate in every way with the liberal element of every party.
 Sooner or later the liberal elements of all parties and of all sections, north south, east and west. will unite to form a really coherent and really liberal party. We progressives must be ready to devote our lives to this work We must see clearly that success cannot come through compromise or through barter but that success can come only through unfaltering loyalty to progress courage in fighting those who oppose these principles.
 ''To fight this fight effectively, the lib. erals of the nation must organize, re- gardless of their past party affiliations and regardless of their choice for Presl- dent at the recent election.
 Also resolved, to open up new head. quarters in New York city and the neces- sary funds for that purpose were sub scribed."
 ALABAMA PROGRESSIvES TO GO
 George. s. O'Bear, local progressive leader, in speaking of the approaching conference in Atlanta, said:
 "All progressives in Alabama and throughout the south who are in sym pathy with this resolution should con sder it their moral duty to take part in the Atlanta conference, and later to at tend the St. Louis conference, where the working plans for the future will be threshed out. The stanch party members of the south should send out to the north ern association a message to stand stead fast and true to the faith.
 They should make this conference so strongly impressive that all the Perkins follows will realize that their dickerings with the g. o. D. mean nothing to the multitude who still believe in progressive principles. It must be conclusivey shown that if ever there has been made a bar gain to deliver our strength to any body, that move was never consum- mated.
 Mir. O'Bear, together with several other Birmingham leaders, will attend the At lanta conference.
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