The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-02
PROGRESS|VES GET INTO LINE FOR COX
 IN RINGING ADDRESS
Former Roosevelt Leaders Score Reactionary Candi- date and Tendencies of
 Republican Party
By HUGH W. ROBERTS Warrington Buresu The Ass. .Hsrala
 800 Davidson BuiIdins

LO IuG UOClTlueS Ol utOuoIC ' Roosevelt in 1912, support Warren c. Harding, republi- can nominee for the Presi- dency?
 Will the progressives who really be- lieved themselves right in 1912 now follow the man who denounced Roose- welt as a traitor, and who owes his present exalted position to the most reactionary force in American politics! Certain progressives who have banded themselves together in support of Governor Cox, are asking the above questions of other progressives who have not publicly expressed themselves Democrats, also, are asking those ques- tions. On the answer will depend the result of the election. November 2, 1t IS believed.
 Harold L. Iokes of Illinois, a delegate to the recent Chicago convention, has kicked over the traces, and taken charge of the progressive-democ headquarters of the west and south west in Chicago; and Edwin M. Lee, chairman of the Indiana state republi- can executive committee in 1910, and of the Indiana progressive committee in 1912, has taken charge of the pro f the east in New York.
 NAMES OF SIGNERS
 These gentlemen in the name of committee composed of other former progressives, have issued an address to the people of the United States. It is clarion call to all progressives to re- fuse to turn the other cheek to the hand which smites, but on the contrary, to abandon Senator Harding and his cause, and rally under the progressive standard of Governor James M. Cox This address one of the strongest or it's nature produced since the beginning of the present campaign, failed to gain publicity through the republican press of the country. In some states it has not made even partial appearance through newspapers. Even in democra- lie Journals it appeared only in sec lions as a result of the practical in- ability of press associations to convey it intact.
 The address is signed by MT. Iokes, by Matthew Hale of Massachusetts, chairman of the progressive national executive committee, 1916; Francis J. Haney, progressive candidate for the United States senate from California, 1912; Judge Ben. E. Lindsay of Denver; Elias D. Salisbury, chairman Indiana progressive state committee, 1916; Joe seph Misbach, chairman, Iowa progress sive state committee, 1916; John M. Parker of Louisiana, nominated for vice president with Theodore Roosevelt in the progressive convention of 1916; Roscoe Fertich former secretary In diana anti-saloon league; Antoinette Funk of Chicago famous suffrage leader; H. H. Holman, progressive na- tional committeeman from Missouri; Edwin M Lee, chairman Indiana repub- lican state committee, 1910, and chair man Indiana state progressive com mittee, 1912; A. A. Andridge, Ohio delegate progressive national conven- ton, 1912 and 1916; Charles w. Key holds of Covington. Ky, George c. Rubles of New Hampshire, and W. H. Nichols, progressive national commit teeman, Vermont
 The address of these gentlemen, as made public by the democratic na- tional committee, follows:
 OBSTINATE BIGOTS"
 ~The progressive vote of 1912 came large from republican men and women. Some of those voters returned to the party in 1916. not .On their knees,' as Senator Hard- ing prophesied, hut in response to the republican party's call that it be helped in an attempt to over throw It's rcactionary leadership.
 4In the primaries of 1920, the pfogressives sought to clean the republican house from within. Hut inc national S>nventfon repudiated every candidate who commanded any appreciable progressive SUD- port, or for that matter, any pOpu- lar support. The convention jected Johnson. Wood and LOwden the candidates favored by ninety ser cent of pre-conventiOn voting.
 "A little group of obstinate party bigots. extending the autOcratic precedents of 1912 md 10I8, and
 demonstrating the utmost dIsre-
 gard for the will Of party voters.
 named their personal choice for President. Truly the steam-rOller exceeded the speed limit. The
 senate Oligarchy named the least worthy of it's own mem bership, the
 nosx coIorless. pIiable reactionary
 0f that unimpressive group. as the
 leader of our democracy in time
 of most momentous national and
 foreign problems.
 THE USEFUL TOOL"
 SThis group chose Senator Hard-
 iAg as their candidate long before
 the convention. They chose him as 0he most fit instrument to serve lheir private purposes, the most useful tool for assuring their per
 sonal control of the government,
 regardless of the need of the na-
 lien for . leader of Outstandfng
 ability and Intellectual power. Some
 states required primaries. and thus
 the voters had had opportunity to
 reject In advance the senatorial
 choice.
 @But those senators who were
 loudest in their fnsistence that no
 treaty should be made without
 their consent. had no hesistation in
 dfcta ting . nomination without the
 consent of the voterr. Progressive
 voters may we'll ask how many
 times their intelligence and their
 patriotism must he lnsulted before
 they will reject decfsively every
 claim of partisanship and vote .t down and cut of power the political
 reactionaries who have naintnined
 . minority control in the republi-
 ear party since 1912 to 1920.
 HOPE OF NATION
 STeday. the independent voter Ii the hope of OUT nation and the
 protector of civilization. Let those
 whe revere the name of Rooseveit
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