MINNESOTA PROGRESSIVES TO MEET
Davis, W. E.
Minnesota Progressives to Meet By W. E. DAVIS PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS of Minnesota will meet in State Convention at Minneapolis on January 4, next, to form a state organization and promulgate a...
...It marks an important advance in the political progress of Minnesota,, and in the affairs of the Republican Party of Minnesota, which has been dominated by ring rule for many years...
...Minnesota Progressives to Meet By W. E. DAVIS PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICANS of Minnesota will meet in State Convention at Minneapolis on January 4, next, to form a state organization and promulgate a platform of principles...
...A Progressive Republican banquet will be held in St...
...The state is ready for such a movement...
...The direct primary is an important illustration...
...Through the work of citizens' organizations and the forward stride of Progressive sentiment most of the special interest ring who ran the last Minnesota legislature were left at home...
...The call for this convention and banquet is now being signed by leading Progressives in every section of the State and will soon be published...
...The first law passed included members of Congress, legislative, county and municipal offices...
...The principle of the direct primary is well established in public favor, but special interest servants in the legislature have seen to it that no further application of the direct primary principle is made...
...At both the convention and the banquet there will be addresses by Progressive Republican leaders of national prominence...
...Since that convention was held and since some of the underground work of the recent campaign has become known, Minnesota Progressive Republicans are waking up to the fact that their party organization is in the hands of the Tory element, that its organization never was more closely allied to the special interests than today, and that something must be done to free it from such an alliance...
...This campaign from a Progressive standpoint wrought a big improvement in the legislature...
...Paul in the evening of the same day...
...NOTHING could show the growth and strength of Progressive principles in Minnesota more than the spectacle furnished during the recent campaign of known standpatters endeavoring to prove that they were really Progressives...
...Many of the new members are known Progressives...
...Stand-pat congressmen, closely allied with Cannon, advertised themselves as Progressives...
...On January 4, Minnesota Progressive Republicans will define what genuine Progressive Republicanism in Minnesota means, and the Progressive element of the party will have that platform as a guide in the work to be done during the next two years...
...Consequently the real sentiment of the party rank and file has not been expressed in state Republican platforms...
...Every real, true Progressive Republican in Minnesota is invited to be present at the Convention and Banquet, January 4...
...The last Republican state convention was so manipulated that a negative platform was adopted which contained meaningless planks on vital progressive measures...
...Years ago Minnesota made a good start on direct primary legislation...
...The ready response which Minnesota Progressives are making assures a successful meeting...
...Although there is just as much earnest, intelligent, and militant Progressive sentiment among the Republicans of Minnesota as among those of any other western state, that sentiment has been held down by party leaders closely allied with the brewers, railroads, street railways, steel trust and other special interests...
...THIS will be the first political convention ever held in Minnesota or the central northwest solely to enunciate principles and form plans to put those principles into effect...
...Minnesota is still operating under the old convention system on all of her important state offices, and United States Senators are still chosen without any opportunity being given the people directly to express their choice...
...MINNESOTA is far behind many other western states in legislation that places the control of the people's affairs more in their own hands, and this in face of the fact that hosts of her people want such legislation...
...Other candidates for important offices dodged Progressive .issues and at the same time endeavored to convey the idea that they were Progressives.' This political counterfeiting was successfully carried out in several sections of the state...
Vol. 2 • December 1910 • No. 49
