WHAT THE NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE IS DOING
What the National Progressive Republican League is Doing A Week by Week Record of the Forward Movement in Politics in the States. THE NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE is carrying the message...
...This measure, entitled "An act to regulate elections," was bitterly fought by the machine in both parties, for it cuts at the very root of their control in that state...
...Senator Jonathan Bourne, President of the League, speaks again before Harvard University on March 29...
...Senator Bourne was requested to appear before the Illinois legislature to urge such action...
...It provides for the Oregon system of choosing United States Senators by a direct vote of the people themselves upon candidates...
...at Lynn, Mass., March 31, and in Boston April 1 and 2. A resolution for the Initiative and Referendum is pending before the Massachusetts legislature and the Direct Legislation League of that state speaks with enthusiasm about the prospects of its passage...
...Bourne's Message to Illinois SENATOR BOURNE on the 20th sent a letter to the "Committee of Seven," a militant, effective organization for popular government in Illinois, urging immediate action by the legislature on the direct legislation measure...
...THE NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE is carrying the message of Popular Government with vigor into the eastern states...
...for the direct selection of delegates to the national conventions, and finally, for an expression of the popular choice for President and Vice-President in party primaries...
...party platforms to be written by the candidates themselves rather than by a convention of irresponsible delegates...
...The Progressive Movement in New Jersey GOVERNOR WOODROW WILSON of New Jersey scored a triumph for Popular Government in the passage of the Geran primary bill, through the lower house of the Assembly last week...
...Senator Moses E. Clapp has just completed a speaking tour in Michigan in favor of the Initiative and Referendum, where a measure is pending before the Assembly, and speaks again at Newton, Mass., March 30...
...This is the first eastern state to carry the fight back into the counties among the people and to draw a line on assemblymen according to their stand upon Popular Government...
...a blanket ballot with the names of candidates grouped alphabetically, as is done in Massachusetts and Oregon...
...The Secretary of the League, Frederick C. Howe, spoke at Harvard University before an enthusiastic audience of students and professors on "The Problem in Government," with special reference to Oregon, on Tuesday, March 14...
...In 1912 New Jersey may set the pace by sending delegates to the national convention instructed by the people rather than by the bosses...
...a personal registration of voters in all cities with a system of identification to prevent repeating and fraudulent voting...
...It is very thoroughgoing and provides that members of the local Board of Elections shall be chosen by the Civil Service Commission and be made state officers...
...The Progressive Movement in the Grange THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT in Pennsylvania has captured the farmers' Grange which is becoming a militant organization for the promotion of Popular Government...
...In his letter, however, he expresses amazement that such a request...
...It is centering its power upon the Initiative and Referendum introduced into the Assembly by Representative Kelly...
...The attitude of the Grange towards candidates is that the people ought to decline to trust any candidate who refuses to trust the people...
...It looks as though New Jersey would be the first state in the East to adopt the Oregon plan and make possible the expression of the popular will on practically all candidates from city councilman to the President of the United States...
...But it goes much further...
...The amendment follows the Oregon one, and the Grange plans to begin a state-wide campaign to pledge candidates to the Assembly to support it...
...before the City Club of Boston, March 30, and the Board of Trade, New Bedford, Mass., March 31...
...An aggressive speaking campaign has been arranged for the next two weeks, especially in Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 13
