WHAT THE NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN LEAGUE IS DOING
Howe, Frederick C.
What the National Progressive Republican League is Doing A Week by Week Record of the Forward Movement in Politics in the States By FREDERIC C. HOWE SENATOR JONATHAN BOURNE, JR., President of the...
...But the Progressives of both parties will get the control...
...The goal, General Welfare...
...About this issue, men are uniting without regard to party...
...He stated that Colonel Roosevelt was on trial, but that should he come forward with an adequate platform for Popular Government he might secure the Republican nomination...
...and the People's Institute of Jersey City upon this subject, and everywhere the idea of subordinating all other issues until the people owned their government was receivd with tremendous enthusiasm...
...The only thing that could possibly be construed that way was in his letter of acceptance, when he said he favored the election of Senators by direct vote...
...If there is a new and third party it will be made up of the reactionary element of both the old parties...
...In my judgment, he said, "the advocates of Popular Government will get control of both Democratic and Republican parties...
...THE MOVEMENT to wrest the country from the control of the reactionaries was launched in Massachusetts last week by Senator Jonathan Bourne, Jr., who spoke before Harvard University, the City Club of Boston and the Chamber of Commerce in New Bedford, Mass...
...He recently addressed the Republican Club of New York, the Board of Trade in Springfield, Mass...
...Senator Robert L. Owen of Oklahoma is being called for by Republican organizations and in Republican states to speak upon the platform of Popular Government...
...Senator Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota spoke in Schenectady, N. Y., Newark, N. J., and Lynn, Newton and Boston, Mass., on the subject "The means, Popular Government...
...THE State of Washington has fallen into line for Popular Government, and in the session just closed, adopted an Initiative and Referendum amendment as to laws, which amendment will be voted on by the people in 1912...
...President Taft was not available, he said, because "in none of his public utterances or actions has he shown favor for the fundamentals of Popular Government...
...That state also provided for the nomination of Supreme Court Judges by direct primaries and enacted an employer's liability bill which puts the liability insurance companies out of the state and provides for the compensation of injured workmen by a state commission...
...THE "rule of the people versus the rule of the few" is a bond of attachment uniting progressive Republicans and progressive Democrats as has no other issue since the Civil War...
...What the National Progressive Republican League is Doing A Week by Week Record of the Forward Movement in Politics in the States By FREDERIC C. HOWE SENATOR JONATHAN BOURNE, JR., President of the National Progressive Republican League, declared in an interview in Boston last week that the next Presidential race will be between Robert M. La Follette, of Wisconsin, and Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey...
Vol. 3 • April 1911 • No. 14
