WHAT THE NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN IS DOING

...This week an aggressive campaign is being carried on in Pennsylvania, Senators Clapp and Owen speaking before the Pennsylvania Assembly on the evening of April 11 on the Initiative and Referendum resolution now before the legislature of that state...

...The sessions of the state assemblies which have just adjourned have been particularly fruitful of legislation along this line...

...At a recent election, by a vote of ten to one, the people decided that the new 125,000 H. P. electric power plant, constructed by the city at a cost of $20,000,000, should distribute and sell power and light to the people directly...

...Wyoming and Washington followed with a similar amendment, that of Washington being limited to legislation and not constitutional amendments...

...In Kansas the measure was defeated by the reactionary Senate...

...The last week of March, Senators Moses E. Clapp and Jonathan Bourne, Jr., swung around the circle in the cities of eastern Massachusetts and western New York...

...THE MOVEMENT for the Initiative and Referendum is sweeping over the country as has no similar idea since the Civil War...

...California has submitted an Initiative and Referendum and Recall amendment by an almost unanimous vote of both houses of the Assembly...

...The question at issue in the election was, as to whether the power should be sold in bulk to private companies to be sold by them to consumers, or be sold directly by the city...

...The State of Nebraska has adopted the Initiative and Referendum amendment, thus complying with the platforms of both parties, as has the State of North Dakota...

...Governor Johnson believes that political debts should be paid, not to the campaign contributor, but to the people, and that those who go back on their pledges should be made to pay the price of their betrayal in the condemnation of public opinion...

...Legislation is pending in Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, in which states "more power to the people" has become the platform of progressive men in both parties...

...They can amend their charter by this process and undertake any activities or businesses that the people approve...

...A similar campaign is being planned in the state of New Jersey, which has been thoroughly aroused to the progressive movement by Governor Woodrow Wilson...

...The overwhelming vote in favor of the latter policy by which the city realizes any profits from the enterprise or the cheapest kind of service, indicates the rapidity of the developments in municipal ownership sentiment in this country...

...IN LOS ANGELES the people enjoy the Initiative and Referendum and Recall...

...in Minnesota an unworkable amendment was adopted by the lower house...

...A special session of the legislature is under consideration in Washington for further action...

...GOVERNOR HIRAM W. JOHNSON of California, who campaigned the whole State of California in an automobile on the platform of Popular Government, and who has just carried through legislation embodying all the platform pledges, has announced that he now plans to go back over all the counties in the state and present the record of every member of the legislature to their respective constituents...

...On the evening of April 14, Senator Clapp speaks in Lancaster, Pa., and on Saturday evening another member of the League will speak before the Progressive Republican League of Pittsburg, which has been organized to promote the Initiative, Referendum, Recall and a corrupt practices act...

...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 THE MESSAGE of Popular Government is being carried by the National Progressive Republican League into each of the eastern states in succession...