PROGRESSIVES STAND TOGETHER

...This shows that our work has been eminently successful...

...Since the eighth of last November five states have in effect adopted my presidential preference bill providing for the election in party primaries of delegates to national conventions with direction from the party electorate as to whom they should vote for for president and vice president...

...Day after day, press "dope" emanating from the White House and elsewhere in torydom conveys the "news" that there is no longer the cohesive, militant group of Progressives that have been giving the Old Guard so much trouble...

...Campaigns are being planned in many states to secure the election of only those legislative candidates who pledge themselves to support the principles of the league...

...Since the league was organized five months ago, we have seen the initiative and referendum submitted in eight states and made strong issue in many more, with assurance of success in the next legislative sessions...

...Presumably the candidates for office believing in the fundamental principles upon which the league is founded, will receive the support of the members of the league as against opponents of such principles...

...This organization is striving for the extension of popular government to all the states and to the nation...

...Progressives Stand Together PERSISTENT EFFORTS are being made by the standpat press to give the public the impression that the Progressive Republicans in Congress, and particularly in the Senate, are hopelessly divided...

...The Oregon plan of the direct election of the United States senators has been adopted in seven states...

...the league was formed for the express purpose of promoting five principles of legislation, direct election of senators, direct primaries for nomination of all elective officers, direct election of delegates to national conventions with opportunity for the voter to instruct them as to his choice for president and vice president...

...All sincere believers in popular government will be found supporting for office only those men who are honest advocates of the fundamental principles involved...

...Here is what Senator Jonathan Bourne of Oregon says about these stories, in a telegram to George S. Lof-tus of Minneapolis: "Replying to your inquiry of the 11th, requesting an explanation regarding the published report that there is a split in the ranks of the National Progressive Republican League, and that certain members will oppose Senator La-Follette's assumed candidacy for the republican presidential nomination, I beg to state: The league is a union of men around principles and not individuals...

...the initiative, referendum and recall, and a thorough corrupt practices act...

...This is the deadline that has been drawn not only in the purposes and policies of the league, but in the minds of the voters of the country, and you will find a demonstration of the truth of this statement when the votes are counted in the primaries in the summer of 1912 and in the general election in the fall of the same year...