"GETTING TOGETHER" FOR VICTORY
"Getting Together" For Victory PROGRESSIVE Republicans in Wisconsin in this campaign are presenting a more nearly united front against the reactionary minority than at any time in the past four...
...And the call for the conference, which was signed by the leading progressives throughout the state, contained the declaration that the sole purpose of the conference was that of "promoting Progressive Republican principles" and of securing "united action by all Progressive Republicans," and of forming an "organization for effective harmonious effort in the several political districts of the slate...
...Laws are passed to protect the rights of the people...
...The conferees were actuated with the sole purpose of unifying progressive sentiment and of agreeing upon a candidate of such high character and acknowledged ability that their selection would meet the approval of the people...
...A strong declaration of purpose and principle was adopted as a primary platform...
...As it starts for mid-ocean the pilot, by just a little turn of the wheel one way or another, changes the course of the vessel as to whether it shall be a destination in South Africa or in Norway...
...The scattering of the progressive votes among the five progressive candidates resulted in the election of Philipp...
...Wisconsin Progressive Republicans faced the campaign this year with the conviction that the reactionary minority of the party should not be permitted to gain control—as in 1914—because of a division among the progressive forces...
...In 1914 there were six candidates for Governor, five of them progressive and one reactionary...
...Those who took part in this conference were the authorized representatives of the Progressive Republican voters "back home...
...I am satisfied that most of us come here with open minds to decide what is best for the Progressive Republicans of Wisconsin...
...the combined progressive vote, divided among the other five candidates, was 80,881...
...Hatton was selected by the conference as the most available candidate because of his ability, his excellent record in public office, and his wholly unselfish attitude...
...Local meetings had been held in every district of the state...
...Progressive Republican leaders in every part of the state are imbued with the unselfish spirit of placing Principle above personal advantage...
...W. S. Goodland, editor of the Racine Times-Call...
...Just a little deviation may change the destination of any good law...
...How this is accomplished may be illustrated in a very simple way...
...It is that the men who administer the laws must be in sympathy with those laws...
...Hatton, in accepting, declared that: "There is one fundamental thing about government that the people should understand...
...Getting Together" For Victory PROGRESSIVE Republicans in Wisconsin in this campaign are presenting a more nearly united front against the reactionary minority than at any time in the past four years...
...They will approve also the candidate selected by those leaders to carry onward the torch of progress in Wisconsin...
...They did succeed in finding such common ground in the candidacy of ex-Senator William H. Hatton...
...And it was in this spirit that they brought forward Mr...
...HATTON as the Progressive Republican candidate...
...At these gatherings, spokesmen were commissioned by the voters to go to Madison with the single purpose of promoting statewide unity and co-operation among the progressives in the primary campaign...
...They should be administered by those who are in complete accord with their import...
...While urging the nomination of a tried AND DEPENDABLE progressive candidate he did not at any time press HIS OWN candidacy upon the conference...
...In his candidacy the progressive voters who hold fast to principle, who desire to redeem the government of their state once more from the control of the powerful and unscrupulous reactionary minority, find an opportunity for a faithful expression of their own political convictions...
...his unquestioned integrity and his devotion to the highest ideals of government, give to his candidacy exceptional strength...
...And he was nominated...
...Every citizen who holds fast to progressive principles should read it and pass it on to his neighbors...
...In requesting the local leaders to co-operate in such a conference, upon the widest possible plan of representation, he said: "I earnestly hope progressives will sink all past differences of opinion and come together in conference in a spirit of mutual concession, to the end that we may go forth UNITED, which will mean victory for OUR PRINCIPLES...
...The progressive conference was promoted by Mr...
...And every man who attended the conference paid his own way...
...This summons to the voters is printed on another page...
...Hatton's long years of disinterested and able service to the people of Wisconsin, both as State Senator and as a private citizen...
...The solid reactionary vote was east for Philipp, who received 43,733 votes...
...In a ringing speech at the conference Walter D. CORRIGAN of Milwaukee declared: "We come here to promote the cause of Progressive Republicanism...
...Thus, out of a total Republican vote cast of 124,G14, the reactionary candidate received ONLY ONE-THIRD...
...A boat is in the harbor with the prow pointing into the Atlantic...
...The Progressive Republican voters of Wisconsin will approve the spirit of these leaders in subordinating personal preferences to the common cause of progressivism...
...On June 22, between three and four hundred representative Progressive Republican leaders from every section of the state got together at Madison to find, if possible, common ground for the TEAM WORK that is necessary for victory...
...And Mr...
...We each had a favorite son, but we have found THE CONCENSUS OF OPINION * * * We all have our friends, but we all love Progressive Republicanism, and we love our state more than we love any man...
Vol. 8 • July 1916 • No. 7
