Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1915 — Lone Progressive in Senate To Return to the G. O. P. [ARTICLE]

Lone Progressive in Senate To Return to the G. O. P.

Washington, D. C., March 23. — Senator Poindexter, of Washington, the lone progressive in the United States senate, is thinking of returning to his old republican allegiance. The senator said last night that he was consideimg the advisability of making a fight in the next republican primary in his state. “I intend to prepare a statement about the matter," he continued. “It doesn’t make any difference under which party emblem we fight so long as we carry forward the principles that we have been earnestly striving for. “We have a number of progressive laws on the statute books of my state as a result of the progressive movement. In the two campaigns of 1910 and 1912 we elected legislatures which were responsive to this movement of the times. The legislature elected last fall undertook to hamstring a number of these laws. A movement is on foot to refer several of these acts to the people. Under the circumstances it is important for all progressives, to get together, and for this reason I am considering whether or not it would be advisable to work in the republican primaries.” Mr. Poindexter’s return to the republican party, which his action in his home state forecasts, is hailed witli satisfaction by republican leaders remaining in Washington. Congressman Hinebaugh returned to the G. O. P. in January. A number of progressive congressmen from Pennsylvania did likewise. If things ,go as they are going there will not be a .progressive left in the house. *" Senator Poindexter has stood staunchly for progressive principles in the senate. He has made an excellent record for and the progressive, party. His return to the republican fold, his friends declare, will be entirely due to the forward trend of the G. O. P. since the drubbing it got in 1912.