Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1912 — COLONEL WANTS PARTIES TO JOIN COMMON CAUSE [ARTICLE]

COLONEL WANTS PARTIES TO JOIN COMMON CAUSE

Overtures From Roosevelt Camp Made to Bryan to Join Move. SEEK NEBRASKAN AS MATE Progressive Combine Would Win Victory Is Hope of Planners—Await Baltimore Action—Organization Committee Enlarged to 18. Chicago, June 25. —Overtures have been made to William J. Bryan as a possible naming mate for Roosevelt on the tew Progressive party ticket. News of the progress of such negotiations came from a'n authentic source shortly.before Theodore Roosevelt and his lieutenants left for home. The Nebraskan, it was learned from the same - r declared himself thoroughly and enthusiastically in accord with the ideals of the new party and the fight its chief supporters already have made . , For a Progressive Combine. Should the conservatives succeed in their f‘:. rt to repeat their Chicago program- however, he indicated, it is stated, that he s*B>Uld do ail in his power to promote a square progres-sive-conservative alignment in this fall’s campaign. If It should a i pear' that the success of the Progressive movemeir would be served best by a ticket 6f Roosevelt and Bryan and h- platform was one with which he could ihor ughly approve he would not let u disinclination to play second fiddle stand in the way, it Is added. Bryan believes, however, that be is e icg -q\ break the hold which *he v rives have izf the Democratic ; arty by ' .the fighfr- he. launched in Baltimore, and consequently is not committing himself as to' anything. Colonel Roosevelt departed for Oyster Bay on the Twentieth Century limited from the La Salle street station. Several h undred people c lame red at the gates of the ‘rain shed for a view of the colonel, waving his hat and call ing “good luck" to several Chicago leaders of the progressive movement as the train moved cut of the StationCommittee Is Enlarged. The membership of the committee which is to organize the Progressive party was announced shortly before the colonel’s departure by Governor Hiram Johnson of California. The number which will compose the body has been ire-eased from seven, as originally planned, to IS, and may be further augmented later. Those appointed are: Senators Moses E. Clapp of Minnesota. Joseph M. Dixon of Montana and Miles Poindexter of Washington. Governors C. A. Aldrich of Nebraska and R. S. Yessy of Sooth Dakota. E. A. Van Yalkenhurg, editor of the Phiiadelphia North American: W. R. Nelson, editor of the Kansas City Star: Comptroller W. R. Prerdergast of New York, James R. Garfield of Ohio. William Allen White of Kansas. Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Judge Ben Lindsey of Denver, Mathew Hale of Massachusetts, George L. Record of Ne% Jersey. Charles M. Thompson of Vermont and Col. H. C. Carrington of Maryland.