Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1912 — Progressives Organize at Monticello. [ARTICLE]

Progressives Organize at Monticello.

The third party movement has taken definite form at Monticello, where the local “Progressives” held a meeting Friday evening and organized and discussed the matter of placing a county ticket in the field. Among those prominent in the movement in the White county capital are Newton Bros., publishers of the Monticello Journal; V. D. Clyne, the well known auctioneer; Dr. Goodwin. Dr. Cray, Dr. Coffin, Rev. Martin, F. L. Griffin, former publisher of the Remington Press; B. Goodman, and many others. Yesterday’s dispatches from Washington stated that a nation-wide movement was to be started by office-holders and prominent republicans asking President Taft to resign the nominaiiibn recently given him at the Chicago convention and some new man be selected op/whom the party could get togeprer, «t being admitted that there was obsolutely no hope" of electing Taft in the present hopelessly divided condition of the republican party.