Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — PROGRESSIVES TO MEET SOON [ARTICLE]

PROGRESSIVES TO MEET SOON

National Conference Is Proposed in New York for Early Date. Indianapolis, November 16. —A meeting of national Progressive party leaders will be held in New York within the next week or ten days for the purpose of discussing the general political situation, according to a statement last night by Edwin M. Lee, Progressive state chairman. The meeting will be called by Matthew Hale of Boston, vice chairman of the national committee. Mr. Lee said yesterday, he has received letters from Progressive leaders in the West and in the East expressing their belief that the third party voters .were instrumental in bringing about the re-election of President Wilson. One letter was from A. T. Moon of Salt Lake City, national committeeman from Utah, who said the Progressives of that state were responsible for Wilson i carrying Utah.