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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSEBVEB
THURSDAY. JANUARY 22, 1914
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DIAC.VOSEiG BEWtSUCJM BE
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primaries and to seal on Sie tempor-.
ary tUBrenition vtQ delegates proper
3y codiid by Stat authorities. It
wae-alsei decided Id iwSnce Southern
representation is he natisi3 hoe vet
(tafizi. Under, lie mew arrangement
wiich is to l ratified 3) Slat cim
fenfemn, i&e Southern Stated, as Kibe
New York Times jpves the iigBTen,
wall ihav 1CS (delegates out f total
of $SS, wiiureas iiey now bare MS.
Tie Nortitsra States vriR lose eight
The plan for special oonvetrtifm was
vigoroiaiJy debated. Senator Cimwiins
itnd ex-Gwtsmur BacQey speaking in
its 'faster, sad Senator Borah, analier j
yrtgTM!0',e Republican, talon; tie
flow 3a njpoErtion, ieBeving that dele
gates to tie convention , would Tee
"bobbled. The resolution was Host
by a derasire vote.
These ref arms mean "Republican
unity" to the Philadelphia Inquirer
((Eep.), -riici declares that "tie s;
5f now open for all Progressives to
If (tl-tps taken toward wtforso BejwMieaa .party and
fa. lie te f chooaix delegates a 18114 to destls.-
9 For 44tbe ctatm iof the nataonal om-
to BpiUican mationaj conTeutionsi!. . .....
. . . nuttee means toe f Tinawatioa of all
were sneaii-t to harten the day A partj tvra that
rtunion,- the ' prevailing oomineat f j lie Bullica& people themselves will
lie prets tDurt be disappointing to nominate the next Bep'shlicaa candi
' 13he Bepnhlieao matkHial - fcosnaoittt, president xA malte tint plat
remarlw lie Lilerary Digrest., More- f ona." The Topefca Capital (Prog,
orer, wlBJile Prvgremlvvt remaia quite admits that Hie nationaS com
Wjoamprestv snore Ihaa one important ' ittee takes "advanced ground that
&epiHJ&B .daily shows pea displeas- wja te acceptable to progressive Ho
ur writ the course taio tie publicans." "The Eepuhlicau national
jarty leaders. The abandonment f committee lias made at 35t a part
c plaa for a conTention in 1914 where eonfession ef iti sijas." comments the
differences could I distnet and per- Chicago Tribune (Prog:.) in faint ap
fcjs settled grieves tie loyally Be- proval; "experience has been painful,
yublicaa Jvw York Tribune and Bos- bat it has not been lost altogether oa
ton AWrtJser. 'Even lie papers the governing body which contributed
which prof el's (to greatest eBtiffrr JWft the riUidrawal of the Bepub-J-ien.T'ili
ti nillonai committee1 Ijcan party frm powti," " Paq lian
actkm ajad which believe lie wsy row rta'ji Oereland Leader credit tie Re
open for all Progressives to return publican managers vilb being glearl
pjejent no conclusive evidence tit a ' Sake U lL cwetsiiy and -isdom of
BviB Moose starapede in lie Repub- tarHng from the follies and dieas
lican dirertion. Tlie situalioh dots ters of the part to the hopes and op
ot seem iA call tor any mourning on porlunities of the future."r. The spirit
the part of Democratic editors. "The iat seeks "reform In very vital con
failure to call the special, convention diiion of party rvwesentation and
and Ihtre thrash out lie humain prob- government, it adds, "will go far to
hrtra that form the basis cf Progress- ward bringing about the jmion with
fve propaganda has," cays tie obser- the Progressives which is essential to
vant Democratic Journal, "alienated complete success." The New York
all the progressives in the party, and Press (Prog.), which has bo earnestly
solidified the Boosevelt 'bolters. " So advocated amalgamation, is very glad
that lie Republican party, a the that the national committee is so far
Brooklyn Ciiiten now believe, ..will responsive to party sentiment as to
probably "go into next year's Con- see that "there will be some reforro
gressianal campaign still divided and ing," yet it adds: That isn't the
its solidarity further impaired by the question. The question is whether
dissatisfaction of its own progressive those who remained Sn the party will
elements with the continued domin- take reform or anything else from
ation of reactionary leaders." tiose who ruined it; whether it will
In its Washington meeting the Be- do any good; whether it isn't better
publican national committee decided to begin all over again."
to recognize State primary laws re- Most of the regular Republicans
garding the selection of delegates by who care to comment, as, for example,
. 49c
For Final Oeaa-np .
Childrens and
Misses Odd Coats
Values to fl.M
La Grande National Bank
Organized in 1887.
DESIGNATED DEPOSITOR! OF CKITED STATES GOTEEJfllEJiT.
r?Tl TED STATES POSTAL 8ATISG8 DEPOS1TOBT.
Capital .l0.0.0O
Surplua .M9,m.09
Total Beaoareea ll.O00.0OO.Ot
' For twenty-six yean, in all kinds of financial weather, we have
wceacf oily catered to til monetary want of tie people of La
Grande and the Grande Bonde Valley.
We respectfully solicit year business.
La Grande National Bank
La Grande, Oregon
:! Senttor Peuxobe and Smocrt, and Can- bs
SrKsuui SerenD E. Payne, ' BpesJk
fcopaf olly t the effects of tie new
ref orauu Bat progressive Rqntbliiatns
like Senator JItmris CJ5M. Progres-
rrees late Senator YC Setter, Cun
gresEmaa Jl-ordock, and George W.
Perkins, derJare that 43ie "oii guard"
is tiH in lie saddle, and "IharzDOxiy
is just as ix away as before. Tie
Milwaukee learnt, ftXnd.) objects to j
the new apportkiaamnt plan as babed
An expediency autd compromise and
sot m prmraple, aad does not see 'j
how a plan "ee founded is to gain j
tnndb f or Sie party In resKrring this !
csase f disagreement and strife.";,
Both "xtear-ProgresKiYe" and "stand-1
patters' feared tie issne In a conven- j
laon, ctmerres Williain Allen White's:!
Emporia Gaaetto, (Prog.). And, "in
tils state of affairs tie adoption of
resolutions changing tie aoutfoero rep- j
resentatSoB ynst enough to fool those '
who desire to be fooled, and
consenting to primaries which j
are sure, to be natkmiiliied by'1
law Id spite. of conservative protests I
tie adoption of the resolutions of i
respect and condolence, was about aul !
tie leaders could do for tie 'near- '
progressives who were clamoring for '
some tangible evidence of things :
hoped for." ' With Its leaders "iaJ
deadly fear of progressive ideas in
their own party and lie progressive !
party outside," these axe sorry days
"for tie once G. O. P". comments j
lie Indianapolis Star (Prog.). The !
"f undameittal difference between Re- :
publicanism and Progressivism". . is j
forgtr'tm, it adds, wien "Progressives i
are asked to abandon their plans for
social justice, for industrial reform,
for lie protection of labor, for tie ob
literation of artificial class distinc
tions built op by prefiMBtlal tfeat-
jTient, for the Cfirjfection of monopo- j
luitie abuses, for the ' simplification j
of the system of nominations and i
elections, and for the making of them
an accurate expression of tie peo
ple's choice." . The most ' militant J ; -
Progressive daily "in the east, the!' . . ,
... " ujcu wuv u r ill uvv w 0v..iw
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PhiladelDhix North American, fines it j
'j;r;,.n- -;,.,i,. thing
taken by the national committee: 3 fiTe
traveling . passenger agent for the
within the republican ranks. ! 83,136 road, and Seth C. Rhodes of
glad of it for the sake of ;1"; - & with headquarters at
. ) Salt Lake, were in tie otv this morn-
"After a full year's agilrtfrj, i:r-' picgrasiives like Roosevelt, Bever-j jng making arrangements for the mid
ing which the nation has been alTlkt-" "us. Johnson, Dixon and others who winter excursion to Los Angeles over
ed with endless arguments, picas, and '. had the courage to 'come through' j the San Pedro, Los Angeles & Salt
. . . . ,i , Lane road. Arrangements havn hppn
pledges for a c
rehabilitation of
tution, the outcome is an anticlimax j "Hut asiae irom mis we oeneeibe enabled to make the trip
so absurd that the public and the ' that the best Interests of the country ) greatly reduced price, with a stop
press hardly waste comment upon it. have been served by this neglect of a j over privilege of two months or more.
Even the organs of speci.1 privilege ! fre opportunity. The party situa-1 J
derive but the feeblest hopes from tion has become cleaner instead of; f rom Grande by of galt
the pitiable result j more confused. And the great pro-j -srith the privilege of returning b'
"The national committee,
represents about all that remains of
complete progressive " into the new party when the hour of " nave neen
v b : j '. t j made whereby citizens of Oregon,
r a once great insii- tnal came. Washington, Idaho and Wyoming will
ome is an anticlimax j "But aside from this we believe be enabled to make the trip for a
movement has a less com- ( way of San Francisco and Portland,
: Jas late as April 30. Reservations
which gresjive
. ' .i . i ...it i t
the dying party, held a three-day res- "r the-ranks oi me oia pany we
urrection conference in Washington. &id the New York Tribune deploring
After taking counsel, these bosses the national committee's surrender "to
conceived that they would atone for -counsel of timidy and self-interest" j
:it 1 - - 1 n . . .
win oe maue ior me salt iLaKe train'
from La Grande. There will be butY
one day namely, January 30, on which, traction.
this excursion rate wili be good. The
excursion leaves on the morning of
the 31st of January from Salt Lake.
Mr. Manderfield announced that
there would be eight pullmans out of,
Butte alone and that four or five sec
tions of the train would take the ex
cursionists to California. It will be
a solid puIIman train and will have
all the luxuires of the most elaborate
service. Stopovers win be allowed
to passengers on application to the
conductor.
Sheppard to Ron. '
New York, Jan. 22. New indoor
records are looked for tonight at the
field and track games to be held un
der the auspices of the Paterson
Elks. Melvin Sheppard in the mid
dle distances is to be the star at-
their past deeds and insure future
success by solemnly decorating the
southern delegation evil as a sacrifi
cial goat and sending it forth into the
wilderness of disapproval. .
"If any good can come out of the
fantastic procedure at Washington
last week, it will be the final elimina
tion of the last pretense that union
between the progressive and repub
lican parties is possible." ' '
And the progressive Chicago Even
ing Post comes to a similar conclu
sion: '. ,
"The republican national committee
has not had the courage to muddy the
waters sufficiently to endanger the
progressive movement in this coun
try. , , . . .:,
"At any rate, tie net result of the
long-heralded conference is to. make
it much more probable than it ever
has been; that the republican 'party
is to place its hopes for future ex
istence upon its establishment as a
reactionary or conservative party.
"We are sorry for this result for
The new plan of representation it s
calls "only a sop," under which there J
will still be flagrant inequality of j
representative power. , But "the chief j
grievance republicans interested in re- J
storing an adequate measure of popu
lar rule within the party have
against the commitee is, we gather
from The Tribune, the closing of tie
door "against a free and full discus
sion of all reorganization plaits." So
that "instead of allaying the popular
suspicion that the committee already
wields an excessive influence in party
affairs, the reform from the top
which it is now going to engage in
will only aggravate the distrust of
those who have become dissatisfied
with the national organisation's man
agement" -
EXCURSION BOOSTERS HERE
Southern California Trip Plans Ma
turing Big Trains Hoped For. .
J. H. Manderfield, assistant general
freight and passenger agent for the
San Pedro, Los Anreles & Salt IjiV
the sake of Mje progressive minded railroad, together with C. H. Cutting,
FORD
Buy It Because
It's a Better Car
;$625
Model
Touting Car
i.e. b. La Grande
Smith's Garage
La Grande