sentences:  In 1917, as one of the founders of the Party of National Progress, he attended political conferences in Petrograd, Kiev, and Stockholm advocating for full independence of Lithuania.He returned to Vilnius in 1918, but moved to Kaunas after the city was captured by Poland.He edited "Tauta", published by the Party of National Progress, and ran in the elections to the Constituent Assembly of Lithuania, but largely withdrew from politics when he was not elected.