The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-12-23
Thomas w. Lawson Visits
President and has Long
Conference.
CAMPAIGN TO START TUESDAY
Teddy for First Place and John
son for Second Is
he Dope.

New York, Dec 23-When Thomas
WI Lawson left the White House last
Y Tuesday morning, after long. secret
conference with President Roosevelt
he refused TO discuss his visit but
promised "a statement to the public
within a few days"
This was outlined by Mr. Lawson
last night. Mr. Lawson therein an
nounces the launching of a new poll
teal party. Its candidates for presi-
dent and vice president Will be Theo-
1 dore Roosevelt and Governor John a.
Johnson of Minnesota.
Today in Boston MI Lawson's law
yers Will go to work on the plan to
be followed in the legal organization
Of the new party
PLAN Designed by Lawson
On Tuesday, according to Mr. Law
sons emphatic assurances the cam
paign designed TO give President Roose-
Welt four years more in office will be-
gin and Will continue until the close Of
the polls in every state on election day,
! 1905.
In his formal announcement Mr.. Law
son avoids any direct statement that
his chosen candidates President
Roosevelt and Governor Johnson
have acquiesced in his political pro-
gram, but by suggestion it was made
! clear that at the White House con
! ference on Tuesday morning the Law
4 son political plan was placed before
\ the president.
1t matters not a whit to me-" said
Mr. Lawson. whether President Roose-
Welt approves of the new party Or not,
whether he consents to run as its pres
idental candidate or openly refuses to
do so.
He will be our candidate just the
same. and by the vote of the people
will be compelled to complete the job
he has commemorative rescue of the
country from the wholesale thieves of
Wall street"
Tells of Organization.
Mr.. Lawson claims to have an organi-
cation in every state of the Union.
In his formal statement. which will
be ohlcially promulgated today, Mr..
Lawson says in part:
Since the panic President Roose-
Welt has awakened to a realization that
II he leaves his policies half way es-
tablished he will, as he should, go into
history as an unworthy bungler.
with class arraigned against class,
with the whole people awakened to
their wrongs yet unable to right
them, with the whole people realizing
that they are to be swept again into
the unmerciful nav of the system, the
whole people well realize that they had
best been allowed to wallow in their
former degradation.
President Roosevelt now realizes
that if at the coming elections the
systems tools are placed in the White
House the people, when they realize it.
Will do something, and President
Roosevelt realizes that that something
will be something momentous
II personally know the system will
DO so satisfied with the nomination
made by either party that it viii will
ingly finance either or both parties
through the campaign to any extent
necessary, regardless of who the can
didates may be provided Theodore
Roosevelt is not one of them
Il personally know the system will
furnish willingly all money and other
backing TO elect w. J. Bryan or his
opponent. and the money thus willing
II eagerly furnished viii be the money
of the same men who furnished 5,OOO.-
600 in 1895 to steal the presidency from
Mr.. Bryan.
In closing this appeal to ali Cod
fearing, country loving Americans, /
would say:
1T should matter nothing to the
American people what attitude Presi-
dent Roosevelt takes toward our
work. His personal likes and dislikes.
wishes, or intentions should not weigh
a fnchs feather with US.