The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-29
|HISGEN FOR | PRESIDENT John Temple Graves for Second Place. INDEPENDENT CANDIDATES Party Platform Contains Some
 Very Radical PIanks. Declares That Republican And Demo- cratic Parties Are Responsible
 For Corrupt rolitic.--esov- ernment Drifting From
 The People. 


 Chicago. July 2s.-For President: Thomas Hisgen. of Massachusetts, for Vice President, John Temple Graves. of Georgia.
 The Independence party at it's first national convention here tonight. put a national ticket in the neld and adopt ed platform of principles Thomas Hiegen. Of Massachusetts. was nomina- ted for President on the third ballot and John Temple Graves was noini- mated for Vice President on the first
 ballot. Hisgenss opponents were M. w Howard. of Alabama. John Temple Graves. of Georgia. VI. R Hearst though not q candidate. received complimentary vote of balf hundred There being no nomination on the first
 ballot, the roll call was ordered for the second tlme which resulted as follows: Hisgen, b9o: Graves. iss;
 Howard. 10s Hearst, 4s.
 On the third ballot. the vote set steadily toward Hisgen and 1t was soon evident that his nomination. was cer- tain. Virginia broke Grom Graves and placed him within few votes Of sue cess. Then came Washington with ten votes for Hisgen and he was nomi- mated. There was q scramble for the band wagon. Georgia changed from Graves to Hfsgen and then they came too rapldIy to count. Alabama with drew the name of Howard after His gen had been actually nominated and cast it's vote for Graves.
 The third ballot resulted: Hisgen. ssl Howard ss; Graves, '; Hearst. g. 4 roar of applause followed the an- nouncement of the ballot and a motion making unanimous the nomination was adopted with yell. The usual parade of standards around the hall then commenced while the band played pa- triotic airs, The women in the center boxes who had been prominent when Hisgen was placed in nomination again took part in the demonstration by wildly waving scarfa and fans, The uproar continued eight minutes and than a committee was sent to escort Mv.r HisGan to the hall
 Chairman walsh appointed as mem bers of the escorting committee Messrs- Howard, Graves and Lyon, who had iuet been competitors of the Massa- chusetts man. While the committee was seeking the nominee. the roll call for Vice Presidential candidate was begun.
 Clarence J shearn. of New York, presented the nar1e of John Temple Graves and asked that 1t be given the unanimous vote of the convention. Charles F. Neal. of Indiana, Steven Charters. of Connecticut. and Howard Taylor. of Illinois, also were placed in nomination.
 ballot The convention then adjourned sine die
 The platform as adopted by the con- vention tonight, is as follows:
 The Platform.
 "We. Independent American citizens representing the Independence Party in forty-four states and two terri tories, have met fin national convention to nominate. absolutely independent of all other political parties candidates for President and Vice President of the United States.
 "our action is based. u a deter imitation to wrest the col ct of pub lie affairs from the han3J of selfish interests. political trickstars and cor rupt bosses and make the government as the founders intended. angagency for the common good. At period of un- exampled prosperity and promise. a staggering blow was dealt to legiti- mate business by the unrnolested prac- tice of stock watering and dishonest flnanciering Multitudes of defense less investors, thousands of honest business men and an army of idle workingmen are paying the penalty year by year fostered by wasteful and reckless governmental extravaganza, by the manipulation of trusts and by 0rivilege- tariff. the cost of living mounts higher and higher. Day by day the control of the government drifts further away from the people and more firmly into the grip of machine politicians and party bosses.
 The Republican and Democratic parties are not only responsible for these conditions. but are committed to their indefinite continuance Prodigal of promises, they are so barren of per formarce that to a new party of inde- pendent voters the country must look and a return to genuine popular gov ernment.
 ''our object is not to introduce vio- lent innovations or startling new the ories. We of the Independence party look back as Lincoln did to the Decla- ration of Independence as the fountain head of all political inspiration. It is not our purpose to attempt to revolu- tionize the American systeGg. of govern ment. but to restore the action of the government to the principles of Wash ington and Jefferson and Lincoln. It is not our purpose to effect a radical 4 change in the American system of gov ernment, but to conserve for the citi- gems of the United States their privi- leges and liberties won for them by the founders of this Government. and to perpetuate the principles and policies upon which the nations greatness has been built.
 "The Independence Party is, there fore. a conservative force in American politics. devoted to the preservation of American liberty and independence; to honesty fin elections to opportunity in business and to equality before tho law. Those who believe in the Inde- pendence Party and work with 1t are convinced that genuine democracy should exist; that a true republican form of government should continue; that the power of the government sh ould rest with the majority of the people. and that the government should be conducted for the benefit of tho whole citizenship rather than for the special advantages of any particular class.
 Labor.
 We denounce the so-called labor blanks of the Republican and Demo- cratic platforms as political buncombe and contemptible claptrap. unworthy of