Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-13
BULL MOOSE PARTY
CONVENTION AUG. 5
Third Party Manager Dixon Issues
Call and Fixes Date For Nom
mating Roosevelt.

NCH ADihf JuA9 o. CDiAlift n |BAt
velt's third party convention VIII n
held in Chicago on Aug. ), either i,
the Coliseum or Orchestra hall.
I The cali Tor il, signed BIZ Roosevelt
/ leaders OF forty states and addressed
I ITO the people OF the United States
4 without regard to past political differ
ences," was Issued through Senator
Joseph NJ Dixon. campaign manager
/ in the new national headquarters OF
/ the party at the Hotel Manhattan
The party WIN probably be called
/ the Progressive National party. The.
I convention will decide as to that.
Eight states-Maine, North Carolina,
Delaware, South Carolina, Arkansas,
I Mississippi, Idaho and Neyada--arc
not represented in the provisional
committee which signed the call for
/ the convention. The call is as follows:
ITO the people Of the United States
without regard to past political differ.
4 ences, who, through repeated berray
/ ais, realize that today the power OF the
crooked political bosses and Of the
/ privileged classes behind them is so
/ strong in the two old party organiza-
tons that no helpful movement in the
real interests of our country can come
4 out of either:
"We believe that the time has come
for national Progressive movement
/ nationwide moyement-on non-sec-
| tional lines, so that the people may
be served in sincerity and truth by an
/ org anization unfettered By obligation
to conflicting interests:
Who believe in the right and ca
pacity of the people to rule them
/ selves and effectively to control ali
The agencies of their government, and
who hold that only through social and
! industrial justice, thus secured, can
honest property find permanent pro.
teciion;
"Who believe that government by
/ the few tends to become and has in
fact become, government by the sordid
Influences that control the few;
WHO believe that only through the
movement proposed can we obtain in
the nation and the several states the
/ legislation demanded by the modern
industrial evolution, legislation which
shall favor honest business and yet
control the great agencies of the
whole people; legislation which shall
lpromote prosperity and at the same
time secure the better and more
equitable diffusion of prosperity; leg
| islation which shall promote the eco
monte well being of the honest far
mer, wage worker, professional man
and business man alike, but WHICH
shall at the same time strike in eff
Client fashion-and not merely pre-
tend to strike-at the roots of privi-
lege in the world of industry no less
than in the world of politics;
who believe that only this type
of wise industrial evolution win avert
7 industrial revolution;
who believe that wholesome party
government can come only if there is
wholesome party management in a
spirit of service to the whole country,
and who hold that the commandment
delivered at Sinai, Thou shalt not
steal applies to politics as well as to
business;
ITO all in accord with these views
a call is hereby issued by the provis
ional committee under the resolution
of the mass meeting held in Chicago
on June 22 last, to send from each
state a number of delegates whose
votes in the convention shall count
for as many votes as the state shall
have senators and representatives in
congress, to met in mass convention
at Chicago on the fifth day of August,
1912, for the purpose of nominating
candidates to be supported for the pc
sitions of president and vice president
of the United States"
Among the signers are the follow
ing: Maryland, Charles J. Bonaparte,
f. C. Darlington. Jr. New Jersey,
Everett Colby, George L. Record, J.
Franklin Fort: New York. w. A. Prem.
dergast Oscar S. Straus, Woods
Hutchinson, Timothy l.. Woodruff.
Chauncey j. Hamlin, Henry l.. Stod
dard; Pennsylvania e. A. Van Valken.
burg, William Finn. Clifford Pinchot.
William Draper Lewis; Virginia.
Thomas L. Moore; West Virginia, w.
NJ, O. Dawson.