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First published in The Toneka State
Journal May 25, 1871

Nav %. 1912
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08
SENATE AGREES TO
CONFERENCE REPORT
House Will Take Final Blow at
Civil Service When It Takes
Up Matter To-day.

The Senate has agreed 10 the confer
ence report on the legislative. executive.
and judicial appropriation bill, including
the provision which seeks to destroy the
effectiveness of the civil service system.
In a separate vote on the tenure-of-office
clause yesterday 1t was agreed to agree
to the conference compromise clause
The vote was 30 to 10. II was nonparti-
san. though most OF the progressives
voted against the clause. The following
was the vote:
Ayes-Ba2khead Bourne. Brandeges.
Bryan, Ca0on. Clark of Wyoming, Gull
lom. Fletcher, Gallinger, Gronna, John
ston, Kern. McCumber, Martin. Nelson,
OGorman, Overman, Page, Perkins
Pomerene, Reed. Shively. Smith of Ari-
zona. Smith of Michigan, Stone. Swan
son, Warren. Wetmore, Williams, and
Works-N.
Nays-Ashurst. Bacon, Borah, Bradley.
Bristow, Burton. Crawford, Cummins
Dillingham;. Jones, kenyon. La Toilette,
Lodge. Massey. Newlands, Sanders,
Smith of Georgia. Smith OF South Caro-
lima, and Townsend-l9.
The conference report will be adopted
by the House with only perfunctory op-
position. 1t will be taken up to-day and
may be agreed to before the House ad-
journs tonight.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08
Worse Than Radical-Extreme /!

According to the news from Chicago
the personnel of the Progressive Ma
tional Convention makes it plain that the
new party and its platform are to be
very radical The bulk Of the delegates
have had little or no practical ex-
perience in politics. Nor have they any
conception of the difficulties in the way
of carrying into effect abstract theories.
They do not seem to understand practi-
cal political work must precede. the de-
veloping of plans for the social JUSTICE
which they aspire
: They are extremists, and quite
naturally their point of view is that of
extremists. And just as natural is the
sequel that their notions of a political
platform should be more advanced than
would have been the rump convention
of Republican delegates which six
weeks ago put Mr.. Roosevelt pro-
visioually in nomination.
: Political events also have tended to
add to the radicalism of the present
convention Had the conservative Dem
ocrats won at Baltimore, had a mod
crate man IKE Gov. Harmon been NOM
mated there, the third party could have
restrained its extreme radicalism. Why!
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08

Because then it would have had the
radical field all to itself. Even had
Speaker Clark got the nomination, who
is but an alleged" radical, the third
termers still could have pre-empted
that field.
But the choice of Dr.. Wilson, brought
about by the Bryan activities, COM
pletely altered the situation. as Wilson
is somewhat of radical himself, and
the country will continue to think of
him as one, even if, for expediencys
sake, he should trim" his speech of
acceptance. Therefore, in order to es-
tablish more conciseiy the status Of
the new party, Mr.. Roosevelt and the
Progressive leaders who echo his words
had to outdo Wilson in any drift he
may exhibit toward state socialism.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08
The Pooh-bah!

Though Mr.. Roosevelt is quite as
conspicuous figure at the present con-
vention in Chicago as he was in the
June gathering of the Republicans,
there is far less interest in the pro-
ceedings there for the public. He is
the convention; he is the candidate !;
and he is the platform. No one
will gainsay him in this "cut-and-
dried assemblage of Rooseveltian,
bandana carrying Bull Moosers, which
go by the deceptive name of PRO
gressives."
We have tried to elucidate all this in
our pre-convention comment. The di-
ninishing interest is clearly due to the
fact that Roosevelt. by his own word
of mouth and acts. is considered as
being outside of the pale of the Re-
publican party As possible nominee
of that great and successful organiza-
ton he was regarded as likely to be-
come (or call it "remain" if you be-
heve this to be more ftting) a power
full figure in our national politics.
But now, as he returns from Chi
cago the candidate of a new party bent
upon destruction of his old Affiliations,
with its record from the days of Lin
coin up to now, the great mass of Re-
publicans are no longer with him, but
have deserted his standard as far as
ever they believed in his untried
heresies against Constitution, society,
and established order.
In short, it is the same Republican
party that made him which now will
mar his path to the White House.
Why? The vast host of Republicans
simply have no desire to be killed"
by Roosevelt, the renegade, the traitor,
the migrate, just to satisfy his personal
hatred, coupled with his boundless am
bition.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08

csptance, and departed from its text only
In a few instances. Early in his speech
he declared that "some people only smile
vixen you speak of yourself as a servant
OF the people. II seems to them like
affectation. or mere demagogy. They
ask what the unthinking crowd knows
or comprehends Of great complicated
matters Of government
Here the candidate interrupted his
speech by saying: Some Of the most ig-
norant men ever knew were educated"
Further along he spoke Of the industries
Of the United States. which he said had
expanded to such a point that they will
burst their Jackets, that is, another force
Is going to break the tariff down. The
tariff was once a bulwark, but now II Is q
dam-and," he added, dropping his man
uscrtpt for moment, you can spell 1t
either way"
Pulled Hearty Laugh.
This ELECTED a hearty laugh. It seemed
TO many OF the statesmen present that
the Governor had made II plain that
he did not propose to accept the Balti-
more platform as his own programme.
There was a good deal Of favorable COM
ment on the paragraph in which the Gov
enor said: I'VE are not about to ask
the people OF the United States to adopt
cur platform; the platform is not a pro-
gramme. A programme must consist
Of measures. administrative acts and
acts OF legislation. The proof OF the
pudding is in the eating thereof. How
do we intend to make 1t edible and d.
gestible? From this time on We shall be
under Interrogation. How do We ex-
pect TO handle each OF the great matters
that must be taken up by the next Con-
gress and the next administration"
Gov. Wilson will leave for New York
tomorrow morning. For two days he
will be occupied in giving sittings to
Seymour Thomas, an artist, who will
make a life-sized drawing of the candi-
date as the artists contribution to the
The drawing will be used for
reproductions. The Gov
ernor will return to Seagirt probably
Friday evening.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08

Chicago. Aug. 1-The platform adopted
by the National Progressive convention
advocates political. industrial. agrarian,
commercial, and social conservation
and tariff reforms. 1t 10 in the form
of a contract with the people" and
mostly written by Col Roosevelt.
The platform opens thus:
THE conscience of the people. In .
time Of grave national problem. has
called into being a new party. born OF
the nations awakened sense Of Justice.
I'VE Of the Progressive Party here
dedicate ourselves TO the fulfilment OF
the duty laid upon us by our fathers
to maintain that government OF the peo-
pie, by the people, and for the people
whose foundations they laid" &c
The platform assails the Republican
party for the deliberate betrayal OF Its
trust and the Democratic party for iti
fatal incapacity."
The principal planks advocated are:
| Woman suffrage.
National Presidential primaries.
popular vote.
Provision for a short ballot.
A stringent corrupt practices act. which
shall apply to primaries as well as cleo
tions.
Publicity Of compsign contributions dur
ing the campaign.
Recognition of the right of the people
of State to secure to themselves the
initiative, the referendum, and the recall
Development Of methods for making
II easier to get rid of an incompetent
judge.
Recall of judicial decisions and the crea-
tion of machinery for making easier the
amendment of the national and State
constitutions.
All employers to file wage scales and
other data as the public element in IN
dustry demands.
A living wage and the establishment OF
minimum wage commissions by the na-
ton and States.
Immediate establishment Of minimum
wage standards for women.
Establishment of standards Of COM
pensation for industrial accidents and
deaths and for occupational diseases.
Prohibition OF night labor OF women
and children.
Prohibition OF the employment of wom-
en- more than forty-eight hours per week.
Laws providing for one day of rest in
seven.
Three shifts Of eight hours in con-
tinuous industries.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08
New Party's Platform,
Written by Roosevelt
Planks in the Structure Promise Almost Every
thing-More Than Forty Subjects Dealt
With, and It's Called ''Contract
With the People"

Prohibition of the premature employ
ment of children.
Provision for Insurance against haz-
ards Of sickness, accident invalidism. and
old age.
Strengthening and efficient enforce
ment of pure food laws.
Establishment of Federal department
in which shall be combined all agencies
relating to public health.
Revival of the country life commits
sion and cooperation by the govern
ment with the farmer to make the farm
more productive.
Provision for rural banking and rural
credits.
Strengthening of the antitrust law.
Creation of a national Industrial COM
with full power TO regulate and
control all features Of the great indus
trial corporations.
Remodeling of patent laws and pre-
vention Of use OF patents as to9ls of
monopoly.
Establishment of q parcel post on the
zone principle.
Strengthening Of the Interstate COM
merce law. especially as regards rail-
roads.
Sound and elastic currency reform
guarded against use for any speculative
purposes.
Extension OF rural free delivery and
favoring good roads.
Opening OF coal and other resources Of
Alaska to development at once into
Homestead plan.
Natural resources Of country should
bo conserved for the benefit OF all the
people.
Providing for two battleships a year.
Improvement Of waterways.
Panama Canal. built and paid for by
American people, must be used primarily
for their benefit.
Protective tariff which shall equaiize
conditions of competition between United
States and friendly countries, both for the
farmer and manufacture, and which
shall maintain for labor an adequate
standard OF living.
Graduated inheritance tax and favoring
OF pending amendment TO Con-
stitution giving the government power to
levy income tax.
Enforcement of civil service act In let
ter and spirit. and legislation bringing
under competitive system postmasters,
collectors. marshals. and all other non
political Offices.
Establishment OF a department Of labor
with seat in the Cabinet.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08
Health Insurance Deadlock.

The action of the British Medical As
sociation at its annual meeting in
Liverpool is serious blow to the work
ingfnen's insurance act, as it places
practically the entire medical profes-
sion of Great Britain in opposition to
the government j,
This deadlock might have been avoid
ed. The act of Parliament proposed
to coerce the physicians into giving
their services for a specified annual
amount for each insured person. The
sum had been determined without con-
sultation with the doctors and on the
advice of the Friendly Societies." pri-
vate cooperative organizations for
workingInen's insurance. The protests
of the doctors were met by an accu-
sation of greed. Their essential de-
mands in their six cardinal points"
were rejected.
The whole plan thus was endangered
from the start as was shown by sub
sequent events. 1t ought to have been
plain to the sponsors of the act that
the first thing needed to make it a sue
cess was hearty cooperation on the
part of the medical fraternity. No doubt
the physicians would have met the
Chancellor of the Exchequer halfway
had they been approached in a different
manner. Knowing physicians and judg-
ing them from their readiness to make
all kinds of sacrifices in this country,
we should say they would have made
not only some, but large concessions.
They are doing it forever in their pri-
vate practice. The average doctor does
twice the work he is paid for. He does
ii as a matter of course, as a matter
of the high responsibility imposed upon
him by his profession.
But doctors are human like the rest
of US. And when the British govern.
ment announced that hereafter a physi-
clan was to receive the munihcen:
remuneration of six shillings per year
for each person, and when, to his
protest, that a doctor himself ought
to have something to say about his fee.
the government called him cold
blooded hog, the entire profession turn
ed against the insurance act.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08
SENATOR NELSON A CANDIDATE
Likely to stick to Hin,
II He Wants Another Term.

Minnesotans Likely 10 stick to Him
II He Wants Another Term.
Fsum the St. Paul DisEstch.
It IL semi-ofiicially announced that
Senator Knute Nelson will file for re-
nomination. He has written a letter to
friend in st. Paul, who declines
to let his name be used. telling OF his
intention. and a public announcement
seems likely within a short time. The
entrance OF Senator Nelson into the
race will be pretty certain to rob the
contest OF its race features and make
1t a walkaway. The best indication of
that is the way In which those who
have had an eye on his seat have been
hanging back until they could find out
what he intends to do. To date. James A
Peterson. OF Minneapolis. is the only
one who has come out IN the open for
the Senatorship. and there are not like
ly to be others after Senator Nelson
has declared himself.
There has been no marked sentiment
among the people of the State for a
change. There are those who do not
agree with Senator Nelson on some
important questions. lie was criticised
by many Minnesotans for the stand
he took in the Ballinger controversy.
Even In that instance satisfactory rea-
sons were given for his vote. The peo-
pie Of Minnesota appreciate Senator
Nelson's rugged worth and sturdy hon.
esty of purpose. They know that he
has made a good Senator. even II they
have not always agreed with him.
They feel that he has done the best
that he knew how. Furthermore. they
are pretty well convinced that any
one they might pick to take his place
would not be likely TO do as well by
them as he would. They have conf
dence in him and will be pretty likely to
stick by him IL he wants another term
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08

cautiously worded. The platform wa,
adopted vociferously.
John NJ. Parker, OF Louisiana, and
Judge Ben B. Lindsey. OF Colorado both
baffied aspirants for the Vice Presidential
nomination. started the second place ball
rolling by nominating Johnson.
Lindsey's OIL Burns Low.
Lindseys oratoricaI oil had burned low
in his Roosevelt speech and the light.
fiuttered feebly in talking for johnson.
Parker. who looks like a hard-hitter,
made a lively address. Then followed
Fred Lands. OF Indiana, who compared
Roosevelt and Johnson to two Dread
noughts. and said they were enough for
one year. Lands also said that the
law prevented the retail anarchist from
carrying a concealed deadly weapon. and
that Il ought to prevent a wholesale
anarchist from carrying a concealed
statesman. Raymond Robbins. of Illinois,
Jimmie" Garfield, OF Ohio: Bill Finn. of
Pennsylvania, and Clifford Pinchot also
of Pennsylvania, helped in the boosting.
So did Gov. S. r. Vesey. OF South Da-
kota, and John r. Glade, OF New York.
the latter one OF the few colored men
who managed to get into the conven-
ton as a delegate. The last and best
Johnson speech was made by Z. >.
Wheeler. of California, a man with a
big voice and real sentiments. which he
expressed TO the delight OF everybody
in the hall.
At $50 the convention nominated John
son. Then the guard at the door drew
back, and who should step in but the
colonel himself. closely followed by Gov.
johnson.
The colonel had been reading copy on
the platform all night and most of the
afternoon, and he showed the effects of
mental toll. But he was in good voice.
The notification had been made outside
by a committee of fifteen. told OF by
Beveridge. The two candidates spent
most of their time tossing bouquets at
each other.
Then the band played the "Doxology."
and the first convention of the Progress
sive Party was at an end. 1t will be the
Progressive Party in some States only.
Bill Finn will call It the Washington
Party in Pennsylvania, because Penrose
with much forethought copyrighted the
name right after the Repub-
lican convention. But the words Bull
Moose will designate 1t in the mouths OF
the populace and the moo of the moose
will call the Roosevelt men from one ma
tional hilltop to another as long as they
continue to thread their newly found
trails that lead whittier none OF them as
yet has the faintest honest guess.
The Washington herald., 1912-08-08

oratoricaI fiourishes or campaign bun
combe IN seconding the nomination.
When Miss Adams had concluded. a
big, yellow banner was brought to her,
and for a minute she held 1t up while
the delegates and spectators cheered
and sang. Then she was borne down the
steps and about the hall by the Illinois
delegation. 1t was the most genuine
and most impressive demonstration OF the
day.
Another incident that stood forth was
the address of Col T. p. Lloyd. OF Flor
ida, a Confederate veteran OF great age,
who had lost his arm IN the war and
received for It the sorry compensation
OF four Federal bullets in his body.
Col. Lloyd was escorted to the stand
by Gen. Horatio c. King, of New York,
who had preceded him. For second
the two men stood together. Kings arm
around Lloyd. a touching picture in blue
Gnd gray that aroused real enthusiasm.
Henry Allen. of Kansas. one of the live
wires, who has answered the question as
to what is the matter with that Common
wealth, finished the talking for T. r.
Allen gloried in the Kansas primary VIC
tory, lately recorded, and assured the
delegates that there would be nothing
the matter with Kansas from a Roose-
Welt point OF view in November.
Nomination Unanimous.
At 5:s7. all the speaking time being
spent, Senator Beveridge. who had been
made permanent chairman by the con-
vention at the beginning. put the vote to
nominate Roosevelt by acclamation. I'M
der suspension Of the rules.
II anybody voted NO" he did so in
audibly. y general cheerfest followed,
and an attempt was made to keep It up
for another hour. But after half an hour
of yelling. singing. band playing. and
.bandanna waving, they decided to quit.
which they did with surprising sudden
ness
1t was here that Senator Beveridge
announced the readiness of the platform,
which was read by William Draper
Lewis, of the law school of the univer-
sity of Pennsylvania
Lewis got close attention for the plat
form, which was about 400 words long
In addition there was a demand for the
recall Of the judicial decisions, an Alaska
plank with a plea for the government
ownership of Alaskan railroads, a plank
favoring the reappointment of Roose-
velt's country life commission and high
cost Of living plank, which was very