Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1912-07-10
NEW PARTY TO MEET
At CHICAGO AUGUST 5
To Nominate Candidate For
The Presidency.
Roosevelt VIII Endeavor to Form CO.
aliticn of Republicans and Dem
ocrats to Support Him.

New York, July -Reafirming
Thou Shalt Not Steal" as one of the
cardinal principles of this campaign,
the National Progressive PROVISIONAL
committee issued the following formal
call for the convention at which it ia
planned to name Theodore Roosevelt
once again for president.
ITO the people of the u. S., without
regard to past political differences,
who through repeated betrayals, real
lie that today the power of the crook
ed bosses and Of the privileged classes
behind them is so strong in the two
cid party organizations that no help
full movement in the real interests Of
our country gen come out of either;
No Sectional Lines.
''Who believe that the time has
come for national progressive move
ment-a nationwide movement-on
non-sectiOnal lines, so that the people
may be served in sincerity and truth
by an organization unfettered by obli-
gaticn TO conflicting interests;
Who believe in the right and ca
paGty of the people to rule them
selves, and effectively to control all
the agencies of their government, and
who hold that only through social andin-
dustrial justice, thus secured, can hon.
est property find permanent protec-
ton;
Who believe that government by
the few tends to become, and has in
fact become, government by the sordid
influences that control the few;
Strike at All "PriviIeges."
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 modern
business so as to insure their being
used in the interest of the whole peo-
pie; legislation which shall promote
prosperity and at 4 s same time Sc
cure the better I'd more equitable
diffusion of prosperity; legislation
which shall promote the economic well
being Of the honest farmer. wage
worker, professional men and business
man alike, but which shall at the
same time gtrike4n efficient fashion
and. not merely pretend to strike-at
the roots of privilege in the world Of
industry 40 less than in the world Of
politics;
who believe that only this type Of
wise industrial evolution viii avert
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"Thou Shalt a Steal"
who believe that wholesome party
government can come only if there IS
wholesome party management in a spirz
it Of service to the whole country and
who hold that the commandment deliv-
cred at Sinai, Thou shalt not steal
applies to politics as well as business;
'sTo all in accord with these views,
q call is hereby issued BY the proyi-
sional committee under the resolution.
Of the mass meeting held in Chicago
on June % 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 con-
gress, to meet in convention in Chicago
on the 9Th day Of August, 1912, for the
purpose of nominating candidates to
be supported for the positions of presi~
dent and vice-president Of the United
States"
Forty States Represented.
The call IS signed by sixty-tWo rep
resentatives from forty states, North
and South Carolina, Arkansas, Ala
bama, Maine. Nevada, Idaho and Mis-
sissippi not being repree ented.