Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-08-07


senators by direct vote. the short bal
lot. corrupt practices acts applying 90
primaries as well as elections, quall-
ned adoption ~ the initiative, refer
cndum and recall
Woman suffrage,
Strengthening Of the pure food law.
Establishment of national health
department.
Creation ~ permanent tarlff com.
mission 90 study The effects Of protec'
tive tariff
Colonel Roosevelt declares against
hHnket revision of the tariff saying
changes should he made schedule by
rhcdulc
Measures 90 relieve thc high cost ~
living among which arc suggested elm
5 alton n he middlcm. LEGISLATION 10
stop speculation which initiates prices,
assistance of The farm o. hy state and
nsonal Government. good roa sd
auuoual government good roads the
resanmalion of arid aud swamp lands
ana an expert examination into ans
mrIn schedule which srpms 90 IN
crease the cost of living
Development hy tbe national gov.
ernmeut of the mississippi as deep
waterway hy use of tle plant em-
p'1Yod ON tho Panama canal upon
completion of The canal
foulficatiou of a., Panama canal
Free passage throush be- canal for
coastNise traffic aud the imposition
oi equal 10 is for an other ships OF
what ever nations
Navy to build up steadily until re-
ductIon of armaments is made posi-
hle by international agreement.
Colonel Roosevelt denounced the
republican and democratic parties az
"husks, with no real soul In either,
and as boss ridden and privilege
controlled" lie asserted than the chief
concern ~ the privileged interests"
was 20 defeat tho new party and that
they cared little whether they beat
II with President TAFT or Woodrow
wi son, regarding the difference be-
tween them az trivial.
Il hope we shall win he said,
and believe that n we can wake
the people to what the fight really
means. that we shall win"
The Troublesome southern negro
question which for time threatened
dlsscnsion In the first convention OF
the national progressive party, final
~ was disposed Of today when the
convention Itself without a dissenting
voice and without discussion, adopted
the report Of the credentials commit
tee, unseating both the white and ne
gro delegates from Florida ana also
throwing out the negro delegates
from Mississippi.
Co.onel Roosevelt during his CON
fesslon Of faith" was heclued by "A
spectator who Interrupted him with
the demand;
"N hat about the negro question %
Instantly the convention was in an
uproar. but Colonel Roosevelt silcnc-
ed those who objected TO the ques-
ton with the statement that no one
could ask him a question he was
afraid of.
The colonel then proceeded at some
length TO state his views on the ne
gro question. He declared he hoped
conditions might so improve in the
south that In future progressive
convention that those states might
send as delegates negroes who would
have the character and standing Of
the negro delegates from West Nir-
ginia who, he asserted, were in those
respects the equals of their white
assistants. In taking the tand he
did, Colonel Roosevelt asserted he
was sitting in advance conditions
which had led to the crushing disas-
ter and death of the great republican
parts ITSELF
The report of the credentials com
mittee unanimously adopted contained
"A resolution recognizing the ''consti-
tutional and inherent right of each
and every state to determine the
qualifications and manner of electing
ii sdelegates to national conventions"
This resolutio was regarded as CIV
ing the southern states the right to
choose delegates as they pleased. II
was also interpreted as not imposing
the direct primary system upon any