The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-07-25
THIRD POLITICAL
PARTY IS FORMED
THE PRoGREssIvEs ARE NOW
ORGANIZED TO PUT UP FULL
TICKET IN STATE.
FEATURES OF THE PLATFORM
THAT WAS ADOPTED.
Roosevelt's Wishes Seem to Havd
Been Fully Complied With and
"Stub Ticket" Eliminated.

For governor-Senator l.. Whitney
Watkins
For United States Senator-Theo-
dore NJ. Joslin.
For n-at-large-Nathan
p. Hull.
The final result of the convention
held by Progressive Republicans at
Jackson is that a complete ticket will
be put in the field. A separate state
organization is formed and resolu-
ton was adopted declaring in favor
OF new party state, county, congress
sional, legislative, city, township and
ward tickets. Former Republican
State Chairman Frank Knox had
made himself the leader of the state
ticket faction. He fought hard
against the third tickets locally. 1t
was plain that the Knox faction were
in a bad way before the convention
convened and with the arrival of Sen.
Dixon and his declaration for the go
the-limit policy, Knox surrendered.
! When the resolution introduced by w.
II. Hill, of Detroit, declaring for the
third state, county and local tickets
came up for discussion, Knox took the
platform and said:
Col. Roosevelt has seen fit to
change his mind as to the course we
should pursue. The first orders /
took from anybody as a boy just out
of college were from Col. Roosevelt,
as a member of his rough rider
regiment. | am still taking my orders
from Col. Roosevelt. l will support
and work for third party ticket AL
down the line
The convention chose presidential
electors, national delegates and alter
mates and state central committee as
| follows:
Presidential Electors.
At large-Virgil Hungerford, Cold
water; Charles James, Detroit; C.. c.
Dekamp Lansing. First district. w.
/ II. Hill, Detroit; second, II. S. Dean,
Ann Arbor; third, w. S. Powers, Bat
! tie Creek fourth, f. r. Beiknap, Ran
dolph; fifth, Gilbert Hahn, Holland
sixth, Harry S. Chapman, Oakland;
seventh, Edward S. Black, Marine
City eighth. Orson B. RANDALL, Tus-
,, cola; ninth, R. ]. Mcdonald, Muske-
gon; tenth, luther G. Beckwith, Bay
City; eleventh. S. d. Eldred, Mt.
Pleasant; twelfth, Bates G. Burt Mar
quette.
State Central Committee.
Charles p. O'Neil, Detroit, chair
man; first district, Charles p. O'Neil
and p. G. Davis, Detroit; second, John
Brock, Jackson, and X. G.. DobsoR,
Ann Arbor; third, f. A. Rothlisberger,
and j. A. Wagner, Hillsdale; fourth,
j. NJ. Harvey, Jr., Constantine, and
r. H. Sherwood, Watervliet; fifth,
Oscar Braman, Holland, and William
Dekleine, Grand Haven; sixth, Ira 7.
Sayre, Flushing, and w. S. Kellogg,
Battle Greek; seventh, w. r. Bope,
Bad Axe, and Jefferson c. Brown,
Port Huron; eighth, Charles Gan
shaw, Saginaw, and Edward G. Mason,
Corunna; ninth, Frank 5. Burbank,
Oceana. and e. V. Dana, Muskegon;
tenth, l.. G. Beckwith. Bay City, and
L. l.. Gardiner, Midland; eleventh,
J. T. Dunwoodie, Clare, and DR.. Mel
sojn Abbott, Missaukee: twelfth, DR..
w. T. Feetham, second member to be
named
Features of the Platform.
The platform adopted contains
these plankS:
We favor a presidential primary
law giving to the people the right TO
vote directly for their choice of presi-
dent, with a clear provision that the
delegates selected shall choose a ma
tional committeeman whose term OF
Office shall begin Immediately after
the holding of said primary election
and prior to the making of the tenn
porary roll of membership in the ma
tional convention.
Coz hn mi rAFn
endum and the recall.
We favor the recall of all officials
when corrupt or incompetent.
We condemn the usurpation by the
| judiciary of those functions of gov
eminent which. belong to the legisla-
tive department by giving to statute
law the force and effect not intended
| by the elected legislative servants OF
| the people.
We favor the separation of the judi
ciary from politics.
We favor principles rather than
men.
We favor a law which shall compel
all candidates for Office upon the state
ticket and candidates for United
| States senator and congressman and
each candidate for the legislature to
| file with the secretary of state, at
| least 80 days before election of prin-
| ciples upon state and national issues.
We favor the passage of corrupt
| practices act governing bot.l prim-
aries and elections, with ample pen.
alties for violations of the same.
| We favor a continuance of the pres
ent policy of greater economy in state
affairs, to the end that taxes shall not
| increase out of proportion to the in
crease of the states population and
aBsessable wealth.
Lieut.. Preusser, German military
aviator, was killed in Leipsig as he
was making a landing after a fight.
| The machine turned over twice after
it struck the gorund. the airman be-
| ing caught beneath the engine.
Corunnas council has instructed
the city attorney to draw up new
| franchise for the Michigan United
| Traction company. In the franchise
| drawn up by the company, they
| agreed to run their cars only par