Omaha daily bee., 1912-07-24
DIXON BEGINS WORK
ON MOOSE PLATFORM
Senator Says it Will Be a Declare.
ton of Principles That Will
Stir the Country.
WILL SOLVE GREAT PROP,
Specific Solution to Be Provided fosa
Each Issue. So.
ROOSEVELT FOR NEW PARTY
Colonel Makes First Address Since
Chicago Convention.
HE INVITES ALL PR0GRESsIvES
Says Ex-Democrats and Ex-Repub-
licans Can Meet ON Exact Equal.
ity without Regard to
.. the Past.
WILL SOLVE GREAT PROP
Specific Solution to Be Provided fo.i
Each Issue. sy
ROOSEVELT FOR NEW PARTY
Colonel Makes First Address Since
Chicago Convention.
He INVITES ALL pR0GREssIvEs

CHICAGO, July Ex-senator Joseph M.
Dixon. Colonel Roosevelts campaign
manager discussed with leaders of the
third party movement today the platform
to be drafted for submission to the ma
t!onal convention in Chicago on August 5.
Upon that platform the new party will
stake its right to existence" said Senator
Dixon. But it will be platform that
will stir the country 1t will provide spe-
officially for the solutions of the great
problems" E.s. ..
Opponents of the third party ticket in
Illinois, which is said to have been as
sured by Governor Deneen's announce
ment that he would not support Colonel
Roosevelt, sent an open letter to the
Roosevelt headquarters today. asserting
that third ticket meant defeat for the
republican candidates for state office"
The letter was sent by Morton D. Hull,
a member of the Legislature.
1t was announced that all applications
for press seats at the national convention
must be sent to Medill Mccormick by
Monday, July q.
Colonel Makes First Address.
NEW YORK, July 23-In his first
speech since returning from Chicago,
Colonel Roosevelt today set forth his
reasons for leading in the formation Of
a new party. His address was delivered
at a meeting of the New York State
County chairmen of the national progress
sive party. Colonel Roosevelt did not In
tend to speak, he declared but the chair
men would not be denied. @
mo man knows better than l." said
Colonel Roosevelt, that enthusiasm and
high principles cannot be effective with
out organization and work. A great re-
sponsibility rests on you men here. who
are undertaking the organization of a
new party which Is to stand four-squared
to democracy, which Is to be literally
the party Of the people 1t will fight on
live issues and not dead ones. Il will
embody protest against the corruption
in both of the old party machines. 1T
will be party Into which exAdemocrats
and ex-republicans without regard to their
political past are to come in on an exact
equality and to have each the same share
in the party management.
Party OF the People.
when we get this started. it will be
a party not only representing the people
at election time, but will represent them
In party management We are going to
see to 1t that 1t is organized so that 1t
will be impossible for fifty-three men
chosen four years before by politicians
to stand superior to all the voters Of a
that state has not shaped it's laws ac-
cording to a given call of fifty-three pri-
vate men, the state shall not be disfran-
chised.
my own judgment Is that Messrs.
Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim and COM
pany made poor swap when they took
two stolen delegates from California In
place of the electoral vote Of California.
They were not contented with that. They
swapped the electoral vote of Massachu-
setts for the vote of two delegates.
think it was about as expensive swap
as was ever made by political managers"
Third Ticket in New Jersey.
ASBURY PARK, N. j., July 23-New
Jersey progressives in mass conven-
ton today determined to put in the field
for the November election a complete
ticket, but are still undecided
as to the method by which this ticket
should be nominated.
The executive committee Of the Roose-
velt state organization met before the
organization assembled. A minority that
opposed an absolute break from the old
republican organization prevailed so far
that the committee decided against any
declaration for the immediate establish