River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-08-01
NEW PARTY TO LAST
a PERMA NENT INSTITUTION
WHATEVER OUTCOME OF
NOVEMBER ELECTION.
AN INDEPENDENT TICKET
Planned in Every State But Six
Working Program For Pro-
gressives Approved by
.

Oyster Bay, New York. - A work
ing program for the new party has
been approved by Colonel Roosevelt.
Senator Dixon, his campaign manager,
who has recently been in consultation
with leaders of the movement, came to
Oyster Bay to lay their views before
the former president. After long
conference it became known that the
fundamental question of policy and
procedure had been agreed upon, sub
ject to approval of the National Pro-
gressive convention which is to meet
in Chicago next week.
The program which will be sub
mitted to the convention contains
these major provisions:
Independent tickets in every state
except perhaps six, in which it is be-
lieved the Republican organizations
can be taken over bodily
A clean break from both of the old
parties the Republican organizations
which it is expected to capture, to be
used as an integral portion of the new
party.
Formation of the party with the
idea that it is to endure permanently,
whatever the outcome of the Novem-
Der election.
Senator Dixon was accompanied on
his visit to Sycamore Hill by Dean
Kirchwey, head of the law department
of Columbia university and o. K. Day.
is, publicity manager of the new
party. The senator said, after he had
talked with Colonel Roosevelt, that
straight national Progressive tickets
would be run in every state except a
few in which the Republican organiza-
tons would cooperate with the new
party, and place Roosevelt candidates
for electors on the regular ticket. This
will be possible in states in which the
law does not require the names Of Taft
and Sherman to be printed on the bal
lot as the Republican nominees.
The states in which there will be no
independent ticket, he said, are Kan
sas, Nebraska, California, both the Da-
kotas and probably one or two others.
Senator Albert j. Beveridge of In
diana, he said, probably will be the
national Progressive candidate for gov
ernor of that state.
"Mr Beveridge will be elected gov
ernor," the senator predicted. 1--WE
will carry Michigan, Illinois and Penn
sylvania."
1t was felt that a definite outline
should be ready for submission to the
Chicago convention and it was largely
for this reason that Senator Dixon
came on to Chicago for the conference
In making up the Independent tick
cts in various states candidates on
either the Republican or Democratic
ticket may be placed on the ballot,
provided they agree to support the
National Progressive electoral candi-
dates.
In several states including Pennsy1-
vania it is expected the entire Re-
publican ticket for state officers will
be placed on the National Progressive
ticket.
Insistence upon making the party
entirely Independent is in accordance
with the wishes of Colonel Roosevelt
which insists that he and his asso-
ciates must appeal to Democratic and
Republicans alike and look beyond the
present contest to the future, shaping
their plans in such way that the
movement will go on whether defeat
or victory comes at the end of the
present campaign.