Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-07-06
ROOSEVELT ID
 APPEAL ID FARMERS
COLONEL SAYS HE WILL TRY IND JET VOTES FROM BOTH 0F
 THE PARTIES
GritizeS Both Platforms and Holds They Ire Not Explicit Nor
 Satisfactory.

oyster Bay. N. r, July 5-A cam
 aaign along novel lines was sketched
 in bare outline by Colonel Roosevelt
 last night. As the cand da.e of Eae new progressive party for the presi-
 dencY Colonel Roosevelt intends
 make an appeal largely to the tarm-
 srs and he wageworkers on fhe
 ground that neither the Democratic
 nor the Republican parry is attempt ing seriously in this campaign to deal
 with t5e fundamental. economic and
 social eond:t :tions which confront tha country. Colonel Roosevelt said Senator James M Dixon of Montana
 who managed his campaign for fhe
 Republican nomination in all orob- ability would be his campaign man ager in his fight as the head of 5he new PartY. The senator's haadqua4- ters probably will be in New York,
 where he has spent most Of his time since the Chicago convention This program has been agreed upon as definitely as possible in advance of the national convention in Chicago next month. The former president intends Q break far away from con- vent'onal hopes to lead what he termed d peoples government.
 The Colonel talked more freely to- night of ais intentions than he has done heretofore Throughow his campaign he will contend that neither one Of the great old parties has shown the adaptibility or the inclination 10 take the point of view of ehe aver age man who has 70 work for his liv- ing. This statement he intends to couple with the argumen. which he previously outlined that the Republi- | can and Democratic parties are large- i ly under the influence of bosses and that the time has come for new national party. In th's connection the high cost of living is TO come in for special attention The former pTesi- i dent said he intends to deal with il const anrlY on the ground that while l 10 some extent it is due to natural ! econimic causes. there are collateral ! causes which may bel reached and remedied.
 
 Colonel Roosevelt has been engaged 1 in study of the platform adopted in Baltimore th's week. and of he Re- publican platform and believes he has tound in chem valuable campaign ma ferial
 He said neither of these platforms showed the slightest underssaniing )f the social and ndusiriad Qnovemen, [ which is under way in this country. They have taKent up- he said, the cid policies and the ba'tle cries ef other years. At the Baltimore and Ghiea- 90 conventions, he continued, there apparently was no reflection of the which. as he put it, all se- 'ous-minded men are dwelling upon the effort to obl ain better condi- ions of life for the ordinary wage 'arner. It is his intention. he said, O attempt 10 set forth the conda ins, which in his opinion are responsible or he nigh cost of living and the measures which he believes should )e undertaken.
 Scne students of economic condi ions, he continued, believed that the rusts were rrmarily responsible and | lther the tariff. He asserted that | his issue must be met sauafe.y and aat he would not confine himself aX- ,lusively either trusts CT tariff, [ nut would deal with the situation in Is broader aspects.
 It is going be a straight, strong | lard-fought campaign, he said. Fiet axhihiped staeks of let CTS and tele- grams which ne said, had come in since the nomination of Woodrow Wilson.
 ,'I have been perfectly amazed at the response from all parts of the ecuntry since Governor W'lson's he said.
 After tho call for the national committeeman comes out" he went OH, you w:tl know exactly now 1t shapes ua and you will find that we nave a strong organization.