Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-09-19
new PARTY'S STORY
TOLD BY DIXON
CAMPAIGN MANAGER OF PRO
GREssIvE PARTY TELLS
PLAINLY IT'S PURPOSES
AND PRINCIPLES.
Followers Of New PartyA -torth
Dakota Met at ~
Saturday.

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to hear the views and learn of the
progress Of the campaign, from Uni
ted States Senator Joseph M. Dixon
Of Montana, national campaign man
ager OF the Progressive party. At a
dinner attended by about 60. held
at the Hotel Gardner, Senator Dix
on spoke plainly and clearly Of the
purposes, plans and aims Of the new
party. He said in part:
People Should Know.
81 think it is due the people Of
North Dakota that they know the
whole story of the Progressive par
ty since February, and am sure
that if the people of this state could
know everything that has gone to
bring about the new party, Mr..
Roosevelt would have $4,000 major
ity in the state. In the presence OF
these men and women gathered
here believe it is my duty to tell
you fully and through you the peo-
pie of the state, how Mr.. Roosevelt
got into the great movement.
'sThis country is in a revolution.
/ was drafted into the fight rather
against my wishes. I went to see
Mr.. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. Then
no one thought that he would make
the race. But there was utter de-
moralization in Washington, and
Senator LaFollette was unable to
break the powerful Taft machine.
Odds Were Great.
ALREADY the chances were SO to
40 against US. Taft had closed the
mortgage on $50 delegates in the
southern states. But he went into
the states of the north and with the
single exception of North Dakota
where conditions were brought
about by unfortunate circumstanc-
es, Roosevelt won overwhelmingly
in every contest where the people
had voice.
cit was hard to break political
afiliations. newer took the
plunge for myself until the roll was
soalled on the California delegates.
Then said that the Republican par
ty had fallen into the hands of the
bosses. 1 knew that it could never
purge itself Of its Penroses. I sat
down beside Mr.. Hilles and told
him that Mr.. Taft would be nomi-
mated.
You are not going to vote for
him, are your exclaimed Hilles.
mo, but we are going to make
that bunch of crooks nominate him.
said. 1t4s
Crime Against Wilson.
SIT was really crime against
Wilson to make him lead the reac-
tionary Democratic party. The peo-
pie will not forget that 1t is reac-
tionary. It is as impossible to make
that party progressive as to make
Penrose, Barnes and Guggenheim
progressive.
''Then came the Progressive con-
yention in Chicago. The newspaper
men who came to scoh and poke fun
went away convinced that they had
seen the most portentuous political
gathering in the century. 1t was
NOT a champagne drinking crowd.
It was a convention of 800 serious
minded men and women fired with
religious zeal and patriotism
which the newspaper men had never.
seen before.
Nominated Greatest Ticket.
.'That convention wrote 9 new
deal IN American political life. They
faced boldly the conditions Of the
day, and wrote a scientific creed.
They nominated the greatest ticket
that the American people have ever
had. 2
AZ '.That was As days ago. Let, me
say to you without excitement or:
exaggeration, that that ticket will
revolutionize American politics. AT
It's worst the Progr ressive party will
BE the opponents Of the Democrats
after November s. It is only 9
question u 1866 " so. Ton -;