The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-07
BULL MOOSES'
MEET AUGUST s
Colonel Roosevelt viii calp = Con-
ven'lon at Which
to be Nor
mated,
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
All Bosses Excepting the Colonel and
His Little Clique Are to
Be Denounced.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, July Arrangement
tonight practically were completed
for the proposed progressive conven-
ton that is expected to nominate
Theodore Roosevelt for president of
the United States and 1t authoratively
was announced that the official cali for
the gathering would be issued at 4 p.
M, tomorrow from the Hotel Manhat-
tan, by Senator Dixon, the coioners
campaign manager The convention,
II Is said, probably will be held in Chi
cago. beginning August 6, and Colonel
Roosevelt will attend it.
While the contents of the call were
carefully guarded by Senator Dixon
and the lieutenants to whom the docu-
ment's preparation was intr1lsted, it
was said that the leading plank in the
tentative platform would be Thou
shalt not steal A section will de
clare against free trade, while several
paragraphs will denonnce the bosses.
Both the democratic and republican
parties will be declared to be obso-
lete, standing practically for the same
things, and controlled by "interlock-
ing'' bosses. William Barnes. Jr., of
New York; Boise Penrose. of Penn
sylvania, and w. Murray Crane, of
Massachusetts. will be presented as
hackers of Taft who will be bitterly
attacked. His nomination at Chicago
last month will be declared fraudu-
lent.
| Wilson will not be personally assail
ed. but it will be asserted that his
party is under the controfsf { t'sr derao
cratic old geard bosses, Charles r
Murphy. of New York, Thomas Tag
CART of Indiana, and Roger Sullivan, OF
Illinois.
The call tonight was being formu-
lated by Senator Dixon and Medill
Mccormick, of Chicago. who declared
that it would be signed by progressive
leaders of forty sta -es. 1t was said
that thirty-five signatures already were
approved and that all of the leading
progressive states with the possible
exception of Nebraska would be rep
resented by the signers. 1t was claim
ed that Nebraska was entirely in sym
pathy with it, but might not join in the
call because of the local contests. To
make clear in the call the alleged
fraudulent methods by which the nom
ination of Taft was accomplished,
Charles H. Thompson. of Vermont, and
Bainbridge Colby, of New York, col
laborated on an outline of the con-
tests brought before the national
committee and subsequently before the
convention.
William L. Ransom, of the New York
Bar Association was a caller on Col
onel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay this af-
ternoon. He said that he went to
consult the colonel about the Judiciary
ticket to be put up in New York by the
state convention and declared that
Colonel Roosevelt had agreed with him
that only men of the highest stamp
who will stand for social and industrial
Justice should be nominated for the
bench.
Asked about the reported desertions
from the progressive ranks, Colonel
Roosevelt this afternoon said:
"The desertions are mostly by pol
iticians, and men higher up and l
assure you their places will be more
than filed by those from the ranks.