The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-08-07
ROOSEVELT DELIVERS
CONFESSION OF FAITH
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so much ground to be covered. that the
, task was found most difficult.
| When the full committee met 1t
seemed likely the negro question would
be brought up again. Hugh #. Halbett
of Minnesota carried with him to the
meeting a plank on the subject which
read:
| The national progressive party rec
| ognizes that distinctions of race. or
class, or sex, in political life, have no
| place in a democracy. Especially does
the party realize that a group of 10,00,-
900 people who have In a generation
changed from slavery to a free labor
system, re-established family life. ac-
cumulated 81, 90. 900, 900 of real prop
erty, and reduced their illiteracy from
80 to 80 per cent, deserve and must
have justice, opportunity and voice In
their own government"
| This plank was said to embody large
| ly the views of Miss Jane Adams on the
| subject
There was every indication as COM
mittee members assembled that the plat
form would not be finished until far into
| the night.
Contents of Harris Letter
Colonel Roosevelt tonight made public
the full text of a letter from Julian
f1aTr1S Oh AlldHtd, oh seill III icpiy ~
the coloners letter ON the negro ques-
ton addressed to Mr. Harris several days
ago His combination, Mr.. Harris hailed
the new progressive party as the greatest
stimulus against factionalism the south
ever has received.
The letter said In part:
For the south you have opened a
path, that, il followed will prove the way
by which 1t may return permanently to
A. had %
| hirthright and which by virtue of states
manshp it held until the results of the
| civil war for on 1t unnatural and artificial
| party solidarity. For nearly 80 years the
young men of the south have inbibed the
| doctrines of democracy, as opposed to re-
| publicanism-not democracy for the sake
of its principles but because 1t was the
| only party 20 serve as bulwar,l against
| republicanism.
THE national progressive party offers
| the south m opportunity which it not
only needs, but has earned.
| THE south has reached the point. how
| ever, where an intelligent discussion of
vital issues must take the place of the
| narrow pleas of factionalism And the
greatest stimulus the south has ever re-
| ceiyed in this direction is your decision
| to give us the opportunity to build a resi-
| opposition party to the politics burdened
democracy. In this you will have what
| ever help my earnest cooperation can
| lend you, and Il cannot but believe there
| are hundreds of thousands of others in
the south who will gladly join in the ac-
| ceptance of this joyous deliverance, the
national progressive party promises to
afford
More Tickets Announced
| Straight independent tickets will be
placed in the field in PENNSYLVANIA and
| Colorado by the national progressive
| party Colonel Roosevelt made this an
| Eouncement tonight after conference
with delegates from both states. The
! fight In Pennsylvania will be carried on
! through the washington party, and in
Colorado through the national progressive
| party.
Change Name in Pennsylvania
The adoption of a different name in
Pennsylvania was necessitated by the
fact that opponents of Colonel Roose-
| welt in that state got ahead of his
supporters and pre-empted under the
law the name National Progressive
as we'll as a score of similar titles.
I'VE are to run straight third party
ticket in Pennsylvania" said Colonel
Roosevelt. "Of the republican electors
three fourths are Roosevelt men and
the proposal was that they should run
| on DOtn tlcketS anu give inc electOTdl
vote to whichever man got the most. TIC
this could not assent In Pennsylvania
under the law, unlike Kansas, the
names of Taft and Sherman go above
the republican electors | felt that the
Roosevelt electors should not be in thai
column at all and moreover under nc
circumstances would | have consented
that any man who votes for me could
by any possibility have had his vote
counted for Mr. Taft l have avoided
taking any part in the divisions thai
have occurred among my friends ir
Colorado but the third party people
were the only ones that sent delegates
to the national progressive convention
and. of course, they are the men thai
we recognize"
Accept Committee Report
The sub committee report was sub
mitted to the full committee by VIII
liam Allen White of Kansas, who wa.
said to have written most of IT. Tn,
draft was approved tonight by Colone
Roosevelt and the subcommittee hope,
| to put it through the committee with
out difficulty. There still was talk o
possible friction, however
The sub committee was said to hav'
reduced the platform to about $500
words.