The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-07-12
new PARTY MEETS
At CHICAGO AUG. 5
viii Nominate President and
Vice-President.
FORTY STATES SIGN CALL
invitation Extended to All Regard.
less of Political Effiiation to Join
in Movement to Further "Pro-
qressive" Ideas.

New York, July "a call to the
people of the United States who are
in sympathy with the National Pro-
gresSlve movement" to send delegates
to national convention to open in
Chicago August was given out on
Monday by Senator Joseph M. Dixon
OF Montana, Theodore Roosevelt's
ed by members of the committee chos-
Ell at meeting held in Chicago during
the recent Republican convention
held there.
The text of the call follows:
ITO the people of the U. S.. without
regard to past political differences,
who through repeated betrayals, real
lie that today the power of the crook
ed bosses and OF. the privileged classes
behind them is so strong In the two
cid party organizations that no help
ful movement in the real interests or
our country can come out Of either;
who believe that the time has
come for national progressive move
ment-a nationwide movement-on
non-sectional lines, so that the people
may be served in sincerity and truth
by an organization unfettered by obi
cation to conflicting interests;
Who believe in the right and ca
pacity of the people to rule them
selves, and effectively to control all
the agencies Of their government, and
who hold that only through social andin-
dustrial justice, thus secured. can hon
est property find permanent protec-
ton;
who believe that government by
the few tends to become, and has in
fact become, government by the sordid
influences that control the few;
Who believe that only through the
movement proposed can We obtain in
the nation and the several states the
legislation demanded by the modern
industrial evolution; legislation which
control the great agencies of modern
business SO as to insure their being
used in the interest of the whole peo-
pie; legislation which shall promote
prosperity ard at the same time Sc
cure the better and more equitable
diffusion of prosperity; legislation
which shall promote the economic well
being of the honest farmer, wage
worker, professional men and business
man alike, but which shall at the
same time strike in efficient fashion
and not merely pretend to strike-at
the roots of privilege in the world Of
industry no less than in the world Of
politics;
who believe that only this type Of
wise Industrial evolution will avert
Industrial revolution;
who believe that wholesome party
government can come only if there is
wholesome party management in spir-
1t of service to the whole country and
who hold that the commandment deliv-
applies to politics as well as business;
ITO all In accord with these views
a call is hereby issued by the provi-
sional committee under the resolution
of the mass meeting held in Chicago
On June % last, to send from each
state a number Of delegates whose
votes in the convention shall count for
as many votes as the state shall have
senators and representatives in con-
gress, to meet in convention in Chicago
on the 9Th day of August, 1912, for the
purpose of nominating candidates to
be supported for the positions of presi-
dent and vice-president of the United
States"
The call is signed by sixty-two rep
resentatives from forty states, North
and South Carolina, Arkansas, Ala
bama, Maine, Nevada. Idaho and Mis-
sissippi not being represented.