Arizona republican., 1912-07-21
THIRD PARTY
 TAKES SHAPE
Signature of Call Yesterday for State Convention to Be Held Here on July 30 to Select Delegates to the Chicago Convention

We have crossed the river" was 1 the announcement by a member of it yesterday of the formation of the | Third Party in Arizona The brink of | the stream was evidently approached with hesitancy by the Maricopa mem l bers of 1t. It was no easy thing to cut 1 loose from the old party. Friday was | a day of conferences presumably upon | the form of the call for a state con-
 vention fer the purpose of selecting | delegates to the convention of the na- | tional progressiv party at Chicago on l August ,. This call had been prepared
 in Tucson of the date of July IS. | The call provides for a convention 1 to be he'd in the city of Phoenix July | 30 and it is signed by representa- tives | of all the counties except two which will be represented later.
 What business if any will come be- | fore the state convention beside the i selection of delegates to the national convention has not been decided A | member of the new party was asked last night whether the party would en- ! ter the congressional fight in this state | also. He replied that that was one of
 
 | by the convention.
 The following is the form of the l call:
 l TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE | OF ARIZONA, without regard to past ! political difference. who, through re- peated betrayals. realize that today the power of the political bosses and the privileged interests behind them is so | strong in the two old parties that no 1 helpful movement in the real interest 1 of our country can come out of either: Who recognize that the time has | come for national progressive move ! ment on nOnsectiOnal lines, that the ] people may be served in sicerity and | truth by an organization unfettered by
 obligations to interests which conflict | with the public we'll fare. a prOgres- 1 sive party which shall teach and de- | mand the return to and enforcement | of the principles of government as
 taught and practiced by Thomas Jeff | ferson and Abraham Lincoln:
 Who believe in the right and capac- l itv of the people to rule themselves. | and effectively to control the agencies ] of their government anu who hold that 1 OHlN tIIlpLSH SoCldl anu lHuuSilidi Jus
 tice thus secured can honest property l find permanent protection.
 To ail in accordance with these views a call is hereby issued under the l provisions of the call of the national 1 progressive movement for the holding 1 of state cOnventin to meet at ten 1 o'clock A. M. July goth, 1912 in Phoe- nix Arizona, for the purpose of select ing delegates to represent the state of 1 Arizona at the national convention of l the progressive party to be held at ! Chicago, Illinois. on August 5th, 1912 l in accordance with the apportiOnment | provided by the call and for the trans 1 action Of such other business as may properly come before the convention. As time does not permit for the holding of primaries delegates to the said stato convention shall be chosen l in the several counties by mass meet ings or nX such other method as shall best serve to express the will of the people. on Saturday. July 27th, 1912. The number of delegates by counties which each county shall be entitled to send to tie said state convention based upon one delegate for each three hund- red votes or major fraction thereof cast for all candidates for governor in the stat election held in 1911, is as follows. to-wit:
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