The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-14
BULL MOOSE CALL FORMALLY ISSUED Signed by About 125 Ala
 bama Citizens URGES ALL TO JOIN Thompson Says He Is Sincere in His Belief That Alabama Will
 Be Carried by the
 Progressive"
URGES ALL TO JOIN

Addressed to the qualified electors of the state of Alabama without regard to past party differences the "bull moose faction" headed hy Col Theodore Roose- welt, issued call yesterday signed by 125 Alabama citizens to meet here on Wednesday, July 2i. At that meeting F delegates will be elected to the national bull moose convention 10 he held Au- gust in Chicago at which time Colo mel Roosevelt will be named to head the ticket for the presidency.
 The call follows:
 ''ro the qualified electors of the state oi Alabama. without regard to past differ enees. who believe that the time has come for a nation-wide movement on non-seeiional lines. SD that the people may be served in sincerity and truth by an organization mfetered by obligation to conflicting interests. who believe in the right and capacity of the people to lule themselves and effectively control the agencies Of their government.
 Who believe that government b$ the few tends to become. and has in fact become, government by the sordid intu- ences that control the few
 Who believe that in this great state of ours. richly endowed as it Is by the hand of nature. militant. aggressive new party, untettered by the traditions of prejudice, either local or national would enure to the material welfare Of our commonwealth;
 'Who believe that only through the progressive movement now being pro posed can we obtain in the nation and the several states the legislation demand ed by the modern industrial cVolntion; legislation which shall favor honest bus mess and yet control the great agencies of modern business so as to insure their being used in the interest of the whole people, legislation which shall promote prosperity and al the same time secure the better and more equitable diffusion of prosperity: legislation which shall pro- mote the economic well being of the honest farmer, vage-earner, professional man and business man alike. but which shall at the same time strike al the roots of privilege in the world of in- dustry no less than in the world of politics
 .To all in accord with these views a call is hereby issued in accordance with the resolution of the mass meeting held in Chicago on the 22d day of June, 1912, and in accordance witn the call issued by the provisional cor.,n,ttee. under the direction of the leaders of the progressive movement at New York, on the 7th day of July, 1912. for q mass convention to be held in the city of Birmingham on Wednesday, the 2lth day of July, 1912. at the city hall, at the hour of 12 o'clock noon, for the purpose of selecting l2 del- egates to attend the convention calle to meet in tn city of Chicago on the 5th day of August 1912. and to transact any other business that may come before said mass convention.
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