The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-07-08
BULL MOOSE CALL
GIVEN OUT FOR
AUGUST 9TH
Manager of the Roosevelt Cam
paign Issues Summons
TO MEET IN THE WINDY CITY
Party Will Probably Be Called MAT
ional OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
to be Unrepresented

A call to the people of the United
States who are in sympathy with the
national progressive movement" to
send delegates to a national conVen-
ton to open in Chicago August was
given out at New York yesterday al
ternoon by United States Senator
Joseph NJ Dixon, Theodore Roose-
velt's campaign manager. The call
is signed by members of the commit
tee chosen at the meeting held at
the close of the republican conven-
ton in Chicago and also includes sig
natures of Roosevelt followers in
40 states.
THE territories have no place in a
national convention and will not be
considered" declared Senator Dixon
in commenting upon the signatures
"As for the missing eight states most
of them will probably send delegates
although they have not taken part in
the call. Maine, for instance, post
poned any definite action because
there is now a strong fight on in the
primaries, with the sympathy run
ming in favor of the progressive move
ment. Delaware, North Carolina, Ar
kansas and Nevada will probably
take part in the convention. Mississ
ippi and South Carolina may posi-
bly, be unrepresented."
THE call lays down no rules as to
the methods of choosing delegates
since each state will be expected &c
select its delegates by its own para
phernalia," continued the senator
THE representation will be cut down
to Just one-half that of the previous
conventions. This was considered ad
visable, since this convention is to
be notably a deliberative body and
will certainly be composed of class
of men altogether different from those
who usually attend conventions.
in all probability the convention
will adopt the name national pro
gressive' for the new party, but
cannot say definitely what will be
done. Thus far no issues have been
authoritatiyely stated and of course
the platform itself will have to be
decided upon by the delegates"
Text of the Call
The text of the call in full is as
follows:
ITO the people OF the United
States, without regard to past pollu
cal differences. who through repeated
betrayals, realize that today the pow
err of the crooked political bosses and
of the privileged classes behind them
is so strong in the two old party or.
ganizations that no helpful movement
in the real interests OF our country
can come out of either.
"Who believe that the time has
come for a national progressive move
ment-a nationwide movement-on
nonsectional lines, so that the people
may be served in sincerity and truth
by an organization unfettered by OBJ
legation to conflicting interests.
who believe i'm 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 and
industrial Justice, thus secured, can
honest property find permanent pro
lection.
who believe that government by
the few tends TO become, and has in
fact become, government by the sor
did influences that control the few.
We believe that only through the
movement proposed can we obtain
in the nation and the several states
the legislation demanded by the mod
ern industrial evolution; Legislation
which shall favor honest business and
yet control the great agencies of mod
ern business so as to insure their be
ing used i'm the interests of the whole
people; legislation which shall pro
mote prosperity and at the same
time secure the better and more equi
table diffusion of prosperity; legisla
ton which shall promote the econ
omic well-being of the honest farmer
wage worker. professional man, and
business man alike, but which shall
at the same time strike in efficient
fashion-and not merely pretend e
strike-at the roots Of privilege N
the world of industry no less tian IN
the world of politics.
"Wha believe that only this typ,
OF wise industrial evolution will aver
industrial revolution.
Who believe that wholesome par
" government can come only il there
- wholesome party management in d
spirit of service 20 tie whole country
and who hold that the commandment
delivered at Sinai. Thou shalt moi
steal applies TO politics as well as
To business.
To al IN as,urd with these views
"a call H. hereby issued by tn provis
ional committee under the resolution
of the mass meeting cid ia t,aicae,
IN June - las To- send frgia each
state humler of delegates Who's
votes in the cci -ention shall count
Tor a. many vCt,s as the state shall
have senators and representatives, 10
congress. % meet in convention al
Chicago on the stu day CT August
1912. for the TarnuSe Of nominating
candidates to q" supported for ths
positions 81 1rcsil'nt and vice presi
dent Of thc United States"
sisners in New England ard New
Nork
Among the names appended 10 thl
call are Connecticut. Joseph ". Al
sop. Flavel s Luther. Massachusetts,