The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-19
Is STRONG FOR ROOSEVELT
Platform Declares That Wisconsin Was
the Birthplace Of the Progressive
Ideas Of Legislation is Silent on the
Endorsement Of State Ticket.

platform of the progressive party
adopted by the convention in Milwau-
kee. The platform is strong in it's en-
dorsement Of the new party, but it is
silent in regard to the state ticket.
The platform follows:
The progressive party OF Wisconsin,
in convention assembled, afirms its
allegiance to and ratifes the platform
adopted at the progressive national
convention in Chicago, Aug. Z, 1912,
and declares in favor of Theodore
Roosevelt for president and Hiram w.
Johnson for vice president
Wisconsin is the birthplace and
home Of progressiyeism, In the minds
of all the people progressiveism has
justified itself in this state and they
are wholly committed to it, Other
states have first enyied and then
adopted in practical form the progress
sive legislation Of Wisconsin.
The great national parties in control
Of the federal government have defiant
by and successfully resisted every eff
fort of the progressive within those
parties TO direct federal legislation.
Progressiveism Comes Home.
We recognize in the new progressive
party the effective naturalization of
Wisconsin progressiveism Upon this
we congratulate ourselves and the
country at large. In the new party
progressiveism comes back to Wiscon-
sin, the home of it's birth and early
development, as an irresistible nation
al force, dedicated to the economic and
social well-being Of all the people
Wisconsin cannot deny it's own child.
No Repeal Of Advances.
The progressive party of Wisconsin
aidrms it's allegiance to those great
measures Of governmental reform con-
tended for by the progressi4es in this
state for the past fifteen years, the en-
actment Of some of which has placed
Wisconsin at the very front of the
progressive movement in the nation,
including such measures as the primary
election laws, the corrupt practice act,
the election of United States senators
by direct vote of the people, the initia-
tive and referendum, railroad rate reg
ulation, just and equitable taxation
measures, the worl1men S compensation
act, the regulation of child labor, in
dustrial education, the hours of work
legislation, the industrial commission
act and other important measures de
signed to secure economic and social
justice.
We therefore announce our determin-
alton to resist and prevent any and all
/ attempts on the part of reactionaries
Of either the democratic or republican
party to repeal this legislation, secur-
ed after years Of bitter strife and
struggle on the part of the people.
Others Be1Og Main Issue.
We denounce the apparent coalition
.ud conspiracy between the reactionary
dement's Of the two old parties, and
Farn the people against the false and
Misleading issues with which these ele-
nents seek to befog the main issue,
which IS The economic and social better
meat Of the people as a whole, as
against their control and exploitation
by a few
People Demand Roosevelt
shall the people rule? rs the viii Of
the people in fact to be the law OF the
land? The people demand Roosevelt.
He received at the primaries 100000
votes equally, if not oxceed;ngv the
yoses OF all other candidates combined.
However, the rule Of the people, the
progressive cause, is larger than the
personality Of any man Or any thous-
ard men 1t goes to the very founda-
ton of the people s Interest, and there
fore those who believe in progressive-
ism are bound, in the advancement Of
Inc fight, to place principles aoove
personalities.
Praise Wisconsin Leaders.