The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1912-08-03
CALL FOR THE NEW PARTY
CONVENTION

CONVENTION.
A call signed by si1ty-tWo men
from forty states has been issued
for the assembling of a convention
at Chicago on the 9Th Of August,
1912, for the purpose of organizing
new party in accordance with the
views of Theodore Roosevelt and his
associates in the so-ca1led national
progressive movement.
There are two signers from Louis
iana-John NJ. Parker and Pearl
Wight-the former a leading spirit
in the Democratic Good Government
League That waged a successful po-
litica1 battle in the last state cam
paign, and the latter a lifelong Re
publican and for the past eight years
member of the Republican nation
al committee. The full text of the
call is as follows:
! ITO the people Of the United
States, without regard to past po-
| litical differences, who, through re-
/ peated betrayals, realize that today
the power of the crooked political
bosses and of the privileged classes
behind them, is SO strong in the
two old party organizations that no
helpful movement in the real in
terests of our country can come out
Of either;
| "Who believe that the time has
I c. ~n3 un
movements nationwide movement.
on nonsectional lines. SO that the
people may be served in sincerity
and truth by an organization unteI-
j tered by obligation &c conflicting IN
i terests,
who believe in the right and ca
4 pacity of the people to rule them
i selves and effectively to control all
the agencies of their government,
and who hold that only through So
i ciAl and Industrial justice thus SCI
cured can honest property find per-
4 manent protection
4 "Who believe that government by
the few tends to become ands has
in fact become government by the
sordid influences that control the
4 few;
who believe that only through the
movement proposed can we obtain
in the nation and the several states
4 the legislation demanded by the
modern industrial evolution; legIs-
lation which shall favor honest busI-
ness and yet control the great agen-
cies of modern business. SO as to
insure their being used in the in
terest of the whole people; legisla-
ton which shall promote prosperity,
and at the same time. secure the
better and more equitable diffusion
of prosperity; legislation which shall
promote the economic Well-belng OF
the honest farmer, wage worker, pro-
fessionaI man and business man alike
but which shall at the same time
v 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
J of wise Industrial evolution will aver
III industrial revolution;
who believe that wholesome party
government can only come if there
lis wholesome party management, IN
t a spirit of service to the whole coun
: try, and who hold that the command:
: ment delivered at Sinai, Thou shalt
not steal, applies to politics as well
: as to business;
: s"To all in accord with these views
h a call is hereby issued by the pro
h visional committee, under the reso
luton Of the mass meeting held IL
Chicago, June %, to send from each
l. state a number of delegates whose
n votes in the convention shall coun1
) for as many votes as the stats
: shall have senators and representa-
; tives in congress, to meet in con
S vention at Chicago on Aug. 5, 1912
y llfor the purpose of nominating candi
4 1 dates to be supported for the posi-
! tons of president and vice presiden
: Of the United States.
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