Arizona republican., 1912-06-23

| not only all men who believe in those elementary maXims of public and | private morality which underlie every form of successful government should | join one movement. Therefore I ask you to go to your several homes and find out the sentiment of the people at home and then again come to- gether I suggest by mass convention as nominee for the presidency, a pro- gressive candidate on a progressive l platform, a candidate and platform that will enable us to appeal to the ] northerner, the southerner, the east erner, the westerner republican and | democrat alike in the name of our l common American citizenship. If you wish me to make the fight I will make it if only one state should sup port me.
 The only condition I impose is that you are entirely free when you come ! together to substitute any other man in my place if you deem it better for the movement and in such case I will | give him my heartiest support Wher- ever any state republican party is I and genuinely a party of justice and progress I expect to see it come bodily into the new movement for | the convention does not represent the masses of the republican party. It was organized in cynical defiance of their wishes and has served the pur- pose only Of group of sinister polti- cal bosses who have not one shadow of sympathy with the spirit and pur- pose of the republican party of fifty years ago Many of them have used | the party merely as an adjunct to money making either for themselves or the great crooked financial inter- ests which they serve
 1 The bosses who first stole enough delegates to enable them to dominate this convention then did their will in it, have no hnship of soul or spirit with the men who started the repub- llcan party on it's career as an agent of liberty and justice. Imagine your selves how Messrs Barnes, Penrose and Guggenheim would have looked standing under the historic oaks of that Michigan city where the repub- l1can party was born fifty-six years ago. You, my friends, here before me, are heirs of the spirit of Lincoln when he refused longer to be bound by the shackles past and faced the new issues the spirit of the times de- manded. But we are more fortunate m one respect than our predecessors tor we who now stand for d progress SlVe cause, a progressive movement
 nave done forever with all sectional Ism and we make our appeals equally
 to the men who fought under Grant and to the sons of the men who l fought under Lee, for the cause we 7 champion is emphatically the cause
 of the south as it is the cause of the
 north I am in this fight for certain principles, the first and most import
 ant of these goes back to Sinai It is
 embodied in the commandment, thou
 shalt not steal a nomination. Thou
 shalt neither steal in politics nor busi- , ness Thou shalt not steal from the people the birthright of the people
 to rule themselves. I hold, in the
 language of the Kentucky court ot r. appeals, that stealing is stealing. No people are wholly civilized where
 a distinction is drawn between steal , ing an office and stealing a purse
 
 fled with an office to which his title
 Is not as valid as that of his home ; stead which shelters his family I dc
 not know whether our countrymeI
 fully realize the gravity of the situa-
 tion which we this moment face |, There is no use in holding primaries :, no use in holding elections if we per.
 init a small group of unscrupulou. f politicians, some of whom are actine , in the interests of big crooked busi. . ness to exercise the veto power ovcl these primaries and the election b!
 upsetting the results at their owl o pleasure
 T. The convention which today close!
 it's diScreditable career here in Chi :, cago represents a negligible minimum | of the rank and file of the republi ' can party. But what it has done
 what it had provided for the futur'
 offer material for very serious con
 sideration. The old national commit
 tee chosen by politicians four yeari f ago made up the temporary roll in o cluding some ninety fraudulent dele
 gates who had not been elected b! . the people and thereby they con trolled majority of the convention :. The fraudulent temporary roll il = turn chose a fraudulent credential r committee and all the fraudulent del
 egates voting on one anOther's case q thereby made up a permanent rol (which constituted the fraudulent con o lvention. Then this fraudulent con Vention chooses a new and not les fraudulent national committed Now