Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1912-08-07
new PARTY ORGANIZED
Bull Moose Convention Now in Ses.
sion in Chicago.
ROOSEVELT MAKES ADDRESS.

Contests Decided Against Negroes
and Convention Gets Down to Busi-
ness Today. After Hearing Bev-
eridge and Roosevelt.
/ The national progressive party
came to life on Monday, when it's rep
resentatives met at the Coliseum in
Chicago and formed the new party
a distinct, separate party, not affil-
lated with or connected with the re-
publican party in any way, as an
nounced by its organizers and lead
ers.
Former Senator Albert J. Beyer-
idge of Indiana sounded the keynote
of the new party in his address as
Temporary chairman, in which most
Of the planks Of the proposed plat
form of the new party were outlined.
Yesterday Theodore Roosevelt, the
convention's candidate for president,
delivered a ringing speech, express
sing his views concerning the organ
ization of the new party.
The steam roller is at work in Chi
cago as usual. The same bitter con-
tests which characterize all nation
al conventions have been decided by
the fellows who have the most votes.
The negro delegates of the south
were disfranchised in the convention
and refused seats by the national
committee, the lilly white" delega-
ttion from Mississippi being seated by
the close vote of II to 16.
Governor Hiram w Johnson of Cal
ifornia is slated for nomination to-
Gay as Roosevelt's running mate, the
candidate for vice-president.
The following excerpts from the
speech of Roosevelt yesterday after
noon, gives some idea of the trend
of his address:
THE two old parties are husks
with no real soul within either
The National Progressive platform
will be contract with the people as
definite and concrete as If it were
actually enforcible under the law.
The men who presided over the
Chicago and Baltimore conventions
and the great bosses who controlled,
differ from one another on certain
points, but these are the differences
of lawyers on opposing sides of a
corporation case. They come togeth-
er as against common enemy when
the domination of both is threaten
ed by the supremacy of the people.
The American people and not the
courts are to determine their own
fundamental policies.
l am aware every beneficiary of
the interests will claim this (the ju-
'dicial recalD is socialism or anarchy
as in the past they did the movements
to control railways and public util-
tiles.
The present condition of business
cannot be said to be satisfactory.
This is true because those dealing
with the subject have attempted to
divide into two camps, each as un-
wise as the other. One camp seeks
prosperity-for the big men at the
top, trusting something may leak to
the masses below; the other camp is
so busy with the question of distri-
button that it omits all considera-
tion Of having something to distrib-
ute.
A national industrial commission
should be created having power to
regulate all concerns doing interstate
business and their books should be
open to the commission at all times.
The antitrust law should be the wea-
pom against monopoly.
The first change upon the indus
trial craftsmanship of the day Is to
prevent human waste.
Suffrage should be granted women
if for no other reason, to enable wo-
men to combine for their own pro-
lection by the use of the ballot.
Cooperative associations of farm
ers both for the production and the
selling of agricultural products
should be encouraged.
believe in a protective tariff, but
/ believe in 1t as a principle to be
approached from a standpoint of the
interests of all the people and not as
a bundle of preferences to be given
favorite individuals.
Our government system should be
so shaped that the public servant,
when he cannot cOnscienti0usly carry
out the wishes of the people. shall at
their desire leave his Office and not
misrepresent them in Office.
Our cause Is based upon the eter-
nal principles of righteousness; and
even though we who now lead may
for the time fail, in the end the cause
shall triumph. We stand at Arma-
geddon, and we battle for the Lord
You will never find a busy man