Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-08-08
PROGRESSIVE PARTY"
IS OFFICIAL name
CHICAGO CONVENTION DECIDES
ON PERMANENT TITLE OF
THIRD PARTY.
Nomination of Roosevelt for Pres1-
dent and johnson as Running
Mate Today. Platform
Adopted.

Chicago, Aug. 7.-(Speclal.)-
The Progressive Party" is the name
of the new party, adopted at the ma
tional convention this morning.
Tuesdays session reached the cli-
max at the big convention OF the
new third party, when Roosevelt de-
livered his keynote speech. Ac-
cording to the program, late this
afternoon Theodore Roosevelt will
be nominated as the presidential
candidate of the third party, with
Gov. Hiram Johnson of California
as his running mate. The plan to
name some southern Democrat as
vice president nominee has been
abandoned
The Progressive platform adopted
this morning contains vigorous trust
and tariff planks, and urges unlver-
sal suffrage together with Industrial
reforms. ~
The Declaration of Faith.
These are the conspicuous points
in the Roosevelt program:
The recall of the judicial dec's-
ions as at first advocated by Colonel
Roosevelt in his spring campaign
and for which he was subjected to
wide criticism. Roosevelt now ad-
vocates it's extension to apply to fed
eral as we'll as state courts.
He favors the establishment OF
machinery to make easier of amend
ment both the national and state
constitutions, and especially with a
view of prompt action on certain ju-
dicial decisions. -~-~s
The use of the government to as
sist workmen to become a part Of
the business in which they are en-
ployed.
The government system should be
shaped SO that public servant
when he cannot conscientiously car
ry out the wishes of the people, shall
at their desire leave office and not
velt did not suggest the method by
which he would bring this about,
and there was much speculation as
to whether he had in mind funda-
mental change in the American sys-
tenn of government. In some quar-
ters it was interpreted as a declara-
tion in favor of the extension of the
recall to include legislative, execu-
tive and judicial officers of the ma
tional administration from president
down.
Control of trusts through the re-
tention of the Sherman antitrust
law and the establishment of an in
dustrial commission to regulate in
dustrial corporations as the inter-
state commerce commission regu-
lates the railroads. Corporations
which come voluntarily under this
commission and obey it's orders, are
to be immune from prosecution un-
der the Sherman law. Those which
fail to do this are to be subject to
prosecution and If the prosecution is
successful, dismemberment, the con-
stituent parts not to be allowed to
do business save under conditions
laid down by the Industrial commits
sion.
Conditions determining the prices
to be controlled where concerns
deal with the necessaries of life.
The adoption of number of
measures to secure "social and in
dustrial justice to wage earners."
Included in the list are the estab-
lishment of a law Immediately of
minimum wage scale for women;
minimum wage commission to fix
The standards of wages for all work.
ers; old age pension, and a living
wage, which Roosevelt defines as an
amount sufficient to provide educa-
Ion, recreation, care for immature
members Of family, maintenance of
amily during sickness, and accumu-
alton Of a reasonable saving for old
'ge; prohibition Of night labor for
Vomen and children; an eight hour
hift for Rorkmen in industries
q which men are employed twenty
our hours a day; national and state
Iorkmen's compensation laws;
uarantee BY law Of one days rest
i every sever days; old age insur-
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