The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-12
URGES SUPPORT OF ROOSEVELT
Declares Country Faced Revolution or
a New Party and That New Party
Was the Only Solution of Political
Conditions in the Nation.
(From Wednesdays Daily

IRON wednesday s Da1ly)
Preaching the doctrines of new
party and urging the election of Theo-
dore Roosevelt for president of the
United States, Senator Miles Polndex-
ter, of the state of Washington, open
ed the campaign Of the new progressive
party in Kenosha today. United
States Senator Poindexter took the
place of Governor Hiram Johnson Of
California, the candidate Of the party
for vice president. Governor johnson
had planned to speak in Kenosha this
morning and at the convention of the
new party in Milwaukee this after
noon, but he was taken ill in Chicago
Tuesday evening and his physicians
refused to permit him to make the trip
into Wisconsin. Senator Poindexter
has been with Governor johnson in
the preaching of the progressive doc
trines on the Pacific coast for the past
six years and he is one of the most
active Of the leaders Of the Roose-
yelt party.
A crowd Of more than three hundred
people gathered for the meeting and
several times during his address the
senator was interrupted by cheers and
applause. The senator was introduced
by James Cavanagh, one of the mem
bers of the Wisconsin committee of
tie new party and be spent much Of
his time in discussing the causes that
had led up to the formation of the
progressive party.
Keep the reins Of the government
in the hands of the people, the SEN
ator declared was the real issue in the
present campaign. FThe progressive
party is planned to return the govern
ment into the hands of the people and
divorce it forever from the interests.
| am not opposed to big business and
recognize that there is a necessity
for big business, but there is no de-
mand or cause for big business to have
control of the government of the ma
tion,' declared the senator. He went
at length into the story of the repub-
lican convention in Chicago and de-
clared that in the convention the will
! oT tho hoSeoS ord MA 4Io ,,-;u e II
people prevailed. He declared that the
republican national committee which
had controlled the convention of the
party in Chicago did not represent the
real sentiment of a single state in the
union. He paid his respects to Pen
rose, Rosewater and Mulvane and
apologized for the presence in the
Roosevelt ranks of Bill Flynn and Per-
kins. He said that the progressive
party proposed to root the boss out of
politics by making it law to hold
presidential primaries in every state
of the nation and thus give the people
and not the bosses the chance of Sc
Letting the candidates for head execu-
tive of the nation.
The republican party has been gov
erned by force and not by law and we
purpose to change the method of nam
ing candidates." shouted the senator.
The progressive party will make one
thing certain and that is that repub-
| lican convention will never be stolen
in the future.
| Continuing he said: "Under the sys-
tenn that has grown up in the United
States the bosses have become the gov
ernment-they have extended their in
hQence over many departments of the
nation and into every state in the
union. They controlled both Of the
parties and the fight is now to restore
the government. Politics in this
country are so corrupt that the nation
has been made a reproach among the
nations of the world It was a new
party or a revolution on the part of
the people and this is the cause for
the existence of the progressive
party"
In speaking of Col Roosevelt, sena-
tor Poindexter said: ''Col. Roosevelt
is man already tried and he has not
been found wanting. The only charge
against him-and | admit that it is
serious one-is that he made Taft pres
ident and then refused to aid him in
carrying out the functions of the gov
eminent The great majority of the
Ipeopie of this nation do not want :
president who needs nurse and if