Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-07-03

New Progressive Party.
To the Editor of the Evening Star:
The Republican party, born of the
union of the patriots of the old Wing
and Democratic parties, elected the
immortal Lincoln over half a century
ago.. Before his death, Lincoln's
emancipation proclamation made this
country not part free. and part
slave, but fully and totally the "land
of the free and the brave Since
then, until now, the money-making
devil-men, with the shrewdness of
his satanic majesty, have insiduously
plotted against the popular brother
hood rule in the land by using the
glorious name Republican, and as
evil ones hiding under angel wings
shooting with committee machinery
in the very temple named Republic
can, at the heart of popular rule, and
by machine rule riding their candi-
date into the presidential nominal
ton, in spite of the popular known
majorities of nearly the whole Union
against them.
The glories of the true Republican
party will be revered to the end of
time. Those assassins of the Repub-
lican party al no longer. by posing
in the garments of the glory they
have slain, be for an instant looked
upon as loyal Republicans. Let the
resurrected spirit which is the pro-
tecting angel Of heavonward human
ity and progress call the new party it
fosters the Progressive Humanita-
rians. Under that banner let Bryan
and Roosevelt march as the preem-
inently fit candidates for the presiden-
tial and vice-presidential chairs, as
the voting expression of the people
shows them as holding by all odds.
the preeminent place in the hearts Of
the people.
The greatest peaceful exhibit given
to any nation in the world of the sell
fishness of capitalistic trust combina-
tons against the mass of the people
on the one hand and on the other
the prayerfully longed-for wish of
the people for popular brotherhood
administration against trickily de-
vised committee machine rule of the
people, by the tyrannic few, has been
exhibited by the overwhelming ma
j~orities of State after State for popu-
lar rule against the machine-made
committee rule that in convention at
Chicago won against the people.
Only the final election in November
can overturn the Taft machine rule
by the repetition Of the vast majori-
ties all the States gave for the Roose-
welt ideas for the peoples rule, not
machine rule.
lican side has taken place. Now on
the Democratic side there has been
a renewal just as vivid, over eight
hundred voting for the peoples rule
against a scant two hundred voting
for machine rule. The machine Re-
publicans have put Taft in the field
against the peoples desire for Roose-
welt. The Murphy machine Demo-
Gratis have put their machine slave in
presidential nomination. Now the
only two human beings whom the
of voters ever showed their
preference for above all other human
beings are and have been Bryan and
Roosevelt. Roosevelt says his fight
is to establish popular rule, not SEEK
ing his own personal ambition. If he
should run as candidate for the presi-
dency, the national antagonism to
any approach to third term ideas
that defeated even General Grant,
next to Lincoln the most renowned
man Of America, might be used by
campaign speakers to defeat a third
election of Roosevelt. Like a saint,
Roosevelt left the United States and
buried himself in the wilds of the
African continent to make his third
term nomination an impossibility in
the last presidential election. Now,
If he. Roosevelt, whose ideas when
elected carried out the identical ideas
of William Jennings Bryan, whom he
defeated, if he, Roosevelt, should be
so sanity as to say l want the ma
tional idea of the peoples rule
clinched, not my personal advance
ment, is desired; therefore, 1 will
subordinate myself and only accept
the vice-presidency, with Bryan as
President.
Nothing from the kingdom of
heaven could be more sanity, and
the pfogressives of both parties
should, like immortal brothers, shake
hands over a union that would can
onize Roosevelt the world over, and
paralyze into comparative nothing
ness the vote of the machine man by
the immensely of such united MAORI
ties as the grand union of the most
famous men in the world would
unitedly win. Herewith, this is re-
spectfully submitted by yours truly,
GRANVILLE NJ. WEEKS.
900 DeGraw avenue, Forest Hill,
Newark, N. J.
EDITORS Note:-Dr. Weeks is a
direct descendant of Priscilla and
John Alden, and has demonstrated
his patriotism in many ways. He is
the last surviving officer of the Mont
tor, and in April, 1898, prepared a
resolution for Cuban independence
that was ratified by both houses of
Congress and signed by the President
and caused it's author TO be styled by
Senator Thurston on the floor. of the
Senate, "The maker of a nation."1
From q Veteran.