The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1912-08-09
THE new PARTY
BEGINS BEEGG|HHS BUSINESS
Dixon Calls Progressive Con-
vention to Order in Chicago.
WOMEN MARCH IN HALL.
Former United States Senator Rever.
idge, As Temporary Chair
man, Delivers Keynote
Address.

Ch1cag0.--An0tner party was dorm
In this city Monday, when q thousand
delegates, representing every State in
the Union, except South Carolina, as
sembled in the Coliseum and listened
to former Senator Albert j. Beveridge
proclaim the policies upon which the
organization is to be founded.
At noon the delegates and few
thousand spectators gathered at the
Coliseum. Half an hour later Sem
ator Joseph M. Dixon, chairman Of the
Provisional Progressive Committee.
called the convention to order amid
cheers and reminded them of the re-
form that had brought them all into
common movement.
He said the country could place no
confidence in either of the old parties
and that its salvation depended upon
the success of Roosevelt leadership.
This was followed by the Keynote,
speech of Senator Beveridge. In this
address the issues which have de-
manded the formation of a third party
and reforms which the people must
have If their property and their
country's institutions are to survive
were touched upon. The opening adj
dress of the temporary chairman was
platitudinous but eloquent.
Discussing what he presented as the
leading issues Mr. Beveridge said, In
part:
1--WE must end the abuses of bust
ness by striking down those abuses,
instead of striking down business IT.
self We must try to make little BUSH
ness big and all business honest i'm
stead of striving to make big business
little and yet letting it remain dis
honest. AS the Sherman law now
stands no two business men can ar
range their mutual affairs and be sure
that they are not lawbreakers. This
is the main hindrance to the imme-
diate and permanent revival Of Ameri-
can business. Under the DEGREES Of
the court, the Oil and Tobacco Trusts
still can raise prices unjustly and al
ready have done so.
eve mean to put new business laws
or our statute books which will tell
American business men what they can
do and what they cannot do. Next to-
our need to make the Sherman law
modern, understandable and Just, our
greatest fiscal need is genuine, per
manent, non-partisan tariff commits
sion.
There has not been and will not be
any sincere and honest effort by the
old parties to get tariff commission
nor to take the tariff out of politics.
"a tariff high enough to give Ameri-
can producers the American market
when they make honest goods and
sell them at honest prices, but low
enough that when they sell dishonest
goods at dishonest prices foreign
competition can correct both evils; a
tariff high enough to enable Ameri-
can producers to pay our workingmen
American wages and so arranged that
the workingmen will get such wages !"
Abolition OF child labor in factories,
mills, mines and sweatshops and a
plan for old age pensions were includ-
ed in the Progressive platform by the
speaker, who incidentally favored
woman Suffrage.
James Rudolph Garfield offered the
resolution inviting Colonel Roosevelt
to address the convention tomorrow,
and the temporary chairman appoint
ed a committee of Is to deliver the
conventions invitation. Mr.. Bever-
idge then announced that the various
delegations would send up to the plat
eoux, <>x,<> - az hao& onoaEoro aa0h 0f
whom would be heard for five or ten
minutes. This was the idea conceive
ed by George W. Perkins, but so much
opposition to 1t appeared that it was
Instantly abandoned, the convention
adjourning until tomorrow at noon
The usual standing committees were
appointed in the usual way.
Colonel Roosevelt, not being a dele
gate, did not attend the opening ses-
ofNn