The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-07-08
CALL OF THE BULL
MOOSE PARTY GIVEN
SENATOR DIXON ISSUES
CAMPAIGN STATEMENT
w. NJ. o. Dawson of This State
Named the Campaign Mana
ger of New Party.
Convention Will Be Held at Chi.
cago on the Fifth of August
by "ProgreSsives.v

NEW YORK. July "A call 10 the
people Of the United States. who are
In sympathy with the national pro.
gressive movement" to send delegates
10 a national convention TO omen I'm
Nhlcago August .. was given out his
afternoon by United States Senator
Joseph VI Dixon. Of Montana. Theo.
1ore Hoosevelts campaign manager.
me call Is signed by members OF the
committee chosen at n meeting held
in Chicago. and also includes sigma.
lures OF Roosevelt followers in forty
states
The territories have no pIaca I'm a
national convention and will not no
considered" declared Senator Dixon
IN commenting upon the signatures
As Tor the missing eight states. the
most OF them probably will send dele
gates although they have not taken
part in the campaign
The call lays down no rules as IN
the manner Of choosing delegates
since each state will be expected 10
select its delegates by its own
paraphernalia. The representation will
be cut down 10 just one half hat ~
the previous conventions. This was
considered advisable since this con.
yeniion is TO be notably a deliberafive
body and will certainly be composed
OF a class Of men altogether different
from hose who usually attend con.
ventions
In all probability the convention
VIII adopt the name National Progress.
five Tor the new party. hut I cannot
say definitely what will be done
Thus FAR no issues have auehorita.
lively been slated. and Of course the
platform itflf will have % De decld.
ed upon by the delegates"
The following d. the text Of the
call.
To the people of tho United States.
without regard 20 political difference
who. through repeated betrayais. r.
alize that to-day the power Of tho
crooked political bosses and OF tho
privileged classes behind them b. so
strong IN the two old party orraniza.
tions that no helpful movement i'm
The interests o. our country can come
out Of either.
Who believe that the time has
come for a national progressive move
mont-a ration-wido movement ON
non-sectional lines. ao that the people
may be- served 10 sincerity and truth
by an Organization unfcttercd hv Or
lg1tion N conflicting interests.
Who believe IN the right and ca.
racity of tho people 20 rule them.
solves and effectively 10 control All
the agencies of their government. and
who hold that only through social.
and Industrial Justice thus secured
can honest property find permanent
protection.
Who believe that government by
Tho few tends to become. and has. IN
TACT. become government by the sor
did Influences that control the few
who believe that only through tho
rfofement proruFcd can 30 obtain in
the nation and the severaI nfatra the
lrI Iriqi1finu demanded bY the modern
evolution. legisiiatfou which shall "a
fnr honest business an az Co. ensure
their being used IN the intefeaf ~
whole people lrEirlltinu which rhniI
promote prosperity AMI nt tho same
flur 7erurr The better and more eguft-
able diffusion ~ prosperity. lrrIaiafIon
which shall promote the economic we'll
lCoutfnuad on pars rfsftta