The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-07-11
ROOSEVELT CALL FOR CON-
VENTION PROMULGATED
This is a Fight Not Dress Parade
is 0ixons Declaration.

as one of the cardinal principles of this
campaign, the National Progressive
Provisional Committee Sunday night
issued the formal call for the convention,
at which it is planned to name Theodore
Roosevelt for president. Chicago is the
place, and August 5th the date. Here
is what Manager Joseph NJ. Dixon de-
scribed as the latest Declaration of
independence"
ITO the people of the United States,
without regard to past political differ
ences.
who through repeated betrayals
realize that today the power of the
crooked political bosses and of the privi-
legged classes behind them is so strong
in the two old party organizations that
no helpful movement for the real inter-
ests to the country can come out of
either;
who believe that the time has come
for national progressive movement, a
nation wide movement on non sectional
lines, so that the people may be served
in sincerity and truth, by an organiza
ton unfettered by obligations to con-
fictlng interests;
who believe in the right and capacity
OF the people to rule themselves, and
effectively to control all the agencies of
their government. and who hold that
only through social and Industrial JUS
tice thus secured can honest property
( find permanent protection;
Who believe that government by the
few tends to become and in fact has be-
come government by the sordid infu-
ences that control the few;
I who believe that only through the
movement proposed can we obtain in
the nation and the several states the
legislation demanded by the modern in
dustrial evolution;
Legislation that shall favor honest
! business and vet control the agencies of
modern business so as to insure their be-
/ ing used in the interest of the whole
people;
/ Legislation which shall promote pros
perity and at the same time secure
the better and more equitable diffusion
of prosperity;
Legislation which shall promote the
| economic as well as the honest farmer,
wage-earner, professional man and bust
ness man alike, but which shall at the
same time strike in efficient fashion
and not merely pretend to strike at the
root of privilege in the world of industry
no less than in the world of politics;
who believe that only this type of
wise industrial evolution will aid in
dustrial revolution;
who believe that wholesome party
movement can only come if there is
wholesome party management in a
spirit of service to the whole country;
And who holds that the command
ant delivered at Mt. Sinai, Thou
shalt not steal' applies to politics as
well as to business;
ITO all in accord with these views a
call is hereby issued by the provisional
committee under a resolution of the
mass meeting held in Chicago on June
y last, to send from each state dele
gates whose vote in the convention shall
count for as many votes as the states
shall have senators and representatives
in Congress, to meet in convention in
Chicago on the 9Th day of August, 1912,
to nominate candidates who shall be
supported for president and vice presi-
dent of the United States.
In the list of names appended to the
call every state is represented with the
exception of North and South Carolina,
Arkansas. Delaware, Maine, Nevada,
Idaho and Mississippi. Among the
names are Miriam w. johnson of Cali
fornia; Ben B, Lindsay, of Colorado;
Medill McCormic, of Illinois; Charles J.
Bonaparte and E. C. Darlington, jr.,
of Maryland; Joseph M. Dixon, of
Montana; w. A. Pendergast, Oscar S.
Straus and Timothy L. Woodruff, of
New York; James r. Garfield, of Ohio;
E. A. VanValkenburg, William Finn,
Clifford Pinchot, William Draper Lewis,
of Pennsylvania; W. M. o. Dawson, of
West Virginia.
81 believe that the convention will be
more truly representative of the people
than any ever held, said Senator
Dixon tonight. ut will contain among
its delegates mere brilliant and patriotic
minds than have ever gathered at a
political meeting. We expect to carry
every state that Roosevelt carried at
the recent primaries and enough more
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