The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-07-12
CALL Is ISSUED FOR
THRU PARTY Meeting
Convention to Assemble in Chi
Cago August 5.
Call Is Signed by Roosevelt Leaders
from Forty States and Addressed
to All the People of
United States.

Colonel Roosevelt's third party con-
Aug. s, either in the Coliseum or Or
chestra Hall.
The call for it, signed by Roose-
welt leaders of forty states and adj
dressed ito the people of the United
States, without regard to past politi-
cal differences" was issued through
Senator Joseph M. sixon, campaign
manager, in the new national head
quarters of the party at the Hotel
Manhattan.
The party will probably be called
the Progressive National Party. The
convention will decide as to that.
Eight. states-Maine, North Carolina,
Delaware, South Carolina, Arkansas.
Mississippi, Idaho and Nevada-are
not represented in the provisional
committee which signed the call for
the convention. Senator Dixon ez
planned that in all these states Roose-
welt controls or has a chance to con-
troll the regular Republican organiza-
ton, hence the omissions.
The method of choosing delegates
to the convention will be left to the
leaders of the various states. Prob
ably they will be chosen in conven-
tons. Senator Dixon said that the
time is too short for primaries. One
or two states have already held
Roosevelt conventions. The call is
as follows:
ITO the people of the United States,
without regard to past political diff
ferences who, through repeated be-
trayals, realize that today the power
| of the crooked political bosses and OF
the privileged classes behind them is
so strong in the two old party organ
izations that no helpful movement in
co~~e out of either:
~We believe that the time has come
| for q National Progressive movement
! "a nationwide movement non
| sectional lines, SO that the people may
| be served in sincerity and truth by an
organization unfettered by obligation
| to conflicting interests
| w no USliGV0 III Tic IISuI duu Ca
| pacity Of the people to rule them
| selves, and effectively to control all
| the agencies of their government, and
| who hold that only through social and
| industrial justice, thus secured, can
honest property find permanent pro-
| lection;
who believe that government by
/ 10 ho~ -
fact become, government by the sordid
| influences that control the few;
! Who believe that only through the
| movement contemplated can we OBJ
tain in the nation and the several
/ states the legislation demanded by the
modern industrial evolution, legisla-
ton which shall favor honest business
and yet control the great agencies of
modern business so as to insure their
| being used in the interest of the whole
i people; legislation which shall pro-
mote prosperity and at the same time
secure the better and more equitable
| diffusion of prosperity; legislation
which shall promote the economic
| well-being of the honest farmer, wage
worker, professional man and business
man alike, but which shall at the
same time strike in efficient fashion
and not merely pretend to strike
at the roots 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 avert in
| dustrial revolution;
"Who believe that wholesome party
| government can come OILY if there
| is wholesome party management in a
! spirit of service to the whole country
f! and who hold that the commandment
delivered at Sinai, Thou Shalt Not
Steal applies to politics as well as
| to business;
"To all in accord with these views
call is hereby issued by the pro-
| visional committee under the resolu
! ton of the massmeeting held in Chi
cago on June 22nd last, so send from
| each state a number of delegates
whose votes in the convention shall
count for as many votes as the state
shall have senators and representa-
| tives in congress, to meet in mass
convention in Chicago on the 9Th day
of August, 1912, for the purpose of
nominating candidates to be support
ed for the positions of president and
vice president Of the United States
Among the signers to the call are
! the following:
Indiana, Edwin D. Lee, Horace C.
Stillwell Illinois, Medill Mccormick,
| Chauncey Dewey, La Verne w.
| Noyes; Michigan, Theodore M.
Joslyn; Minnesota, Milton D. Purdy;
Missouri, w. R. Nelson; Ohio, James
R. Garfield; Wisconsin, H. F. Coch-
ems.