Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-08-06
NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE PARTY is
OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED AT CHICAGO
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,ect OF hanging Boise Penrose 10 a
your apple tree, was set 70 lhe ,un :.
AZ "the battle hymn OF the repupii0'
This ia the way it ran:
.The grand old party Is a mouioeiins
in the grave. - h,,+ H.
1T came and saved the hation' wv
self it cannot save. 49, ,+,s
sfrt,s Ross Barnes playthlns anu A.
Guggenheim's slave
sBut we go marching on. or.t
"The bull. Moose is coming, can
Won hear his warlike tread? :,
.,rhe alenhant and donkey are trenno-
ling with dread. +,or
"Their game is up, we've gov 'nena
licked, they know that they a'0
dead.
AS we 20 marching on"
crowds Slow In Arriving.
A+1o.2O Senator Dixon OF Montana
,ho was to call the convention 10 or
~ arrival and was cheered as ne
went upon the stage.
Torn,er senator Albert j. Beverage,
temporary chairman, was seaseu +;on
this time in the Indiana deies 49,
awaiting the ratification OF MS sei .e.,
ton as chairman when the cohVe'Ao'
should get under way. ,,a
The delegate section now was cro"u-
I'd and the aisles were chokeo. J.
The galleries, too were beglhhlns =. ~
All rapidly. Tickets had neen sou W
snectators to help defray the expenses
Of launching the new party Az ~: oo
gallery space was about half nlieu;
= Michigan delegates added 70 me
anthusia SIN by singing parody on tue
old Michigan football song as follows:
seWhat have we done?
what have we done?
"We've put old Bill Taft on the bum.
"That's what we've done.
The only negro delegate TN sight
from the stage was in the Pennsyl-
yania delegation.
Women we're to be seen in the dele
cations of score or more states.
When the convention was called to
order delegates occupied all the space
used at the republican convention with
It's total Of nearly LOO delegates.
Dixon Opens Speech Making.
At 12.43 Senator Dixon called the
convention to order. He briefly re-
viewed the signing of the call for the
convention.
''In the past four weeks a nation
has seen a new alignment of American
politics.
within four weeks, responding to
our CALL are assembled here today
more delegate representations to ma
tional convention than ever before as
sembled on American soil.
"This afternoon a new milestone
will be erected in American politics.
A new political party, knowing no
north and no south founded on the live
issues Of today will take its place with
those parties which live on the dead
issues Of the past"
Senator Dixon was interrupted by
cry "Hooray for Teddy"
The delegates cheered for half
minute. Senator Dixon then called on
Secretary o. K. Davies to read the
call for the convention.
The slogan Thou Shalt Not Steal
appeared on the call and was greeted
with cheers.
The names of those signing the call
we're read and cheers greeted each
lame When Senator Dixon's name
was called mild demonstration
started.
j. R. Garfield got cheer when Ohio
was reached and Pennsylvania
cheered E. A. Van Valkenburg and
Clifford Pinchot.
Z Minister Interrupted In Prayer.
Cecil Lyon was accorded round of
cheers. When the reading OF the call
ended Senator Dixon called on Rev. t.
r. Dornblazer, who pronounced the
prayer
When the minister had been pray
ing for more than fifteen minutes the
delegates interrupted with applause.
Shouts OF amen"
In conclusion he led the entire as.
.emblage in the Lords prayer.
The band struck up America" and
The assemblage sang the anthem.
A round Of cheers greeted Senator
Dixon's announcement that former
Senator Beveridge of Indiana had been
selected as temporary chairman. Sen
ator Dixon introduced him in flat
tering eulogy and he began the key
not speech.
When Senator Beveridge began to
speak the state delegations had gotten
pretty we'll Strengthened out and addi-
tional negro delegates were to be no.
ticed here and there among the north
ern states. There were two seated
with tn West Virginians.
Colonel to Build Platform.
Colonel Roosevelt's arrival on the
scene, as sponsor for the new third
party had been impatiently awaited by
the delegates who had been filtering
into the city during the past week.
Plans for the more important work of
the convention up to today had been
more or less tentative, awaiting the
final appearance of Colonel Roosevelt.
The matter of platform had partic-
ularly been left in allegiance, and in
view of Colonel Roosevelt's statement
on leaving New York last night that
The convention must accept his views
In full if he was to be the nominee,
the leaders felt they had been wise
In not taking the matter up in any def
mite shape.
Many of the delegates are in favor |
Of emulating the example of the ma
sional prohibition party and making |
the platform the briefest sort Of docu-
ment, containing the advanced deci- !
zion Of nrinciD1e in tabloid form de- |