New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-23
HOW THE NEW PARTY WAS BORN

| Therefore, ! ask you to 40 10 your
several homes to find out the sentiment
OF the people at home, and then again
TO come together | suggest by mass
convention, to nominate for the Presi-
dency Progressive candidate on Pro.
gressiVe platform, a candidate and a
platform that will enable US TO appeal
to Northerner and Southerner, Fastener
and Westerner, Republican and Demo-
crat alike, in the name Of our common
American citizenship. II you wish mo to
make the fight | will make it even il only
one state should support me.
The only condition / impose is that you
shall feel entirely free when you come
together 10 substitute any other man i'm
my place II YOU deem II better for the
movement. and in such case | will give him
my heartieSt support.
Expects Republicans TO Join.
Wherever in any state the Republican
Tarty Is true 10 the principles of IT'S found
ors and IS genuinely the party Of justice
and Of pr~eress expect 10 SEQ II come
boldly into the new movement. for the
convention that has just SAT in this city
Is In no proper sense Of the word a Re
publican convention at all 1t does not
represent the masses nj the Republican
party II was organized I'm cynical de-
fjance Of their wishes and it has served
the purpose only OF a group of sinister
political bosses who have not one shadow
of the Republican party Of nifty years ago.
and many Of whom have used the party
merely as an adjunct TO money making.
either for themselves or for the great
crooked financial interests which they
serve.
The bosses who first stole enough dele
gates to enable them 10 dominate this con
venton, and then did their will in II. have
no knship OF soul or spirit with the men
y no started the Republican party on It's
career as an agent Of liberty and justice.
Barnes. and Penrose and GugGenheim
would have looked standing under the his
toric oaks In that Michigan city where the
Republican party was born tifty-slx years
fore me, you are the heirs I'm the spirit
NJ Abraham Lincoln when he refused
longer 10 10 bound by the shackles Of the
past and raced the new issues In the new
shirt tina, the times demanded But We
arc more fortunate In one respect than
our predecessors. for We who now stand
for the Progressive cause, the Progressive
movement have done forever With all see
tlonaism and we make our appeal equally
tn the sons OF the men who fought under
Grant and 10 the sons or the men who
fought under Lee, Tor the cause we cham.
pion Is as emph1ticallN me cause or the
south as il Is the cause of the North.
QUOTES THE COMMANDMENTS.
am in this fight for certa in princi.
Mas. and the first and most important
az these goes back 10 Sinai, and is en-
hodied in the commandment, "Thou shalt
rot steal" Thou shalt not stea nonli.
nation. Thou shalt neither stea in poll
tics nor in business. Thou shalt not
stsaI from the people the birthrieht OF
the people to rule themselves.
hold in the language OF the Kentucky
Court OF Appeals. that stealing is steal
ing No people is wholly civilized where
a distinction is drawn between stealing
an Office and stealing purse. No truly
enc to which his title is not valid
as that Of the homestead which shelters
his family. .. .......
,,,iIy realize the gravity of the crisis
which we at this moment face. There Is
no use in holding primaries. no use in
holding elections. II we permit a small
groun of interruptions politicians. some
~ whom are certainly acting in the in
tarests Of big crooked business, TO exer-
else the veto power over tness prime rles