The Kenna record. (Kenna, Roosevelt County, N.M.) 190?-1924, 1912-07-12
SAID TO BE FOR THOSE WHO
WANT POLITICAL AND so.
cIAL JUSTICE.
TO Be NATIONWIDE MOVEMENT
Forty States Have Joined Plan to
Name ProsressIve-Appeal Made
to Farmers and Waee-Earners
to Insure Legislation
Their Welfare.

new YORK, July IA call TO the peo-
pie of the United States who are in
sympathy with the national progress
sive movement" to send delegates to a
national convention to open in Chi
cago August 5, was given out today by
United States Senator Joseph M.
Dixon of Montana, Theodore Roose-
velt's campaign manager.
The call is signed by members of
the committee chosen at a meeting In
Chicago and also bears the signatures
of Roosevelt followers in forty states.
"The territories have no place in
national convention, and will not be
considered" Senator Dixon said In
commenting upon the sigatures.
'As for the missig eight states, the
most of them probably will send dele
gates, although they have not taken
part in the call. Maine, for instance,
postponed any definite action because
there is now a strong fight on in the
primaries, with the sympathy running
in favor of the progressive movement.
Delaware, North Carolina Arkansas,
and Nevada probably will take part in
the convention. Mississippi and South
Carolina may possibly be unrepre-
sented.
The call lays down no rules as to
the methods of choosing delegates,
since each state will be expected to
select its delegates by its own para
phernalia. The representation will be
cut down, to just one-half of the
previous conventions, which was
deemed advisable since this convention
is to be notably deliberative body
and will certainly be composed of a
class of men altogether different from
those who usually attend conventions
"In all probability the convention
will adopt the name National Progress
sive' for the new party, but l cannot
say definitely what will be done. Thus
far no issues have been authoritatively
stated and of course the platform itself
win have to be decided upon by the
delegates"
The text of the call is:
To the people of the United States,
without regard to past differences,
who, through repeated betrayals, real
ize that today the power of the crooked
political bosses and of the privileged
classes behind them is so strong in the
two old party organizations that no
help in the real interests of our coun-
try can come out of either;
Who believe that the time has come
for national progressive movement
nationwide movemeSt-on nom
sectional lines, so that the people may
be served in sincerity and truth by an
organization unfettered by obligation
to conflicting interests;
Who believe in the right and ca
paclty>of the people to rule themselves
and effectively to control all the agen-
cies of the government and who
hold that only through social and in
dustrial justice. thus secured, can hon
est property find permanent protec-
ton;
Who believe that government by the
few tends to become and has in fact
become government by the sordid in
fluenees that control the few;
Who believe that only through the
movement proposed can we obtain in
the nation and the several states the
legislation demanded by the modern
industrial evolution; legislation 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 peo-
Pile; legislation which shall promote
prosperity and at the same time Sc,
cure the better and more equitable diff
fusion Of prosperity: legislation which
shall promote the economic well-being
Of the honest farmer, wage-worker,
professional man and the business
man alike, but which shall at the same
time strike in efficient fashion and
not 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 believes that wholesome party
governemnt can come only II there is
wholesome party arrangement in. a
spirit Of service to the whole country
and who hold that the commandment
delivered at Sinai, Thou shalt not
stel," applies to politics as well as to
business.