Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-07-05
Rough Rider is Going to Dis
pense with Leaders and Ap-
peal Directly to Farmers and
Wage EarnerS,
BOSSES MUST BE
DONE AWAY WITH
Colonel Has Compared Chlca-
90 and Baltimore Platforms
and Finds Them Out Of Har-
mony with ProgreSsiyeiSm.

tHN Morning btNfutl ~pftiW iftHfJ Ntcsb
oyster ilay. y. ~ July IA cam
pnign along novel lines was sketched
in bare outline tonight hy Colonel
Roosevelt. As the candidate Of the
new progressive party. colonel Roose-
Welt intends To mike an appeal large
~ to the farmer and the wage work.
er on the ground that neither the
democratic nor the republican party
is attempting seriously in this cam
paign to deal with the fundamental
economic and social conditions which
confront the country. 1t Is from the
farmer and wage Garner, Colonel
Roosevelt feels. that has obtained his
strength in the past.
Colonel Roosevelt said that senator
Joseph NJ Dixon. Of Montana, who
managed his campaign for the repub-
lcan presidential nomination, in all
probability would he his campaign
manager.
The sc'ators headquarters prob-
ably viii be in New York.
This program has been agreed
upon as definitely as possible in adj
vance Of the national convention in
Chicago next month
The former president intends to
break lar away from conventional
limos IN conducting a campaign. He
hopes to lead what he termed q pco-
Pies government
"This thing has got to be done by
the people or II won't be done at
an ne said. "Of course we need
leaders, but il does not make SO much
difference about the leaders after
an
Throughout his campaign the col
onel VIII contend that neither of tho
great old parties has shown tbs
adaptahility or the inclination to take
the point OF view Of the average man
who has 10 work for his living. This
statement il intenls u couple with
the argument which he previously
outlined tnat the republican ana
democratic parties arc largely under
the Influence Of bosses ana thai the
time has come for a new national
party.
The former president said he in
tends to deal with the high cost Of
lNing constantly on the ground that
while to some extent 1t is due to ma
tural economic causes. there are
collateral causes which may be
and rcmcdled
Colonel Roosevelt has been en-
snged in = study of the platform
adopted at Baltimore and Of the re-
publican platform and believes he has
found in them valuable campaign
material tie said neither OF these
platforms showed The slightest un-
lelstandng Of the social and indus
trial movement which IS under way
n this country They have taken up.
ne said HE old policies and the bat
De cries of ether years, some stud
4nis of Gee nOmic conditions. he con-
iinucd believed tnat the trusts were
responsible, ana others the
arnr he asserted that this issue
must DO met sauarcly and that he
would not confinc himself exclusively
o either trusts or tariff, but would
lead with the situation in its broader
,spects.
at is goine to he Il straight, strong.
lard fought campaign. he said. lie
stacks of letters and tele
;rams. which he said had come in
ince the noniIanon of Woodrow
wilson
AFTER the can for the national con-
'cntion comes euD he went on. you
vim know exactly how IL shapes up
ma Sou vili find that we have
tronc ORGANIZATIONS