The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-08
ALL BUT EIGHT
STATES ARE IN
Territories Will not be Rep
rsented According to Sc .,
ator Dixon's Statement
REPRESENTATION WILL Be JUST
HALF OF OTHER CONVENTIONS
Believed that Mississippi and South
Carolina will be the Only States not
Represented in the Convention
Which Meets August 5 at Chicago.

Carolina will be the Only States not
Represented in the Convention
Which Meets August 5 at Chicago.
New York. July S.-A call to the
people of the United States who are
In sympathy with the national pro-
gressive movement" to send dele
gates to a national convention to open
in Chicago August 5, was given out
this afternoon by United States Sen
ator Joseph M. Dixon of Montana.
Theodore Roosevelt's campaign man.
ager. The call is signed by members
OF the committee chosen at meeting
held in Chicago and also bore sigma
lures of Roosevelt followers in forty
states.
The territories have no place in a
national convention and will not be
considered" declared Senator Dixon.
in commenting on the signatures.
GAS for the missing 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 strong fight on in the
primaries with the sympathy running
in favor Of the progressive move
kansas and Nevada probably will take
part in the convention. Mississippi
and South Carolina may be unrepre-
sented.
1.-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 method
The representation will be cut down
to just on-half of the previous con-
since this convention is to be notably
a deliberate body and will certainly
be composed of class of men alto
gether different from those who usual
ly attend conventions.
"In all probability the convention
will adopt the name national progress
sive' for the new party, but 1 cannot
say definitely what will be done. Thus
far no issues have been authoritative
itself will have to be decided upon by
the delegates"
1.-The text of the call is:
ITO the people of the United States,
without regard to past differences,
who. through repeated betrayals. real
ize that today the power Of the crook
ed political bosses and Of the priv
SIrOHE
In the two party organizations that
no helpful movement in the real in
terests of our country can come out
Of either.
1--WE believe that the time has come
for national progressive movement
"a nationwide movement-on non
sectional lines, so that the people may
be served in sincerity and truth by
an organization unfettered by obli-
cation to conflicting interests;
who believe in the right and ca
pacity Of the people to rule themselves
and effectively to control all the agen-
cies Of their government and who
hold that only through social and in
dustrial Justice. thus secured, can
honest property find permanent pro-
lection;
"Who believe that government by
the few tends to become and has in
fact become, government by the sor-
did influences 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
control the great agencies Of modern
business SO as to insure their being
used in the interest Of the whole peo-
pie; legislation which shall promote
prosperity and at the same time Sc
cure the better and more equitable
diffusion Of prosperity: legislation
which shall promote the economic
well beir" Of the honest farmer, wage
worker. professional man and busi-
ness man alike. but which shall at
the same time strike in efficient FASH
ion-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
industrial revolution:
"Who believe that wholesome party
government can come only II there is
wholesome party management in a
spirit Of service to the whole country,
and who hold that the commandment
delivered at Sinai. thou shalt not
steal applies to politics as well as to
business;
ITO all in accord with these views
a call Is hereby Issued by the provis-
ional committee under the resolution
of the mass meeting held in Chicago
on June 20 last to send from each
state a number Of delegates whose
votes In the convention shall count for
as many votes as the state shall have
gress, to meet In convention at Chi
cago on August s. 1912. for the pur.
pose Of nominating candidates to be
supported for the positions Of presi-
dent and vice president Of the United
States"
The following names are appended
to the call:
Alabama, Oscar w. Hundley.
Arizona, Dwight B. Heard.
California, Hiram w. johnson, G..
H. Rowell, Charles s. Wheeler.
Colorado. Ben B. Lindsey.
Connecticut. Joseph w. Alsopp. F.
g. Luther.
Florida. J. H. Gregory. Jr.. H. l.
Anderson.
Georgia. Julian Harris.
Indiana. Edwin d. Lee. Horace c.
9tillwell.
iilinois-Medill Mccormick. chaun.
coy Dewey, Laverne w. Noyes.
Iowa. John L. Stevens.
Kansas. Henry ]. Allen.
Kentucky. Leslie Coombs.
Louisiana. John M. Parker. Pearl
Wight.
G. Darlington. Jr.