The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-07-29
PROGRAMME OF NEW PARTY AGREED UPON Independent Tickets In All
 States Except Six
 PARTY TO BE FIXTURE A, Clean Break from Both Old Parties
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PARTY TO BE FIXTURE
A, Clean Break from Both Old Parties Decided Upon-Beveridge Will Be Bull Moose Candidate for
 Governor of Indiana

oyster Bay, July 2S,--A working pro- gramme for the new party was approved today by Colonel Roosevelt Senator Dixon. his campaign manager who has recently been In consultation with iead- CTS of the movement, came to Ot ster Bay to lay their views before the former President After a long conference it became known that the Fundamental ques- ton of policy and procedure had been agreed upon. subject to approval of the national progressive convention which Is to meet in Chicago next ween
 The programme which will be submit- ted to the convention contains these ma jor provisions:
 Independent tickets in every state ex- cept perhaps six in which if Is believed the republican organizations can be taken oyer bodily.
 A clean break from both of the old parties, the republican organizations which it is expected to capture to be used as an integral portion of the new party.
 Formation of the party with the idea that 1t is to endure permanently whatever the outcome of the November election.
 Senator Dixon was accompanied on his visit to Sagamore Hill by Dean Kirchwey head of the law department ct Colun, )ia university and C. R. Davis, Iuniicfty man- ager of the new party The senator said after he had talked with Colonel Roose- velt that straight national progressive tickets would be run in every state ex- cept g few in which the republican or- Eanlzat1ons would cooperate with the new party and place Roosevelt candidates for electors 5n the regular tisket This will be possible Nin statesc in which the law
 rfs. sherman to be printed on the ballot as the republican nominees.
 The states in which thSre will be no in- dependent ticket he said. are Kansas, Ne braska, California, both the Bakotas and probably one or two others.
 Senator Albert J Beveridge of Indiana, he said, probably will be national pro gressive candidate for governor of that state.
 'Mr Beyeridge will be elected gov ernor," the senator predicted We will carry Michigan, Illinois and Pennsyl- vania."
 It was felt that definite outline should be ready for Submission to tte Chicago convention, and it was largely for this reason that Senator Dixon came on from Chicago for the conference
 In making up the independent tickets in varIous states. candidates on either the republican or democratic tickets may be placed on the ballot, provided they agree to support the national progressive elee- toral candidates. In several states. in- cluding Pennsylvania, 1t is expected ths entire republican ticket for state officers will be placed upon the national republi- can ticket
 lnsistence upon. making tfe party en- tirely independent Is in accordance with the wishes of Colonel Roosevelt who in- sists that he and his associates must ap- peal to democrats and republicans alke.s and look beyond the present contest to the future, shaping their plans in such way that the movement will go on whether defeat or victory comes at the end of the present campaign.