The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1912-08-06
OUTLINES IDEAS
OF THIRD PARTY
Senator Beveridge Makes
Keynote Speech.
SAYS PEOPLE MUST RULE

and Explains Remedies Proposed by
Preeressives--says Battle Is tor
Actual Rights of Man.
Chicago, Aug. 6.-What the national
Progressive party stands for was elo-
quently set forth to the first national
convention of the new party here by
former Senator Albert j. Beveridge
of Indiana in his keynote speech as
temporary chairman
The former senator's portrayal of
the evils of boss rule and the rem
edies advocated by the Progressives
were cheered vociferously. The speech
set forth at considerable length the
situation in which both the older
parties are now placed and the meth
eds by which the new national organ
ization proposes to restore the govern
ment of the nation to the people.
"We stand for a nobler America.
We stand for an undivided nation.
We stand for broader liberty, full
er justice. We stand for social broth
erhood as against savage Individual
ism. We stand for an intelligent CO.
operation instead of a reckless COM
petition. We stand for mutual help
fulness instead of mutual hatred We
stand for equal rights as fact of life
instead of a catchword of politics.
We stand for the rule of the people
as practical truth instead of a mean
ingless pretense. We stand for a rep
resentative government that repre-
resents the people We battle for
the actual rights of man.
Make Laws to Fit Conditions.
ITO carry out our principles we
have plain program of constructive
reform. We mean to tear down only
that which is wrong and out of date;
and where we tear down we mean to
build what is right and fitted to the
times. We harken to the call of the
present. We mean to make laws At
conditions as they are and meet the
needs of the people who are on earth
today. That we may do this we
found party through which all who
believe with US can work with us; or.
rather, we declare our allegiance to
the party which the people themselves
have founded.
For this party comes from the
grass roots. II has grown from the
sell of the peoples hard necessities.
II has the vitality of the peoples
strong convictions. The people have
work to be done and our party is
here to do that work. Abuse will only
strengthen it, ridicule only hasten its
growth, falsehood only speed its vic
tory.
Neutrals Do Not Count.
For years this party has been form
Ing. Parties exist for the people; not
the people for parties Yet for years
the politicians have made the people
do the work of the parties instead
of the parties doing the work of the
people. The people vote for one party
| and find their hopes turned to ashes
| on their lips; and then, to punish that
party, they vote for the other party.
So 1t is that partisan victories have
| come to be merely the peoples venge-
snce; and always the secret powers
have played their game.
"We Progressives believe in the
rule of the people that the people
| themselves may deal with their own
destiny. Who knows the peoples
leeds so we'll as the people them
| selves? Who so patient as the peo-
pie? Who so long suffering. who so
| just? Who so wise to solve their own
problems?
To-day these problems concern the
living of the people. In the present
stage of American development these
problems should not exist In this
country. For In all the world there
is no land so rich as ours"