Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1912-08-05
new PARTY Of PEOPLE IS BORN TODAY At CHICAGO
I'VE ENLIST FOR THE WAR. 80 '--BEvER1DGE


Progressive cause" declared Albert
J. Beveridge, temporary chairman of
the Progressive national convention,
in calling that body TO order today
Mr.. Beveridge told in detail the pur-
pose and program of the Progressive
party. Abuse. he said. will only
strengthen it, ridicule, only hasten its
growth, falsehood only speed its vic
tory
"KnOwing the price We must pay
the sacrifice we must make. the bur
dens We must carry, the assaults we
must Notwithstanding full we'll the
cOst-yet We enlist and we enlist for
the war. For We know the justice
of our cause, and We know, too, its
certain triumphs."
Mr. Beyeridge spoke in part as fol-
lows:
I'VE stand for a noble America. We
stand for an undivided nation. We
stand for a broader liberty, a fuller
justice. We stand for a social bro.
therhoOd as against savage indiyd-
ualism. We stand for an intelligent
cooperation 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 po.
litics. We stand for the rule of the
people as practical truth instead of
a meaningless pretense. We stand
| for a representative government that
| represents the people. We battle for
the actual rights of man.
ITO carry out our principles, We
have plain program of constructive
form. 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that which is wrong and out of date;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 10 the call of the
present. We mean to make laws
fit conditions as they are and meet
the needs Of the people who are on
earth today. That we may do this,
we found a party through which all
| who believe with us can work with
/ us: or rather, We declare our alleg.
lance to the party which the neOple
/ themselves founded.
For this party comes from the
! grass roots. 1t has grown from the
soil of the peoples hard necessities
1t has the vitality of the peoples
strong convictions. The people have
work to be done and our party is
here TO do that work"
| The speaker discussed the republi-
can and democratic parties, the boss
system" and special interests" say
ing among other things:
"At the present moment notorious
bosses are in the middle of both
| parties in various important states
| which must be carried to elect a pres.
! ident. Neither of the old party's S
nominees for president can escape OBJ
legations to these old party bosses, nor
shake their practical hold on many
powerful members of the national
Legislature.
Under this boss system, no matter
which party wins, the people seldom
win, but the bosses almost always
win"
Continuing this discussion of par
ties. Mr.. Beveridge said:
"The south has men and women as
genuinely progressive and others as
genuinely reactionary as those in
other parts of our country. Yet
for well known reasons, the sincere
and honest southern progressives ant
reactionaries vote together as a single
party, which is neither progressive
NOR reactionary. They vote a dead ira
dition and local fear, not a living
conviction and a Dational faith. They
vote not for the democratic party
but against the republican party. They
want to be free from this condition
they can be free from it through the
national progressive party.
"The root of the wrongs which
hurt the people is the fact that the
peoples government has been taker
away from them. Their government
must be given back to the people
And so. the first purpose of the pro
gressive party is to make sure The
rule of the people. The rule of the
people means that the people them
selves shall! nominate as we'll as elec
all candidates for office, including
senators and presidents of the United
States"
Mr.. Beveridge said American bust
ness is uncertain and unsteady com
pared with the business of other ma
ticns.
What, then" he asked, must W.
do to make American business bet
! ter? We must do what other nation
l@ve done. We must end the abuse
of business by striking down thos
abuses instead of striking down blsi
ness itself
"We must try to make little busi
ness big and all business honest, in
stead Of striving TO make big busi
ness little and yet letting it remail
dishonest.
"As the Sherman law now stand!
no two business men can arrang
their mutua' affairs and be sure tha
they are not law breakers. Unde
the DEGREES of the courts, the oil an
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