Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-07-11
THIRD PARTY CALL FOR
NATIONAL CONVENTION
TIME AND PLACE FOR CONVEN-
TION OF NATIONAL PRO.
GRESSIVE PARTY WILL
BE CHICAGO, AU-
GUST 9TH.

New York, July IA call to the
people of the United States who are
in sympathy with the national Pro-
gressive movement" to send dele
gates to national convention to
open in Chicago, August 5th, was
given out this afternoon by United
States Senator Joseph H. Dixon of
Montana, Theodore Roosevelt's cam
paign manager. The call is signed
by members of the committee chos-
en- at meeting held in Chicago, and
also bore the signature of the Roose-
velt followers of forty states.
Text of Call.
The text of the call is: ''To the
people of the United States, without
regard to past differences, who
through repeated betrayals realize
today the power of the crooked po-
litical bosses and of the privileged
classes behind them are so strong
in the two party organizations no
helpful movement in the real inter-
est of our country can come out of
either.
''Who believe that the time has
come for national Progressive
movement, nationwide movement
on non-sectional lines, so people may
be served in sincerity and truth by
an organization unfettered by the
obligation to the conflicting inter-
ests.
''Who believe in the right and ca
pacity of the people to rule them
selves and effectively control all the
agencies of their. government, and
who hold that only through the So
cial and industrial justice thus Sc
cured can honest property find per-
manent protection.
''Who believe the government by
a few tends to become, and has be-
come, a government by sordid influ-
enees under control Of the few.
'Who believe only through the
movement proposed can we obtain
in the nation and the several states
legislation demanded by the modern
industrial evolution; legislation
which shall favor honest business,
and yet control the great agencies Of
modern business 80 as to insure be-
ing used in the interest Of the whole
people; legislation which shall pro-
mote prosperity and at the same time
secure better and more equitable
diffusion of prosperity; legislation
which shall promote the economic
we'll being of the honest farmer,
wage worker, professional men, and
business man alike; which shall at
the same time strike for efficiency
and not pretend to strike at the
roots of privilege in the world of in
dustry no less than in the world OF
politics.
'"Who believe only this type of
wise industrial evolution will avert
industrial revolution.
"Who believe wholesome party
government can come only If there
is wholesome party management IN
the spirit to serve the whole country
and who hold that the command
ment delivered at Sinai-'Thou
Shalt Not Steal applies to politics
as we'll as to business.
"To all in accord with these views
call is hereby issued by the pro-
visional committee under the reso-
lutions of the mass meeting held In
Chicago June %, last, to send from
each state number Of delegates
whose votes shall count for as many
votes as the state shall have; sena-
tors and representatives in congress,
to meet in convention in Chicago.
on the 5th day of August, 1912, for
the purpose of nominating candi-
dates to be supported for positions
/ of president and vice president OF
Z the United States" !.
i A. Y. More Of Wimbledon and
Fargo, is member Of the provisional
committee for North Dakota.
81. A. M. Baker Of Fargo, prominent