White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-08-11

attention throughout. once ne
mentioned Taft in connection with
the approval of the Payne tariff law
and instantly there came jeers and
groans from the crowd. Every few
minutes Beveridge was interrupted
by applause and cheering.
William A. Pendergast of New
York, nominated Roosevelt, and the
nomination was seconded by Jane
Adams, the well known philanthro-
pist.
The progress of the convention was
marked by speeches indorsing the
principles of the Progressive party
and the relative merits of the candi-
dates, and had to do almost entirely
with the nominations as finally
brought about. This duty perform
ed, the convention closed and with
the further organization of the COM
mittees the real work of the cam
paign will commence. George w.
Perkins is chairman of the executive
committee, and senator Dixon of
Montana, chairman of the national
committee.
The Progressive platform or con-
fession of faith, as 1t was termed in
the convention, will be used as the
basis OF argument by the new party.
in its campaign to elect Roosevelt
and Johnson, and Is an exhaustive
production worth the perusal and
consideration of every American
citizen.
Following is a resume of the plat
form adopted by the convention:
The conscience of the people. in
time of grave national problems, has
called into being new party, born
of the nations awakened sense of
/ justice.
We of the Progressive party here
dedicate ourselves to the fulfilment
of the duty laid upon us by our fa-
theirs to maintain that government of
the people, by the people, and for the
people, whose foundations they laid.
We hold, with Thomas jefferson
and Abraham Lincoln, that the peo-
/ pie are the masters of their consti-
tuition to fulfill its purpose and to
/ safeguard il from those who, by per-
version of its intents. would convert
/ it into an instrument of injustice.
In accordance with the needs of
each generation, the people must use
/ their sovereign power to establish
and maintain equal opportunity and
industrial justice, to secure which
this government was founded and
without which no republic can en-
dure.
/ This country belongs to the people
who inhabit it. Its resources, its
business, its institutions and it's laws
should be utilized, maintained or al
tered in whatever manner will best
promote the general interest. 1t is
time to set the public welfare in
the first place.
The CID Parties.
Political parties exist to secure re-
sponsible government and to execute
/ the will of the people. From these
great tasks both of the old parties
have turned aside. Instead of in
struments to promote the general
welfare, they have become the tooles
of corrupt interests which use them
impartially to serve their selfish pur-
poses. Behind the ostensible govern
ment sits enthroned an invisible
government owing no allegiance and
acknowledging no responsibility to
the people. To destroy this invisible
government, to dissolve the unholy
lalliance between corrupt business and
corrupt politics, is the first task of
the statesmanship of the day.
The deliberate betrayal of its trust
by the Republican party, the fatal in
capacity of the Democratic party to
deal with the new issues of the new
time. have compelled the people to
forge a new instrument of govern
ment through which to give effect to
their will in laws and institutions.
lUnhampered by tradition, uncorrupt-