The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-07-26
BULL MOOSE WILL
HAVE CONTRACT
National Convention Of Prosressives
viii Not Adopt Platform But
Have Brand New
Idea.
COLONEL SENT MESSAGE
Garfield Returns From Kansas and
Says tho Whole state is Just
Thick With Bull
Mooses.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.I
CHICAGO. July 26.-There will be
no platform adopted at the national
convention of progressives, it was
learned today Instead the leaders OF
the progressive movement will pre-
sent to the convention for adoption.
contract with the people" and
promise to live up to the contract.
This contract will pledge the sup
port of the party to restore repre-
sentative government" 1t will con-
tain the party's views on the initia-
tive. recall referendum direct pri-
maries, direct election of senator's and
general social reforms to improve
living conditions.
A remedy for the high cost of liv-
ing likely will not be offered in the
contract. The convention is expect
ed also to take no action upon the
question Of the unemployed.
At progressive headquarters today
Medill Mccormick gave out the fol-
lowing telegram which he received
from Colonel Roosevelt:
Il am exceedingly pleased with the
admirable progressive spirit in Illi-
nois and congratulate the men OF
Illinois on the courage they have
shown in this movement. On the
eve Of the meeting of your great
state and county conventions, wish
through you most heartily to wish
them we'll Their steadfastness and
energy have been of prime Import
ance as examples to the entire coun-
try.
/ They have met the issues exactly
right. They are working in Illinois
to nominate candidates for the gov
ernorship and for the other state Of
fices who. elected by the people, will
stand upon progressive national and
state platforms for the fundamental
principles Of popular government.
'Those candidates nominated at
the republican primaries in Illinois
who cast their lot with the fraudu-
lently nominated candidate OF an ille-
gally constituted republican conven-
ton have lost support In the perpe-
tration of great fraud on the nation.
"Mr. Taft was not the nominee of
the rank and file of the republican
party. His nomination represents
nothing but the successful fraud per-
petlated by the Penrose-Barnes-Gug-
genheim machine.
HE was beaten in the primaries by
sense the real nominee of the real
republican party. He was utterly re-
pudiated by the republicans of Hi
nois In their primaries and no repub-
Iican nominated in those primaries
has any business to support him.
I'VE are making this fight upon a
straight out moral issue-an issue OF
honesty. We stand for the command
ment promulgated on Sinai, Thou
shalt not steal We hold that it is
as dishonest to steal nomination as
to steal a purse. We hold that every
man VINO supports the fraudulent
nominee of the so-called republican
national convention, thereby forfeits
his right to expect the support OF any
honest citizen"
James e. Garfield, of Ohio, stopped
in Chicago today and paid visit to
progressive headquarters.
81 have just come from Kansas,
he said. "and found conditions there
exceedingly satisfactory.
The state is progressive from top
to bottom, and the sentiment for the
third party is increasing with every
effort of the Taft managers to block
it in the courts. The organization is
with us; the people are with us and
Kansas will cast its electoral vote In
November for Theodore Roosevelt"