Middletown transcript., 1912-08-03
THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY

sive Party in Delaware at the
Dover Convention, on Wednesday
last, was notable event, as
it's after history in the politics oi
this state, will abundantly prove
AS becam e an epoch making oc
casion it was dignifed and serious
The spectacle of several hun
dred citizens from every part OF
the state, representative IN char
acter and in intelligence, so
berly, yet earnestly, reafirming
the doctrine of the fathers-the
right of the people to self-gov'
ernment-and then, after re-
nouncing all allegiance to a once
great party as utterly disloyal to
its high principles and heroic
history, proceeding with calm,
deliberate purpose to organize a
new party, and to retake into
their own hands the usurped and
abused powers of sovereignty,
that they might remedy the evils
and right the wrongs from which
the people are suffering-this,
we repeat, was spectacle that
we'll deserves to be remembered
as historic.
And it will be, for the Progress
sive Party is a movement born
out of the very bosom of the clean
people themselves, responsive to
their heart needs and desires,
and like all great popular up
heavals that have wrought revo-
lutions, because it thus arises out
of the bitter necessity and immi-
nent peril Of the hourit will sum-
mon to its support those deep
and strong convictions of duty
and right which will forbid any
failure, and the new movement
will go forward to the accom-
plishment of its lofty, patriotic
mission despite all the opposition
of corrupt politicians or of timid
weaklings prating of party regu-
larity.
The course of the National Re-
publican party has long been an
affrOnt to the moral sense of the
American people, and the pro.
found and nationwide conviction
that it has become a traitor to
popular government and a men
ace to the Republic, is demanding
its overthrow.
Just as the deep neral senti-
ments of this Nation in 1852 de.
manded the destruction of the
Old Wing party because, untrue
to human freedom, it favored
African slavery, so will the same
moral sense of theNation Novem
ber, destroy the Republican party
because it too has become re-
creant to human rights, and
sought the economic enslavement
of the whole people, white and
black.
Neither in Delaware nor il the
Nation, will the Progressive
Party be permitted to fall into
the unclean hands of selfish, dis.
credited politicions whose es-
pousal would damn it ere it had
left the cradle, though such is
the devout wish Of the bosses of
both parties, and in their pre-
dictions that it will here be so,
the wish is plainly father to the
thought.
The necessity for Il new party
in the Nation is urgent. Already
the reactionary majority in the
Democratic party are working
the perennial follies that have
ever blasted its fairest hopes,
and driven it from power.
The same reactionary, Special
Interest favoring forces are in
control in the Democratic Con-
gress that have wrecked the Re-
publican party. The two parties
are tarred with the same nasty
stick-a wish to serve the Spec,
ial Interests rather than the
people. Already the Bourbon
cloven foot of Democracy is Wis
ible in its unpatriotic and reac
tionary measures in Congress,
and even though Wilson, who like
Cleveland is better than his party
should favor real reforms and a
progressive policy, his efforts,
like those of President Cleveland,
would be fatally hamstrung by
the ruling tories Of his own
party.
Space allows references but tC
two of their policies. First, that
to cripple our navy and leave both
our great canal and our outlying
territory, prey to the grasping
Japs and the insC lent Germans,
both of whom have already plain
ly shown their teeth.
Second, that which seeks, al
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