Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-01-10
Convention Adopts Platform
EmbodyIog Colonel Roose
veIt' S Confession Of Faith
for Most Part,
NO AMALGAMATI0N
WITH REPUBLICANS
Entire State Ticket to Be
Placed IN Field and Vigorous
Campaign Is in Contempla-
ton,

10y aoRniHo JoupAAl prsalAl trAsrn wiaFi
pcs Moines. la.. Jam g,--fhe state
conference OF the progressive party
which closed here tonight after two
days. session. declared itself opposed
70 amalgamation with amy other party
and made plans for putting 4 candi
date in the Sfleld for every office ia
the state To be- flllcd next November.
About two hundred party leaders from
lAimost every county in the state were
present The leaders expect 10 have
about ten thousand dollars, contribute
"a hy party adhercnts with which 70
make their campaign. state headauar-
tcrs will be established. probably ia
Des Moines ana state organizer b. o.
Aylesworth viii be retained. a bulle-
tin win be published and 1t vigorous
campaign Of pupllcity pursued.
The conference adopted unanimous
ly the report of the resolutions CONF
mlttee containing q statement Of party
principles. This report constitutes the
party platform, which is expected to
be adopted formally az the state con-
,ention next July. Following are the
main principles adopted;
Presidential preference primary
Opposition TO invisible government
through subsidized press ana Hobbies.
Laws to be passed only after public
discussion
Control and regulation Of Industrial
combinations by a government board
Correction Of court abuses; inferior
federal Judges to be elected by popu-
lar ballot
Legal regulation Of labor condl-
tlons. nbolshment Of child labor,
granting of woman suffrage
Rural credits.
Creation Of progressive clubs.
Initiative, referendum and recall.
Speccnes we're made today By @. X.
Davis, secretary of the national commits
tee, J. II. Wylie. state chairman; ID. O.
AylesWorh state organizer; w. Il.
Cadmus aud George Fitch, OF Peoria,
Illinois.
'Distinsulshed republicans who are
at heart lmbucd with progressive
principles nevertheless VIII utterly fail
to instill progreasivcisrn into the re-
publican party" declared william Il.
Cadmm "Those republicans who
think they can reform their party
from the inside and revlvify It with
progressive principles will end in fall
ure
"An the distinguished talent of
l0wa's senior senator and q hundred
Ike him cannot fashion the republi-
can party into living progressive
party
Certainly there was nothing in the
recent meeting Of tile republican ma
tional committee TO give life to such a
hope From beginning % end The eom-
mittee Was ruled hy lioss Barnes, the
arch-standpatter og New York.
"Mr cummns. IN his Grant club
speech. confessed his erioypus disap-
polntment NJ the action OF the repub-
lioan national committee Ia not vot-
ing convention liut why expect
else What old party in his
tory ever changed It's nature and be.
came now
Mir cummins and Mr Hadley and
Mr. Rorah instead of coming out with
heroic holdness and standing with the
people, spend their time and their su-
perb talents attempting 10 patch up
an old machine that keeps on turning
out eobs and consuming the corn
every time Il grinds
Neither of the old parties, not
even their boa leaders. understand
the real significance Of the progress
sive movement some benlshtcd ones
think II q movement born out of the
colossal ambition of an arrogant and
man
we not only have definite pro-
gram. but we make definite charges
We maintain that tho Sherman law.
so adequate in the eyes Of the old par
iy az a regulator of big business, Is
farce aud ilasc0. II has dissolved
Standard oil ana other trusts only IN
name and not IN reality, The pregres-
slee party holds that this is the age
Of cooperation aud combination. that
ctr duty is regulation, not dissolu
tion that the field OF competition
should be fairly open to al without
dishonest favor Ia any We believe
lht tNiii FibhiN ff tiifhiAhAfh Aitih
politics altogether. that II is not Il
bur business proposition.
We believe that 1t should be handled
By non-paftisan commission of ex-
perts having real and not fictitious
power
"Vice and special privilege under
DID party systems have been the real
Dyerlords Of America altogether too
ong. The invisible government has en-
ictcd our laws and no form OF our
latona life has been too small or too
iacred 20 escape the tentationa Of the
octopus.
The progressive party has a plan
4 campaign. II has battle cry. What
s the plan of campaign of the ropuh-
lean party2 To what plan OF cam