Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-21
UNION WITH C. O.P.
NOT CONSIDERED
Maryland Progressives Win
Continue to Hoe Their
Own Row.
PRINCIPLES OUTLINED
At PARTY CONFERENCE
Firm Stand Taken for All Those
Policies Advocated by Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
special Correspondence of The Star.

BALTIMORE, Md, June 2O.-The
progressive party of Maryland will con-
tinue to go it alone as a political factor
in Maryland. This was decided upon at
conference held here during the past
week, which was attended by the big
leaders who cast their fortune with
Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. This means
that there will be a Roosevelt delegation
to the next national convention of the
progressive party. candidates for the
United States senatorship and the House
OF Representatives and all state and city
offices.
The conference was presided over by
Charles ]. Bonaparte. Attorney General in
the Roosevelt cabinet. and declaration
OF principles was adopted. in which was
set forth the attitude that the party will
assume. 1t is as follows:
-. The progressives of Maryland in
statewide conference assembled reafflrm
their allegiance to the principles en-
bodied in the constitution of the pro-
gressive party of this state and hereto
fore set forth in the platforms of that
party, both state and national. They in
dorse all the principles and policies OF
that party advocated by Theodore Roose-
welt. our presidential candidate at the
last election. during the last last presi-
Dental campaign: they declare that the
will of the American people must be re-
spected and obeyed by all Americans. and
that the people should be the masters OF
the Constitution, their laws their courts
further declare themselves unalterably
opposed to any political combination or
concession, real or apparent of these
principles. or which shall not recognize
and indorse the leadership of Theodore
Roosevelt.
Ready to Aid the Weak.
2 The progressives OF Maryland
again point to the successful revolt of
last autumn against the misrule of Tam
many Hall in Greater New York as an
example to friends of good government
and pure politics in Maryland; they
pledge themselves to be ready in the
future. as they have been in the past, to
join cordially in any sincere and well
considered effort to promote honest and
economical government in this state and
70 fulfill in our legislation and in the adj
ministration of our public affairs the
duties of cooperation for the public well
fare and OF protecting the weaker and
less fortunate members of our complex
social and industrial system. so as to
lift them to a higher plane Of living and
citizenship
%. The progressives of Maryland have
seen with alarm the undisguised repudi-
alton by the party now dominant in the
nation Of the plain provision of its party
platform on which it obtained power from
the people: once more they assert their
oelief that party platform, state or
national, constitutes a covenant with the
people and imposes on the successful
party and its candidates a duty of faith
full observance which no honorable and
conscientious man can lightly question.
a. The progressives Of Maryland de-
manded in their last state convention the
enactment by our general assembly Of
well considered and effective humanitar-
ian legislation designed. in the language
Of the said platform. to properly safe
guard the social and Industrial conditions
OF the people A partial response was,
in fact, made to this demand at the
last session, but the legislation then OBJ
tanned Is far from meeting the Just and
reasonable wishes and hopes of friends
to social Justice and there seems to be
grave danger lest public trusts. created
for purposes vital to public welfare
should be used for the advancement Of
self-seeking politicians Against these
abuses they earnestly and publicly pro-
test"