Evening star., 1948-07-26
Wallace Party
TakesCampaign
To Whole Nation
Convention Ends With
Adoption of Plank
Along Red Line
BY Gould Lincoln
Ssor Sfoff CORRESPONDENT

PHILADELPHIA, July 26.-Tne
Progressive Party, newly born,
with Henry A. Wallace and Glen
Taylor as its presidential and
vice presidential nominees, and
a platform framed along the
Communist line in its fol ign
policy planks, is on its way today
to carry its campaign to every
section of the country.
The closing major act of the
national convention was the adop-
ton of the party platform at
an afternoon session yesterday.
Presented by Rexford Guy Tugwell,
one of the original Franklin D.
Roosevelt brain trust" more re-
Gently governor of Puerto Rico and
now professor at the University
Of Chicago, the platform was
adopted without material amend
ment.
The Wallace Young Pregressives
OF America were holding their own
convention today. Many of the 1900
delegates were also delegates to the
regular convention which closed
yesterday.
In laying the platform before
the convention yesterday, Mr.. Tug.
we'll warned the convention that
the new party must stick together,
or it will go the way of other, earlier
progressive parties.
"The objectives here center on
the establishment of a permanent
progressive party which will insure
the peace, the freedom and the
abundance which we have set as our
ambition for America" he said.
Earlier Parties Destroyed.
Il would remind you that all
former progressive parties, although
We look back on them with admira-
ton, and regard their founders as
our heroes, have disappeared. They
have been destroyed, every one Of
them, by rivalry, by betrayal or by
indifference. This one we must
manage to keep, to enlarge and to
improve.
Il would remind you that parties
are what their members make of
them. I would remind you that you
can make of this one what you
will. 1t is not necessary to say that
now you have no other place to GO;
Progressives seldom have any place
to go which they do not make for
themselves and defend with the
courage which comes from convic-
ton. Only once in a while may a
leader in some crisis turn a coali-
tion party to progressive policies
1t lasts only until recovery appears;
sometimes not that long"
Mr.. Tugwell told the convention
the platform recognizes that I'VE
now exist by the tolerance of mo-
mentous and malign forces in So
ciety and in human nature which
if they are not checked and con-
trolled may literally destroy the
whole of civilization.
I'VE have, therefore, sought to
express good will and, moving from
the overwhelming strength of
American productive power, to as
sure all those who will live with
us on equal terms that they, as
well as ourselves, may possess in
tegrity and freedom"
d. C. Civil Rights Urged.
The delegates, each equipped with
a copy of the 6,500-word platform,
followed its reading and considera-
ton with close interest.
Prior to the consideration of the
platform, Mrs. Lawrence Steefel Of
Minnesota, chairman of the Gre
dentials Committee, reported that
3,240 delegates and alternates had
been accepted as duly qualified,
with every State in the Union rep
resented. plus the District of CO.
lumbia, Hawaii and Puerto Rico.
Contained in the platform adopted
yesterday are two planks written
particularly for the District. The
1--WE call for a civil rights act
for the District of Columbia to
eliminate racial segregation and
discrimination in the Nations
Capital"
The second provides:
I'VE call for home rule and the
granting of full suffrage to the
disfranchised citizens of the Dis
trict of Columbia"
Delegation Makes Demonstration.
| When the reading of the second
plank for the District was reached,
the District delegation started a.
procession about the hall, joined by
Maryland, North Carolina and other
delegates. The reading of the plat
form was delayed while the demon
stration proceeded, with banners
declaring wallace and Taylor will
win our fight"
Lee Pressman, secretary for the
Resolutions Committee, announced
before consideration Of the plat
form began a number of amend
ments which had been submitted
and had been accepted by the COM
mittee. Under a rule adopted by
the convention Saturday that
amendments had to be submitted
in writing before the consideration
of the platform began. Permanent
Chairman Albert J. Fitzgerald ruled