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confederate veteran, and General
McDowell of Tennessee, commander
of the confederate veterans of that
gt&te, also seconded the nomination.
Following Prendergast's speech, a
demonstration took place which
lasted forty-five minutes. Mr. Roose
velt was nominated by acclamation.
John M. Parker, of Louisiana,
nominated Governor Hiram Johnson
of California for vice president.
Judge Ben Lindsey, of Colorado,
moved that Johnson ho nominated
by acclamation. This was carried.
This was carried.
The Associated Press report tells
of the conclusion of the convention
In this way: Beveridge ordered the
notification committees to bring in
the candidates.
As Colonel Roosevelt and Gover
nor Johnson took their places, side
by side on the platform, a demon
stration broke loose. The delegates
leaped to their chairs and cheered
for Colonel Roosevelt until he waved
his hand to the crowd, but Johnson
stood evidently just a trifle ill at
ease. Over the heads of the two
candidates a huge banner was un
furled with the inscription:
"Roosevelt and Johnson"
'New York and California.
'Hands across the continent,
"For there is neither east nor west,
"Border nor breed, nor birth,
"When they come from the ends of
the earth."
The band struck up "Maryland,
My Maryland," and the delegates
sang a parody called "Roosevelt."
Then followed "The Battle Hymn of
the Republic."
The demonstration lasted some
ten minutes and when order was re
stored Beveridge introduced Roose
velt as the "next president."
"I come forward," said the colo
nel, "to thank you from my heart
for tho honor you have conferred
upon me, to say that of course I ac
cept,, I have been president, I have
seen and know much of life, and I
hold by far the greatest honor and
the greatest opportunity that has
ever come to me to be called by you
for the time being for the leadership
of this great movement of the com
mon people.
"I wish to say how sensitive I am
to the way this nomination has come
to. me and to tell those who pro
posed and seconded my nomination
that I appreciate the honor that such
men and women place me in nomi
nation.
"I thank the convention for my
running mate."
The colonel was roundly cheered
as ho eulogized Johnson.
"We have nominated a proper
man for the vice-presidency," he
said. "We have nominated a man
fit at the moment to be president of
the United States.
"I appreciate to the fullest the
burden of responsibility you have
put on me. I appreciate to the fullest
the trust you have placed in me
which can be met in only one way
and that is that I shall so act as to
deserve that trust.
t'With every particle of high pur
pose there is in me, I pledge you ray
word to place every bit of ability,
every bit of good sense I have at
your disposal to carry out the prin
ciples to which you have here today
dedicated yourselves."
When the cheers that greeted
Roosevelt's speech subsided, Bever
idge introduced Johnson. .
"It is with the greatest solemn
ity," he began, "that I come here to
tell you that I enlisted for the war."
A cheer interrupted him. He
pledged himself to aid Roosevelt "in
the fight for the common good," and
concluded:
"I had rather go down to defeat
with Theodore Roosevelt than to vic
tory with any other presidential can
didate," When Johnson finished, Beveridge
announced that the convention would
end its session by singing tho dox
ology and by listening to tho bene
diction by Rev. James Goodman.
Tho delegates, standing in thoir
places, joined in the chanting of tho
old Puritan hymn:
"Praise God from whom all bless
ings flow,
"Praise Him, ye nations hero be
low." Tho rhyrathatic chant rose in a
great volume from tho thousands in
the hall. As it died away tho Rev.
Mr. Goodman stepped forward and
invoked the divine blessing. Then
Beveridge, stepping to the front of
the platform, announced tho ad
journment of the convention "with
out day."
"And thus ends," ho said, "one of
three most notable occasions in the
country's history."
A cheer followed and then tho
crowd broke for the exits.
It was announced that Colonel
Roosevelt would open tho campaign
in Rhode Island August 1G and that
he and Governor Johnson would con
tinue on the stump till the close of
the campaign.
PLATFORM OF THE PROGRES
SIVE PARTY
Tho new party organized at Chi
cago was officially named tho "Pro
gressive Party." The platform
adopted is as follows:
The conscience of tho people in a
time of grave national problems has
called into being a now party, born
of the nation's awakened sense of
justice.
We of the progressive party hero
dedicate ourselves to tho fulfillment
of the duty laid upon ua by our
fathers to maintain that government
of the people, by the people and for
the people, whose foundations they
laid.
We hold with Thomas Jefferson
and Abraham Lincoln that the
people are the masters of their con
stitution to fulfill its purposes and
to safeguard it from those who, by
perversion of its intent, would con
vert it into an instrument of injus
tice. In accordance with the needs
of each generation the people must
use their sovereign powers to estab
lish and maintain equal opportunity
and industrial justice, to secure
which this government was founded
and without which no republic can
endure.
This country belongs to the people
who inhabit it. Its resources, its
business, its institutions and its laws
should be utilized, maintained or
altered in whatever manner will best
promote the general interests. It is
time to set the public welfare in tho
first place.
The Old Parties
Political parties exist to secure re
sponsible government and to execute
the will of the people. From these
great tasks both of the old parties
have turned aside. Instead of in
struments to promote tho general
welfare, they have become the tools
of corrupt interests which use them
impartially to serve their selfish
purposes. Behind the ostensible gov
ernment sits enthroned an Invisible
government, owing no allegiance and
acknowledging no responsibility to
the people. To destroy this invisible
government, to destroy the unholy
alliance between corrupt business
and corrupt politics is tho first task
of the statesmanship of the day.
Deliberate betrayal of its trust by
the republican party and tho fatal
incapacity of tho democratic party
to deal with the new issues of the
new time have compelled the people
to forge a new instrument of gov
ernment through which to give effect
to their will in laws and institutions.
Unhampered by tradition, ,uncor
rupted by power, undismayed by the
magnitude of the task, the new party
offers itself as the instrument of tho
people to sweep away old nbuscs, to
build a now and nobler common
wealth. A Covenant with Clio Pcoplo
This declaration is our covenant
with the people, and wo hereby bind
the party and its candidates in state
and nation to tho pledges made
heroin.
Tho Rule of the Pcoplo
The national progressive party,
committed to the principle of govern
ment by a self controlled democracy
expressing its will through repre
sentatives of tho people, pledges
Itself to sccuro such alterations In
tho fundamental law of the several
states and of the United States as
will insuro tho representative char
acter of the government. In par
ticular the party declares for direct
primaries for tho nomination of state
and national officers, for nation-wide
preferential primaries for candidates
for tho presidency, for tho direct
election of United States senators by
the people, and we urge on the states
tho policy of tho short ballot with
responsibility to the people secured
by the initiative, referendum and re
call. Amendment of Constitution
Tho progressive party, believing
that a free peoplo should have tho
power from timo. to time to amend
their fundamental law, so as to adopt
it progressively to the changing
needs of tho people, pledges Itself to
provide a more easy and expeditious
method of amending the federal con
stitution. Nation and States
Up to tho limit of tho constitu
tion and later by amendment of tho
constitution, If found necessary, wo
advocate bringing under effective na
tional jurisdiction those problems
which have expanded beyond reach
of the individual states.
It is as grotesque as It Is Intoler
able that the soveral states should
have laws in matters of common con
cern, become competing commercial
agencies, barter the lives of their
children, the health of their women
and the safety and well-being of
their working people for the profit of
their financial Interests.
The extreme Insistence on states'
rights by the democratic party in the
Baltimore platform demonstrates
anew its Inability to understand the
world into which it has survived or
to administer the affairs of a na
tion of states which have in all es
sential respects become one people.
Equal Suffrage
Tho progressive party, believing
that no people can justly claim to he
a true democracy which denies poli
tical rights on account of sex, pledges
itself to the task of securing equal
suffrage to men and women alike.
Corrupt Practices
We pledge our party to legislation
that will compel strict limitation of
all campaign contributions and ex
penditures and detailed publicity of
both, before as well as after pri
maries. Publicity and Public Service
We pledge our party to legislation
compelling the registration of lobby
ists, publicity of committee hearings,
except In foreign affairs, and record
ing of all votes In committee and
forbidding federal appointees from
holding office In state or national
political organizations, or taking
part as officers or delegates in poli
tical conventions for the election of
elective state or national officers.
Tho Courts
The progressive party demands
such restriction of the power of the
courts as shall leave to tho people
the ultimate authority to determine
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