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PARTY JUST BORN HAS BEEN
DEDICATED—BANDANNA KER
CHIEF THE BATTLE FLAG.
“NG FLASH IN THE PAN,”
SAY ROOSEVELT LEADERS
There Were Five Hundred IMen Pres.
ent When the New Party Was
Fcrmally Launched.
Chicago.—The ‘“Progressive” party
just born was dedicated. In the
presence of perhaps 500 men, some
of them recognized leaders of the
movement, others merely onlookers,
the first formal step was taken. Gov.
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Hiram Johnson of California was em
powered to appoint a committee of
seven members to confer with Colo
nel Roosevelt and formulate a plan
[ of action.
“Here is the birth of a new party,”
said Governor Johnson when this was
dame,
“The movement is going steadily
ahead,” said James R. Garfield of
Ohio. “Those who think this is a
flash in the pan are mistaken.”
With Formidable Equipment.
‘ In the opinion of the leaders the
new party enters the field with a for
midable equipment., These Ileaders,
@ however, said that as to the men
who teok a conspicuous part in the
campaign for Colonel Roosevelt’s
nomination, each must speak for him
self, ‘
The attitude of Governor IHadley of
Missouri was the chief point of dis
cussien along this line. The govern
&.or left town without waiting to de
clare himself.
No definite idea of the plan to be
followed could be obtained, and it was
said several weeks may elapse before
the program is decided upon. Gov
ernor Johnson, in the meantime, will
:Yc as field marshal, and in co-opera
tiopn with Colonel Roosevelt, will de
cide upon the membership of the com
mittee of seven and guide the DbDre
liminary work of organization.
4. Rcosevelt Men Confer.
# Colonel Rooseveit will go to Oys
ter Bay, and Governor Johison 10f
California, but they will kecp in com
munication with each other.
The meeting was held in i(he head
quarters of the national Roosevelt
committee under the direction of the
most prominent Roosevelt supporters
who had not left town. Seated at a
table with Governor Johnson were
Mr. Garfieid, Gifford Pinchot. Govern
‘z' Stubbs of Kansas; Medill McUor
mick of Chicago and Senator Clapp of
Minnesota.
ficatterrd through the hall were a
large number of Rooseveit delezates
to the Republican national conven
tion, as well as some of the “gteam
roller’” delegates to whom s¢ ats were
refused. It was impossible to ascer
tain how' large a proportion of the
full Roosevelt strength at the con
vention was represented, although it
was said that nearly every state which
sent Roosevelt delegates to Chicago
had its share of the men there.
The “Roosevelt Batiie Flag.”
The bandanna handkerchief was
i adopted as the “Roosevelt battle
flag.” /
Most of the delegates wore flaming
bandannas tied around their arms and
o*erswvere distributed by the hun
dreds to the crowd. The bandanna,
it was explained, stands for the plain
people who ordinarily use them.
«“We're all plain people here and
this is a movement of the plain peo
-5'19,” said one of the delegates.
®ucolonel Roosevelt gave hig sanc
tion to the “battle flag” by appear
ing with one in his fhiand whick he
waved to the crowd on ihe street.
His, dal:ghter, Mrs. Longworth, wore
a bamdamsa on her hat. : |
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In mocepting the nominatioa at the
formation of the mew party, Theedore
Rossevelt hurled his hat into a new
rimg, in a characteristic and ringing
spewch. He said: Sre
“Geiedemen: ] thank you for your
nomination, and in you I recognize
the lawtully elected delegates to the
Republican convention, who represent
the overwhelming majority of the vot
ers who took part in the Republican
primaries prior to the convention and
who represent the wishes of the ma
jority of the lawfully elected mem
bers of the convention. I accept the
nemination subject to to but one cen
dition:
“This has now become a contest,
which cannot be settied merely along
the old party lines. The principles
that are at stake are as brcad and
as deep as the foundations of our
democracy itself. They are in no
sense sectional. They shouid appeal
to all honest citizens, East apd West,
Noith and South; they should appeal
to all right thinking men, whether
Eepubl’zans c¢r Democrats, without
regard ito their previous party affili
aticns.’
Time for New Party.
“T feel that the time has come when
not only all men who believe in pro
gresgive principles, but all men who
velieve In those elementary maxims
of public and private morality, which
must underly all forms of successful
free government, should .jein in one
movement. Therefore, I ask you to
20 to your several homes, to find out
the sentiment of the people ui home,
and then again to come together, 1
suggest by mess convention, to nomi
nate for the presidency a progressive
candidate on a progressive piatform,
a cendidate, and a platform that will
cnablo us to appeal to Northerner and
Soutnerner, Easterner and \Westerner,
Repunlicen 2ud Democrat alike, in the
nanm 2 of our common American eiti
zenchip., If you wish to make the
fich:, I will mzke it even if only one
state should support me. Tihe oniy
condition I impose is that you shell
feel entirely free to substitute any
other mzn and in such case I will
give him my heartiest support.
“Wherever, in any state, .the Re:
publican party is true to tke princt
ples of i 3 founders and is genuinely
the party of justice and progress, I ex
pect to zce it come bodily into tne
new movement, for the ccnvention
that has just get in this city is in no
proper sense cf the word a Republi
can convention at all.
Purpcse of Bosses.
“It does not represent the masses
of the Rzpublican party. It has serv
ed the purpose only of a group of sin
ister political tosses, many of whom
have used the party merely as an
adjunct to money-making, either for
themselves or for the great crooked
financial interests which they serve.
“The hesses who stole enough del
egates to enable them to dominate
this conventicn, have no kinship of
soul or gpirit with the men who
started the Republican party on its
career as an o-ent of liberty and jus
tice. You, my friends, are the heirs
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William A. Prendergast is comptroi
ler of New York city.
in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln
when he refused to longed be bound
by the shackles of the past and. faced
the new isstes in the ncw spirit that
{he time demanded,
“But we are more fortuna:e in one
respeet than gur predecessors, for we
who now stand for the progressive
cause, the progressive movemeig,
have done forever with all secctional
ism, and we make our appeal equally
to the sons of the men who fought
under Grant and to the sons of the
men- who fought under Lee, for the
cause we champion is as emphatically
the cause of the South as it is the
cause of the North.
“1 do not know whether our coun
trymen fully realize the gravity of
the crisis which we face. There is no
use in holding primary elections if
edpaiad e ARG R ) D 8 e
gherman Feels Greatly iHonored.
Utica, N. Y.—Vice President James
g, Sherman at his home in this city,
made the folowing statement when
apprised of his renomination: “l am
not unmindful of the honor conferred
by the nomination of the Republican
national convention as the party’s can
ciate its full significance, cne must
ciate its ful Isignificance, one must
remember that not for three-quarters
of a century has a renomination been
a2eeorded to any one for this office.”
THE LEADER-ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY JUNE 28, 1912.
we permit a small group of unscrupu
leus ‘politicians, some of whom are
certalnly acting in the interests of
big, crooked business, Lo exercise the
veto power over these primaries and
elections by upsetting the results at
their own pleasure.
‘The convention which cluses - its
creditable career in Chicago repre
sents a negligible minimuin of the
rank and file of the Republican par
ty. But what it has done and what
it has provided for the future offer
material for very, serious considera
tion.
Fraudulent Delegates.
“The old national committee, chos
en by the politicians four years ago,
made up a temporary roll including
some 90 fraudulent delegatcs. who
had not been elected by the people,
and thereby they controlled a major
ity of the convention. This fraudu
lent temporary roll in turn chose a
fraudulent credentials committee, and
all the fraudulent delegates, voting con
one another’s cases, thereby made up
permanent roll, which constituted the
fraudulent convention.
“Then this fraundulent ccnvention
chooses a new and not less fraudu
dlent national committee, Now, gen
tlemen, there are those who ask us
to stay in the party, which has just
fraudulently nominated for the prest
dency a man who inspired and profit
ed by the fraud.
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“They ask us to submit to infams}
in the present on the ground that
perhaps we may be able to prevent
such infamy in the future. Gk
“They seem to forget that the circle
has been completed and that this
fraudulent convention has provided
in its fraudulently chosen national
committee a means whereby they can
hope once again, four years hence and
with like impunity to overthrow the
will of the majority: of the voters at
the primareis.
Fraudulent, Fraudulent.
“The national committee, over
whose selection and retention in of
fice the voters have no control what
ever, makes up the fraudulent tem
porary roll call which controls the
convention. The national convention,
thus fraudulently made up, names an
other national committee; ad the new
national committee constituted by
the same element that constituted the
old one, has already shown by its ac
tions that it can be trusted four years
hence to repeat the misbehavior of
the old one.
“The vicious circle must he broken.
The powerful ecrook, political bosses,
have and ought to have mno feeling
but contempt for the honest man who
submits to their violent and unscrup
ulous dishonesty. .
“If we permit a fraud of this kind
to triumph. we do a shameful thing
and show either that we are faint at
heart or dull of conscicnee.
“Ag for the prineciples for which I
ctard. T have set them forth fully in
the many speeches T have made: dur
ing ‘the last four months while mak
ing an active contest for the nomina
tion. which T wen. and out of which
I. have bheen cheated,
% Principles of People.
f “Fundamentzly, these principles
, are, first, that the people have the
{ right to rule themselves, and can do
g 0 better than any outsiders can rule
. them, and, scecond, that it is their
duty so to rule in a spirit of justice
| toward every man and every woman
gwit‘nout our borders, and !'o use the
i'government, so far as possible, as an |
iinstrument for obtaining not merely
;poiiLical put- industrial justice. We |
! stand for honesty and fair play. |
| W practically apply the command- }
| ment, “Thou shalt not steal’ 1 hold
i that we are performing a high duty‘
‘in inaugurating this movement, for
i the permanent success of the practice
,such as has obtained in the fraudu
lent convention that has iust closed
lits doors sitting would mean the
jdownfall of this republic;; and we
{are performing the most patriotic of
. duties when we set our faces like flint ‘
| against such wrong.”
| “Thou Shalt Not Steal.”
| “I am in this fight for certain prin
lciples and the first and most import
ant of these goes back to Sinai and
is embodied in the commandment,
«Thou shalt not steal.” , Thou shalt
not steal a nomination; Thou shalt
neither steal in politics nor in busi
ness. Thou shalt not steal from the
i people the pirthright of the people to
i rule themselves. I hold, in the lan
guage of the Kentucky court of ap
peals, that stealing is stealing. No
pecple is wholly civilized where a dis
t'netion is drawn between stealing an
offias and cstealing a purse.
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Petition.
GrorciA Bex Hiun County
To the Superior Court of said
county:
The petition of the Karmers
Union Ginnery shows that it is a
corporation organized and doing
business under the Laws of the
State of Georgia.
1\ y
That it desires an amendment to
its charter changing its name
from the Farmers Union ‘Ginnery
o Union Cotton Oil Company.
2.
The character of the business of
your petitioners 1s that of ginning
cotton, operating cotton compres
ses, cotton seed oil mill and Jferti
lizer plant, and the manufacture
of articles usually made from cot
ton or any of its products or by
prodaets.
3.
The date of its original charter
is September 2, 1907 and was in
corporated by the Superior Court
of said Ben Hill County.
4,
Petitioner shows that this appii
cation for the proposed amend
ment has been authorized by the
vote of a majority in amount of
the entire capital stock at a meet
ing of the stockholders, called for
the purpose and by reso‘ution of
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FITZGER ALD, GA.
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on how often you send your shirts,
collars, cuffs, ete., to this laundry,
until they’re no longer wearable.
That will convince you that we pro
long the life of linen beyond most
washers and ironers thereof.
Test our work—we can stand it.
. WHITE SWAN LAUNDRY.
| the Board of Directors. ~ °
| Wherefore petitioner prays that
the amendment to the said charter
be granted and that they be allow
ed to conduct their business under
the name_of Union Cotton Oil
Company;-ang that they have all
the rights, powers and privileges
to do business under the said name
as heretofore granted in the origi
nal charter to petitioners.
| "lecDonald & Grantham,
| Attorneys for Petitioner.
~ Filed in office this 24 day of
June, 1912,
| D. W. M. Whitley, Clerk.
Georgia Ben Hill County:
- I, D.’W. M. Whitley, Clerk of
the Superior Court of said county
do hereby certify that the forego
ing is a trye and correct copy of
the petition for amendment to the
original charter of the Farmers
Union Ginnery as the same ap
pears on file in this office:
. Witness my official signature
'and sear of said court.
{Tms 94 day of June, 1912. .
| D. W, M. Whitley,
E()lerk. Superior Court ‘Ben Hill
~ County Georgia, T 484 w,
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