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Eight Hours
. a Day
of Labor
Lf ital Issues Are Decided November 9,
' Roosevelt And J ohnson, Onj Pro
gressive Party Platform.
Battle For The Act- |
. ual Rights Of Man
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And It Is Your Duty Mr. Citizen To
L VOTE YOUR CONVICTIONS.
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The vital issue in this campaign is Social and Industrial Jus
ice—Man to Man. The Tariff and Trust Regulations are questions
hich require intelligent attention, but by no means do these ques
fiions require all of your attention as the Dzmocratic and Repub
ijcah candidates would have you believe. The Progressive party
lecognizes these issues and have met them squarely in the plat
orm with specific remedies.
! Alluding to our social betterment program, Mr. Wilson ask
1; “‘With that program who can differ in his heart, who can di
rorce himself in sympathy with the great object of advancing the
nterests of human beings wherever possible?”’
Corrupt Political Practices
The PROGRESSIVE PARTY is pledged to legislation com
selling the recristration of lobbyists; publicity of committees; hear
ngs, and recording of all votes of committees; forbidding federal
pointees from holding office in State on National organizations,
»r from serving as delegates to political conventions. 3
Also legisiation requiring strict limitations of campaign con
-ributions and expenditures, and detailed publication of both, be
ore and after primaries and elections.
However, the real question of MAN’S ACTUAL RIGHTS
has been carelessly overlookad or carefully avoided by both the
Democratic and Republican Parties. What w 2 are most concerned
Mout is to insure to each citizen equal rightsas a Fact of LIFE
instead of « catcn word'of polictics, To this end the PROGRES
SIVE PARTY proposes specific remedies for the various evils now
xisting under our complex and selfish industrialism.
Administration of Justice:
» THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY, in order to secure to the people
better administration of justice and by that means to bring about
2 more general respect for the Liaw and its Courts, pledges itself to
work unceasingly for the reform of legal procedure an judicial
methods. .
We believe that the issuance of INJUN CTIONS in cases arising
out of labor disputes should be PROHIBITED when such injunc
“tions would not apply when no labor disputes exist.
P We also believe that when a person cited for CORTEMPT in
jLABOR disputes, except when such contempt is committed in the
‘actual presence of the Court, or so near thereto as to interfere with
the proper admimstration of Justice, SHOULD HAVE A RIGHT
TO TRIAL BY JURY. :
f Social and Industrial Justice.
‘ The PROGRESSIVE PARTY npledges itself to work unceasing
1y in State and Nation for legislation looking to;
» Prohibition of Industrial Accidents ' :
' Prohibition of Occupational Diseases
| Prohibition of Overwork
' Prohibition of Involuntary Unemployment
i\ Fixing of Minimum Safety and Health Standards
' Prohibition of CHILD LABOR
Minimum Wage Standard for Working Women
Prohibition of Night Work for Women
8 Hour Day for Women and Young People
((» One Day’s Rest in Seven for all Wage Workers
8 Hour Day in all eontinuous 21 hour Day Industries
Standards of compensation for death by industrial accidents
injuries and trade diseases.
Protection of human life against hazards of sickness, irregu
@r employment and old age through the adoption of a system of
“social insurance.
Establishment of schools for industrsal education under
public control and encouraging agricultural education and demon
stration in rural schosls.
_ Department of Labor, with seat in Cabinet.
Re-establishment and strengthening of the Country Life
Commissien of Mr. Roosevelt’s Administration
L Stronger Laws looking to the Conservation of Health
“strengthening the administration of the Pure Food and Drug Act.
United States Supervision over Investment to Eliminate and
punish Swindlers.
~ Waterways Vital to the South
The PROGRESSIVE PARTY proposes upon the completion of
the Panama Canal to untilize the government equipment and org
sA®ation there in Inland Waterway Improvement, and particularly
in improving the Mississippi River to Provide against the loss of
Life and Property which was experienced last Spring.
The PROGRESSIVE PARTY Advocates:
Extension of Parcel Post
Extension of Civil Service to inelude Postmasters
L__ . Marshalls and Collectors, and Strict enforcement of present
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What Cel. Rooseveit Said to His
Milwaukee Audience.
NO CONCERN FOR HIS OWN LIFE
In the Greetoet Campaign Spsech on
~ Rooord, With a Bullet in HMis Body,
He Ameowered Forever the Argu
ment That the Progressive Party
is a One-Man Movement.
The speech that Col. Roosevelt de
livered at Milwaukee with a baliet in
his body was the most dramatic cam
paign utterance on receord.
Just before he rose to speak Henry
F. Cochems, head of ths Progressiva
Party’s Speakers’' bureau and a‘Mil
waikee man, came forward and said:
“In presenting Col. Roogevelt to you,
good citizens, good fathers amd goqd
civiliang, you shouldd know that the
Celonel comes to you ia the spirit of
a good soldier.
“As we were leaving the hotel a
few mowmentis ago a dastardly hand
raised a revolver and fired a shot at
him, and the Colonel speaks as a sol
dier with a bullet in his breast; whars,
we den’t know.”
A shudder ran through the audienoe,
aceompanied by eries of “Oh, Oh,”
from the women present, who made
up half of the audience.
Col. Roosevelt stepped forward and
was greeted with a cheer that shook
the building. He had the old grin on
his face, and it was hard for the audé
ence to credit the statement that he
stood there llke a soldier with the
lead of an ememy in his body.
That there was no ques’fion‘ of this
was shown by a little incident. When
the Colonel started to read his notes
be teok his spectacle ecase from the
vest pocket, and turning to those just
about him, exhibited lit, indicatimg
where the bullet of the assassin had
nicked it. This brought another sym
pathetie cheer, to which Mr. Reosevelt
responded with one of his smiles and
began his talk.
~friends, I shall ggk you o be as
quiet as possible,” he said. “I don't
know whether y®&® fully understand
that I have just be>a shot, but it takes
laws. -
GOOD ROADS and Provides for early construction of Na
tional Highways, and favor extension of Rural free delivery ser
viee.
Inheritanee and Ineome Tax, ADVERTISEM'T
Extract from Qolonel Roosevelt’s Speech delivered immedliatély after he was shot.
} more than that to kill a Bull Moose.
(Cheers.) But fortunately I had my
} manuscrint, 80 you see 1 was going to
make a jong speech (holds up manu
scrip with bullet holp} and there is
a bullet—there is where the bullet
went through.and i€ probably saved
me from it going into my heart. The
bullet is in me now, so that I cannot
‘make a very long speech, but I’ will
try my best. (Cheers).
“And now, friends, 1 want to take
advantage of this incident and say a
word of solemn warning as 1 know
how to my fellow countrymen. First
of all 1 want to say this about my
gelf: T have altegether toc important
things to think of to feel any conecern
ever my own death, and now I cannot
speak to you insincerely within five
minutes of being shot.
“} am telling you the literal truth
when [ say that my concern is fot
many other things. It is not in the
least for my own life. I want you to
understand that I am ahead of the
game anyway. (Applause and cheers.)
No man has had a happier life than 1
have led; happier life In every way.
1 have been able to do certain things
that [ greatly wished to do and I am
interested in doing other things.
“] can tell you with absolute truth
fulness that I am very much uninter
ested in whether I am shot or not. It
was just as when I was colonel of my
regiment. I always felt that a private
was to be excused for feeling at times
some pangs of anxiety about his per
sonal safety, but I cannot understand
a man fit to be a Colonel who can pay
any heed to his personal safety when
he is occupied, ag he ought to be oo
cupied, with the absorbing desire to
do his duty. (Applause and cheers.)
“l am in this cause with my .whale
heart and zoul. 1 believe that the
Progressive movement is for making
life a little easier for all our people;
a movement to try to take the bur
dens off the men and’espectally the
women and childrem of this country.
I am absorbed in the success of that
movement.
“1 regard this incident as ef infin
itesimal importanoe as compared with
the great issues at stake in this cam
paign, and 1 ask it' not for my sake—
not the least in the world, bt for the
sake of our common country that our
opponents make up their mind to
speak only the truth, and not to use
the kind of siander and mendaeity
which, If teken seriously, must ingite
woak and viclent natures to orlmes of
violence.” }
- The Righteous
s Roosevelt
Comments of the Atlanta Constitution at the
close of Roosevelts Administration
Mr. Roosevelt will stand out,
as intimated by the Washington
Post, as a President in many re
spects unprecedented. His
achievement is not marred by
one broken pledge. His biogra
phers, to date, are unable to find
a single instance in which he
employed wild promises t o
smooth his pathway to office.
Always he has striven at gen
uine evils and sought to effect
genuine reforms. No conscious
or inadvertent bypocrisy cumbers
his good name or shadows his
political future.
As much, sadly, cannot be said
for some dozens of demagogues,
who, as the Post saliently points
out, have left a trail of ruin in
their wake by attempting to imi
tate Roosevelt but with cheapness
and wretched judgment and pal
pable insincerity.
Roosevelt goes back to pri
vate life, a man honored and res
pected and acclaimed by all civ
ilization.
. Without Roosevelt’s acumen or}
’honesty, they endeavored to
‘emulate his methods and his suc-‘
’cess. They had sufficient com
‘mon shrewdness to sense the
'marvelous manner in which his
brand of righteousness has laid
hold on the popular heart.
Lacking his sincerity, lacking his
grasp of details and generalities, ]
lacking his supreme good sensez
and his cardinal honesty, they’f
gave endless promissory notes tu
e redeemed in impossible per-!
formances. l
Let The
People
Rule
,Georglans Under
No Obligation
To Support
Wilson
Below we give a communica
tion received by us as we think
it states a number of good reas
ons why we siould not support
Wilson.
We have had many inquiries
from all parts of Georgia from
good citizens who have become
tired of the old Democratic Party
and especially the ga ne of poli
ties played at Baltimore which
brought about the nomination of
Prof. Wilson. They state that
they could not and would not
vote fcr Dr. Wilson anc felt that
they were breaking no honorable
pledge or promise by voting the
Progressive ticket headed by
Theodore Roosevelt. And they
give the following reasons:
Ist. Prof. Wilson bolted the
Democratic nominee in 1896 and
voted an independent ticket
headed by Palmer and Buckner.
2nd. Mr. Brvan came to Balti
more pledged by primary vote of
his own state ( which Champ
Clark carried) to vote for Clark
first, last and all time and he,
Mr. Bryan, was the first man to
bolt his primary and instructions
and vote for Prof. Wilson. :
3d. Prof. Wilson is not and
was not the choice of the rank
and flle of the Democratic party.
Champ Clark his leading oppon
ent, beat him in the primaries
'before the people over 300,000
'votes and secured delegate votes
at Baltimore of 25 more than a
majority of the whole yet, not
withstanding all this, the bosses
including Messrs. Sullivan, Tag
gart, Murphy and Ryan and Co.,
so arranged or connived to cheat
the will of the people and place
or make Prof. Wilson the nomi-
nee of the bosses and not the
people.
4th. A word as to the rule of
the so-called Democratic execu
tive commitee nominated by At
lanta politicians and political
‘bosses. This honorable body has
constituted to itself the right to
lash the white men in Georgia
into line nationally as they have
been trying to do locally by the
so-called RULE that any one
voting other than their dictations
will be read out of the party two
years hence. Now, Mr. Voter,
this white primary in Georgia is
strictly a local white’ man’s
agreement for state and county
officers and cannot be considered
to have any effect on national
elections. We intend to vote our
honest convictions as there will
be a new, clean, white man’s
Progressive Party in the field for
state and county officers 2 years
hence. @ ’ . )
sth. At the time that the
democrats had their primary in
Georgia there was nothing to in
dicate that there would be a new
Progressive Party launched in
the South therefore, the condi
tiens are such taking all and all
into consideration that any white
man in Georgia can honorably
support the Progressive Party
and vote for Theodore Roosevelt
on Nov. sth.
6th. Dr. Wilson in his speech
of acceptance, with one foot on
' the platform and one eoff, made
the positive statement that the
lplatform was not a_program to
'go by. Now, Mr. Voter, it is not
‘a.program and covenant with the
'people, it is lying promise to
catch votes.
LEST YOU FORGET You
tried Free Trade 16 years ago
under Cleveland, a Democrat,
and you got 4 cents cotton in ex
change. The Wilson Democratic
Free Trade Bill then caused your
farm land to reduce one-half in
value. Prof. Wilson stands for
tarriff for revenue only, which is
the basis of Free Trade and is
the same platform that caused
misery and Hard Times in 1896
and 97.