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jle Pro§ressiv6 Convention
vVh-n was the meaning of the
invention held at Chicago iast
" ;nth ’ Why was it so unlike
A^lier political convention ev-
SiSdin this eoantry? What
the mysterious force which
pM)ired and dominated the deie-
' itesand the thousands of spec-
fators to think and act as one?
u e are asked these and simiiar
questions with increasing fre-
what force causes the
reasons to change. Tell us what
causes the birds to fly northward
in summer and southward in
J^-intpr. Tell us what power con-
the law of gravitation and
«hy the buds burst forth in
suiing and the leaves fall in aut-
ufflii. Tell us w^hence comes
rfian's' desire at all times to bet
ter h;s condition. And what you
lell us wiil be the answer to your
(juesaons about the Chicago con
vention.
iiiere are at least 25, GOO living
ft;;i,esses who can bear testimo-
n\ as 10 what they saw arid felt
;’t ti’ai historic meeting. Thou-
nu doubt, will assert that
great spiritual gathering,
and irresistible. •
uiner thousands will tell you
fhat ic was a g-athering whose
ioui se was shaped by that prac-
jie;.. everyday religion which
4j,s upon the common brother-
ui man. And other thou-
..-ji.it will testify that what they
fti! v.hiie sitting in that conven-
J oil w as an experience so novel,
;ura>> furious and so wonderful
;ha- ':^ey are incapable of inter-
Mctiiig iis meaning.
All who spent an hour or more
2t any of the three sessions will
be:nr wirness that they felt the
wurKing ot a mighty force which,
for liie time being at least, fused
the taought and action of the
assembled thousands into a single
pari'ose.
Persons from all walks of Ufe
',vere delegates and ^ests. The
olainsnian from the far west and
ihemen and women from the
drawing rooms of wealth sat side
by side. Those whose lives had
been dedicated to social welfare
work neighbored with the mere
politician and camp follower.
Newspaper vmteis of national
fame, sent by their papers be
cause they were cynics and able
satirists, elbowed earnest essay
ists on economic and welfare
jopics. The southern Democrat
and Confederate soldier sat next
to the northern Republican and
Union veteran.
Yet two hours after the con
vention opened these hitherto
diverse elements were welded in
to one common body, and all the
old class distinctions were brok
en down. Old and experienced
newspaper men who come to
scoff wired their Tory editors
that they could not write the
stories which they had been sent
to make.
And some of the very best ac
counts of the convention were
vritten by these anaazed and
rewiy enlightened writers.
We feel that we understand
the significance of that conven
tion. It w^s a crystallized and
concrete expression of the desire
l^'hich long has existed in the
hearts of a great majority of the
American people, for wider just
ice as between man and man.
Pirationa of man may be freed in
which his capabilities hiay find
space for natural expansion.
Can any one doubt that the
divine power - which has guijied
the civilizations of the world has
selected the American continent
upon which to rear the highest
form of democracy? Was it an
accident that t^ii continent with
i ts matchless resources, its varied
climate and its diversified pro
ducts, remained unknown while
the older civilizations of the
world were struggling through
centuries of ignorance and want?
Was it by mere chance that
this vast virgin land was kept
hidden from eivi.ized rtian until
the time was ripe in thetevolution
of the race for the great experi
ment, the worth of which Theo
dore Roosevelt says “depends
upon it being in good faith an ex
periment—the first that has ever
been tried—in true democracy on
the scale of a continent?"
Those who believe that behind
the development of tne nations
there is a wisely ordained plan
cannot but believe that this con
tinent was reserved for such an
experiment i^ true democracy.
The experiment.advances as the
people are ready for it and as the
needs of the time require it.
The injustices in our present^
Addanas Con vention. It was sueh
because the menij^rs of that con-
v6ntibn, believed that all these
persons, deyoutly and under-
standingjy, represented their
hopes and their desires.
If Theodore Roosevelt had de-^
livered before the Progressive
convenUon the speech which Taft
delivered in Washington the
previous week, the delegates
wouldv have driven him out of
the buildmg.
Arid if Governor Johnson had
repeated to that convention Gov
ernor Wilson's delicately.phrased
sjieech of acceptance, fie could
not have been their choice for
vice-president.
The Chicago convention , re
presented a sentiment w ^ncere
tha:t it has become a religion with
millions of Americans, a senti-
nient so enlightened so exacting
and.so soipicipus that if Theodore
Roc»evelt were to equivocate,
falter or sncempt ^ to compromise
he would cast aside and an
other leader would take his place.
The assejrtion that it was a one-
man convention is due in most
cases to deliberate rhisrepre^en^
tation on the part of Tory ad
vocates. Sometimes, however,
it is the result of the same short
ness of memory or narrowness
of vision as that exhibited in the
economic and social systems adverse clairiis as to the origin
prove that no set or class of men of the platform. Mr. Bryan, for
are intellectually and morally ^ instance, says the platform is
strong enough to be intrusted largely a rewriting of pohcies
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with great power over masses of
other men. It is to remove these
injustices by taking power away
from a small set or class and dis-1 the Socialists,
tributing it among all the people I As a matter of fact, the plat-
advocated by the Democratic
party- iVlr. Debs says that the
platform was lifted bodily from
While the foregoing seems to
a to be the interpretation given
ty the average man to that ex
traordinary convention, it surely
fas a still wider significance. It
B another milestone along the
iourse of progressing civiliza-
I'on. li is the opening of a
•• ighter chapter in the evolution
't democracy.
When the fatheis established
American republic, they gave
this country as lai'ge a meas-
i.f democracy as its people
’ callable of comprehending
^xej'cising. Our intellectual
rowrb: and our universal educa-
‘•’r: cue lariely to our public
"=■"001 j;ystem, li^ve fitted the
-'■"':v'’ican people for a wider de-
^"^cracy if they desire it.
Ine revolution in our social
-nairions and industrial system,
^siitirig from labor-saving: ma-
" if^^'ry, immense combinations
tapitai and modern business
pfg;^.ni:iation, has made necessary
the democratic principle
5f.au be extended if the great
ftasii of the people are to retain
their economic and political inde-
Psn'ience.
iae awakened business consci-
and the aroused social sense
tie nation, due in a large de-
to the teachings of Theo-
^iorf Roosevelt, have made the
f*^lie realize the inadequacy of
our outgrown system.
T^e Progressive movement is
ao^ng iegs tij^n a demand for a
[ ^ar and a truer demoeracy un-
ider ^fhich the now fetterra aa~
that the Progressive movement
aims.
The convention at Cnicago was
an expression of those who be
lieve that po wer should be so dis
tributed among the people in
stead of being lodged in the hands
of a few. It was a council of
men and women who hold that
this Ameriiean experiment should
be in good faith an experiment in
true democracy.
We are told that the Chicago
convention was essentially a one-
man convention, a Roose velt con
vention. The Tory press must
continue to repeat this uutruth
or else themselves give the lie to
the campaign of falsehood'which
they themselves have made
against the Progressives. The
falsity of the statement can be
proved by calling as a witness
any person, man or womian, who
attended the 'convention.
It undoubtedly is true that no
other citizen of this country could
have aided so much in calling to
gether the thousands of men and
women who attended that con
vention. But the convention
was not made up of Roosevelt
followers. Its delegates were
believers in Roosevelt and be
lievers in the policies which he
exemplifies.
Colonel Roosevelt has no poli
tical following in the usual sense
of that terra. One of his earliest
assertions in the campaign was to
the effect that no man should fol
low him with hope of political re
ward, because he had nothing to
give and probably never again
would have political patronage
to dispense;
The greater part of those who
attended the Chicago convention
did so with b.ut little hope of
i victory .this year. Their later
I confidence in the outcome of thei
present battle came to them be
cause of what they saw and
h^rd after they arrived in Chi-
cago. '
The convention that adjourned
on Wednesday night was as much
a Johnson convention a Roosevelt
convention. It was a Beveridge
con '■'ention. It was a Ben Lind
sey convention. It was a Jane
form antedates both the Demo
crats and the Socialists by many
centuries. It was really written
nearly 1900 >ears ago, and its
author came out of Narazeth.
The spirit of the Chicago, con
vention has behind it a force as
irresistible as the force behind
the tides. The spiritual atmo
sphere of that convention and
the religious fervor of the dele
gates and the audiences were
only a reflection and an interpre
tation of the significance of the
Progressive movement. Senator
Beveridge, in his masterful
speech, summed up the whole
case when he said:
“Never doubt we are a nation
whose God is the Lord.
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