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Saturday, August 10, 1912.
ROOSEVELT
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Nominated To Head
Third Party
Chicago, Aug. 6—The third party
movement inaugurated by Col. Roose
velt at the regular Republican conven
tion held in Chicago on June 18th was
today fully launched on the stormy sea
of politics, when Senator Joseph M.
Dixon of Montana, campaign manager
for Roosevelt, called the 1100 delegates
to the new party to order.
Senator Dixon on assuming the chair
said: “This convention is to be notably
a deliberative body, and is certainly
composed of a class of men altogether
different from those who usually attend
party conventions—men of the United
States, who without regard to past dif
ferences, who, through repeated be
trayals, realize that today the power of
the crooked political bosses and of the
privileged classes behind them is so
strong in the two old party organiza
tions that no help in the real interests
of our country can come out of either.”
“Who believe in the right and capac
ity of the people to rule themselves and
effectively to control all the agencies of
their government and who hold that
only through social and industrial jus
tice, thus secured, can honest property
find permanent protection.
“Who believe that only this type of
wise industrial evolution will avert in
dustrial revolution.
Roosevelt was unanimously nomi
nated for the presidency with Governor
Johnson of California as his running
mate.
Jane Adams, the noted settlement
worker of Hullhouse, w ho is a delegate
from Chicago, seconded Roosevelt’s
nomination.
Ex-Senator Beveridge of Indiana was
made temporary chairman. Judge
Lindsey, juvenile judge of Denver, was
the choice for permanent chairman.
On Tuesday, James Wickersham and
O. II. Hubbard of Alaska, appeared be
fore the credentials committee and
asked that they be recognized as dele
gates from Alaska. They said that they
had been the victims of the steam roller
of the Taft convention; that they had
been steam rolled then and . should now
get recognition here. The committee, 1
after consideration ordered them seated.
All negro delegations from the South
have been barred from the convention.
This action was taken in deference to
the wishes of Colonel Roosevelt, who
said that there should not be a single
j black delegate admitted to a seat from
the South or allowed to take part in the
deliberations of the convention.
T>r. Yardlee, (colored), in a speech
\ declared that Roosevelt had deserted
; the cause of the colored man by his ac
tions in refusing their admission as del
egates. He scored the Colonel for what
he termed his Lily White policy,” de
signed for the purpose of catching votes
of the whites opposed to the negro.
Alice G. Carpenter is a member of the
platform committee.
LOCAL HAPPENINGS
Major Roudiez, with a post rifle team, |
will visit Fairbanks the latter part of
next week to accept the challenge to a
match received from the Tanana Rifle
club.
Mrs. J. J. Crosley of Fairbanks is a
visitor in Tanana this week awaiting
the arrival of her husband from the
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Iditarod. Mrs. Crosley is the guest of
Mrs. L. R. Gillette.
—
C. D. Leckie, formerly with the Tan
ana Commercial company, will leave
here on the Tanana to take a position as
bookkeeper in the U. S. District court j
at Fairbanks. Mr. Leckie was re- j
appointed by Judge Fuller.
Mrs. David Kay and children and her
sister Miss Brooke Lloyd arrived here on
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1 the Schwatke from Plot Springs, Ark.
Miss Lloyd is the newly appointed
school teacher for Tanana and will
take up her new duties on Monday a.m.
Sunday school at St. James chapel
■ every Sunday at 12 o’clock.
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for Delegate From Alaska
He has lived in Alaska for 14 years, and in the
pursuit of 11 is profession, he lias been called to
nearly every portion of the Territory, and he is
thoroughly familiar with the needs of Alaska.
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; 3. He is not connected, in any way, with corpora
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tions or other persons seeking favors from the
Government. \\ bile he has ever been the friend
J. and attorney of the laborer and the poor man, yet
; he believes in the doctrine of live and let live and
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! does not seek to array Class against Class.
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J 4. He is in political harmony with the dominant^
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better able to get things for Alaska than would be
a Socialist or a Republican (be he Stand-Tatter
or an Independent Republican). What Alaska
) wants it wants, now Jennings is the onlv Demo
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