Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1912 — “Thou Shalt Not Steal" [ARTICLE]

“Thou Shalt Not Steal"

A Call lor Organization and State Convention. To the Citizens of the State of Indiana: In compliance with and pursuant to the call issued by the Provisional Committee of the National Progressive Party for a convention at Chicago, on August 6, 1912, for the purpose of nominating President and Vice-Presi-dential candidates, the Provisional Executive Committee of Indiana Progressives, authorized by a mass conference at Indianapolis July 3, 1912, hereby announces the plan for State, District, County and Precinct organization. ORGANIZATION. For the purpose of quickly creating an effective organization of the Progressives of Indiana, the Executive Committee has adopted the following plan: - * County Chairman will be named in each eounty of the State, by the Executive committee for each district, by and with the counsel and advice of known and active Progressives of such counties. Each County Chairman will appoint one member from each precinct in his county to form a County Central Committee. This plan of organization has been adopted first, because it can be perfected in the shortest possible time, and second, because it insures an organization composed of men who are known to be loyal to the progressive principles that have called into existance this party. It is well known to the voters of this State that members of one political party have participated in the primaries of an opposing political party for the purpose of assisting disorganization, boss rule, and the selection of weak or boss-controlled candidates or machine-delegates. Inasmuch as poll books containing the names of the Progressive voters of Indiana, for obvious reasons, are not in existence, It has devolved upon this Executive Committee to secure the appointment of known and loyal Progressives to take charge of the various county Progressive organizations, to prevent their being “packed” by those corrupt interests whose pernicious influence will be germinated by a successful Progressive Party. - ■ -- • - ■ STATE CONVENTION. For the following purposes the Indiana Progressive Committee hereby invites all citizens of the State of Indiana, who, without regard to past political, affiliations, desire to co-operate with and take part in this Progressive movement, to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, on Thursday, the Ist day of August, 1912, for the purpose of adopting a progressive platform for the current Indiana campaign, and ror the purpose of nominating two delegates-at-large,. and twb alternate delegates-at-large to the National Progressive Convention, and also the selection of thirteen other delegates and a like number of alternates, one of each delegates and alternates to the National Progressive Convention, from each of the thirteen congressional districts, who will ‘be qualified to take the place of their principal in the event of the disability of such elector to act, occurring before said election; all of whoim are to be voted for at the general election in the State of Indiana in 1912; also to nominate candidates of the national Progressive Party for the several offices of said State of Indiana, to be voted for at the general election in November, 1912. The State Convention will elect a Chairman of the Progressive State Central Committee. The convention will assemble at 10 o’clock a. m. on said Ist day of August, 1912. The convention will he composed of 1,438 delegates apportioned among the several counties of said State on the basis of one delegate for each 500 votes cast by Republican, Democrat; Socialist and Prohibition parties, for their first elector-at-large at the presidential election held in November, 1908, and one delegate for addiional fraction of 250 votes or more cast as aforesaid. Said counties shall be entitled to select an alternate delegate for each delegate so apportioned. All delegates to this convention will be selected in each county of the State on Monday, the 29th day of July, 1912. The hour and place in the respective counties for holding the meetings for s4lecting such delegates will be fixed by the Progressive Chairman of each county. County Chairman, the press and all citizens interested in this great progressive movement are requested to give this call the Videst publicity in their respective counties, to the end that all citizens desiring to affiliate with this movement, may participate in the selection of said delegates to said State convention. BY ORDER OF THE PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE