Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

“Thou Shalt Not Steal”/ Call for 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 Progerssive Party for a convenat Chicago, on August 5, 1912, for the purpose of nominating President and Vice-Presidential candidates, the Provisional Executive Cqmmiuee 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 Chairmen will be named in each county of the State by the Executive Committee for each district, by and with the council and advice oi known and active Progressives of such counties. Each Counj C h,airman will appoint one member from each percinct in his county to form a County Central Committtee. 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 cr boss controlled candidates or machine-dele-gates! ; . Inasmuch as poll books containing Vie names of the Progressive voters of Indiana, for obvious reasons, are not in existence, it has developed - u pen- this Exeruti v e Committee t o secure ’ the appoint inent bT 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 terminated by a successful Progressive Party. ** i 1 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 partin this Progressive movement, to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, oh Thursday,, the Ist day Of August, 1912, for the purpose of adopting a progressive platform for the current Indiana compaign, and for the purpose of nominating two delegates-at-lage. and two alternate delegates-at-large to the National Progressive Convention, and. also the selection of thirteen other delegates and a like numb<-r of alternates, one of each delegates and alternates to the National Progressive Convention, from each of tho thirteen congressional districts, whet 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 whom 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 effaces of said State of Indiana, to be voted for at the general election in November, <9l2‘ The State Convention will elect a Chairman of the Progressive State Central Committtee. The convention will assemble at 10 o’clock A. M. on said Ist day of August. 191-. The convention will be composed of 1,438 delegates apportioned among the several counties of said State on the basis of one delegates for each 500 votes cast by Republican, Democrat, Socialist and Prohibition parties, for their first elector-at-large at the Residential election held in November, 1908, and one delegate for additional fraction of 250 votes or more cast as aforesaid. Said counties shall be entitle *. 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 Men day, the 29th day of July, 1912. The hour and place in the respective counties for holding the meetings for selecting such delegates will be fixed by the Progressive Chairman of each county. County Chairmen, the press and all citizens interested in this great progressive movement are requested to give this call the widest publicity in their respective counties, to the end that all citizens deisring 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 PROGRESSIVE PARTY OF THE STATE OF INDIANA.

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