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MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH THE TWIN CITY STAR ST.PAUL MINNESOTA HISTORICAL efective Page Choice of Progressives. 1912 by American Press Association COLONEL ROOSEVELT. THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE. The national Progressive party, committed to the principle of government by a self-controlled democracy expressing its will through representatives of the people pledges itself to secure such alterations in the fundamental law of the several states and of the United States as shall insure the representative character of the government. In particular this party declares for direct primaries for the nomination P. V. COLLINS. VOTE Progressi National President ..... Vice President.... VOTE THE Progressive Ticket President .....THEODORE ROOSEVELT Vice President.....HIRAM W. JOHNSON State Ticket Governor..... Lieutenant Governor..... Secretary of State..... State Treasurer..... Attorney General..... Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners (Six Year Term) (TFour Year Term) T. J. SHARKEY JOHN H. GRASS of state and national officers, for nation-wide preferential primaries for candidates for the presidency, for the direct election of United States senators by the people; and we urge on the states the policy of the short ballot with responsibility to the people secured by the initiative, referendum and recall. This is the plank in the platform condemning States' Rights, and the revival of the Civil Rights Bill, which the Republicans never passed. M. S. NORELUS. THE ve Ticket I Ticket THEODORE ROOSEVELT ...HIRAM W. JOHNSON P. V. COLLINS J. A. A. BURNQUIST M. S. NORELIUS WALTER J. SMITH LYNDON A. SMITH RECORD OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. Colored Americans having been permitted to be disf-anchised in the Southern States under Republican rule. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats upon the Supreme Court of the United States. The appointment of ex-Confederates and Southern Democrats in the Cabinet by President Taft. The declaration of President Taft that he would appoint no colored man to office who may be objectionable to the white people. Race discrimination permitted upon the railroads South, and the enactment of "Jim Crow" car laws. The removal of Southern coloree office holders in the South from office and the appointment of Democrat and ex-Confederates in their stead. With such a record for the Republican party to go to the country on 1912 to capture the colored vote will be bound to be effective. The colored voters throughout the country have opened their eyes, and between now and 1912 they will keep them open.—The Bee, Wash. D. C. INDEPENDENCE IN VOTING. The Political Situation as Viewed by Lawyer James L. Curtis. In twenty-two states of the Union, where the blight of constitutional amendments has neither eliminated nor rendered negligible the Negro vote, $27 electoral votes hang in the balance to preponderate according to the way the Negro casts his ballot, says Attorney James L. Curtis of New York. Suppose it be conceded that in the dawn of Negro citizenship the race found itself obligated to the Republican party for rights conferred in the shape of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the federal constitution and thereafter resentfully sought to avenge itself on the Democratic party for its attitude in opposition to the conferring of these rights. Is there any reason on this account why the Negro should further be influenced by rights granted fifty years ago, when it is apparent that they were conferred not as a result of the unselfish pursuit of right and justice by its sponsors, but as a political expedient to perpetuate itself in power, and that the other party that opposed the conferring of those rights, conversely, did so not as the result of a malevolent pursuit of wrong and injustice, but as a political expedient to gain the reins of power? In every crisis of the nation in which the Negro has been called upon to participate he has always allied himself on the side seeking the greatest good to the greatest number and on the side demanding "equal rights for all and special privileges for none." This campaign is a fight of the masses against "special privilege" as typified in the exponents of the high protective tariff advocated by both the Republican and Progressive parties. The Negro in this crisis will stand, as he has always stood, with the masses as against the classes, with equal rights for all as against special privileges for some. There is abundant evidence at hand from every section of the country that the Negro has an adequate appreciation of the function of the ballot. It is therefore a safe conclusion that he will not use his ballot in this campaign to any appreciable extent in response to the thrills of sentiment, but with grim visage and serious mien will employ this boon of citizenship, as the result of sober thought and calm reason, to the benefit of his home and family, to the credit of his race and to the glory of his country and his flag. THE SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN SCANDAL The president is like the high-minded president of a public service corporation who wants his general manager or counsel to get results in council and legislature, but is unwilling to hear anything about the necessary means. We do not hear of any refusal of the president to permit Southern delegates to the Republican national convention to vote for him, but he is taking great pains to pass on the other side of all unpleasant details involved in arrauging for this support of his candidacy. The Republican party in the South is a permanent scandal. It has no following, since its Negroes have been disfranchised and its whites ostracised, and only leaders enough to fill the federal and organization offices. Extracts from Minneapolis Tribune SEND YOUR SUBSCRIPTION. torat college. In this connection it is well to remember that the bulk of the votes cast four years ago and that will be cast this year are in the northern or debatable states. The vote was very light in the sure Democratic states of the south and will be light this year. Senate and House. The house of representatives is always carried by the same party which elects the president. This year will be no exception. The Democrats are likely to increase their majority in the house, and in my opinion they will carry enough state legislatures to give them control of the senate. Swing of the Pendulum. It was Tom Carter who, as chairman of the Republican national committee in 1892, said to his close friends during the last closing doleful days that it "all depended upon the swing of the pendulum of politics." He then explained that in 1800 there had been a tremendous landslide to the Democrats and that the pendulum had swing far out toward Democracy. It was swinging back in 1892, Carter claimed, and it was only a question whether it would swing back in time for election in November. It didn't. "Time is a thief," some old wise one said a long time ago. And just now he is stealing something from at least two political parties. The Republicans assert that the drift toward Taft has set in strongly, and "if we had one more month" there would be no question about his election. The Progressives are no less emphatic in asserting that the uprising of Roosevelt is coming in surges, and "if we had one mouth more" the colonel would sweep the entire country. Votes of Protest. Straw votes and convassing of different big establishments show an astonishingly large vote for Debs. These are votes of protest against the politics, personality and policies of the other three candidates. I have heard many men say they were going to vote for Debs, who would vote for one of the other candidates if any one of them united in politics, personality and policies those things which they approve. The increased vote for the Socialist this year will be encouraging to that organization, but, according to my information, the increase will be due largely to this protesting class of men who are generally dissatisfied. Next of interest to the presidential election is the fight for governor of New York. Sulzer is confident and so is Stras. The canvass made by the Republican state committee has gleams of comfort for Job Hedges, but Hedges is a practical man in politics. No matter how good everything may appear he issues this cautionary mandate to his friends: "Whatever we do let's not 'con' ourselves." Big Ollie James. Ollie James is not only the biggest man in the house, but he will be the biggest man in the senate after March 4, consequently he must be big in his claims. "I have told the people to whom I have talked," he said, "that I was not a prophet nor given to prophecy, but that it was my opinion that Governor Wilson would carry forty of the forty-eight states. And I am willing to bet on it." And the big Kentuckian is a sport. He does bet on the ponies and politics when he sees what he considers good. Roosevelt In Spotts. The probabilities are that the Roosevelt vote will show in spots. In some sections he will scarcely be in the running. In others he is likely to have a surprising support. About the most uncertain thing in the campaign is the support of Colonel Roosevelt. You see and hear of men who are going to vote for him that you supposed were bound to their parties with unbreakable ties. Men are going to vote for him who do not expect him to be elected. There are also men who are going to vote for him who have no doubt whatever of his success. Confidence in Taft. The confidence in President Taft, as I trace it by inquiry, is among business men who are looking at conditions in the country and do not believe that the people can be induced to make any change. They remember that Taft had an immense popular as well as electoral majority four years ago, and they cannot imagine that the people have changed their allegiance in that time. Grace Church to Build New Edifice. The laying of the cornerstone of Grace A. M. E. church in Catonsville, Ind., on Sunday, Oct. 27, was a most interesting event. The new building is to be of brick and stone and will replace the edifice which was destroyed by fire last spring. The Rev. C. H. Murray, pastor of the congregation, is a member of the financial board of the A. M. E. church. FORECASTS ON THE ELECTION ARTHUR W. DUNN'S VIEWS. Veteran Washington Correspondent Discusses the Conditions and Gives It as His Belief That the Democratic Candidate Will Have a Big Majority In the Electoral College. By ARTHUR W. DUNN. Washington, Nov. 1.—[Special.] Political forecasting ripens about this time in every presidential year. There has been a lot of predicting ever since the nominations were made, and, of course, the managers of all political parties have been giving out positive claims of success. Now, it is apparent that only one of the three leading candidates can be elected. The prognifications of the managers of the other two are wrong. Naturally many Republicans hope that Chairman Hilles is right when he says President Taft will surely have 280 electoral votes, fifteen more than enough to elect, with several states in the doubtful column. With some amazement we look at the claims of Chairman McCombs, who puts his hand over the map of the United States and says all or practically all will vote for Wilson. With consider able interest we study the claims of Chairman Dixon and ponder his enthusiastic claim that there is a ground swell or landslide coming for Roosevelt. Mr. Hilles tabulates his figures by states. Mr. McCombs gives a few states with a few elecretal votes as possibly Republican. Mr. Dixon does not specify beyond a dozen states, but says the uprising is bound to sweep the Progressives into power. Newspaper Predictions Most of the newspapers supporting the different candidates are following the predictions of the campaign managers and backing up their claims. They want their candidates to win, and to "lay down" before the election is not considered good political fighting. Newspaper correspondents, as far as possible, are following the policy of the papers they represent and with "ifs" and "on the other hands" they give the impression that there is a fighting chance or a hopeful outlook for their candidates. A. Personal Prediction My own personal opinion of the result of the coming election is that Governor Wilson will be elected by such a majority in the electoral college as will make the comparison go back to 1852, when the Whig candidate carried only three states. It does not take very much political sagacity to predict Wilson's success. With two candidates who have both been elected as Republicans dividing the Republican vote, it seems to me almost hopeless to think of Republican success or the success of the Progressive candidate. The elections in 1872 and in 1802 were very one sided. In my opinion the coming election will be more one sided than either of those which were termed landlides. Reasona Why. The Republicans have had sixteen years of uninterrupted control, and many people want a change. Two years ago the Democrats carried the country in the congressional elections. For many years a big victory two years before a presidential election has been followed by the success of the same party in the greater contest. I might add that the "straw votes" and betting odds are largely favorable to Wilson, and while neither are sure indications of forthcoming results, they are confirmatory of the general conditions which so strongly indicate a Democratic victory. Seems a Natural Outcome To me Democratic success seems a natural outcome of all the conditions. Governor Wilson should receive most of the votes cast for Bryan four years ago. He will get many former Democratic votes which have been cast for Republicans during the Bryan years. In many states it is known that stand pat Republicans will vote for Wilson in order to defeat Roosevelt. Possibly there will be 15,000,000 votes cast. Bryan had 6,400,000 votes four years ago. Defections from his vote to the other candidates will be made up by gains for the reasons stated. Let us say that Wilson will have 6,500,000 votes and the 8,500,000 are divided between Taft and Roosevelt. It would be an impossibility to arrange them in states so as to prevent a big Wilson majority in the elec- Senate and House. Swing of the Pendulum. "If We Had a Month More." Votes of Protest. New York Governorship. Big Ollie James Roosevelt In Spota Confidence In Taft. CONCORD HONORS DODSON. Sunday School Celebrates Superintendent* Twentieth Anniversary. The Sunday school of the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn held special exercises in honor of the twentieth anniversary of Mr. N. B. Dodson as superintendent on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 20. Assistant Superintendent Edward H. Wilson presided. There was a large gathering of distinguished visitors present. Edward L. Faulcon delivered the greetings from the various department of the school. Mrs. R. P. Hamlin spoke on "N. B. Dodson as Superintendent" and G. H. Carter on "The Superintendent as a Financial." The Rev. Dr. Moss on behalf of the church presented Mr. Dodson with an envelope containing a dollar for each year of service, and W. K. Taylor for the school resented the superintendent with about the same amount. The DR. A. CLAYTON POWELL. Rev. Dr. A. Clayton Powell read a set of resolutions from the New England Baptist Sunday school convention, of which Mr. Dolson is president. He also presented him with a check representing a dollar for every year of his services as president of the convention. Mrs. Anna Skerritt, representing the Abyssinian Baptist Sunday school, New York, presented Mr. Dodson with a large bouquet of twenty white carnations and $5 in gold. The superintendent was the recipient of many other tokens of esteem. Among the other distinguished persons who spoke in praise of the superintendent's work were Mr. George E. Wibecan, Mrs. M. C. Lawton, Mr. E. V. C. Euto, Mrs. L. C. Smith, Mr. James H. Anderson, editor of the Amsterdam News; Mrs. Sylvia A. Harris, W. H. Taylor, superintendent of the Abyssinian Baptist Sunday school, and Mr. Wesley Norman, vice president of the Sunday school convention. PUBLIC APPROVAL FOR LIBERAL CULTURE CLUB. The Liberal Culture club of Chicago recently entered upon its third year of usefulness. The club is composed of professional men and women, mainly graduates of high schools and universities. The meetings of the organization are held once a week on Friday night from October to July. The motto of the club is humanity, not sex, not creed, not race. The club has for its object the mutual benefit of its members along intellectual lines and discusses questions of public interest—scientific, literary, theological, racial and social. The members have been favored with the most hearty co-operation of the leading ministers, laymen and other persons of note who take pleasure in giving the club the benefit of their opinion upon questions of public moment. This group of intelligent men and women, though small in number, is truly representative of a larger and increasing class of progressive persons among the colored people of Chicago. Organizations of this kind should be more widely known and also larger in number for the inspiration and help of the great throng of educated young men and women, many of whom have no definite social or literary intercourse with one another outside of business or church relations. The club cheerfully invites the cooperation of those who are interested in the work. Nonmembers may take part in the meetings as speakers on special topics, lectures and in other helpful ways. Communications may be sent to any of the officers at 3226 Pririe avenue. The officers are Professor Richard T. 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He is 56 years old; was admitted to practice law in Illinois in 1883, but in 1884 came to Minneapolis where he has continually practiced law with the exception of the four years that he served on the Probate Bench. His popularity among all classes was shown by the exceptionally large vote he received at the primary election, leading the ticket by a large majority. He has always taken an active int res, in all public questions. In deciding any question before him, "justice tempered with mercy" has always been his motto. He not only appreciates your vote; he deserves it! And, he will continue to deserve both your vote and your respect. He is your friend, my friend; OUR FRIEND. Vote for John H. Steele; Jurist and GENTLEMAN! PAID ADVERTISEMENT. Written by Atty. W. H. H. Franklin 1020 Met. Life Bldg., for which $1.06 per inch has been paid. NON-PARTISAN CANDIDATE FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE COURT... In John A. Dahl the people of Minneapolis have one of the most faithful of public servants. Mr. Dahl is distinctly a self-made man, in the true meaning of the term. Coming to Minneapolis with his parents 43 years ago he obtained his early education in the graded schools of this city, attended the old Minneapolis Academy and later worked his way through the academic and law departments of the University of Minnesota, securing his diploma in 1893. For the past 19 years he has been engaged continuously in the practice of law. He has had a wide and varied experience in his profession, handling cases of many different kinds. He served for two years as assistant county attorney, and for the past four years has been assistant city attorney. In the latter position he has represented the city in all the heavy damage suits brought against it and has achieved remarkable success. Of particular value to the city was his victory in the soft coal case. A city ordinance prohibiting the use of soft coal was violated by the C. M. & St. P. Ry. The railroads made a test case of the matter and after the ordinance had been declared valid by the municipal court they appealed to the state supreme court which sustained the lower court. Mr. Dahl conducted the case alone in behalf of the city and triumphed over a brilliant galaxy of railroad attorneys. Mr. Dahl received the highest vote at the primaries, which indicates that he is the choice of the people for the important office of Probate Judge. PAID ADVERTISEMENT. Written by C. S. Smith for Thos. D. Schall to be paid for. VOTE FOR THOS. D. SCHALL PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS. 5th District of Minn. THE BLIND ORATOR. ! Stand for Roosevelt's Policies. The only Progressive Candidate. To the Voters of Hennepin County: I am informed, that the fact that I am blind, is being urged to disqualify me as a competent representative of the Fifth Congressional District. As election is so immediately at hand, in the emergency I adopt this means of communication, believing that "a man's a man for a' that." I have only been blind for six years, and the thirty previous years of sight is still strong in my memory. As an offset so this handicap, if it is a handicap, it is only fair to call attention to my peaking ability: "Mr. Schall is one of the most able, perhaps the most able, speaker who has ever graduated from the University."—Cyrus Northrup, President Emeritus, U. of M. "A self made man, of sterling character and exceptional ability. He has my unqualified endorsement."—Richard Burton, Ph. D., Head of English Department, University of Minnesota. "A man who possesses unusual oratorical powers."—Chas. Bayard Mitchell, D. D. "He has the orator's equipment, sincerity, imagination, and a fine delivery."—H. E. Gordon, Chair of Public Speaking, University of Iowa. I maintain a large and successful law practice. If I can manage my own business successfully, under the present circumstances, I believe I can further the welfare of this district in Congress. To a blind man, work is his pleasure. The assistant county attorney for the City of New York, Mr. Brown, is blind; Mr. Serumgard, State's Attorney of Ramsey County, North Dakota, is blind. Jos. Pulitzer, successful editor and newspaper owner, was blind. Judge White of Kansas is blind. Postmaster General of England, is blind, and Senator Thomas Gore, of Oklahoma, one of the able men of the United States Senate, who has done more for his state than any other Senator, is blind. If you will trust me with the representation of our district, I believe I can discern the right side of any question that may arise, as well as if I had my sight. My hearing is excellent, my education is of art, of toil, and of men, and if there is any argument in my speaking ability, together with honesty of purpose, I trust you will feel that I have the necessary qualifications to warrant you giving me your vote. Hoping to hear from you favorably on the 5th of November, I am. NEGRO BISHOP SUSPENDED. Bishop J. W. Stewart of Birmingham, Ala., a Negro Bishop of the C. M. E. Conference has been suspended. This is the first time a Negro Bishop of this Church has been suspended by a committee. Sustained charges of maladministration rebellion against church laws and misapplying church and educational funds were made against him, and he was suspended till the meeting of the General Conference in St. Louis in May 1914. READ THE STAR—IT'S NEWS. The Twin City Star has the exclusive use in this city of the Afro-American news service of the American Press Assn., edited by Mr. N. B. Dodsof of N. 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Written by Mathias Baldwin in behalf of James Robinson, to be paid for JAMES ROBERTSON. James Robertson County Attorney now serving his first term as County Attorney, is the Republican nominee and candidate for re-election. The duties of his office have not permitted him to make an extended campaign, and he takes this method of acquainting the voters with his work. Compare these records from the Attorney General's office for Hennepin county: 1909 total Convictions and pleas 159; 1910, convicted 30; plead guilty 148—total 178; 1911, Mr. Robertson's first and only completed year in office, conicted 48; pleed guilty—277 total 325. Has crime increased 84 per cent in one year or has Mr. Robertson performed the duties of his office? No person remained in jail under indictment at the close of the term in 1911 or 1912. The County Attorney does not make the law. 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The men who have done us harm are those who have advocated disunion, but have done it so that they have been enabled to keep their political position; who have advocated repudiation of debts or other financial dishonesty, but have kept their standing in the community; who preach the doctrines of anarchy, but refrain from action that will bring them within the pale of the law, for these men lead thousands astray by the fact that they go unpunished or even are rewarded for their misdeeds.—Theodore Roosevelt. The Constitution and Citizenship. The next great war will be fought for the enfranchisement of the disfranchised colored citizens of the south who are still denied the right of suffrage, as guaranteed to all citizens of the United States by the national constitution. To lay claim to state rights in the matter of regulating the suffrage is simply begging the question. The constitution does not disfranchise a single citizen, native born or naturalized. Let us hope, however, that it will be a war of legal enactments which will cause to be enforced the constitutional rights of all citizens regardless of race or previous condition of servitude. Vice Pres. Sherman is dead. Pres. Taft has directed that on the day of the funeral the executive offices of the U. S., shall be closed and all stations of the army and navy shall display the national flag at half mast. Pres. Taft says that the Nation has lost one of its most efficient and faithful servants. Don't vote for Wilson. A Negro must not support the Tillmans, Vardamans and Heflins of the South. Vote for Roosevelt, and secure your Rights within the States. The Republican leaders of St. Paul have repudiated Gov. Eberhart. He is a good man, but his subordinates do not respect Negroes, and they have resented it. VOTE THE ENTIRE TICKET OF THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY. The Star lives in spite of the Corrupt Practices Act. RACE HAS HIGH IDEALS. Pres. Taft recently said that "the Colored Race has high ideals." That's just why they are supporting Roosevelt in whom they realize a champion of right, not an apologist like Pres. Taft, who has sustained the Lred Scott decision by refusing to appoint Negroes to offices wherever it was objectionable to white men, and who by the appointment of Southern Confederates to the Supreme Bench has denied the Negroes their Constitutional Rights. Roosevelt never closed the door of hope in the face of the Negro. GREENER'S VIEWS ON THE PROBLEM GIVES RACE GOOD ADVICE. Well Known Educator and Former United States Consul to Russia Explains His Attitude In Public Affairs and Declares That He Will Forever Remain an Independent Voter. Chicago.-The open announcement of the allegiance of the Hon. Richard T. Greener to the national Democratic ticket, which recently occasioned a sensational surprise here, ought not to have been unexpected. Mr. Greener was a constant attendant on the national Republican convention and also at the Progressive convention. When greeted by old Republican friends he remarked as to his attitude, "I am sitting on the fence at present watching the procession." When asked again, "Is it Roosevelt or Taft?" he replied, with a smile, "Why, the fence I am on has Taft and Roosevelt on one side and Wilson and Marshall on the other." When asked for an interview Mr. Greener said: "I am not posing as a Democrat. I am still, as I have been since 1877, when Hayes handed the Negro over to the tender mercles of his supposed enemies—the southern people—an independent Republican. "I advised the colored people of South Carolina then to accept General Wade Hampton, although I took part in the campaign and risked my life against him. Why did I do this? Because I could see them as clearly as I do now that the Democratic rule of the south was to last for a generation at least; that the temper of the Republican party was to let the Negro shift for himself." "But you continued to vote and advocate the Republican national ticket in various campaigns from 1880 until 1883." "Yes, I did, and I was pretty roundly abused as a knuckle close Republican on that account. "I do not claim any special merit now in my advocacy of Democratic candidates. I am well aware as many P. MON. RICHARD T. GREENER. are not) that intelligent Negroes, some of the ablest men we have had from 1872 until the present time, consistently and strenuously fought for the Democratic party, in some cases being rewarded with offices and in most cases being more fairly dealt with than many of the colored Republicans have been by their white Republican leaders. I could mention distinguished colored men who were in the Greeley movement of 1872. In the Mugwump movement in 1880-1884 and with Cleveland in 1892. They helped to educate the Democrats. "I look back on the promises and platitudes of Republican platforms from 1818 to the present time and see that, so far as the colored people are concerned, the Negro planks are mere sounding generalities." So far as the Republican party is concerned, it is no more the same party today that it was in 1876 than the Democratic party is the same today. The new day brings new duties, new men, new views of policy. "In the new day and in the new time the men who are to bring the country back to sane and sober counsels, it seems to me, are in the Democratic party under the leadership of Governor Wilson and Governor Marshall. So far as the colored people of the country are concerned, their only hope lies in the supremacy of the Democratic party. The Democratic party alone can make possible and guarantee the rights and proper treatment of the Negro in the south. "I am acting not only on conviction of what is best for the whole country, particularly for the welfare, political and social, of the colored people, but I am paying back also some debts of gratitude and regret for not having supported long since by my voice and influence Democrats of the stamp of Grover Cleveland. And I want to say a word for that sterling Democrat, lover of humanity, fair play and free speech. Congressman Sulzer, whose record I have watched with great interest since his first appearance and who I predict will be the next governor of New York." TWIN CITY STAR CLAIM PROGRESSIVES HAVE WON THE FIGHT CLAIM PROGRESSIVES HAVE WON THE FIGHT State Chairman Gets Reports From Minnesota Counties — National Chairman Sure of Success. St. Paul, Oct. 29.—"The Progressives have made a winning fight in Minnesota, and reports from national headquarters are that Roosevelt and Johnson will receive overwhelming pluralities in many states, winning enough of the close states to give the Progressive candidates a clear majority in the electoral college," said Chairman Halbert at Progressive headquarters today. "A telegram from Chairman Dixon of the national committee says the New York papers, including the Herald, Tribune, American and others lined up against the Progressive ticket, concede that Wilson is losing ground in the East. Roosevelt getting the benefit of Democratic, defection and indicating that the Progressives will carry the East practically as a unit. "Minnesota is safely in the Progressive column, a prediction based on definite information from all sections of the state. It is only a question as to the size of the plurality. Roosevelt sentiment has crystalized the past two weeks and strong fighting organizations are at work throughout the state. "The strength of the Progressive movement lies in the fact that the voters have something definite to fight for. The candidates stand squarely on platforms pledging concrete reforms. It is the first time in recent years that a national party has come out in the open on specific issues affecting the average man, and the voters like this method of appeal. "It is the average man's fight for what is right, and there is no question about the result." The Progressive speaking campaign will be continued throughout the state this week, with big rallies in the larger cities next Monday. Nearly 200 meetings have been arranged from state headquarters, men of national reputation having been sent out when they could be secured, the state candidates and local speakers taking a prominent part in the campaign. Reports from all sections of the state are that the meetings were largely attended by audiences enthusiastic for the success of the entire ticket. The strength of the Progressive cause was shown by two meetings in St. Paul. Secretary of War Stimson spoke for President Taft in the Auditorium last Wednesday evening to an audience numbering barely one-half of the audience that greeted Benjamin Fay Mills, speaking for Roosevelt and Johnson four days before. It was admitted even by Republican leaders that the Stimson meeting was a failure, more marked because it contrasted so poorly with the Mills meeting, the Republicans having the advantage of a cabinet officer as a drawing card. Reports from all sections of the state are that the voters are anxious to hear Progressive principles discussed. Theodore Roosevelt is not afraid of the "mob." He says: "The planks of the Progressive platform that, in my opinion, most accurately interpret the common demand relate to the farmer and to the doing of social and industrial justice. As to industrial justice our main point is this: We do not say that we are going to get this justice, provided the courts will let us have it. We say we are going to get it. We say that questions of fundamental justice are for the decision of the people themselves—for nobody else—and that in these matters the will of the people is to override the will of all of the servants of the people. "The Democrats will not succeed in making the tariff the paramount issue in this campaign. Real issues are not made by parties. Next to social and industrial justice is the economic program announced by our party, which involves thorough and scientific regulation of big business, and downward revision of the tariff, with future tariff making based upon the findings of a nonpartisan tariff commission. "But let us do justice, and not merely prate about it." *If you have not subscribed, do so now; if you have subscribed, double it." is the appeal being sent out from Republican national headquarters to St. Paul and Minneapolis manufacturers. The Progressive campaign is being financed largely by small contributions from men who are not manufacturers. Division of the Afro-American Vote. The Negro voters are interested in the coming election, and they belong to all parties, says the Minneapolis (Minn.) Twin City Star. It is hoped that they will not be so deeply interested that they will make personal attacks against those of their race who may oppose them. Let us give every one credit for his political views, and when the campaign is over may there be no strained social relations on account of political differences. Work of Bishop College Praised. Much satisfaction is expressed concerning the work of Bishop college, in Marshall, Tex. 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