Michigan To Have Full Third Ticket.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 21, 1912:
Progressives, in State Convention, Cut Loose from Republicans at Roosevelt's Request.
PLATFORM FOR PROTECTION
But Come Out Strong for the Initiative and Referendum — Denounces Taft's Nomination.
Special to The New York Times.
    JACKSON, Mich., July 20.— The Progressives of Michigan met here in convention to-day, got orders from Col. Roosevelt through the person of Senator Dixon, to put a full third party ticket in the field, acquiesced to those terms and organized the "National Progressive Party." About a thousand delegates were present.
    Col. Roosevelt's orders came in no uncertain terms, and they caused the overthrow of supporters of Gov. Osborn, who planned to put only Roosevelt Electors in the field and attempt to capture the regular Republican organization for the remainder of the ticket.
    "Win or lose, put up our ticket. Pick men in Michigan willing to be sacrificed if necessary. Don't sacrifice Theodore Roosevelt, with a bob-tailed Electoral ticket in this State," said Senator Dixon, addressing the convention.
    W. Frank Knox; who had a conference with the Colonel last week regarding the course to be pursued In Michigan, Said:
    "I understand that he was willing that conditions in Michigan should govern our course here, so I came back and worked for a stub Electoral ticket. But it seems he didn't mean it."
    Delegates to the National Progressive Party convention in Chicago, Presidential Electors, members of the State Central Committee, and a member of the National Committee were chosen to-day.
    The recommendation of the committee does not mean nomination by the convention, however. By the provisions of the Michigan primary law, any man can file a petition for any nomination on the Progressive ticket if he has a sufficient number of names.
    Only six days remain in which the petitions may be filed with the Secretary of State. Many petitions were put in circulation at the close of the day's session of the convention.
    Henry M. Wallace of Detroit was unanimously elected Michigan National Committeeman.
    Here is the platform as adopted:

    The first State Convention of the National Progressive Party, here assembled, puts forth the following declarations: We denounce in unequivocal, terms the crime against popular government perpetrated at Chicago in the National Republican Convention. We repudiate the action of that convention, made up in part of fraudulently seated delegates, and declare that the fraud there perpetrated strikes a blow at the very foundations of the Republic, which can only survive through free and untrammeled popular government. We declare the action thus consummated cannot be and is not binding upon any citizen.
    The situation thus produced makes it imperative that proper steps be taken to give to the people the opportunity to express their will in the selection of a President, out of which they were cheated by the successful fraud practiced by a repudiated National Committee at Chicago at the behest of the special interests.
    The constant effort of crooked business, in unholy alliance with crooked bosses, to usurp the powers of Government, through control of party machinery, constitutes the greatest menace to real popular rule. Therefore, this body of independent citizens here and now dedicate their efforts to the maintenance and perpetuation of those principles of special and industrial justice and equality of opportunity upon which the Republic was founded and which must endure and be transmuted into a rule of political conduct if the Nation is to survive.
    We are especially concerned in the election of a Progressive delegation to the Senate and House of Representatives, and we repudiate as unworthy of the confidence of the people of the State of Michigan any candidate now holding office who does not favor the Progressive measures advocated by Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive delegations in Congress, and who do not make open and specific declaration of their fidelity thereto.
    We pledge the delegates of the National Convention of the party to the nomination of Throdore Roosevelt for President of the United States, and instruct them to commend to the National Convention a thorough discussion and a clear declaration of Progressive principles to be embodied in the National platform, and among others the following:
    The initiative, referendum, and recall, and direct nominations through primary and elections, not only as applied to States, but also in the extension of these principles to the Nation as a whole.
    The direct election of United States Senators.
    The equalization of the burdens of taxation, upon a property basis.
    A universal parcels post.
    The extension of the postal savings banks system.
    Government operation of and ownership of express and telegraph service.
    The reasonable valuation of the physical property of railroads and making such value the baseline for determining reasonable rates and a fair return on the actual investment.
    The extension of the powers and the administrative control of the Interstate Coommerce Commission.
    The Federal regulation of all corporations engaged in inter-State business and the prohibition or the creation of artificial values by watered stocks and bonds.
    The extension of the civil service law to the Consular Service of the United States.
    Severance of the Diplomatic Service from such financial interests as are seeking to exploit defenseless nations.
    Opposition to the Aldrich currency scheme in the interests of competition in banking and insurance.
    The maintenance of a protective tariff for the benefit of the industries and the laboring men of the United States except where competition in trade has been destroyed by monopoly, and the tariff is used to exact an unjust tribute from the people and unjustly increases tho cost of living.
    We favor the conservation of the Nation's natural resources and the rescue of public property and public rights from private hands.
    We favor the proposed amendment to the State Constitution providing for equal suffrage in Michigan.