Show I I NEGRO QUESTION BOBS UP AGAIN Plan on Subject Submitted tc Committee on Resolutions Reso Reso- Chicago Aug Aur 6 The Tue The committee on resolution of the national Progressive party part went Into session late tonight to te complete the draft o of a II platform to be adopted by the convention tomorrow A subcommittee had worked all da day hewing hewIng hewing hew hew- hew ing out the various arlous planks plank to meet the wishes of ot Colonel Roosevelt The subcommittee It was said worked hard to make the declara declaration of principles a model of ot brevity Ther There were so man many subjects to to be dealt with however and so 80 much ground to be bc covered that the task was found most difficult When hen the full committee met mot it seemed scorned likely tho the negro question would again bob up Hugh T. T Halbert of ot Minnesota carried with him to the meeting a plank on the tho subject which read The national Progressive party recognizes that distinctions of oC class or race or sex in political life lite have hae no place In a democracy Especially does docs the party realize J that a group of ten million people who have In a generation changed from slavery slavers to a free labor sYStem tem tern established re-established family life lire ac accumulated accumulated accumulated ac- ac cumulated a billion dollars dollar of real property and reduced their illiteracy coy act from eighty to thirty per por cent deserve and must have havo Justice op opportunity opportunity op- op and a voice in their own govern government men t. t This plank was said to embody largos largely large large- ly 13 s' s the views of ot Miss Jane Addams Senator Poindexter of or Washington had lad prepared a plank favoring the tho purchase b by the national government of f Monticello the home of ot Jefferson Jeferson There was every indication as the members of the committee assembled that hat the tho platform would not be finIshed fin- fin shed until late Inte In the night The subcommittee draft of ot the platform plat- plat form orm was submitted to the full committee commit commit- tee ee by William Allen White of ot Kansas who was said to have written most of ot it ft Tho The draft was approved tonight b by Colonel Roosevelt and the subcommittee tee hoped to put It through the committee committee com corn without d difficulty cult 3 There still was talk of ot possible friction however over some planks The subcommittee was said to have ha reduced the platform to about words I |