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Show ISSUES STATEMENT lluliffl SHUT Hugh T. Halbert Makes Public Declaration of Progressive Pro-gressive National Leaders. WANTS WILSON TO WIN Says Utah Senator Responsible Respon-sible for Failure of Corrupt Cor-rupt Practices Act. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah is charged with being one of three United. States senators responsible for the failure of congress to enact a corrupt practice act. This charge is made in a statement signed by sixteen of the nineteen members of the resolutions committee of the Progressive Pro-gressive national convention of 1012. The issuance of the statement was an nounced by the Democratic national committee com-mittee in New York on Tuesday and the statement itself was made public in Salt Pake last night by Hugh T. Halbert of St. Paul, one of the signers of the statement. state-ment. Mr. Halbert is one of the Progressive leaders of the n:i t ion. He was elected a Roosevelt elector from Minnesota in 1912 and was state chairman of the Progressive Pro-gressive party in that state tiiat year and succeeded in carrying the state for Roosevelt. Roose-velt. In 1914 lie was the Progressive nominee for governor of the state. Declare for Wilson. The statement which Mr. Halbert made public yesterday recites the achievements of the Democratic national administration and calls attention to the fact that the Democrats have enacted a number of measures declared by the Progressives to i be striking examples of Progressive legislation. legis-lation. Continuing the Progressives signing sign-ing the statement declare unalterably for the re-election of President Wilson. Those who signed the statement are John M. Parker of Louisiana, Progressive vice presidential nominee; former Governor Gover-nor Pucius F. C. Gai-vin of Rhode Island; former Governor Joseph M. Carey of, Wyoming; Judge Albert D. Norton! of , Missouri; Hugh T. Halbert of Minnesota; i Frank N. Howard of Vermont ; M. C. Dubaca of New Mexico; James H. Inger-soll Inger-soll of Idaho; Arthur G. Wray of Nebraska; Nebras-ka; Clarence B. Stouse of Virginia and J. M. McCormick of Texas. Those who indorsed the legislative achievements of the Democrats, but not the candidacy of Mr. Wilson, are William Allen White of Kansas, George B. Hin-son Hin-son of Delaware, Andrew J. Stone of West Virginia, William R- Falrley of Alabama and Isaac Newton Stevens of Colorado. Committee Statement. The statement follows: The members of the resolutions committee that framed the platform of the Progressive party adopted at its first national convention, held at Chicago, August 7, PU2, and which was termed "'The Contract With the People," and which Mr. Roosevelt described de-scribed as "His Political Confession of Faith," do hereby reaffirm our un swerving allegiance to uie irogressive principles embodied in this platform and do herewith call the attention of tiie American people to the unparalleled un-paralleled achievement of Progressive legislation, secured during the past four years. The Progressive- party, formed as a party of protest, became a party of principle. Allegiance to any one man must always al-ways be subordinate to these principles. princi-ples. They should never be sacrificed sacri-ficed to personal or political expediency. expe-diency. Wilson Is Praised. Measures like the federal reserve act. child labor act. Alaska railroad law, federal trade commission, nonpartisan non-partisan tariff commission, railroad valuation bill act, parcel post, rural credit, good roads, income and inheritance in-heritance tax, creation of the labor bureau, and of the national defense acts, are all striking exemplifications of Progressive legislation. No man could be a true Progressive and fail to be in favor of the enactment of a national "corrupt practice" law; such a measure was passed by the house and is now slumbering in the senate, owing to the active opposition of Senators Sen-ators Penrose, Smoot and Galllnger, Republican leaders In the United States senate. This is a great national crisis. We are Progressives supporting John M. Parker of Louisiana for vice president. presi-dent. Without a candidate of our own for president, we are unalterably in favor of the re-election of President Wood-row Wood-row Wilson, under whose leadership more Progressive principles have been I enacted in the laws than we believe might have been accomplished had the Progressive party been in power. Congratulates Moon. Mr. Halbert reached the city yesterday morning from New York and leaves today for California. He said lie was not here on political business, but took occasion while here to call an Progressive National Committeeman A. T. .Moon and to congratulate con-gratulate him on the fart that the Utah Progressives had fused with the Democrats Demo-crats and endorsed the president. Mr. Halbert said thai he was not active in politics this fall, but that his private business had taken hfm to forty states since the campaign was begun, and that he found a general sentiment favoring the re-election of the president. "I find that of all the campaign orators In the field," he said, "Mr. Hughes has proved to he the president's best campaigner. cam-paigner. He has made more votes for the president than any other speaker. The contidence of ihe public in the president has been strengthened by the character of the Republican nominee's attack." Concerning the part of the Progressives in the present campaign. Mr. Halbert said: There were two classes of Progressives. Progres-sives. One class was the one-man class of Progressives. They followed Mr. Roosevelt Into the Progressive party and out of It back to the Republican Re-publican party. The other class of Progressives were Progressives, not because of the personality of the lead-; lead-; er. but because of their belief in the principles for which the party stood. This class is almost entirely with President Wilson in the present campaign. cam-paign. Planks Carried Out. Two-thirds of the planks hi the Progressive Pro-gressive national platform of 1912 were enacted into law by the present Democratic Dem-ocratic administration. Colonel Rooseveit has made his principal a t tack on the president's foreign policies, yet in the conduct of these foreign policies President Wilson Wil-son has adhered strictly to a policy outlined in a plank In tiie Progressive Progress-ive national platform of 1912. on which Colonel Roosevelt was nominated and which he called his "confession of faith." This plank. T think, has not been quoled once during tiiis entire campaign cam-paign by campaign orators of either side. This plank was entitled "Pence and X:itinnal Defense." Tt was drawn with re ma rkable fnresi?h t 1 wo years prior to the opening of 'the great w oild war. 1 1 begins: "The Progressive- party deplores the survival in our civilization of the barbaric system of warfare among nations, with its enormous waste of resources even in times of peace and the consequent -impoverishment of life of the toiling masses." Pledge Is Given. Then comes this remarks ble pledge: "We pledgo the Progressive party to the use of its best endeavors to substitute judicial and other peaceful means for settlement of international differences." If ever a plan of a, political pint-form pint-form has been completely vindiiited and t-Firrifd out, this plan lias. President Presi-dent Wilson "n int cnia t ional policy is I in exact accord with this very pledge j of the Pmpressive party. Cur own ! nominee, had lie hen fleeted, coukl not ha-e carried it out better. j |