Show PLATFORM mm HAS ECONOMIC ECONOM IC 8 BASE SE PROGRESSIVE PARTY HOLDS ROUSING MEETING AT CLEVE I LAND OHIO Support to Be Pled Pledged lied to La Follette as a. Leader Though Not As A. Can dIdat of a Third Party Cleveland 0 A O-A A platform of ot econ reform reform calling calling for fur further farm Carm old aid Id anti and greater reco recognition of the claIms of ot labor labor has has been drawn drown for tor adoption l hy by y the progressive conven n. n Ion tion which July launched Us its counter campaign against the two major poll political tI I parties The convention of 1000 delegates representing progressive groups In In every very stole state plans It Is learned to tol permit Senator Robert Hobert M. M I-a I Follette Its ts candidate a a. free rein In Ms his race against the Democratic and Iran lican candidates Leaders guided by his wishes I plan Illan an merely to endorse hIm whole heart edl edly as nn on Independent and not as ashIm ashim hIm ilm up as os n a distinct third party candidate the United Tress Press is flu nu Informed A tele telegram ram asking Ln La Follette to express his wish in an open letter fo for reading before the convention was I forwarded to him In Washington by y byI William 11 II 11 Johnston machinists s I anion leader and ond chairman of ot the e convention on venti on Johnston delivered dell his keynote speech nt ot the opening session Tho The K 1 K hZ K Issue which split the Democratic convention will wm not even be mentioned anti the tue entire platform will deal thea exclusively ely with a demand for tor economic reformation The program of ot legislation for which the progressives fought In the thelast thelast last lost congress will be le embodied In Inthe Inthe inthe the declaration 11 of principled It will almost completely coincide with tho the platform offered b by Representative Cooper of ot Wisconsin ln as the mino ity ty reported to Republican convention hero In June Junt Allen Cooper the tho sin congressman who presented the Ln Lit Follette substitute platform nt at the tho Republican convention anti was roundly booed was asked to appear before the progressive convention |