Show PLATFORM HAS ECONOMIC BASE PROGRESSIVE PARTY HOLDS ROUSING MEETING AT CLEVELAND CLEVELAND CLEVE CLEVE- LAND OHIO Support to Be Pledged to La Follette as ns Leader Though Not As Candidate Candidate Can Can- of a Third Party Cleveland Cle 0 A O.-A A platform of econ reform reform calling calling for further farm and amI greater recognition of the tho claims of labor has labor has been drawn rawn for adoption h by the progressive Convention conven- conven tion ion which Jul July launched its counter campaign against the two mojor political parties The convention of 1000 dele delegates nonH In lb U every cry st state i e plans it is learned to permit Senator Robert M. M I. I La Follette Its ts candidate a free rein in his race against the Democratic and ican lican m candidates Leaders guided by ly his wishes plan merely to endorse him whole heartedly heart heart- edl edly as an in independent and not as ashim ashim him ilm up as a distinct third party candidate the United Press is nu- nu Informed A telegram asking La Follette to express his wish In Iu an open letter for reading before the convention was forward ell to him In Washington by hy WillIam LI lie Johnston machinists union leader and chairman of the convention Johnston delivered his liis keynote kenote speech at nt the opening session The Tile K K K issue which split the Democratic convention will not even be mentioned and the entire platform will deal exclusively with a demand for or economic reformation The program of legi legislation for which the progressives fought in the thelast ast last congress will be embodied In Inthe inthe the he declaration of principles It will almost completely l coincide with the tho platform offered by Representative e Cooper of or Wisconsin as the minor minor- Hv ty reported to Republican lican convention here lere in June Junc William Willfam Allen Cooper the Wisconsin Wiscon sin congressman who presented the theLa theLa La Follette substitute platform at the Republican convention and was roundly booed was asked aske to appear before the pro progressive ressi e convention I |