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Show PLATFORM READY FOR CONVENTION Chicago. Aug 7. The Progressive party platform as finally approved by the committee on resolutions and Colonel Roosevelt was given out at 3:3o this afteruoon and was to be taken to the convention soon after. Tile platform deals with the "oJd parties," which it characterized as the "toolB of corrupt men who uro them corruptly to -accomplish their Bclilsh ends, The deliberate betrayal of the trust by the Republican party," jt continues, "and the fatal Incapacity Incapac-ity of the Democratic party lo deal ylth the new issues of the present time have compelled the people to forge a new Instrument of government" govern-ment" In tho Progressive party. A. paragraph headed: A Covenant With the People says: |