PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 490, 10 August 1912, Page 5

PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN.

ROOSEVELT NOMINATED. A NOBLER COMMONWEALTH. By Telegraph— Press Association.—Copyright Chicago, Thursday. Mr Roosevelt was nominated for the Presidency at the Convention of the National . Progressive party to-day amidst a remarkable exhibition of enthusiasm. In accepting nomination, Mr Roosevelt said: "Having been President I will measure my words by saying that I count it the greatest honour to lead a movement in the interest of all the people." Governor Hiram W. Johnston, of California, has been nominated as Vice-President. In accepting the nomination he declared that he would rather go to defeat with Mr Roosevelt than to victory with any other Presidential candidate.

The platform of the Progressive party dedicates itself to "the fulfilment of the duty laid by our fathers to maintain governent of the people, by the people, and for the people." The manifesto proceeds: "The old parties have been the tool of corrupt interests, who havn been using them impartially for selfish purposes. "The new party offers itself as an instrument of the peoplo to sweep away the old abuses and to build a newer and nobler commonwealth."

The programme pledges the party to secure equal suffrage rights and to provide an easier and more expeditious method of amending the Constitution.

A SERIOUS CHANCE. SUPPORT OF MIDDLE CLASSES. London, Thursday. The Chicago correspondent of the Times state that tho general tendency there is to believe that Mr Roosevelt will make a strong fi<iht for the Presidency, although, a month ago no one believed that he had a chance. There are practically no professional politicians in the rank and file of Mr Roosevelt's supporters, but they include a large number of the respectable middle class, thus indicating a certain amount o! popular enthusiasm.