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Excerpt from The Progressive Movement: Its Principles and Its Programme
Mr. Duncan-clark takes up chapter by chap ter the chief features of this programme. I com mend each chapter to the study of our people. He has well and truthfully portrayed the condi tions which demand a new party. He has Shown that both the old parties as at present controlled and managed represent the forces of reaction. If the Republicans had been true to the princi ples of Abraham Lincoln, if they had followed these principles in good faith, there would have been no need Of the new party. But the Repub lican managers, the bosses in the Republican ma chine deliberately stole the party organization from the rank and file of the party, and denied to the rank and file the right to express their own political convictions. They deliberately wrecked the party in the interests of political and com mercial privilege, preferring to see it ruined rather than that the rank and file should be al lowed to control it in their own interest and in the. Interest of the people as a whole. If the Demo cratic Party were true to the purposes of Tho mas Jefferson for the uplifting of the people it would of necessity adopt the Progressive platinherit.
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