Omaha daily bee., 1912-08-02
Two Iowa Men Among Those Who
Call on Senator Dixon.
T.. RS FORMER PARTNER THERE
Rooms of Committee on Arrange.
ments Are Thronged.
STATES OPEN HEADQUARTERS
Newspaper Writers Who Have Been
Active in Promoting Movement
Are Made Assistant
Secretaries.

cago today as the vanguard of the deIe
satlons TO come for the progressive ma
uonal convention Monday. State head
| quarters were opened at several dowr
town hotels and the rooms of the com.
mttee on arrangements for the conven.
uon were thronged with visitors.
among those who called on Campaign
director Dixon were: John c. MacVicar
former mayor Of Des Moines and sec.
retary of the Iowa progressive committee
j. l.. Stevens, chairman OF the Iowa
delegation; Arthur Merrifield of Flat.
head county, Montana. former partner q,
Colonel Roosevelt In the cattle business
and Dr. Clarence E. Strouse Of Virginia.
who declared he had been a lifelong
democrat until this year.
List of Assistant Secretaries.
Senator Dixon today announced the liz,
of assistant secretaries for the national
convention. The assistant secretaries
are all newspaper men who have been
active In advancing the interests of the
progressive campaign. They are:
William Allen White. Of Emporia, Kan.
E. B. Clark of Chicago, Judson c. Wei.
liver Of Washington, George e. Miller az
Detroit, Angus McSween of Philsdelphis.
+. A. Dickson Of Los Angeles, John
Callan O'Laughlan Of Chicago, Harry J..
Haskell of Kansas City and C. P. Con-
molly of Butte. .a
John McVicar of Des Moines declared
that Senator Cummins is to oppose Presi.
dent Taft for the benefit OF the progres-
sive campaign.
Senator Cummins is opposed to PresI-
dent Taft. l know from correspondence
have seem" said Mr.. Mcvicar. "This
Is not a. state secret by any means. It
may be as far as he has got now. but
there Is no doubt which side he will
be on"
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. Aug. 1.-Unable
to agree on local option plank in the
platform to be submitted to the Indiana
progressive convention today. the reso-
lutfons committee, after a night Of de-
bate, adjourned at 4:S0 o'clock this morn
ing until o'clock, an hour before the
convention was called to meet. A full
state ticket was to be chosen and 1t was
conceded that former United States Sem
ator Albert J. Beveridge would lead It
as the candidate for governor.
The resolutions committee was about
evenly divided on whether the platform
should declare for the re-enactment Of
the county option law, originally a re-
publican measure, repealed by demo-
cratic legislature. or should declare the
saloon option a matter for decision by
initiative and referendum.
Planks approving the initiative and ref
erendum and recall, woman's suffrage,
income and inheritance tax, direct elec-
ton Of United States senator's, primary
nomination of elective officials. includ-
ing president, and minimum wage for
women were approved by the committee,
but the drafting Of report was deferred
until the option controversy should be
settled.
Former Congressman Frederick Lands.
Of Loganport had been chosen temporary
chairman of the convention and was to
deliver keynote speech.
OYSTER BAY, N. Y, Aug. The at
titude OF the national progressive party
tovard the negro, one of the knottiest
problems to be solved in the forrna-
ton Of the party, Is taken up at length
in careful statement which Colonel
Roosevelt completed today and which
he will make public in a few days. The
colonel said today that the question
would be met fairly and squarely.
Neither Of the old parties, Colonel
Roosevelt asserted, had met the negro
question fairly and honestly The demo-
cratic party, he said, was openly against
the negro and the republican party had
placed the black man in the south on an
artificial basis, so far as his relations
with the party were concerned.
Call 1t Washington Party.
HARRISBURG, Pa, Aug. 1-The
Roosevelt campaign in Pennsylvania this
fall will be fought under the name Of the
Washington party. In compliance with
the state law, prescriptions of the name
of the Washington party were filed here
today from practically every one Of the
2N legislative districts. the fifty sena-
torial districts and the thirty-two con-
gressional districts, as well as for the
state at large
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