River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1912-08-15

| Roosevelt was completed before the
committee recessed until p. m. This
final draft contained 1000 words. 1t
was taken to Roosevelt's rooms dur.
ing the recess and when read the com
mittee will make ready to present it
| to the convention.
When the convention was again
called to order at 1920 p. M, Medill
| Mccormick for the rules committee
read compromise plank naming the
party the Progressive party, but agree
ing that where states adopted the Ma
| tional Progressive it be approved
The rule to give one representative
| for each 10000 voters was amended to
| one for each 5000. The rules were
then adopted without opposition.
The new national committee of the
Progressive party, which takes place
of the provincial committee in charge
up to this time, was named by the
various state delegations. The mem
bership of the new committee is:
Joseph Thompson, Alabama; J. F.
Cleaveland, Arizona; H. K. Cochran,
Arkansas; Chester H. Rowell, Cali
fornia; B. B. Lindsey, Colorado; JOS
eph w. Alzoh, Connecticut; Louis A.
Drexler, Delaware; G. M. Mcclure,
Georgia; P. M. Smock, Idaho; Ru-
dolph G.. Leeds, Indiana; John l..
Stevens, Iowa; William Allen White,
Kansas; Leslie M. Combs, Kentucky |;
Pearl Wright, Louisiana; Albert P.
Gardner, Maine; Matthew Hale, Mas
sachusetts; E. G.. Darlington, Jr.,
Maryland; Henry M. Wallace, Michi-
gan; Milton d. Purdy, Minnesota;
VIM. H. Walker; Missouri; B. F.
Fridge, mississippi; Joseph M. Dixon,
Montana; Nathan Merriam, Nebraska;
Savacool, New Hampshire; John
Franklin Fort, New Jersey; Miguel A.
Otero, New Mexico; J. N. Williamson,
North Carolina; A. Y. More, North
Dakota; J. ]. Sullivan, Ohio; George
j. Priestley, Oklahoma; H. w. Coe,
Oregon; Edwin. E. futile, Rhode Isl
and; r. S. Vessey, South Dakota; G.
Thomas Taylor, Tennessee; Cecil A.
Lyon, Texas; NJ Henier, Utah /;
Thomas Lee Moore, Virginia; Charles
II. Thompson, Vermont; H. F. Coch-
ems, Wisconsin, Robert D. Carey
Wyoming; M. M. o. Dawson, West
| Virginia.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, a
! former Democrat, was early agreed
upon as permanent chairman of the
convention. Colonel Roosevelt en-
dorsed the recommendation of Judge
Lindsey and the plan had been en-
Enthusiastically approved by the dele
! gates.
| Later, however, Judge Lindsey call
ed on the colonel and had a long tall
with him. He said he had been SUI
fering from asthma and did not fee
physically capable of taking up the
work. Under the circumstances, Col
onel Roosevelt agreed to release hin
and while it had not been finally de
cided, it was said to be likely thai
former Senator Albert Beverage o.
Indiana, the temporary chairman
would be continued as permanent pre-
siding officer.
When Colonel Roosevelt reached
Chicago he put in stormy two hours
before he succeeded in Strengthening
out the tangle over the contestinf
negro delegates from the South. AT
ter he had been welcomed by a crowt
of several thousand persons and hat
made a speech on the street in from
of his hotel, he went to his head
quarters and took the helm.
Colonel Roosevelt declared that, al
though it might cost him votes in the
northern states, he believed it was tc
the best interests of the party to pro
coed under white leadership in the
| South.
Colonel Roosevelt contends that the
Republican delegates from Southern
| states, in which the party has only q
nominal existence, were used in the
national convention last June to de
feat the wishes of the party in the
strong Republican states as expressed
at the primaries.
/ Crowds in hotel corridors and lob
bies were nearly as large and quite as