The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-24
Will Make No Difference in
Col. ROOseveIt's Plans.
HE is Determined TO RUl
A Committee of IS on Organi.
ZatiOn Is Named.
1T Includes william Allen
White of EmpOria.

Chicago, June 24-The nomination Of
a pronounced progressive at Balti-
more will make no change in the plans
| Of Col. Roosevelt to lead the new party
born last Saturday. A progressive
statement came from him after there
had been some discussion of the possi-
| bl1ty that a known progressive
might receive the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination. Some of the visit
! ors appeared to think that if a recog-
/ ntzed progressive was nominated it
might hamper the independent party.
''Win your position be influenced by
any act of the Baltimore convention?'
! Col. Roosevelt was asked.
"It will not be- he replied. "I shall
| not depart from what 1 said on Sat
urday night. I shall accept the pro-
gressive nomination on a progressive
platform and shall fight the battle
| through to the end
Governor johnson, of California, an
nounced the personnel of the commit
tee on organization which for the pres
ent at least will be the managing
committee of the new party. The list
was received with eagerness by poll
ticianS both for and against the new
party as the first indication of the men
who are definitely aligned with Col.
Roosevelt.
Instead of seven members as was the
announced intention. Governor Johnson
named IS, all of whom had accepted
The committee is headed by Governor
Johnson, who will be acting chairman
the other members are: Moses E. Clapp,
Minnesota; Senator J. M Dixon, Mon
tana; Senator Miles Poindexter, Wash
ington; Governor c. A. AIdrich, Ne
braska; Governor R. S. Vessey, South
Dakota; E. A. Van Valkenburg, edi-
tor Philadelphia North American; Col
W. r. Nelson, owner and editor Kansas
City Star: former Congressman Rich
mond P1ersOn, North Carolina: w. r
Prendergast. New York; James R. Gar
field, Ohio; William Allen White, Kan
sas; Clifford Pinchot, California; Judge
Ben B. Lindsey, Colorado; Mathew
Hale, Massachusetts; George L. Record,
New Jersey; Charles H. Thompson
Vermont; Col. E. C. Darlington, Mary
land.
Merely Temporary.
The committee. Governor Johnson
be added to from time to time. No
date for meeting of the committee
of eighteen has been set. The under
standing is that the members will cor
respond with each other by mail and
telegraph as soon as the conditions in
the several states are ascertained.
Later a conference was held which
was attended by Chauncey Dewey,
Jones, candidate for governor in the
April primaries and others. Mr.. Nc
Cormick said it has been decided to
form the Progressive Republican
party in Illinoi in opposition to the
party in Illinois in opposition to the
said the main elements in the new
party at the start would be the Illi-
nois Progressive Republican League
and the Roosevelt organization built
up by Dewey and other leaders of the
Roosevelt movement. 1t is the expec-
tation of the leaders to place a COM
piete state ticket in the field, includ-
ing congressional and legislative can
didates.
Bolt Within Bolt.
Madison, Wis, June 24-Progres-
sive Republicans here will refuse to
talk of a third party until after the
Democratic convention. Those high
in Republican councils said today if
BRYAN is Nominated on q nrOereSSiVe