El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-08

the vice presidenO filed in and shook
hanos; me ceremony was soon over
ana then the nominees gathered with
the members of the national committee
winch had assembled to complete IFS
organization and make campaign DIans
mny Have FOur Headquarters
me national committee discussed
and probably Will adopt a plan of cam
palgn with four vice chairmen, each to
De IN charge of a separate section of
the country The four Headquarters
probably viii be in New York. Chi
cago, San Francisco and New Orleans
At special conference, attended by
George W Perkins, senator Joseph
DIXON, chairman of the Progressive ma
uonal committee. and Mr.. Beveridgg
the tour-Secuonal plan was originated
and submitted to the full committee.
Perkins For Chairman.
Mr.. Perkins, it is reported, will be
CHOSEN chairman of the campaign ex-
ecutive committee, with permanent
headquarters in New York. Senator
Dixon will be made managing director
Of the campaign and will circulate
throughout the country.
Col Roosevelt did not remain with
the national committee through its
deliberations, saying he wanted the
md managers.
Most Delegates Leave For Home.
Col Theodore Roosevelt and the
active members of his campaign re-
nldlleu CulEdSO most OF the QdE. a l.
Ihough most OF the delegates to the
third party's national convention had
started for their homes.
The notification committee members
met Col Roosevelt and governor John
son, OF California, at q reception ar
ranged in their honor. The notification
ceremonies took place last evening at
the Coliseum, when the two heads of
the ticket appeared before the cheer
ing thrOngs at the national convention
al
mittee planned to hold an important
meeting, although they had been in
conference last night when United
States senator Joseph NJ Dixon of
Montana, was selected as chairman and
O. X Davis, Of Washington. secretary.
Mr.. Davis, who was in charge of the
Progressive party publicity depart
ment, was general secretary of the ma
tional convention.
VIII Tour Country.
Col Roosevelt, who repeatedly ex-
pressed his satisfaction at the outcome
Of the convention, left for New York
this afternoon at 2:30. He will rest
there until the beginning of the cam
paign. when he viii make a tour of the
western states and make speeches for
the new cause, while governor Johnson
is doing the same thing in the eastern
states.
The Progressives launched into their
active campaign plans with a vim.
Some of the state delegations did not
wait until they had returned to their
homes to begin the work of organiza-
ton of their states. The Wisconsin
and other delegates met Immediately
after adjournment Of the convention
and selected a state chairman and state
secretary and state executive commit
tee. In several cases leaders teIe-
graphed orders before departing from
Chicago for the beginning of the active
campaign work.
VIII Have Financial Strength.
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to 60 into all the details of organiza-
ton for the national campaign, includ-
ing the location of Headquarters, the
mapping out of speaking tours by well (
known Progressives. and the subject
of finances. George ". Perkins of
New York, and others declared there
would be no trouble in arranging for
adequate financial support
Miss Jane Adams, of Chicago, and
other suffra get leaders were among
those who expressed more than hope
for the PrOgressives in the fall cleo
tons Many predicted that the aid of
the suffragets would be one of the big
gest factors in the final determination !
Of the presidential election.
SecOndinG Speech.
In seconding the nomination of Mr.. |
L F. c. Garvin, ex-governor
OF Rhode Island, said:
History repeats itself In the critf- (
cal period just preceding the Civil war
neither of the old parties believed in
the principles upon which this govern
ment was founded.
The Democratic party had been
warped from Jeffersonianism by the in |
cubus of slavery. Into this clause of /
the Declaration of independence, all /
men are created equal it had interpo- |
lated the word white; and the Wing I
party had accepted the limitation Is |
it not true that both of the old partiesNi
Of today have drifted back into the /
same stagnant pool of negro ostra- ]
cism2
Then, the new party alone stood 1
for all the people The campaign I
speeches of Abraham Lincoln abound in I
quotations from Thomas jefferson; Just /
as today the addresses of another cam
Paigner continually cite the authority
Of the great emancipation.
Again is there a crisis Mr. Taft
and those about him proclaim that the /
is rich, the most prosperous in