The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1912-08-15

Roosevelt was completed before tbs
committee recessed until 2 p. m. This
final draft contained 1000 words. II
was taken to Roosevelt's rooms dur
ing the recess and when read the com
mittee will make ready to present II
to the convention.
When the convention was again
called to order at 1:20 p. m, Medill
Mccormick for the rules committee
read a 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 Ia
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; ]. F.
Cleaveland, Arizona; II. X. Cochran
Arkansas; Chester H.. Rowell, Cali
fornia; b. B. Lindsey, Colorado; Jos.
eph w. Alzoh. Connecticut; Louis A
Drexler, Delaware; c.. 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; K. c. Darlington, Jr.
Maryland; Henry M. Wallace, Michi.
gan; Milton ID. Purdy, Minnesota;
VIM. H. Walker, Missouri; b. f.
Fridge, Mississippi; Joseph M. Dixon,
Montana; Nathan Merriam, Nebraska;
p. J.. Flanagan, Nevada; William
Savacool, New Hampshire; John
Franklin Fort, New Jersey; Miguel A.
Otero, New Mexico; j. N. Williamson,
North Carolina; A. Y. More. North
Dakota; j. j. Sullivan, Ohio; George
j. Priestley, Oklahoma; II. w. Coe,
Oregon; Edwin +. futile, Rhode Isl
and; R. S. Wesley. South Dakota; G,
Thomas Taylor, Tennessee; Cecil A.
Lyon, Texas; M. Henier, Utah;
Thomas Lee Moore, Virginia; Charles
II. Thompson, Vermont; H. F.. Coch.
ems, Wisconsin,; Robert ID. Carey,
Wyoming; NJ. NJ. 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-
dcrsed 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 talk
with him. He said he had been suf
fering from asthma and did not fee.
physically capable of taking UP the
work. Under the circumstances, Col
onel Roosevelt agreed to release him
and while it had not been finally de
cided, it was said to be likely that
former Senator Albert Beverage oil
Indiana, the temporary chairman,
would be continued as permanent pre-
siding officer.
When Colonel Roosevelt reached
Chicago he put in a stormy two hours
before he succeeded in Strengthening
out the tangle over the ~contesting
negro delegates from the South. AT
ter he had teen welcomed by a crowd
of several thousand persons and had
made a speech on the street in front
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 to
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 a
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