The weekly chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Craig County, Okla.) 1905-1913, 1912-07-19
OKLA PROGRESS|VES
WILL ORGANIZE
No Candidates Will Be Named, as 9
Of the 10 Electors Already Are
Pledged Fer the Colonel.

ON%t-1OAo NAN<r nC III
NAL organization of the Progressive
party of Oklahoma will be effected at
a state convention to be held here
Wednesday, July "a, to elect delegates
to the national convention at Chicago
on August ;.
II is difficult to tell just how much
strength the new party will have in
Oklahoma, for while the state was
Overwhelmingly for Roosevelt before
the national convention, many of the
men who were enthusiastic for him
then are reluctant to follow him into
new party
Not to Name Candidates.
There win be no progressive candi-
dates on the ballot in Oklahoma, even
for presidential electors. AS in sew
eral other states which were strongly
for Roosevelt, majority of the elec-
tors named by the republicans are
Roosevelt men and most of the ten
electors have announced their inten-
ton of standing by the colonel regard.
less of the action of the recent con-
Ivention at Chicago.
OF the nine candidates thus original
| ly named as Roosevelt men, ex-Goy-
ernor Frank Frantz, who is heading
the Progressive party movement. says
that so far as he has been able to find
out all will vote for Colonel Roosevelt
| il elected. At the recent conference
of the Progressives at which the call
for state convention July "A was is
sued, NJ W. Hinch of Kingfsher, one
of the electors-at-larg declared him
self for Roosevelt, while letters of
similar import were read from A. A.
Davidson of Muskogee, Third district,
and w. A. Williams of NARROW, Fifth
district. Governor Frantz was author
ized to sound" the electors still fur
ther and get a definite statement of
their position.
Pledge Support in Letters.
That conference, which was called
only two days in advance, was attend
ed by between fifty and seventy-five
Representative republicans from all
parts of the state. including nearly
half of the Oklahoma delegates to the
republican national convention at Chi
cago, while letters pledging support
were received from others who were
unable to attend. A. A. Small of
Tulsa. oae of the steam rolled"
| Roosevelt delegates from the Third
iOklahoma district, was an active fig
ure at the meeting.
The meeting was thoroughly har-
monious and none of the expected op-
position to the third party movement
appeared. A. E. Perry of Coalgate.
who had acted as chairman of the
Roosevelt movement prior to the Chi
cago convention, and who was chair
man of the Oklahoma delegation at
that convention, had previously indi-
Gated that he was not wholly in SYM
pathy with the plan, but took an active
part in the meeting and signed the
/ call for the state convention.
No Row over Leadership.
Some of Perry's friends were dis
satisfied over the action of Senator
Dixon on the designating Frantz to
take up the work of organization in
Oklahoma, thus virtually displacing
Perry, but any friction which might
have arisen from that source had APP
parently been smoothed over prior to
1.-THE conference Perry is a candidate
for the republican nomination for
| United States senator and was the
only candidate for any important Office
who attended the conference. All of
the others were apparently afraid that
participation in the third party move
ment might ALLEVIATE some of the reg
ular" element of the republican party
in the state
| Ex-Governor Frantz is being assist
ed in the preliminary work of organic
alton by provisional state executive
committee composed of Clarence r..
Fagaines of Prague, First district; /,
NJ, Holcomb, Oklahoma City, Second
district; L. G. Disney. Muskogee,
Third district; E. o. Butler, Durant,
Fourth district, and NJ A. Tucker,
Lawton, Fifth district.