Arizona republican., 1912-08-04
The Making Up of the Tenn porary Roll for the Ma tional Progressive Con- vention Which Will Meet at Chicago Tomorrow
WORK AWKWARD
 BY INTERFERENCE
But the Provisional Com mittee Possesses Suffi- cient Expertness in Busi- ness of Finding Reasons Negro Should Stay Out
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 CHICAGO, Aug. 3.-The national progressive party emerged from it's swaddling clothes and got down to real political work today Tine national committca of the new patty took u;, le work of framing d temporary roll of delegaes for the convention on Monday. Despite certain difference and ineXperience which made progress slow, the committee succeeded in sett- ling the question of representation from the various territories and outlying possessions and heard the arguments of the various contesting delegations. The committee after two and a half hours meeting, early in the afternoon resumed work four o'clock and was in session well into the evening" Many of the men who worked to shape the new political party were far from ex- perienced politicians and they ap- preached duties with a sort of timidity today
 They were about thirty-five repre- senting various states They gathered in small rooms al the headquarters ho- tel and went through the labor in an slt4liCSpAlNIt VI IODdCCO SlIlOhe. StILdlDF Dixon of Montana presided When ne called the meeting to order shortly after noor, he made a speech outlining the purposes of the gathering, and pre- dicted great things for the new party. He reviewed the work done by tha Roosevelt forces, following the republi- can convention. and up to the time the call was issued for the progressive meeting here.
 This call was signed July S." he said. T doubt if the history of the Anglo Saxon race has ever seen such developments such an evolution po- litically among ninety millions of peo- pie as you have witnessed during the last twenty nine days. During that time forty seven of the forty eight states of the union. through their rep resentatives in mass meetings have come together, a national convention has developed"
 He said the call limited each state representation in the convention to an equal number of senators and repre- sentatiVec elected "AS it stands" he continued, more than two-thirds of the states in the enthusiasm of the To- cal situation. have sent delegations here, double, treble, quadruple. and in the case Of Connecticut. seven times the number oi delegates demanded in the call"
 Dixon reviewed the work nf the prog- ressives in the various states, and con- tinued. this is a positive demonstra- tion and when eleven hundred men meet on Monday in the Coliseum, and the story goes to the country that a new national movement in American politics has become actual reality, you are going to see the line stiffen in ev- cry state of the union. You are going to see it demonstrated to be not flash in the pam
 Dixon spent a week in Washington recently Positively it was an old time country funeral" he said. T will say to you that the atmosphere under the dome of the capitol as compared to an old time funeral would be like an Irish waKC in comparison. I do not quite understand what happened I think the atmosphere of the capitol the worst of any place in the nation, but they are beginning to hear from home"
  bers of the committee explained the progressive situation of their homo states The committee voted to allow Alaska. the Hawaiin Islands and the District of Columbia, representation In the con yention, but to withhold from delegates from these places the right to vote.
 The first contest taken up by the committee was in the Alabama dele- gatior. Twelve negroes. led by Dr. Joseph T. Thomas contested the seats of the delegates elected by the prog ressive convention at Birmingham from he fourth, sixth and ninth dis tricts of the state. Oscar H. Hundley, a member of the national committee appeared for the regular delegates anu Dr Thomas for the negroes. It ap- peared that some thirty negroes who attended the convention elected the twelve contestants after the regular convention has named it's delegates.
 The committe did not vote on the Alabama contest when the argument was concluded but proceeded to hear the Florida contests. Six negroes and one white man appeared as a contest ing delegation. They were elected by two negro conventions. one held at Ocala ana one at St. Augustine but both were working in conjunction These were opposed to six white men chosen tY the convention called at