Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1912-08-08
GOV JOHNSON
SLATED TO run
CALIFORNIAN, AS VICE PREsl.
DENTAL NOMINEE. AGREE
ABLE TO ROOSEVELT.
Ill, LINDSEY DECLINES
Can't Be Permanent Chairman for
That Reason. Declared Former
Senator Beveridge May Be
rendered Office.

Senator Beveridge May Be
rendered Office.
Chicago, Aug. Governor Hiram
W. Johnson of California seems
agreed upon now as the vice presi-
Dental nominee of the national Pro-
gressive party to make the first fight
OF the new political organization with
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt.
Judge Ben b. Lindsey of Denver. a
former Democrat, was early agreed
upon as permanent chairman of the
convention. Colonel Roosevelt en-
dorsed the recommendation of Judge
Lindsey and the plan had been en-
Enthusiastically approved by the dele
gates
# Judge Declines Honor.
Later, however, Judge Lindsey called
on the colonel and had long talk
with him. He said he had been suf-
fering from asthma and did not feel
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 Beveridge of
Indiana, the temporary chairman,
would be continued as permanent pre-
siding officer.
Colonel Roosevelt said before he
left Oyster Bay that he favored the
selection of a Southern Democrat as
a vice presidential candidate. The
field was canvassed carefully, by. the
leaders of the new party, and it is
understood that the colonels sugges-
ton was abandoned only when it be.
came evident that it was impossible
to decide upon the available man.
The California delegation passed a
resolution saying the state could not
spare Governor Johnson, but it was
said that the governors friends would
not insist upon this attitude.
In the event of Governor Johnsons
nomination it is planned to have him
take the stump in the East while
Colonel Roosevelt is campaigning
through the West. The governors
qualifications as campaigner were
said to be strong factor in his favor.
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 been welcomed by 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.
The new national committee Of the
Progressive rarty, 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; H. K Cochran,
Arkansas; Chester H. Rowell, Cali
iornia; 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; E. C. Darlington, Jr..
Maryland. Henry M. Wallace, Michi-
gan; Milton D. Purdy, Minnesota;
VIM H. Walker, Missouri; B. f.
Fridge, Mississippi; Joseph NJ Dixon,
Montana; Nathan Merriam, Nebraska;
e. Z. Flanagan, Nevada; William
savacool, New Hampshire; John
Franklin Fort, New j efsey; Miguel A.
Otero, New Mexico; ]. N. Williamson,
North Carolina; a. Y. More, North
Dakota; J. ]. Sullivan, Ohio; George
j. Priestley, Oklahoma; H. w. Coe.
Oregon; Edwin F. futile, Rhode Isl.
and; r. S. Vessey, South Dakota; G..
Thomas Taylor, Tennessee; Cecil a.
Lyon, Texas; M. Henier, Utah;
Thomas Lee Moore, Virginia; Charles
Il. Thompson, Vermont; II. r. Coch-
ems, Wisconsin; Robert D. Carey,
wyoming; M. M. o. Dawson, West
Virginia. .
Tie omnlitteemen from Illinois,
New York and PENNSYLVANIA and
Washington have not been named yet
Crowds in hotel corridors and lob
.b.esI were nearly as large and quite as
noisy as those during the Republican
national convention.
Hundreds Of delegates and their
friends, Enthusiastically decked out with
sbsndana handkerchiefs and pictures
Of Colonel Roosevelt, marched about
Isl Sill ging Roosevelt songs and shouting
Roosevelt yells Of many kinds.