The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04

| at clock and was III session well
into the evening.
| Many of the men who worked to
shape the new political party today
were far from experienced politicians
and they approached their duties with
| sort OF timidity. There were some
thirty FIVE Of them, representing various
states. They gathered in a small room
in the headquarters hotel and went
through their labors in an atmosphere
thick with cigar smoke
Dixon Presides.
| Senator Dixon of Montana presided,
When he called the meeting to order
shortly after noon he made speech
outlining the purposes of the gathering
and predicted great things for the new
party.
Senator Dixon reviewed the work
done by the Roosevelt forces follow
ing the Republican convention and up
TO the time the call was issued for the
Progressive meeting here.
"Tbis call was signed on July 50
he said. 81 doubt if in the history
of the Anglo-Saxon race there has ever
been such development. such an evo-
luton politically among ninety millions
of people as you have witnessed during
the last twenty-nine days.
"During that time fortyseven Of
the forty-eight states of the union
through their representatives in mass
meetings have come together and
national convention has developed -
Response to Call.
He said the call limited each state
TO representation in the convention
equal to the number of senators and
representatives 1t elected.
GAS it stands, he continued, "more
than two-thirds Of the states In the
enthusiasm of the local situations have
sent delegations here, double and treble,
and quadruple and in the case of Con-
! necticut seven times the number of
delegates demanded in the CALL"
Senator Dixon then reviewed the
work Of the progressives in various
states.
"Gentlemen,' he said, "this is a
positive demonstration and when HOO
men meet Monday down in the Coli
scum and the story goes to the country
that a new nationwide movement in
American politics has become an &C.
tual reality, you are going to see the
line stiffened in every state Of the
Union and you arc going to see il
demonstrated that 1t is not flash in
the pan."
Gloom in Washington.
Senator Dixon said he had spent g
week in Washington recently.
POSITIVELY, it was like an old-time
country funeral" he said.
"I will say to you that the atmos
phere under the dome of the capito
a. compared to an old-time tunera
would be like an Irish wake in com
parison. I do not quite understand
what has happened. I think the atmos
pbere at the capitol is the worst o.
any place In the Union, but they ART
beginning to hear from home.'
When Senator Dixon concluded va
rious members Of the committee tool
the floor to explain the progressive sit
uations in their home states, Then thC
committee voted to allow Alaska, the
Hawaiian islands and the District Of
Columbia representation in the conven
tiop, but to withhold from the dele
gates from these places the right t
vote.
Contests Settled.
The first contest taken up by th'
committee was in the Alabama delega
tion. Twelve negroes led by DR.. JOSEPH
T. Thomas, contested the delegate
elected by the progressive convention
held at Birmingham from the Fourth
Oscar R. Hundley, member of the ma
tional committee, appeared for the reg
ular delegates and DR.. Thomas for thu
negroes. 1t appeared that the thirty
one negroes who attended the con
vention elected the twelve contest
convention elected the twelve contest
ants after the regular convention hat
named it's delegates.
The committee did not vote on the
was concluded. but proceeded TO heal
the Florida contests. Six negroes anc
one white man appeared as the con
testing delegation. They were electec
by two negro conventions, one held
at Ocala, and one at ST. Augustine
but both working in conjuction. They
opposed six white men chosen by
convention called at Ocala by 81. L
Anderson, the member of the nationa
committee. G. a. Aston, a negro who
appeared for the contestants, asserted
that the negroes had been barred out
Of the convention called by Anderson
He said two kinds of tickets were usec
for the convention, one red, which
admitted only to the galleries, was CIV
en- to the negroes, and white ticket!
admitting to the floor of the convention
to the whites.
Negroes Kept Out.
Aston produced letter written by
Anderson in which the latter urged
!; that the negroes hold separate meet
ing at ST, Augustine. The negro re
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