Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-08-01
3RD PARTY FACES
CONVENTION BOLT
Supporters of Deneen May Hold
Rump Gathering if They
Lose Their Fight.
FOES ARE GIVEN CONTROL
Merriam's Selection Is Taken to Mean
That the Governor viii Have
More Opposition.

Chicago, Aug. Temporary officers
| for the state convention Of the new
. progressive party will be named at
meeting of the provisional state COM
mittee at 80 o'clock Friday afternoon
at the Congress hotel The call for
the meeting was issued by Medill
Mccormick, provisional chairman.
1t was definitely announced that
Charles E Merriam of Chicago, former
republican mayoralty nominee, would
be slated for temporary chairman.
! Charles Ringer, also Of Chicago, will
be the temporary sergeant-at-arms.
Inasmuch as Mr. Merriam favors a
third state ticket, his selection as tenn
/ porary chairman will mean that the
keynote speech. which he will deliver
! when the convention assemblies Sat
uraay morning. will include a strong
Endorsement of the proposition. The
big fight of the convention will be over
the question of placing a state ticket
in the field
MAY BOLT CONVENTION.
There is even talk that the Roose-
welt supporters who are standing by
Governor Deneen will withdraw from
the convention and hold a Roosevelt
Deneen rump convention There are
fully 300 out of the LOO delegates to
the STATE convention who are opposed
to third state ticket.
In addition to the selection of tenn
porary officers the provisional state
committee vii make up the temporary
roll of the convention. One or two
contests are in prospect
The provisional national committee
is expected to meet Saturday to name
the temporary officers for the nation
al convention, which assemblies Mon
day. Senator Joseph NJ. Dixon, the
national chairman, will reach Chicago
l today. Colonel Roosevelt who orig
nially intended to stay in New York
, until Sunday. will leave there Satur-
day, arriving in Chicago Sunday.
LIST OF CANDIDATES.
A list of suggested candidates for
: progressive nominations for state Of
fees given out at Roosevelt state head
quarters included the following names
= For governor-Frank Funk, Blooming
ton; Robert Eaton. Will county.
t For lieutenant governor - Dean
S Franklin, MacOmb: Fred S. Wilbur,
!, East ST. Louis; H. W. Wilson, Spring
1 field
/, For secretary of state-Chester A.
?, Hinnis, Fairfield; A. r. Stansifer.
9 Litchfield; Carl F. Bartling, Litchfeld
: Dean Franklin. Macomb: Fred S. Will.
., bur, East st. Louis; Robert Hunt. Jr.
|, Ramsey.
!. For state treasurer-Phil Decker
: Murphysbcro; Edward B. Clark. Col
,. cOnda; J. l.. Hamilton, Hoopeston; j
F. Stepina, Cook county.
|, For attorney general-Wilson Jones
/, McLeansboro.
For state auditor-Captain Edward
i Winter, DanvilIe.
/, For trustees of the University of Hi
1, nois-Mrs. Emmons Blaine, Chicago
=, Hannah E. Nichols, Chicago; B. F
Harris. Champaign.
For representative in congress al
$ large-Fred NJ. Moore, Cairo; C. f
If Merriam, Chicago; J. T. Williams Ster
4 ling; J. B. Sinking, East ST. Louis.
g TO PICK - DELEGATES.
n The state convention will elect 5S
lie delegates each with half vote. Il
1t the national convention. The call fol
"a the national convention provides TO
Re only half the number of delegates en-
IF titled to seats in republican and demo
cratic conventions, but it has been de
e cided to name the old number in Hi
e nois. but give each half vote.
v The FIorentine room in the Congress
n hotel has been engaged as IllinOi
Sc headquarters during the state and ma
is tiOnal conventions. Among other state
I'd which will have headquarters in tn
n, Congress hotel are California, Florida
New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee
I'd Wyoming and Virginia. Arkansas
lie Idaho, Indiana and Maryland will b
1T loctaed at the Hotel La Sale. Ker
I'd lucky will be at the Auditorium hote
re Alabama and Louisiana at the Stra
al ford and Iowa at the Great Northern.
r. A considerable number of reservi
lions are being made at the hotel!
. Rooms for 100 Pennsylvania were er
gagged yesterday at the Congress.
II is estimated that the receipt
from the sale of tickets TO the col
vention will total s25 900. This amour
is not all pledged as yet.
VETERANS TO BE PRESENT.
A feature of the convention will
the entry TO the Coliseum of $50 We
Grams of the civil war, lis of thel
Union soldiers and rs confederate
Wearing the blue and the gray 1t
planned to have them march down III
center aisle, paired of, to the stag
where seats will be provided for ther
Y. The civil war veterans. who will civ
uf force to the desire that the new part
shall embrace all sections of the natio
Ter will parade from the Congress hot
IS to the Coliseum, headed by fife al
on 1r,rr,