Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-23
JAIL FOR MITCHELL favor full TICKET
Nine Months Sentence Melted New Jersey Progressves
Out by Justice Wright. Would Name State Officers
NOT IN COURT AT THE TIME CONFER AT ASBURY PARK
During Declaration Principles
st Wrte Request of Platform
LABOR LEADER NOTES APPEAL DIVISION AMONG LEADERS
Serving Should Punish
Confer Be Holding Machin
New Jersey Progressives
Would Name State Officers.
CONFER AT ASBURY PARK
Declaration of Principles" in Lieu
of Platform.
DIVISION AMONG LEADE
Sentiment Developed in Favor of Re-
naming With Republicans and
Holding Party Machinery.

ASBURY PARK. y. j.. July cS.-rne
New Jersey progressive mass convention
met today. determined TO put I'm the field
Tor the November election complete
progressive ticket. but was undecided as
to how this ticket should be nomi-
mated
In calling the convention TO order Bor-
den II. Whiting announced his declinatior
to serve any longer as New Jerseys rep
resentative on the republican national
committee Il shall submit to the com
mittee.' he said. mo resignation. for l
consider that ] owe its controlling ma
jority no such courtesy"
Former Gov. John Franklin Fort was
unanimously chosen chairman
In his speech Mr.. Fort opposed the
proposition that the regulars and pro-
gressives run the same set OF. electors
and let the voters express their prefer
ence as between Mr.. Taft and Col
Roosevelt, which would be binding upon
the electors
Pray. what does that lead to-" he
asked. That means that our votes are
to be counted for Mr.. Taft IL he shall
have a single vote more than Mr.
Roosevelt in the balloting. That means
that my vote and yours is to be count
- in a given contingency-namciy. if
\
| ment Of the fraud at Chicago 1 am not
willing. under any contingency or com
| bination Of circumstances. that Mr..
Taft's nomination or the men who
fraudulently gave him his alleged nomi-
nation shall be approved"
The executive committee OF the Roose-
| welt state organization was in session un-
| til o'clock this morning. and met again
| before the convention assembled. mi
nority that opposed an absolute break
from the old republican organization pre-
vailed so far that the committee decided
! against any declaration for the immediate
establishment of a new party. This course,
| Ii was said. opposed the view OF Col.
| Roosevelt. whose personal representative
| attended the meeting.
Full Ticket Recommended.
The committee adopted this resolution
for submission to the convention:
| Resolved, that the state committee
the ballot in November in every coun-
/ ty and congressional district under
! the party name which shall be adopt
ed at Chicago full ticket OF progress
! sive candidates pledged TO support
Theodore Roosevelt and the principles
for which he stands.
/ Another resolution adopted declared
for set of Roosevelt presidential
Il
vide the method for their selection.
The promoters of the progressive
movement In New Jersey have been d.
vided upon the course of action to be
! pursued, those who favored putting
! ticket Immediately in the field being
opposed by the argument that the ma
! tional progressive party would not
come into existence until after the
/ progressives held their national con-
vention in Chicago.
Favor Remaining in Old Party.
! There was also discussion as to
| whether the New Jersey progressves
| should leave the republican organiza-
/ ton or try to hold the machinery OF
the old party
/ Those who favored the latter course
/ argued that the result of the presidential
primaries proved that the progressiyes
constituted a majority of the republican
party and are entitled to retain the priv
ileges of the old esta ablished party IL
was urged that the progressives could
nominate their candidates for electors
and state officers at the republican prl-
i maries in September. with the under
standing that such electors would vote
for Col Roosevelt. Severing relations
with the republicans and putting up
third ticket would necessitate naming
4 presidential electors by petition. since
/ the progressives now have no legal stand
I! ing a party
Declaration of Principles"
| The arrangements committee agreed
upon features Of declaration Of prin-
| cipies' to he submitted To the convention
| in lieu Of a platform IL was decided
| that the twenty-eight delegates al
Roosevelt men. who represented the state
| at the regular republican national con-
| vention shall serve in the same capacity
at the national progressive convention
with power to Ill the few vacancies. Two
| of these new delegates the committee
decided shall be coiored men. This was
granted in compliance with the resolution
OF q committee of four negro leaders
who waited upon the committee last
night.
The declaration OF principles will he
similar to that adopted by the Roosevelt
state convention the opening of the
urinary campaign.