The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-06
SENTIMENT IS ALMOST UNANl- NOUS FOR CALIFORNIAN FOR
 VICE PRESIDENT.
PLAN PLEASES ROOSEVELT
Sharp Difference of Opinion Over the Negro Question-Platform Com mittee Also Disagrees on
 Several Points.

1 Chicago, Aug. 5.-For Vice Presi dent-Governor Hiram w. Johnson of | California
 l For Permanent Chairman-Judge l Ben B. Lindsay of Denver. This slate virtually was agreed to by national progressive leaders to- night and met with the approval of | Colonel Roosevelt. The colonel en- dorsed strongly the suggestion that Judge Lindsay be recommended for permaennt chairman.
 In regard to the vice presidential | nomination, he took the position that was for the convention to decide and ! he would make no suggestions. He let it be known, however, that if the convention should decide upon Gov ernor Johnson, the selection would | meet with his approval
 Judge Lindsay's name will be pre- sented to the committee of perma- | nent organization tomorrow by a number of its most influential mem bers and it was said tonight his selec- | tion by the committee virtually was | assured. The judge is a former dem ocrat and is of southern percentage and it was felt that his selection would appeal to the south Colonel Roosevelt said before ne | left Oyster Bay that he favored the selection of a southern democrat as i vice presidential candidate The field was canvassed carefully and it is un- derstood the colonel's suggestion was abandoned only when it became evi- dent that it was impossible to decide upon the available man.
 The California delegation passed a resolution today saying the state could not spare Governor Johnson
 but it was said tonight the gover- nor's friends would not insist upon this attitude.
 | In the event of Governor Johnson s nomination, it is planned to have him take the stump in the east. while Col | onel Roosevelt is campaigning in the west. The governors qualifications as a campaigner were said to be a strong factor in his favor.
 When Colonel Roosevelt reached Chicago this morning he put in a stormy two-hours before he succeed ed in straightening out the tangle over the contesting negro delegates from the south After he had been welcomed by a crowd of several thou sand persons and had made a speech in the street in front of his hotel, he went to his headquarters and took the | helm.
 | The Florida and Mississippi cases, which had not been ruled upon by the provisional national committee, were | placed before him in detail and a sharp difference of opinion developed in the Roosevelt camp. A number ot
 his northern supporters told him
 frankly that they disapproved of Che
 policy of barring all negro delegates from the south.
 It was urged that such a position would cost the national progressive ticket the support of large number of negroes in northern states in
 which their strength was greatly
 needed Others of Colonel RooBe- yelt's supporters felt. in fairness to
 the negroes, they should lhave some representation from the south.
 In answer to every objection Col onel Roosevelt said he would cling
 to the position he had taken and that.
 although it might cost him votes in the northern states, he believed it
 was to the best interests Of the party to proceed under white leadership in the south. He reiterated the state
 ment made in his letter to Julian Har-
 ris of Atlanta, that it was to the white
 man in the south that the negro must look, and declared his position was for the best interests of the negro. It
 was said tonight that all of his as sociates finally were won over fully to his point of view.
 It is understood that Colonel Roose. welt suggested the action in the Flor. ida and Mississippi cases subsequent l ly by the national committee.
 The Mississippi negroes were thrown out completely on the ground
 that the white delegates were regu-
 larly elected. Colonel Roosevelt is
 said to have protested against the
 use of the words white delegates"
 in the call for the Mississippi state
 convention.
 In the Florida cases, the ontest-
 ing delegation was thrown out The
 negroes protested loudly. They were
 invited to attend the convention as
 supplemental delegates without
 votes, but declined to do this, eyentu
 ally going as spectators.
 Then the national committee de
 ciied to bar also white delegates iron.
 Florida. there having been some ques
 ton of irregularity in calling a white 1, and negro convention separately. Colonel Roosevelt insisted ther.