New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-02
EXPECT K|RCHNEY To
BUILD PLATFORM
advance Guard of National
Progressive Party Starts
for Chicago.
ROOSEVELT GOES SUNDAY
Many Women in Special Train
Carrying Majority Of Dele
GATES Which viii O.
This Afternoon.

II is u derstood that George W. Kirch-
raw If the Columbia Law School. chair
nan If the provisional committee Of the
national Prog ess.vc party in this coun-
,rv ha been picked as charm Of the
oonm.t,se on resolutions at the national
convention in chicago. All suggestions
Cor Uniform pldnks have been referred
10 Nj Kirchwey and he has been busy
sl,tinc ,hem and whipping various planks
In shape.
II Nj Kirchwey is selected as head
csrpen;er Of the Progressive platform 1t
will be another indication of the plan of
the managers to make New York State
as prominent in the movement as pos
sible. They realize that the movement
has hard roe 10 noe in this state and
that to figure prominent citizens will not
only help the cause here but will also
give encouragement to the workers in
the West
George W. Perkins, the chief financial
hacker Of the movement: II. +. Cochems.
O. X Davis and George Roosevelt. form
ing the advance guard. from this state.
started for Chicago on the Twentieth
entury CLimited yesterday afternoon.
Colonel Roosevelt will start on Sunday
afternoon.
The special train taking most OF the
delegates will go this afternoon at 1
O'clock William II. Hotchkiss. provisional
chairman OF the state committee. said last
night that he did not know whether he
would go all the way to Chicago or not.
no
anxious for me TO go 10 Chicago he
said. 1t seems 10 me that | am more
needed right here taking care of the
state org ization. However. I am going
as far as 5uffalo. as l must call together
the delegates and alterrates at the Hotel
statlsr in Buffalo on Saturday morning
for the election Of four delegates and
four MISUNDERSTANDING. There is also to
be a meeting there of the directors of the
newly Incorporated Progressive party In
this state
Among the women on the special train
will be Miss Francis 4. Kelor. chief in
vestigator OF the Bureau of Industries and
Immigration. She has been suggested az
& delegate-at-large. Among other women
in the party Will be Mrs. Robert H. Elder.
wife of the former Assistant District At
torncy of Kings County; Miss Mary r.
d. n, Of BROOKLYN Miss Clara 3. Morri-
? and Mrs. William Grant Brown.
long the men in the party viii be
- ar Straus, Controller PTendergast.
No man Hapgood. cambridge Colby, Elon
r. Hooker and Amos Pinchot. The New
York headquarters in Chicago will be the
same as occupied in the Congress Hotel
by the Iowa state organization at the
Republican convention in June.
Chairman Hotchkiss Yesterday after
noon received an enthusiastic account OF
the organization OF the party in Living
SION County. II seems that Major Austin
Wsdsworth. a cousin Of James ". Wads-
worth. ST., might have been chairman Of
the county committee, but he declined on
the plea Of I'll health. although he seid
he was in thorough sympathy with the
movement.
Francis ". Bird, Chairman Of the New
York County Committee, announced last
night that be had appointed William VI.
Chadbourne as temporary treasurer.
The organization here is now in fine
lighting trim" said Mr.. Bird