Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1912-08-09

as there never has been anything like
before
! Chicago.-Governor Hiram w. John
son, of California, seems agreed upon
now as the vice presidential nominee
of the national Progressive party to
make the first fight of the new politi-
| cal organization with Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
Judge Ben B. Lindsey of Denver, a
former Democrat, was early agreed
upon as permanent chairman of the
| convention. Colonel Roosevelt en-
dorsed the recommendation of Judge
Lindsey and the plan had been en-
Enthusiastically approved by the dele
gates.
Later, however, Judge Lindsey call
| ed on the colonel and had a long talk
| with him. He said he had been suf-
fering from asthma and did not feel
physically capable of taking up the
work. Under the circumstances, Col
| onel Roosevelt agreed to release him
and while it had not been finally de-
cided, it was said to be likely that
former Senator Albert Beveridge of
Indiana, the temporary chairman,
would be continued as permanent pre-
siding officer.
| Colonel Roosevelt said before he
left Oyster Bay that he favored the
selection of a Southern Democrat as
/ a vice presidential candidate. The
field was canvassed carefully, by the
leaders of the new party, and it is
understood that the coloneps sugges-
ton was abandoned only when it be-
came evident that it was impossible
to decide upon the available man.
The California delegation passed a
resolution saying the state could not
| spare Governor Johnson, but it was
said that the governors 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
Colonel Roosevelt is campaigning
| through the West. The governors
qualifications as campaigner were
said to be strong factor in his favor.
When Colonel Roosevelt reached
before he succeeded in Strengthening
| out the tangle over the contesting
negro delegates from the South At
ter he had been welcomed by crowd
of several thousand persons and had
made a speech on the street in front
| 80 I, e. h0+ ~ I, f4 h &c RI
quarters and took the helm.
| Colonel Roosevelt declared that, al
| though it might cost him votes in the
northern states, he believed it was to
the best interests of the party to pro-
coed under white leadership in the
South.
! Crowds in hotel corridors and lob
bies were nearly as large and quite as
noisy as those during the Republican
national convention.
Hundreds of delegates and their
friends, Enthusiastically decked out with
bandana handkerchiefs and pictures
of Colonel Roosevelt, marched about
singing Roosevelt songs and shouting
Roosevelt yells of many kinds.
The committee on platform got into
a lively row soon after organization
was perfected and some pretty plain
words were spoken in discussing the
proposed declaration of principles of
the new party.
1t was apparent, from the first, that
the platform probably could not be
completed for some time.
After full discussion of the general
committee the plan of the leaders
last night was to appoint a sub-com'
mittee of seven to confer with Colonel
Roosevelt and to work out the plat.
form for him.
The idea will be to condense into
crisp, short planks the various ad
vanced ideas to be outlined to the
convention by the colonel in his so
called confession of faith" speech. II
was said that practically all of the