Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-08-05
THE Bull MOOSE IN
CENTER OF THE STAGE.
Party Will Be Formally Launched, Mon
day Theodore Roosevelt Will Head
The Ticket Nominee for Vice
: President Not Yet Known.

/ likely candidate for Vice President
| and while he is not candidate for
| the office, it is said he will accept the
| nomination If the delegates desire 1t.
Gov. johnson is regarded as one OF
the leaders anxious to attract as many
Democrats to the new party standard
as possible.
The proposed selection OF Col. Par
lier III New Orleans, as permanent
chairman, led to talk, tonight, that the
National ticket might be made up OF
former Republicans. Much depends,
however, upon the attitude of Col.
Roosevelt himself, who, tonight, is
speeding toward Chicago on a train
from New York, and who viii arrive,
tomorrow morning. In all his recent
public utterances. Col. Roosevelt has
urged the welcoming into the Progress
sive party of former Republicans and
Democrats ON an equal footing.
In anticipation of the arrival OF
Col Roosevelt, convention plans prac-
ticaIly were at standstill, today.
4 subcommittee of the provisional
National committee of the new party
net, tonight, to dispose of the contests
regarded as especially important. To-
morrow morning, the National COM
mittee will meet, early, to finally dis
pose of the contests from Mississippi
ard Florida, where the contestants are
Negroes.
1t was not known, tonight, whether
Col. Roosevelt would attend the OPEN
ing session of the convention. He is not
himself a delegate.
No formal plans had been made, to-
night, for the welcoming of Col. Roose-
welt to the city, tomorrow, but several
delegations expressed a purpose of being
at the railway station with brass bands
and banners to make the arrival of theil
leader as impressive as when he came
to Chicago, during the Republican con-
vention, and was greeted by thousands.
More women delegates are expected to
attend the convention than any other
national political gathering in the his
tory of the country. Col. roosevelt open
~ has espoused the cause of universal
suffrage. The women delegates plan tc
assemble, tomorrow, before the Art In
titute in Michigan avenue, and marcl
to the convention hall with banners anc
bands.
South Carolina, SO far, is the only state
concerning which no official notification
of participation in the convention has
been received. A man claiming to be q
citizen of that state called at headquar-
tiers, today, and asked how he might be-
come delegate. He was told it prob
ably was too late to arrange for reg
ular representation for the state, and
=. ts fpd tn have
a vote in the convention.
The official badges issued for the con-
vention resemble closely the designs fol-
lowed in the Republican and Democratic
conventions. On The medallion attached
to the various-colored ribbon of the
badges. however appear the head OF
Washington, jefferson and Lincoln as the
ideals of the founders of the new party.
The tickets of admission to the conven-
ton bear etchings of the same three IL
iustrious figures in American history.
Practically all the state caueuses have
been postponed, until tomorrow, when
nominations will be made for the various
standing committees of the convention
and for the new National committee.
The platform. it is said, has not been
decided, but 1t is said TO follow In a gen.
eral way the various Progressive states
platforms adopted in the past four
weeks, expressing adherence to the more
advanced political principles of the day.
The platform which Col. Roosevelt was
said to have brought to Chicago seven
weeks ago, but which was never made
public, proably will form the basis of
the new declarations of political faith.
The convention program, for tomorrow
calls for converting at noon: opening
prayer. reading of the call signed. sew
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