The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-11-30
Committee Decides He's Man
to Garry Party Standard.
Important Meeting of Leaders
Held in New York.
STRAIGHT TICKET ASSURED
National Convention Date viii
Be Chosen January II.
William Allen White in Line
With Other Committeeman.

New York, Nov. 3o.-Co1onel
Roosevelt is to be drafted for presI-
dent again if the Progressive national
executive committee has its way
At the conclusion of an aIl-day con-
ference of that organization. Monday
National Committeeman H. ?. Gard
ner of Maine said:
If we call upon Colonel Roosevelt
to lead Us IN 1916, as he did in 1912,
1 believe he will accept. The great
bulk of the delegates to the national
committee will go unpledged- 1 look
for a spontaneous demand for Roose-
Telt's nomination. 1 again assert that
believe he will accept the CALI
Shun Old Parties.
Behind closed doors at an aT-day
conference the committee agreed:
First-That there shall be straight
Progressive presidential ticket in 1916
and no deals with Republicans or
Democrats.
Second-That Colonel Roosevelt
shall be urged to run second time If
only to hold the major portion of. OF
all the four million votes cast for him
in 1912
Third-That the national commit
tee shall meet in Chicago January Ii
next TO fix the date and place of the
national convention.
Fourth-Fhat the national conven-
ton shall not be held until the Re
publicans and Democrats have put
lH6lI lIChCIS IN the bel1-
Chairman George w. Perkins and
other members of the committee de-
clined to say whether they believed
Colonel Roosevelt would be a candi-
date again.
But there is trustworthy authority
for the belief that until the convention
meets, the following national commit
teemen who participated in person or
by proxy at Mondays meeting will
employ every argument they can to
induce the colonel to head the Pro-
gressive ticket:
William Flynn, Pennsylvania; Her
bert Knox Smith, Connecticut; Mat
thew Hale, Massachusetts; William
Allen White, Kansas; Walter F.
Brown, Ohio; E. A VanVaIkenberg,
and Elon M Becker, New York; May
er =Lissner,- California George c.
Priestley, Oklahoma; Everett Colby.
New Jersey; Harold L. Ickes, Illinois;
rick. Nebraska; Edwin Lee, Indiana;
Albert P Gardner, Maine; c. W. Nc
C1ure, Georgia, and Francis W. Bird,
massachusetts,
Roosevelt Represented.
John C. McGrath, Colonel Roose-
velt's secretary. represented him at
the conference. He refused to say
what the colonel might do.
This statement was issued for the
committee by Chairman Perkins:
ed elections during the past three
years are now a thing of the past. The
next election is national one
TT was on national issues that the
Progressive party was born and Polled
its largest vote. The greater national
issues of GIG will inevitably embody
the salient features of the Progressive
national platform of 1912.
Believing that the great progress
sive independent vote of the country
is just as firmly committed to these
principles as it was in 1912, the Pro-
gressives throughout the country are
insistent on maintaining the organiZa-
ton of the Progressive party with all
the vigor possible
Therefore the national committee
of the Progressive party is hereby
called to meet in Chicago on January
II, 1916. for the purpose of fixing the
time and place of holding the national
convention of the Progressive party
to select candidates for the presidency
and vice presidency of the United
States and to adopt a national plat
form"