The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-16
WOULD ETERNALLY
 BURY BULL MOOSE
John M. Parker Issues Stir
 ring Call to Party
|DEsERTION CHARGED
Says Leader Brought Progressives Into "the Wilderness" and Left Them Willing to Resign
 Candidacy and Work in Ranks

New Orleans, July 15.-A statement women of America" to hold new na- tionaI convention of the progressive party in Chicago on August 5 and nom mate candidates for president and vice president and continue the party's ex- istence as a distinct political organi- zation. was issued here tonight by John M Parker, vice presidential nominee of the progressive convention held in Chicago last June. He urges the pro- gressives to "eternally bury" the pull moose, which. he asserts. Ted his loyal followers into the wilderness" and to adopt in its place the American eagle as the emblem of the party.
 Mir. Parked does not mention Colonel Roosevelt or any other progressive leaders or any candidates by name. He declares, however. that the progressives had as supposed leaders red blooded Americans, who promised with their life blood to stay with the party to the finish" but that the party had been deserted by a large part of its officers who could not stand the acid test He charges the leaders for "steam roller reasons have electel to be steam rolled" and that the time has come when ev- cry party working for human welfare and the future of America should unite against both dominant parties. In criti- cizing the republican party the state- ment indirectly refers to X Charles E. Hughes, republican candidate for Pres the republicans ''as the mask behind which they hope to again secure control of state and nation"
 MT. Parker declares he does not want office and states his willingness to withdraw as the progressives candi- date for vice president and labor in the ranks and on the stump to prove his loyalty to progressive principles. His inclusion of women in the call Is taken to 'mean that the party is to be unreservedly pledged for woman suffrage and that the women voters in the suffrage states are invited to join the progressive party and work for it's success in the coming election.
 WILL NOT SUPPORT WILSON
 MT. Parker, in commenting tonight on his statement, declared publicly for the first time that he would not support either Woodrow Wilson or Charles E. Hughes for the presidency.
 My statement and call for a second national progressive convention" he said, was actuated not only by my own convictions of the necessity for maintain ing the progressive partys existence, but also by the belief of many prominent progressive workers from all parts of the country expressed to me personally and ir. hundreds of letters since the Chicago convention and national committees ac- ton.
 Dissatisfaction over the attempts of the republican party, abetted by the pro- gressive national committee. to swallow our organization and voters has been widespread among progressive leaders who have remained loyal and by the rank and file. who have resented being turned over bodily to the republicans.
 My statement of the necessity for a third party. l think, is sufficiently clear know many of the 100000 progressives share with me the opinion that the re- ferns and objects we have worked for
 (Csntinued on Paxe Twe)