The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-08-04
BULL MOOSE PARTY DECIDES NOT ID
 NAME CANDIDATE
Conference Appoints Com mittee to Perpetuate Or ganization-Address Is
 Issued to Country

Indianapolis, August 3.-Plans for the reorganization and perpetuation of the progressive party as a national po- litical organization were adopted here tonight at a conference of the bull moose representatives The conference, after a heated discussion, decided it would be impracticable at this late tional convention and fill the vacancy on the national ticket caused by The odore Roosevelts declinaton of the nomination for President. Instead, the organization will put up an electoral ticket in every state where there is the nucleus of an organization left. bearing the name of John M. Parker Of Louisiana, nominee for vice presi- dent, in the hope of perhaps electing enough. presidential electors, who might prove the balance of power in the event of a close contest between the two parties.
 Among the states in which this plan will be carried out are Louisiana, Mary land, Indiana, Missouri Wisconsin, Michigan. Utah, North Dakota and. Minnesota
 J. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey was chosen treasurer of the rehabilitated bull moose party and Matthew Hale of Massachusetts, vice chairman of the national committee, will be in ac- tive charge of the campaign.
 An executive committee of 15 mem bers will be named by Vice Chairman Hale to cooperate with the Is mem bers of the national committee, who refused to vote for the Endorsement of Charles B. Hughes at Chicago June a6, in rehabilitating the party. This com mittee will meet after the November elections to formulate plans for the perpetuation of the party. These plans may include some kind of an amalga- nation with. the prohibition, socialists and woman's parties.
 Edwin M. Lee of Indiana, A. D. Nor toni of Missouri, Bainbridge Colby of New York, c. F. Hoffman of Michigan, Harold M. Noise of Louisiana and C. W. Mcclure of Georgia were named members of the executive committee. The other members will be announced by Vice Chairman Hale in a few weeks.
 ADDRESS ISSUED
 The following address was issued by the conference:
 ITO the Progressives of the Country:
 At national conference of the party held today in the city of Indian apolis attended by representatives of 37 states, resolution was unani- mously adopted condemning the action of the progressive national committee on June 26, 1916, as an illegal usurpa- tion of authority not conferred upon it by the recent convention of the party, denouncing its action as a breach of trust and repudiating the same in every respect as nonexpressive of the partys thought or wishes"
 The conference now in session in Indianapolis is composed without excep- tion, of progressive men and women who are still in utilization with the progress sive party. Our deliberations have been guided solely by a desire to preserve the party as an instrument for the express sion of the popular will and to promote, WituOuC HdlL or lnteFruptlOH, the great aims to which the party is dedicated.
 Tt is useless to deny or deceive our selves as to the grievous effect upon the party of the blows which it has sus- tained through the defection of many of it's leaders and through the betrayal by the national committee of the trust con- fided in it by the party membership. Men whom we have delighted to honor and whom we have rejoiced to follow have not only abandoned the party's cause, but have sought to sacrifice its future and to compromise the dignity of it's indi- vidual membership by collusive under taking with the republican party to de- liver our party strength to the republic an presidential ticket.
 EMPHATIC REPUTATION
 'The course of the national committee has been emphatically repudiated in every state where there has been free discus sion and action.
 This conference is the eliminating pro- test of the party against the reasonable attempt to put it out of existence as a national party and to deliver it's vote to the republican party. The progressive party cannot be deliyered The attenopt