The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-06-15
MOOSE FAIL TO
REACH DECISION
National Committee Adiourns In
til June 26. r..
HUGHES STATEMENT is TOPIC
Undecided as to Whether or Not Pro
aressIves VIII Support Republican
Candidate for President
Four-cornered Fight Seen.

Chicago, June lz.-NO ueClSloh Was
cached at the meeting of the Progress
yIve national committee held immedi-
ltely following the adjournment. For
| our hours the members argued behind
Closed doors in the south parlor of the |
Auditorium hotel, and then adjourned |
% make a general rush for the rail- |
DAD stations.
They were silent on what had hap |
| ,cned. Everyone referred the news |
! yaper men who swarmed about the |
loor to o. X. Davis, secretary OF the
ommittee, who, they said, had state |
nent. ,..
viii Reconvene June 20.
Mr.. Davis led the newspaper men
o his office, where be dictated state
nent saying that the committee had
net, elected officers and would recon
ycne in Chicago June 26.
Victor Murdoch of Kansas was again
made chairman Of the committee with
Matthew Hale of Massachusetts. vice.
chairman; o. X. Davis, secretary, and
r. H. Hooker of New York, treasurer
The new executive committee is COM
posed Of George w. Perkins Of New
York. William Finn Of Pennsylvania;
Matthew Hale Of Massachusetts, Har-
old l.. Ickes of Illinois, William Allen
White of Kansas, Pearl Wight Of Lou
isiana. Chester H. Rowell Of Califor-
MIA Everett Colby of New Jersey and
G. d. Pope Of Michigan. VS..
Reach No Agreement.
Although none of che committeeman
would discuss the affairs of the COM
mttee, 1t was known that most of the
time had been spent in the discussion
of the Hughes statement and the ques-
ton Of whether or not the Progress
sives could support him.
The committee could come to no
agreement and finally adjourned to go
home and give the Republican candi
date a chance further to declare him
self. .,- -. .t,4 .h..o, ..
The second Progressive national
convention adjournedi sine die on Sat.
urday. Less than five minutes before
Chairman Raymond Robins pro-
nOunced the final word he read tele-
gram from Theodore Roosevelt, who
had been nominated unanimously as
the Progressive candidate for the pres
idenCy.
, Declines ConditionalIy.
J In it the sage of Sycamore Hill de-
l clined conditionally the prOffered NOM
: ination. Colonel Roosevelt asked that
he be permitted to await Justice
!. Hughes formal statement. If that be
n satisfactory the former president an
i nounced he would withdraw as can
g didate.
g An hour previously the Moosers had
nominated John NJ. Parker OF Bouisi'
: ana as their vice-presidential candi'
G date. To Mr.. Parker was given the
C only happy reception in a long day
d flied with acrimonious fighting, pas
sionate outbursts of despair and
2, charges of betrayal
q Gov. Hiram Johnson of California
Raymond Robins, Victor Murdoch ol
Kansas and John NJ. Parker, the vice
" presidential nominee, spoke out frank
Is ly and bitterly.
IL Robins Speech.
Mr.. Robins relnquished the chair Il
pr second the nomination of Mr.. Parker
a. He said:
10 -Four years ago some of us who hat
% been lifelong Democrats united will
VI the men of the North and the South
the East and the West, to make new
iS party based on new social and econo
% mic issues vital in great democracy
" 1T Is essential that there should b.
~ an honest Progressive party. We hav'
IL laid the foundations. A great oppOr
" tunity is now before us to bind to
%, gether the entire country with the bet
~ ter conscience.
THE supreme need is a national cor
=, science and a national mind. TIL
- only great group that didn't wan
~ Roosevelt are the hand-picked dele
~ gates in the Republican convention
... Predicts Partys Rebirth.
) This is the beginning of a ne'
ee Progressive party of America, fret
RS, untrammeled Embossed. Now prepar
on and go forth to victory" E.... -
ne John NJ. Parker was led to the fror
zee of the platform after he had been non
On mated by reclamation. lcA 49,
Ill "a mere handful OF men controls tn
destinies of 1O0,0O0,0O0 free-born pei
zee pie he began. I'VE don't know whs
lc' Is going to happen. But want to sa
Tor that | appreciate more than ever tn
. social contract with the people whic
an is the Progressive platform. pledg
NY myself to all that lies in my power
res make it good
~ Secs Four-cornered Fight.
Victor Murdoch forecast four-co
.er nered fight. He said that Bryan an
ter Ford woUld head Prohibitionist-P
les cifst ticket, and he paid tribute
Mr.. Bryan. who was greeted thunde
cd ously by the delegates, as a man OF Il
IN courage OF his convictions. The Ka
m san referred TO the Republican non
no.; nees as that splendid tribute to q
arctic circle Hughes and Fairbanks