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Show PROGRESSIVES ! I IN VERMONT 5 3 Burlington, Vermont, .July 23. The y. first state convention of tbe Vermont p'-i Progressive party was held here to- JJ day with seventy delegates present M A platform was adopted and proslden- ;3 tlal electors and delegates to the na- 'H tional convention at Chicago wore ' H elected. H The platform favored equal suf- H frage, direct election of United States m senators, establishment of a parcels 1 H post: government ownership of tele- H phones and telegraph: publicity of j H campaign expenses, and fiee passage M of ships through the Panama canal 1 jH |