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Show luST 1 L0NGT0UR8 Roosevelt Will Cover the 1 ll West While Johnson 'k Will Go East J Chicago, Aug. 8. If in the tumult ' i Jm and shouting yesterday at the na- ' fllj ,-W tlonal Progressive convention yester- ' r ' day. Colonel Roosevelt had any doubt 11?. that he was effectively nominated for I'" J'j the presidency, ho was reassured to- I'p l day when a committee of notification ' II l mot him at his hotel I a Though the colonel had been "In- I1 tfjA formally" notified 'when he went to , i j.f! the convention and delivered his II E.'j speech of acceptance, the- delegates I; f who had been selected from the J j Bh states and territories as a formal no- III Kt tiflcatlon committee wished to carry ; l! ' out their part of the program. Mr. i Kv Roosevelt was the center of a lively I' S group In the hotel lobDy when the II m. commltteo arrived. He. with Gover- J J, 'J$ nor Johnson of California, the nom- I Jj jj inee for vice president, and Albert J. 1 Ji Jfl Beveridge, tho Progressive candidate fgji for governor of Indiana and perma- II JO nent chairman of the convention, had II 1' -iSa Just come from a photograph gallerv . where they had pictures taken to be j :g used In the campaign. In one pic- S ture the presidential nominee posed jjj & with a group of cowboys , Ii '&t While In the lobby of the hotel. m Colonel Roosevelt espied an old J jrj friend in the crowd and he aded to II w his political menageries by designing II JS his friend "an old wolf" 'J m "Come here, you old wolf." the II gjQ colonel said, as ho grasped his friend. : II S Albert Burton og "Wyoming by the III fl hand. 1 JS Colonel Roosevelt and Governor II g Johnson were then escorted to a , I El room whore members of two notifica- ; III tlon committees, there being also one m for the vice president, filed in and III shook hands. The ceremonr soon : I I fl was over and then the nominees gath- ' IN 91 ered with tbe members of the na- m9 tional committee which had assera- J fi bled to complete Its organization and j1 jjra make campaign plans, i The national committee discussed II j gj and probably will adopt a plan of l He campaign with four vLce chairmen. III NR each to bo In charge of a separate ' j o Bectlon or the country. The four , J 9 headquarters probably will be in New ; j gfl York, Chicago, San Francisco and 19 New Orleans. jfl At a special conference attended II j X bv George W. Perkins of New York. ( in Senator Joseph M. Dixon, chairman 11 of the Progressire national commit- J J tee. and Mr. Beveridge. the four-sec- j -3 tlonal plan was originated and sub- li mitted to tho full committee. i IJjJ Mr. Perkins, it is reported, will be 1 IV chosen chairman of the campaign ex- j IB ecutivo committee with headquarters IB In Now York Senator Dixon will be i if. made managing director of the cam- , paign and will travel throughout tho Mjla'1 country. r Colonel Roosevelt did not remain 1; i with the national committee through JI1, f Jts deliberations, saving ho wanted Jill the committee to choose Us own offl- - cers and managers. I Chicago, Aug. S. Colonel Theodore I ' Roosovelt. nominee for president o. , I. the Progressive party, and tbe active II members of his campaign, remained In I Chicago today, although most of the 1111 delegates to the third party's national , II II convention had started for their homes. Members of the notification Ml commltteo appointed by the various II jj . state delegations also remained In the II jE city, together with the members of the Progressive national committee. II The members met Colonel Roosevolt 1 ft and Governor Johnson of California H at a reception arranged in their hon- ,11 - or The notification ceremonies actu- MI--1 allv took place last evening at tho II! Coliseum when the two heads of tho j I 3 ticket appeared before the cheering j Ml throngs at the national convention, r3 Tho members of the national com- II U niltteo planned to hold an Important M,i' meeting, although they had been In 1 conference last night when United Ui States Senator Joseph M. Dixon of ' 'i Montana was selected as chairman, I&T and O K. Davis of Washington was gr named secretary 'Mr. Davis, who was ; lilt in charge of the Progressive party , I publicity department, was general , (.. . secretary of tho national convention 1 Colonel Roosovelt, who repeatedly t Mp I expressed his satisfaction at the out- U come of the convention, leaves for 'M New York this afternoon at 2:30. Ho TO will rest there until the beginning of I Fj the campaign, when he will make a M tour of the western states and make KJ speeches for the new cause while Ej Governor Johnson Is doing tho same j thing in the eastern states, H. The Progressives launched into j their active campaign plans with a , vim. Some of the state delegations i ?Jr did not wait until they had returned to their homes to begin the work of ; fP organization of their states. The p- Wisconsln and other delegates met rg immediately after adjournment of tho , j. convention and selected a stato chair- j"- man and stato secretary and state )T' executive committee In several cases Li leaders telegraphed orders before de- parting from Chicago for the begin- IL ning of active campaign work. U The national leaders planned today if to go Into all the details of organlza- L J tlon for the national convention, In- U f eluding tho location of headquarters. f M the mapping out of speaking tours by J well-known Progressives and tho sub- ject of finances. George W. -Perkina , J , of New York and others declared ,2fi thore would be no trouble In arrang- i4;-lnc i4;-lnc for adequate financial support, Miss Jane Addams of Chicago and -other suffragette leaders were among J0J those who expressed more than hope for the Progressives In the fall elec- Vv tlon Many predicted that the aid of , . the suffragettes would be one of the G biggest factors In tho final determination determina-tion of the presidential election. ; , . I r- A if M sMMBZ22SMiPH''HHVf'NiBifl |