Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-12 | Page 1 | Hearst's Party Will Hold Its Convention

HEARSTS PiU WILL HOLD ITS Minn Much Talk of Thomas L. Hisgen of Massachusetts as Presidential Presi-dential Candidate. NEW YORK, July 11, Preparations arc well under way for the national j convention of the Independence party, which will be held at Chicago Monday, 1 July 27 While the eyes of most poh-j poh-j ticians have been centered upon the I Democratic national convention hall in . Deliver these last few days, the Indo-I Indo-I peudcuce party leaders have been com-! com-! pleting their plans for tho Chicago convention con-vention and with the return from Europe Eu-rope of William It. Hearst next week, all will be read v. Tho Independence pnrtv leaders say they will put a full ticket in tho field juid will also try to havi a slate ticket in every state in the union. In thirty-eight thirty-eight states national committeemen of tho Independence party have been up-1 up-1 pointed, the last stale thus represented j being North Dakota. J Although the party leaders havo not I come out strong as yet for any one man I as their standard bearer, in the campaign, cam-paign, there is a strong sentiment they ! say for Thomas L. llisgeu of West Springfield, Muss. Mr. Ilisgen ran for governor of Massachusetts two years ago on the Hearst ticket and polled a surprising!' large vote. This was encouraging en-couraging to the Independence party c leaders. Another possible candidate is 1 ' M. W. Howard of Alabama, a member , of. the national committee of the Inile-1 Inile-1 pendenee party from Alabama. He is I j i former congressman. J Tho Independence party leaders hero j I say that the strength of the party has grown in the south remarkably of late, and they expect it to to keep on "rowing "row-ing from now until the day of election. The party leaders say they do not expect ex-pect to win this fall, but seek to bring the party and its principles before tho people to open the way for futuro growth.