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Show ROOSEVELT 10 JOniRETO LEAD THE PARTY Missouri Progressives Hold Alkday Conference, and Express Their View in Resolutions. KANSAS CTTT, Mo., Nov. 20 The ! leaders of the Progressive party in Mis-: Mis-: sonri favor entering the 1016 campaign with full national, state anrl county tickets, tick-ets, headed liv Theodore Roosevelt and ' Jfiram W. Johnson. That attitude was expressed in a reso-i reso-i Intion adopted by the party lea.lers after an all-dav conference hero today. The action at the conference followed the announcement of George W. Perkins of New York, chairman of fho national ' executive committee of the party, that . he had called a meeting of the comniit-I comniit-I tee in New York November 29 to ar-, ar-, range for a meeting of the national com-i com-i mittee, at, which a date and place for a national Progressive convention will be fixed. Resolutions Adopted. , Resolutions adopted today by the Missouri Progressives included the following: fol-lowing: We see nothing in the present ! attitude of either of the old parties that holdB out any promise for the i future. As in the 1912 campaign, the powers of graft and special privilege priv-ilege are in control of the old party ! organizations, and are openly pre- Kiring to write platforms and nom-ate" nom-ate" candidates in harmony with their interests. We therefore stand squarely on our national platform of 1912 and favor the nomination of national, ! state and county tickets on that I platform. Candidates Named. The mention of Eoosevelt and Johnson John-son came at the end of the day's conference. con-ference. Judge Albert D. Nortoni of St. Louis, Progressive candidate for . governor of Missouri in 1912, offered a motion that the meeting declare itself in favor of placing the two 1912 can- i didates at, the head of next year's ticket. The motion was passed by a vocal vote. |