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Show ROOSEVELT NAMED BY PROGRESSIVES; Ticket Is Put Up in the Face of the Fact That It Was Generally Known the Colonel Would Not Accept; Declaration Now in Hands of Committee. JOY TAKEN OUT OF THE PROCEEDINGS Victor Murdock, Governor Gov-ernor Johnson and Others Show Signs of Bitterness, While Geo. W. Perkins Receives jthe Honors Due the Victorious Manager. For President: THEODORE ROOSEVELT, NEW YORK. For Vice President: JOHN M. PARKER, LOUISIANA. AUDITORIUM, Chicago, June 10. Colonel Roosevelt was nominated today to-day by the Progressive national convention conven-tion after four days of uproar and tumult tu-mult in which the delegates never wavered wa-vered in allegiance or east a passing glance upon another man. 1 Three minutes before the convention ! adjourned until another time, Chair-: man Raymond Robins read to 'them a brief message from Oyster Bay in which , Mr. Roovsevelt declined to accept the nomination at this time. Few of the thousands in the vast Auditorium, some . of whom had seen the colonel named in an even wilder burst of enthusiasm four years ago, realized when Robins rapped his gavel at 4:58 and declared the convention adjourned sine die, that in a few hours, or a few weeks, they might bo a party without the one leader lead-er to whom they had come to Chicago to give the pledge of loyalty and faith. Message Significant. The significance of Colonel Roosevelt's Roose-velt's message with its announcement that if the Progressive national committee com-mittee found the subsequent statements of Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican Repub-lican standard-bearer, to its liking, b if non-acceptance of the Progressive nomination nom-ination should stand as his last word, was lost in that tired throng, worn out by its own enthusiasm, by long delays over peace parleys with the Republicans Republic-ans 3nd by the discussion of a platform plat-form on which it must go into the field, if at all, against both the forces of Democracy and Republicanism. No Time to Flare Up. None of the feeling that some of them later betrayed when they had opportunity oppor-tunity to digest the colonel's statement, had time to flare out when the gavel fell. They trooped out into Chicago's streets for home, while the band plaved faintly and tho flags that had flaunted so proudly through all the stormy sessions ses-sions were folded and the banners put away. Before they left the hall ihe delegates dele-gates remembered one of the essentials of a campaign, in response to the spur of the leaders they promised more than $S0.u00 to carry on the right. It was pledged in enthusiasm, and the contributions con-tributions tumbled in almost as fast as they could be recorded. The only protest of the day came a (Continued on Page Twelve.) ROOSEVELT UNO PARKER CHOSEN BY MQQSERS Colonel Declines for the Time Being, but Is Not Likely to Run; Convention Conven-tion Adjourns. (Continued from Page One.) few minutes before the leaders read 1 1n' a m ii Di i ii in nt i' rou i Colour! Koose-velt Koose-velt wlieu William Minn j 1 I Ji t: dnu y iro'0.!il t h! adoption uf a rule which permits the national roiiuii i 1 1 ee to mi vacancies on tho, ticket. Tin-re was a fliorUH of ' ' noes ' ' from ovr the hall. 1 mt it was lost in tlie explanations of t hose who h!oo1 upon tiie platform that this was but a perfunctory tiling i done at. all national fun vent inns to pn-! pn-! viiln tor "death or other casualties." Jt was adopted then immediately. Tho communication from Oyster Bay, i known to all leaders for a"i. least an ' hour before it was presented, was read to the convention in a moment of tense, dramatic silence. Tho gavel i'eU with a last bang, almost as iL was iiuished. |