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Show ROOSEVELT CHOI OF PROGRESSIVES JOHN M. PARKER OF LOUISIA'j GIVEN SECOND PLACE ON ' THIRD PARTY TICKET. Colonel Roosevelt Has Declinend a Accept Nomination at This Tim. and Progressives May Have to Choose Another Candidate. Chicago, June 10. In the clo:-; -, hours, of a four-day session, Theo-1 Roosevelt was nominated for p-t.' dent by the Progressive national c vention, the colonel being tyr..,. without opposition. John M. Parker, of Louisiana, i;. the unanimous choice of the eon-. tion for vice-president. But it is by no means certain Colonel Roosevelt will make the rt -for the presidency on the Prog:e:;. ; ticket. Three minutes before the cor.;; tion adjourned until another t:;-Chairman t:;-Chairman Raymond Robins read :, them a brief message from ();.- Bay in which Mr. Roosevelt decli;;; to accept the nomination at this fc-Few fc-Few of the thousands in the v-;-auditorium, some of whom had s: the colonel named in an even ui:;.; burst of enthusiasm four years u; realized when Robins rapped gavel at 4:58 and declared the c:: vention adjourned sine die, tha: :: , few hours, or a few week?. might be a party without the t-'eader t-'eader to whom they had cone ; Chicago to give the pledge of 1ot; and faith. The significance of Colonel F.: velt's message with its am:'-':-. -. that if the Progressive national mittee found the subsequent ments of Charles Evans Hugh-;. :; Republican standard-bearer, to i:s IX v :1a Theodore RooevelL aS the ing, his non-acceptance of t-( ' V gressive nomination should his last word, was lost in thit ' throng, worn out by its ou e:- ' siasm, by long delays over per leys with the Republicans and os discussion of a platform on must go into the field, if a: against both the forces of IV:.'-. av and Republicanism. "j None of the feeling that "-f. B them later betrayed when ttr- e opportunity to digest the bo statement, had time to flare oji ' I the gavel fell. They trooped t Chicago's streets for home. e-v band played faintly and the fl ;" had flaunted so proudly thro a! the stormy sessions were fr1- ' Ch the banners put away. Before they left the h?ll t" j ' s gates remembered one of thej-; ean tials of a campaign. In r";v1s fea the spur of the leadeis H'.'-'.v i'r;; Pen more than $SO,000 i'i earry "o fight. It was pledged in e'i'' m and the contributions ninny':.; suli most as fast as they couM re corded. ft 1 The only protest of the dtf "' few minutes before the leaJr; u the announcement from ' (, Roosevelt when William t Pittsburg proposed the nlop.;V;, rule which permits the ntw ' mittee to fill vacancies on ., " hi There was a chorus of "n'- , JHe over the hall, but it was .' st ; explanations of those who 0re the platform that this was ' ( tt functory thing done at all ';. conventions to provide for Ji ''. lTs- other casualties." It wai "' 1 then immediately. pin.,1?1' The communication fMm Mln Bay, known to all leaders f' , an hour before it was pref 1 " C read to the convention ' 11 " t hpr of tense, dramatic sil''; .... th , , c gavel fell with a last IkiuP- " ,'Ht It was finished. i, .of I ' C0 Ki tac |