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Show 'PROGRESSIVES I PREPARE FOR FRAY 6ENATOR BEVERIDGE PRESIDES AS TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN AND DELIVERS KEYNOTE SPEECH. I Governor Johnson of CaliforniaVirtu- ally Agreed Upon as the Vice-Presi- i dent Nominee to Make the Race With Colonel Roosevelt. Chicago. The first session of the drst national convention of the new Progressive party, of which Colonel Theodore Roosevelt is sponsor, was held in the Coliseum on Monday, and while the setting was attended by all the usual ceremony and paraphernalia of a national political gathering, the actual proceedings were suggestive of a love feast. Not a dissenting voice was raised during the session. The question of negro representation from the south had caused friction earlier in the day in the national committee, but there was- no echo of this fight on the floor of the convention. The delegates were at times explosive in their enthusiasm. enthu-siasm. Many state delegations came into the hall singing and shouting in their delight at the birth of the new party, and three hours later left the building in the, same happy frame of mind. Although green hands were supposed sup-posed to be at the helm, the machinery machin-ery of the convention worked smoothly and efficiently. There was no roll ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE. United States Senator from Indiana. call of delegates, but the delegate section of the floor, arrangeh ,m the same manner as at the Republican national convention a few weeks ago and accommodating nearly 1,100 people, peo-ple, was entirely filled. The alternate alter-nate .section also had its full quota. Work- of the national committee on contested delegate cases caused a delay de-lay of nearly three-quarters of an hour in the assembling of the convention. conven-tion. During the wait the delegates amused themselves with songs and yells composed for the occasion, while a band near the flag draped steel rafters and a Grand Army fife and drum corps on the stage vied . with each other in playing patriotic airs. There was a great cheer as Senator Dixon, national chairman of the party, rapped for order. This was repeated later when the call for the convention was read, and there was even greater enthusiasm when former Senator Bev-.sridge Bev-.sridge of Indiana was presented as the choice of the national committee for temporary chairman. The formality form-ality of electing Senator Beveridge was not necessary and amid renewed ' I i liSiHllll rmm4 . . , : - y&vs SiSK.::i.i5:'i::::-:."i :- " ' 'f' " ! u:-AV-:';-K-, .,,:.y Qtj JUDGE BIN B. LINDSEY. j Former Mayor Fine'.:. Denver. Former .Mayor Robert W. j Speer, publisher of a Denver newspaper, newspa-per, has been fined ?1 OOl) and sentenced sen-tenced to five dare in the county jail by District Judge Hubert L. Shattuck for constructive contempt of court. |