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Show 1 ! ROOSEVELT UNITED ' I W RIP CONVENTION i . - i Is Named for President of New Party by Several Hundred I Delegates. I The National Progressive Party Par-ty is the name to be given the 1 new political party organized by the supporters of Theodore Roosevelt. Of the delegates pledged to support the former president, all but 107 refused to vote in the' regular convention which nominated nomi-nated President Wm. H. Taf t, and within an hour after a majority ma-jority of them had met in Orchestra Or-chestra hall and named Roosevelt as their candidate for president. Roosevelt was present and in an address to the assembled throng, accepted the leadership of the new party. His appearance appear-ance was the signal for an outburst out-burst of applause, such as had been given him by his friends at every opportunity from the moment mo-ment the Republican convention opened. Many of the leading figures who had made the hardest fights for the Colonel in the early days of the regular convention, were ab3ent from the meeting, among them Senator Borah, Governor ' Hadley, Governor Deneen, Governor Gov-ernor Stubbs, and Senator Bris tow. A committee of twenty-two leading Roosevelt supporters was appointed to arrange the details respecting the organization of the new party. Everard Bierer, Jr., of Salt Lake City, was chos- i en as one of the members of the s?"- ommitee,,, , Jv ' The future of the new party -. will be watched with interest for Iupon the actions of the bolting Republicans depends the success of the party in November. The leaders of the movement plan another an-other convention within six weeks to perfect the organization organiza-tion and name a runningmate for Rooesvelt, but many politicians politic-ians predict that before that time the movement will have spent itself and the new party will not have sufficient followers 1 to hazard a campaign. |