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Show I PROGRESSIVE PARTY ' CHIEFS BACK LOWDEN H senator Mccormick, harold H ICKES AND OTHERS PUSH H ILLINOISAN IN RACE. H The closest friends of tho Into Col. B Theodore Roosevelt and former lend-B lend-B ers of the Progressive party in III J-B J-B mils and other states of tho middle B West are enthusiastically supporting B Gov. Krnnk O. I.nwden's candidacy for H the Republican nomination for presi-H presi-H dent. United States Senator Medlll B McConnlck Is one of tho most active B workers In Gov. Loudon's behalf, both H In Washington and In Chicago, B Other former Progressives who are B flghtlng for Lowden in the present B campaign arc: Harold L. lckes, form-B form-B er chairman of tho national committee B of tho Progressive party; Congressman Congress-man ltton Ira 0. Copley of Aurora ; II. I' B Harris of Champaign; Frank II. Funk B of Hloomlngtou, Progressive party H candidate for governor of Illinois In H 3012; George II. Porter of Chicago, H and Thomas I). Knight, former presl-B presl-B dent of the Chicago Progressive club. H Col. Roosevelt was the guest of Gov, H Lowden for three days at tho execu-H execu-H tlvo tnaiiBlon In Springfield, III,, In Au-Bj Au-Bj gust, and again In October, 1018. H If nominated for president Gov. H Lowden will, In the opinion of the B leaders, ur.lto all factions of tho party. B lie is perhaps the only candidate men-H men-H tloned acceptable to the old loaders H as well as to the Progressive clement. |