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Show WOULD HAVE THIRD TICKET. Vlce-Presldentlal Nomlneo Calls New Convention of Progressives. Now Orleans. A statement nnd call to "the patriotic men and women of America" to hold a new national convention con-vention of tho Progressive party In Chicago, August 5, and nominate candidates can-didates for president and vlcc-presi dent and continue tho party's exist-enco exist-enco as a distinct political organlza tlon was lssuod here Saturday nlghl by John M. Parker, vice-presidential nomlneo of tlio Progresslvo conven tlon, held in Chicago last June. He urged tho Progressives to "eternally bury" tho bull mooso, which, he as serts, led his loyal followers Into the wilderness," and to adopt in Its plact tho American eaglo as the emblem ol tho party. Mr. Parker does not mention Col onel Roosevelt or nny other progres slvo leaders or any candidates bj name. He declares, however, that the Progressives had as supposed leaders "red-blooded Americans who promised prom-ised with tho 'life-blood' to stay with the party to tho finish," but that tho party had been desorted by a largo part of its officers, who could not Btand the acid test. |