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Show PROGRESSIVES TO STAY INTHE RACE PLAN REORGANIZATION AND PERPETUATION PER-PETUATION OF PARTY AT INDIANAPOLIS CONFERENCE. Have No Candidate for President, But Will Put Up An Electoral Ticket Bearing Name of Parker for Vice-President. Indianapolis. Plans for the reorganization reor-ganization and perpetuation of the Progressive party as a national political po-litical organization were adopted August Au-gust 3 at a conference of Progressive representatives here. The conference, after a heated discussion, decided it would be impracticable at this late date to reassemble the Progressive national convention and fill the vacancy va-cancy caused by Theodore Roosevelt's declination of the nomination. Instead, the organization will put up an electoral elec-toral ticket in every state where there is the nucleus of an organization organiza-tion left, bearing the name of John M. Parker of Louisiana, nominee for vice-president, in the hope of electing elect-ing enough presidential electors who might prove the balance of power in the event of a close contest between the two major parties. Among the states in which this plan will be carried out are: Louisiana, Maryland, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Wiscon-sin, Michigan, Utah, North Dakota and Minnesota. J. A. H. Hopkins of New Jersey was chosen treasurer of the rehabilitation Bull Moose party, and Matthew Hale of Massachusetts, vice chairman of the national committee, will be in active charge' of the campaign. An executive committee of fifteen members will be named by Vice Chairman Chair-man Hale to co-operate with the fifteen fif-teen members of the national committee com-mittee who refused to vote for the endorsement of Charles E. Hughes at Chicago, June 26, in rehabilitating the party. |