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Show WOULD HAV THIRD TICKET. , Vice-Presidential' Nominee Calls New Convention-of Progressives. New Orleans. A statement andjcall to "the patrioticmen and women of America" to hold! a new national convention con-vention of the Progressive party in Chicago, August 5, and nominate can-" didates for president and vice-president and continue the party's 'existence 'exist-ence as a distinct political organiaa-tion organiaa-tion was issued here Saturday nigJU by John M. Parker, vice-presidential nominee of the Progressive convep-tion, convep-tion, held in Chicago last "June. li,e urged the Progressives to "eternally bury" the bull moose, which, he asserts, as-serts, led his -loyal followers into the wilderness," and to adopt in its plate the American eagle as the emblem6f the party. . . ... ; j, .. Mr. Parker does not, mention Cpjl-onel Cpjl-onel Roosevelt or any other progressive progres-sive leaders 'or any" candidates , ' bV name. He declares, however, that tire Progressives hadas supposed Ieadefe "red-blooded : Americans who prom' ised with- the 'life-blood' to0 stayc with the partyo the finish," but that; the party had been deserted by,, (.a large part, off Jfcs officers, who ' couldj not stand the-aeld test. |