Show C CHOICE ut OF JOHN M PARKER OF LOUISIANA GIVEN SECOND PLACE ON THIRD PARTY TICKET Decline nd to colonel RS roosevelt evelt ha has accept nomination at this time and progressive progressives may have to choose another candidate chicago june 10 in the closing hour hours of a four day session theodore roosevelt as nominated tor for president by the progressive national contention convention ven tion the colonel being chosen Nit without hout opposition john st parker of louisiana was the unanimous choice ot of the convention for vice president B but ut it Is by no means certain that colonel roosevelt will make the race for the presidency on the progressive give ticket three minutes before the convention adjourned until another time chairman raymond robins read to them a brief message from oyster bay in which mr roosevelt declined to accept the nomination at this time few of the thousands in the vast some of whom bad had seen the colonel named in an even wilder burst of enthusiasm tour four years ago realized when robins rapped N his gavel at and declared the convention adjourned eine sine die that in a few hours or a few weeks they might bo be a party without the one leader to whom they had bad come to chicago to give the pledge of loyalty and faith the significance of colonel roose belts message with its announcement that it the progressive national corn com cittee found the subsequent statements of charles evana hushes the republican standard etan dard bearer to its i pvn V 4 it 13 1 wk 1 4 7 X WI theodore roosevelt Rooe evelt ing his non acceptance of the progressive gres sive nomination should stand aa as his last word was lost in that tired throne throng worn cut by its own enghu ilasa ism by long delays over peace with the republicans and by the of a platform on which it must go into the field it at all against both the forces rt ef democracy Demo crac and republicanism none of the feeling that some of them later betrayed bet raed when had opportunity to digest the colonels statement had bad lime ala e to flare out when hen the gavel gael fell they trooped out into streets for home while the band played faintly and the saga flags that bad had flaunted so proudly through all the stormy sessions were folded and the banners put away before they left lett the hall the dele dole pates rates remembered one of the essentials of a campaign in response to tap th spur apa of the leaders they promised more than 80 to carry on the th fight it was pledged in enthusiasm and the contributions tumbled in almost as fast aa as they could be recorded few the only protest of the day came a minutes before the leaders read the announcement from colonel roosevelt when hen Wll llana 2111 flinn of PUts I 1 itta burg proposed the tile adoption adOPt loa of nile rule which aich permits the national committee a to nil vac on the ticket there an as a chorus of noes fron over the hall but it was s lost in the explanations of thoe who ho tho the platform Diat forn that this tills stoob upon was but a perfunctory thing don dont at a t all national conventions to provide for death other casualties or then immediately it was as adopted the bay from oyster known to all leaders tor for in an hour before it was atlease read to the presented wae was convention of tens in a moment dramatic gavel gael fell bile na 13 the tile with a laet lot bang ban it was as finished 9 almost a as |