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Show ROOOSEVELT CLUB ISSUESA CALL Mass Convention to Be Held in the Opera House at Provo on Saturday, Satur-day, July 27 Progressives Will Name Presidential Electors Elec-tors and Place a State Ticket in the Field This Fall. Officers or the Roosevelt club of Utah have Issued an ofllclal call for a state mass convention to be held In tho opera op-era house at Proo Saturday forenoon, fore-noon, July 27, at 11 o'clock, when the organization of a national progressive party in Utah will be perfected and delegates choson to represent Utah at the national progressive convention conven-tion culled by the Roosevelt forces for August o In Chicago A second state convention of "progressives" will dc held, piobably in Ogden In September, ut which time the new party proposes to nominate a full state ticket, including includ-ing presidential eleotors. The first direct move toward the birth of the third party in Utah Is the outcome of Saturday night's meeting of tho Roosevelt club leaders, who outlined thoir plans after J'stening to the report and recommendations of the organization and conventions committee com-mittee appointed at a meeting July 'i it was decided that the Roosevelt club't work should cease when the mas. meeting convened and that all futun. work as to organization and the policies poli-cies of the new party would he tho outgrowth of the Provo convention. Tho convention call is signed bj Wesley K Walton, chairman, Harr S. Anderson, first assistant secretar: , and the following county committeemen committee-men of the Roosevelt Club of Utah Nephl Valentine. Box Elder; C. H Stevenson, Carbon; A. A. Lav, Cache, Charles R Mabe, Davis: T. L. Mc-Carty. Mc-Carty. Emery; Henry Adams, Juab, C. W. Watts, .Millard; C. M. Croft. Morgan; Charles Morrel, Piute; C. vV Walton, Rich; Fred A. Sweet, Salt Lake; howls Larson, Sanpete; Willlb lohnson,' Sevier: I. Ajax. Tooele; O. II. Carpenter, Utah; William Glas-mann, Glas-mann, Weber. Text of Call. Following is the call in full for the convention: To the people of Utah regardless of past party affiliations Who believe that the time has come for organization of a national pro-gressie pro-gressie parly Who believe in the right and capacity ca-pacity of the people of our country to rule themselves. "Who insist upon the right to choose the candidates for whom they shall vote. Who recognize the evils of the boss system that has perverted the fuuc- , tions of our political parties and tho , ends of popular government. , A mass convention 1b hereby called to meet at the opera house, Provo City, Utah, at eleven o'clock a m., July 27, 1912, to choose delegates from Utah to attend the conventlol to bo held at Chicago on the fifth day of August, 1012. for the purpose of nominating candidates to be supported for the positions of president and vice presidents of trje United States To organize a progressive party for the state of Utah, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the convention. Apportionment Fixed. Each county is requested to send delegates whose votes In said convention conven-tion will be accredited as follows: Beaver , 6 Box Elder 16 Cache : 27 Carbon -. ,..'. C Davis It Kiriery ? Garfield 4 Grand '. 2 Iron 5 Juab n J 1 Kane . 3 Millard '. . 7 Morgan X'. . ... ' ; IS Pluto fi Rich .....: 3 Salt Lake 125 Snn Juan .'....'....'.: " Sanpote .-,vi :l Sevier :..-........ 12 Summit -.'.' 9 Tooele 1 S Uintah ' , 5 Utah : 42 Wnsatch - ,J Washington c Wayne- l Wooer - 'J1 The progressives in each county aro requested to take imme'dlate steps 'to elect delegates to this convention, and to perfect their county and precinct organizations. ' Tho committeemen of the Roosevelt club of Utah in the several counties are urged to assist tho progresslve-j In selecting delegates aB herein set forth |