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Show M PARTY JI0RE60N Opinion Divided as to Naming of a State Ticket Portland, Ore., July 25. The National Na-tional Progressive party of Oregon convened In this city today to select five delegates to the Chicago convention con-vention August 5, and to decide whether a state ticket shall be put in the field. The convontlon was well attended, delegates from many distant counties answering the roll call. There will be two sessions of the convention today and one tonight, the night session to be what the leaders term a ''bull moose roundup," or. mass meeting. Daniel Kellaher. president of the National Progressive association in this state, In a short address, announced an-nounced that the committee had left to the conventfon the forming of a permanent organization, the selection of candidates, the adoption of a platform plat-form and the planning of a campaign, including the circulation of petitions to have the name of Roosevelt presidential presi-dential electors placed on the ballot at the general election. Opinion Is divided as to what the convention will do regarding tho placing of a state ticket in the field. According to Kellaher, there is a disposition dis-position on the part of some of the adherents of the party to eliminate the state ticket. Ii this event the party will be represented on the ballot bal-lot only by presidential electors, United Uni-ted States senators and representatives. representa-tives. A proposition mado at last nighc'G conference to allow a committee of seven to appoint the electors started a discussion which lasted until a late hour. There was a decided sentiment for a Taft-Roosevplt coalition, if Roosevelt would aree to It, and the Idea was to have the committee appointed ap-pointed so that it could have the power to make the combination later if It was found feasible. The out-and-out third party men were against the proposition and said the Roosovelt ticket should be a complete com-plete one. There was no definite understanding un-derstanding reached and the matter was expected to come before the convention con-vention for settlement. Resolutions which set forth the Roosevelt , viewpoint of the Chicago convention and which bind the 16 delegates from Maryland to vote for Roosevelt on every ballot in Chicago, were npproved by the meeting for piesentatlon to the convention. on |