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Show ORGANIZING THE PROGRESSIVES Party to Be Perpetuated and Electoral Tickets Placed in Many States. Indianapolis, Aug. 3. Plans for tho reorganization and perpetuation of the Progressive party as a national political politi-cal organization were adopted tonight to-night at a ponference of Bull Moose representatives here. Tho conference, after a heated discussion, decided it Avould be impracticable at this late dato to reassemble the Progressive national na-tional convention and fill the vacancy on the national ticket coused by Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt's declination of the nomination. Instead, the organization will put up an electoral ticket in every state Avhere there Is the nucleus of an organization left, bearing the name of John M. Parker of Louisiana, nominee nom-inee for vice president, in the hope of electing enough presidential electors who might -prove the balance of power in the event of a close contest between be-tween the two major parties., Among the states in which this plan will be carried out are: Louisiana, Maryland, Indiana, MiBBOuri, 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 ac-tive charge of the campaign. To Name Committee. An executive committee of fifteen members will be named by Vice Chairman Hale to co-operate with the fifteen 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. This committee will meet after the November elections to formulate plans for the perpetuation of the party. These plans may Include some kind of an amalgamation with the Prohibition, Prohibi-tion, Socialist and Woman's parties. Edwin M. Lee of Indiana, A. D. ' Nortonl of Missouri, Bainbrldo Colby of Now York, C. F. Hoffman of Michigan, 'Harold Molse of Louisiana, and C. W. McClure of Georgia wero named members of the executive committee. com-mittee. The other members will be announced by Vico-Chairman Hale In a few weeks. Resolutions Adopted. The following address was issued by tho conference: To the Progressives of the country: "At a national conference of the party held today in the city of Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, attended by representatives representa-tives of thirty-seven states, a resolution resolu-tion was unanimously adopted condemning con-demning the action of the Progressive national committee on June 26 as an Illegal usurpation of authority not conferred con-ferred upon It by the recent convention conven-tion of the party, denouncing its action ac-tion as a breach of trust and repudiating repudiat-ing the same In every respect as non-expressive non-expressive of the party's thought or wishes. "Men whom we have delighted to honor and men we delight to follow have not only abandoned the party's cause, but have sought to sacrifice its future and to compromise the dignity dig-nity of its individual membership by a collusive undertaking with the Republican Re-publican party to deliver our party strength to the Republican presidential presiden-tial ticket. "The course of tho national committee com-mittee has been emphatically repudiated repudi-ated in every state where there has been free discussion and action. "This conference is the culminating protest of tho party against the treasonable trea-sonable attempt to put it out of existence exis-tence as a national party and to deliver de-liver its vote to the Republican party' |