Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1912 — PROGRESSIVE PARTY IN STATE CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

PROGRESSIVE PARTY IN STATE CONVENTION.

New Political Party Will Name State Ticket and Adopt Platform in Meeting at Tomlinson Hall. Two moose heads adorn Tomlinson Hall, where the new progressive party will hold its state convention in Indianapolis today. According to the Indianapolis Star, the organ of the progressives in the state, a big crowd from all over Indiana was on hand for the convention. The convention hall opened at 8:30 o’clock. The band concert began Git 9. At 10 Edwin M. Lee called the convention to order. Then Frederick K. Landis, of Logansport, a former congressman, who had been agreed upon as 'the temporary chairman, began his “keynote” speech. The transaction of the 'convention business followed. It is quite probable that former senator Albert J. Beveridge will be named for governor and that Frederick Landis will be named for lieutenant governor. A full list of the state officers were on hand Wednesday and will be named. The convention seemed to be entirely harmonious At the outset and most of the planks in the platform will conform to the plans of the national convention to be held next week in Chicago, as outlined by Theodore Roosevelt and his advisors. Equal suffrage for women and men will be advocated and the initiative and referendum will also be provided for. The -only annoyance seems to be the county option plank, there being some delegates on hand who were desirous of having that in the platform. Others did not favor it and others saw a means at dodging it by claiming that the initiative and referendum would care for the issue without special attention. Rudolph G. Leeds, of Richmond, who iS a delegate to the copvention and who is a member of the resolutions committee, said at a meeting of the sixth district delegates Wednesday evening that he would refuse to serve on the committee if the county option plank was to be Mr. has' long been a close friend of Beveridge and is supposed to have expressed the convictions of the former senator.