Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1916 — PROGRESSIVES NOMINATE COMPLETE TICKET [ARTICLE]

PROGRESSIVES NOMINATE COMPLETE TICKET

Progressives Placed a Complete Ticket In the Field atj Indianapolis Thursday.

In a four-hour convention at the Odd Fellows building in Indianlapolis Thursday, the progressive leaders of Indiana placed a complete state ticket in the field, reasserting their feelings toward the Hughes compromisers by double riveting a set of progressive presidential electors of the November ballot, and took numerous oratorical falls, veiled and openfarced, out of former state and national leaders.

To give variety to the emphasis of their determination, they sat down hard, and in Boyd’s opinion so unprogressively, that he resigned in one breath from the resolutions committee, the convention and the party. It was a small convention, possibly smaller than some of the enthusiastic leaders expected. There were only 175 delegates and proxy holders in the seats, although the allotment of the convention was 544 delegates. John F. Lawrence, state committeeman from the 11th district, voiced the view of the opponents of a state ticket when he said: “The majority of the delegates didn’t think it necessary to come. .They know the party is dead, and that a convention is farcical. This view prevails not orily-among the delegates but among the rank and file of the men who made the great progressive party of 1912 and 1914 in Indiana.”