Newark Evening Star And Newark Advertiser

PROGRESSIVES TO
NAME REGULARS
Both Will Be on Primary Ticket
for National Convention Delegates.

It became known at the meeting of the Roosevelt Club last night that there will be two regulars and two progressives on the Roosevelt delegate-at-large ticket in the presidential primaries of this State. Edmund B. Osborne made the statement, however, that the regulars would have to support the progressive platform upon which a committee of progressives is now at work.

"A situation may develop at Chicago," said Mr. Osborne, "where it will be impossible for either Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Taft to be nominated. We want to know where these gentlemen who have not been allied with the Progressives, but who may be elected with Progressive aid, will stand in such an emergency. We want to go to Chicago with a platform as well as a candidate."

Former Assemblyman John N. Klein presided at the meeting. A large part of the session was taken up with organization plans, such as the designation of workers to take charge of the Roosevelt campaign in the various districts of the county. One suggestion made, which met with a great deal of favor, was that Roosevelt buttons be obtained and that every man who signed a Roosevelt petition and anyone else who wanted it, be given one to wear.

It developed that the plans of the Roosevelt State League, besides providing tentatively for two Regulars and two Progressives on the Roosevelt ticket, also contemplated in Hudson County, where a faction of the Regulars and all the Progressives are for Roosevelt, a division of delegates in the ratio of the strength of the two elements who are working for the colonel's nomination.

Mr. Osborne referred to the recent declaration of war upon the Progressives. The President's utterance, he said, meant that the battle was joined and that there could be no retreat.

The outlook for the massmeeting in the Krueger Auditorium next month in the interests of Roosevelt is that it will be one of the biggest political demonstrations that Newark ever witnessed. The petitions that were recently placed in circulation to get the necessary 1,000 signatures to file with the secretary of state in order that Roosevelt's name be printed on the primary ballot are nearly completed.