The Nevada County Picayune

A NEW PARTY IS BORN AT CHICAGO

PROGRESSIVE LEADERS MEET AND START THEIR CAMPAIGN

ROOSEVELT IS THE NOMINEE

Mass Meetings of the People to be Called to Ratify the Choice—Most Remarkable Political Gathering Since 1856.

Chicago, June 24.—The new Progressive party came into existence Saturday night. It had its birth in Orchestra hall, while thousands cheered with an enthusiasm that was not far from religious.

Theodore Roosevelt is its presidential nominee. He accepted the nomination on the condition that it be reaffirmed at a mass convention from all the people, including Democrats as well as Republicans, southerners as well as northerners.

His appeal for the blotting out of party lines in the cause of "our common American citizenship" brought a tremendous outburst from the crowd.

"I ask you," he said, "to go to your several homes to find out the sentiment of the people at home and then again come together, I suggest by mass convention, to nominate for the presidency a progressive candidate on a progressive platform that will enable us to plead to northerners and southerners, easterners and westerners, Republicans and Democrats, alike.

It was a wonderful convention, a convention that suggested in its solemnity, as well as its enthusiasm, what must have been the spirit of the men, who met under the Jackson oaks fifty-six years ago to found the Republican party in defense of the rights of man.

It was made up of the Roosevelt delegates, and as many of the people here as could get into the hall, which seats about three thousand. The men who made up the audience were in dead earnest. They were there for a purpose.

When a boy got up to the great pipe organ in the hall and played "America," and "Star Spangled Banner," and then "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Coming of the Lord," the audience joined in the singing with the fervor of a religious meeting.

Men from Tennessee and from Massachusetts, and from California and from Maine stood with tears in their eyes as they sang.

Within twenty-four hours a call is to be made for an Illinois convention of Roosevelt supporters, at which state organization will be formed.

Medill McCormick of Chicago said calls in other states would be issued in rapid succession and that within a few weeks the Progressive party would be organized in every section of the country.

The method of operation in the various states is still to be decided upon. In some cases the Republican candidates for state and national offices, with the exception of President and Vice-President, will be indorsed, with the idea of preserving the state Republican organizations which are in sympathy with the Roosevelt movement.

An incident in the breaking up of the regular party organization is the resignation of members of the national committee who are favorable to Roosevelt.

Little Use for Hospital.

All the preparations made by the hospital corps for taking care of people who might be overcome by the heat were taken advantage of very little because of the cool weather.

Nevertheless, the nurses and physicians were early on duty.

A "first aid" emergency hospital had been provided in the south end of the Coliseum, about 200 feet to the rear of the platform in the auditorium. All the aisles leading from the hospital to the main hall were kept open so that any patient might quickly be relieved.