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to meet in Chicago, Aug. 3. The purpose of this convention, according to the call, will be to elect Illinois delegates to the Roosevelt national convention and presidential electors. Sounds like the Trib was really playing the progressive game, doesn't it? Until you examine the call for that state convention a little closer. The state convention is to nom inate national deelgates and electors, but IS NOT to nominate a state ticket. Thus leaving Charles Tribune Deneen as the whole Republican convention in Illinois. For the county and ward con ventions to elect delegates to the state convention will be held July 27, and Medill McCormick will do most of the holding of those con ventions. Far be it from any mere citizen to hint that Medill and Deneen between them might pack these county and ward conyentions against a third state ticket 'propo sition. But some people don't mind saying it all the same. The first person to say it and to refuse to sign the state conven tion call was Charles E. Merriam. The people of Chicago have been told about 16 million times that Merriam is a schoolmaster and doesn't know anything about practical politics. Maybe Merriam does, and may- be Merriam doesn't. But after yesterday's conference jockeyed . the progressive state ticket out of existence Merriam promptly withdrew from' the conference. Anyway, it's a bad year to say a schoolmaster can't play politics. Ask Boss'Murphy of Tammany Hall, N'Yawk, if it isn'fe HE WAS WISE, ef. p I Society Leader I am very, averse to having my name in the paper. Reporter Oh, certainjy. Now one more matter can you let me have yourT picture to use with it? ; O 0 Little "Willie's sister was being baptized. -Everything went well until Willie happened to catch a glimpse of the water in the font, when he peered about anxiously and finally exclaimed in a" piping voice, audible to the whole con gregation:'. "WheVeTs the soap?" o o London contains more Scots men than Aberdeen, more Irish men than Dublin, morVJews than Palestine, and more Roman Cath olics than Rome