Tennessee Progressives Busy.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 21, 1912:
Flood the Mails with Appeals to Republican Voters.
Special to The New York Times.
    NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 20.— The malls south of Nashville to-night are laden with the appeals of the new third party, calling themselves the Progressive National Republican Party of Tennessee, in which the members of the G.O.P. are urged to form clubs in every precinct of the State and make ready for the Roosevelt State Convention on Aug. 2, and fight to gain the State in November for Roosevelt.
    The appeal puts Gov. Hooper in the same class as President Taft, and asks:
    "Shall we tamely submit to an assault on our cause by either the near-great or the great? Shall we support any man for any office who was a party directly or indirectly to the Chicago steal? Shall we support any man for any office who refuses or fails to repudiate the Chicago steal?"