Roosevelt "Under The Oaks."

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 13, 1912:
Will Proclaim New Party on Historic Spot in Michigan.
    DETROIT, Mich., July 12.—Theodore Roosevelt himself will "sound the keynote" at the birth of the National Progressive Party, which is to take place "Under the Oaks at Jackson" on July 20, exactly where the Republican Party was born July 6, 1854.
    Charles A. Nichols, Chairman of the Roosevelt Campaign Committee in Michigan, wired from Oyster Bay, where he and W. F. Knox interviewed the Colonel, that Roosevelt had promised to come unless something exceedingly important and unforseen arises to prevent.
    Many of the delegates, who will attend the convention are some of the men who met there fifty-eight years ago. The Oaks are still standing, but streets are cut through, and houses are built among them now. The founders of the new party desire to emulate their fathers as closely as possible, hence the plan to convene there instead of in a hall.
    The sentiment of the Progressives in Michigan is almost solidly for a full ticket, including Presidential Electors.