New-York tribune., 1907-11-27
HUGHES FOR PRESIDENT
COLUIIBL1 CONVENTION.
1fm Woodruff Presides While
Students Nominate GorcrnOr.
Ta<o a little. take a little
Rooze. booze, booze.
Maryland. Maryland.
Hughes. Hughes. Hughes.

hughes. Hughes, Hughes.
This only one of the wells that acclaimed
charles Evans Hughes as the favorite candidate
ior the Presidential nomination of the mock Re
publican National Convention at Columbia Uni
verify last night. The first ballot was: Hughes
z' La Toilette. 223 Taft 152; Root 12; Roosevelt
~; Cortelyou IS, and Cannon b. Before the sec
"h1 ballot the five hundred students. who made
th' university gymnasium rock with their yelling.
We're busy with the great question. AS a large
sized straw in the political wind tho chairman os
me New Jersey delegation announced that their
tWenty-four votes would he taken from Root and
turned Hughes. and the second roIcall
gave Governor Hughes 30 votes. against 252 for
La Toilette
This convention. s the latest plan of Professor
Charles A Beard to teach the students the theory
and practice of politics, certainly took hold. To
give the real touch of the political game the per-
manent chairman Of the convention vas Timothy
J. Woodruff. chairman of the Republican State
committee. Even Mr.. Woodruff with his long
perlence in conventions and elections was i'm
pressed by the Introduction of the organized col
lege yell into politics. lie had seen tho parade
around the campus. when the delegates, carrying
transparencies and banners yelled for every stick
OF presidential timber yet mentioned There
wv" brass bands. and when the Cannon rooters
got a chance to sandwich in their small but en-
thusiastic chorus they made it strong by winding
up with Cannon! Cannon, Boom. Boom! Boomr'
me convention opened with speech by Hickman
Price. 'o9. chairman of the mock Republican Ma
uohal committee. Before he got far in his ad-
dress he spoke of Columbia as the home of lib
ortY. At once came the concerted yell, Liberty!
Liberty and Football And it was mighty hard
l"r any Of the succeeding speakers to handle lib
erty' or freedom without being interrupted by
'he demand for its equivalent in football. But of
course this was not incorporated in the platform.
Ihat had been attended to under faculty guild
ance, and included all the Issues that have
cropped out in these days of oratory; they ranged
from the good old tariff issue to the question OF q
health Ind ham
that Mr.. Hughes will be obliged 20 pledge
himself TO a football platform.
MT Woodruff was made permanent chairman
without the formalty Of a ballot, and when the
yelling had been quelled under the stress Of his
gavel work he got down to the business of
making n regulation convention speech. in which
he said
y profoundly appreciative OF the honor of
presiding over this convention the Importance OF
whose action can hardly be exaggerated. Gap
plause) Vast indeed Is responsibility (Sen-
saton) Upon our judgment here fellow delegates
rests the future and prosperity of the United
States. c'Hear! HearO Those who have delegated
You to your task here have been ever mindful OF
the party OF Abraham Lincoln (''C-O-L-U-M-B-I-
Al and Ulysses S. Grant ('IIayI Rayl RayI"O
Mr.. Woodruff did little more gavelling. and
proceeded TO say that Charles Z. Hughes "embod-
led all lofty IDEALS OF William II. Taft, Charles
w. Fairbanks. Elihu Root. Secretary Cortelyou and
Uncle Joe" Cannon. he said all were worthy of
the highest commendation." There OF
Woodruff went on:
In certain quarters there is an effort 10 fasten
the crisis of October and November. 19C7-this date
being June Is. 19Os-upon President Roosevelt and
Governor Hughes. That is all wrong. None has
done more than either to prevent that crisis. No
matter upOn whom this convention decides-for
what this convention decides will be the dominant
feature OF the campalgn-attacks that made
upon President Roosevelt and Governor Hughes
must be answered"
The permanent chairman reviewed the careers OF
both men. and declared that both had conferred a
blessing uDon tho generation and upon all gen
erationS TO come"
Instead Of being the formulators OF crisis"
he said. have not President Roosevelt and Cover
Hughes been tho preservers OF tho land and
state?'
with the rollcall OF tho states tho convention
settled into its swing. Except for the youth OF the
delegates. the standards and insignia all there
TO give It the convention appearance Tho differ
ence was that.these embryo politicians did not have
the respect or fear for the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union that operated In other quarters
anent the army canteen. Besides the coupling for
reasons of rhyme. OF tho OF Mr.. Hughes with
BOOZE" Kentucky's delegation had on its banner
a large bottle. well a racehOrse.