Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-09-15
WON OUT ON FIRST BALLOT.
Administration Was Much Inter-
ested, President and secy.
Taft Sending kilograms.
Ants Were Fsnnlic-AIadc Desperate
Effort to Make Ambassador Hill
Their Candidate.
saratoga. Sept 15.---Gov. Hughes
was nominated on the first ballot.

Saratoga, n. Y, Sept. 15.-Dr. David
Jayne Hill, Of Rochester, ambassador
OF the United States to Germany is the
man whom the anti-Hughes leaders
have decided upon as their candidate
for governor to defeat the renomina-
ton OF Gov. Hughes.
The only way in which the condi-
ton of affairs has changed over night
as matters looked at 10 d. M was that
a now name had entered into the situa-
ton as one about which the opposition
TO Gov. Hughes expected to rally. That
man was pr. Hill Very few people
can be found this morning who real
~ believe that Dr.. Hill 8could or would
actually be nominated II was known
that there We're kilograms and letters
from Mr.. Roosevelt, Mir. Taft, and 9TH
ers in the Republican national cotIn-
ellis. leaving no manner of doubt that
Coy. Hughes, and Gov. Hughes only,
was desired by the national admins
tration as the nominee Of the state
convention.
There We're many signs as the morn
ing Wore on that the crisis had been
reached; that theoretically Gov.
Hughes denomination was in such
point as never before; that the latest
plan of the leaders, constructed with
ed probably their last stand, and that.
IL defeated there. they would accept
their defeat as gracefully as possible.
Actually. however, there seemed early
today little reason TO regard affairs as
materially changed, Herbert Parsons.
fully cognizant OF what was doing, ex-
pressed confidence that the convention
would renominate Hughes on the first
ballot. Congressman Cocks. who re-,
presented the presidents home district
and has been one of the medium of
communication between the president.
and leaders in the convention. said at
10 a, m. that he regarded the stua-.
ton as unchanged.
None of the anti-Hughes leaders
Mould talk for publication. Most OF
them admitted privately that while
there was still q fighting chance t.
defeat the governor the interference
from Oyster bay as they put it, was
too strong for them, and Hughes would
be nominated. The bitterness which
has been q characteristic of the devei-
opments OF the past few days was the
patent feature Of the morning. SecY,
of State Root who Will be permanent.
chairman of the convention and who
was the party to the conference of last
night until 1870 o'clock left his room
late today and when asked at breakfast
his view on affairs. disclaimed knowi-
The story the anti-Hughes men We're
telling as they began to get about after
an all-night conference was that Hill
would certainly be nominated '.un-
less
BY unless" they admitted that they
meant unless there is irresistible in
terference from national headquarters;
President Roosevelt, the Republican
national committee and Mr.. Taft
BY IL O'Clock the conviction was
widespread that the opposition had
gone to pieces and that while there
probably would be efforts up to the
last minute to find some one upon
whom TO unite. the battle was really
over. The anti-Hughes allies wore
the air of beaten men.
1t was stated upon authority today
that no cablegram should be sent to DR.,
Hill and that therefore no answer was
expected. Il was further said that at
last nights conference Mr.. Root made
it plain to the cpnfcreeS that the ma
tional leaders We're intensely Interested
in the action OF convention: that they
were DESTROYS of the nomination of Gov.
Hughes, not alone because of strength
which they believed his nomination
would add To the national ticket III New
York state. but because they believed
it would be of great value to the ma
tional campaign in other states, par
ROOTS INITIATION.
Mr.. Root is said to have intirnated TO
the leaders that there were available
ossary, kilograms and letters which
would leave not n shadow of doubt as
to the position of Mr.. Roosevelt and
Mr.. Taft on the stihject-should any
one still entertain any such doubt.
State Chairman Woodruff who is
f..f TI-
saciates here. THAT in his Judgment
Hughes would be nominated on the
first ballot" refused at 1890 to make
any statement for publication. adding
come to me in about an hour
The efforts which We're made Eestsr-
day to induce Secy. Root to accent
such nomination may be fairly
described as tremendous But Mr, Root
was obdurate. He told the confer
ence that he could not for a moment
consider such q proposition. "If I
should do such q thing, said he in
substance. Il should be accused, and
rightly. as senior member of the cab
met. of disloyalty to President Rooss-
welt, and he would be accused, and
with much justification OF insincerity
in his declaration made long ago and
reiterated today of emphatic desire for
the denomination of Gov. Hughes
AT SYCAMORE HILL.
oyster Bay. y. T.. Sept 15.--rho
over night Hurry at Saratoga from
which the name OF David Jayne Hin,
American Ambassador to Ger
many Was urged as 4 possible candi-
date for the Republican subernatoriai
appears NOT To have
aroused any serious nlisgtvinSs at
Sycamore Hill. where it Is an open
secret the denomination of GOV, Hughes
Is strongly, desired. While no official
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