The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-13
HUGHES JOINS
( WITH ROOSEVELT
IN STATE FIGHT
May Attempt to Force
Plank Favoring Di-
rect Nominations.
CONFERENCE HELD
AT OYSTER BAY
Headers Discuss Entire Politica.
Situation in New York, but
Decline to Reveal Results
of Meeting - Probably
Map Out Program for
Future Action.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, July 12.-Theodore
Roosevelt and Charles E. Hughes,
Governor of New York. spent the eve
ming at Sycamore Hill in their long
expected and much-heralded confer
ence on New York State politics. They
talked in secret, and no word of the
result was allowed to become known
beyond the fact that the entire politi-
cal situation in this State was taken
up Colonel Roosevelt had said frank
~ onsprevious occasions, however. that
the defeat of the direct nominations
bill by the Republican State organiza-
tion would be one of the main topics
of discussion. Whether the question OF
a Republican candidate for Governor
came up is not known.
Colonel Roosevelt will have more
politicians at Sycamore Hill to-nor-
row, perhaps the most conspicuous of
whom will be Timothy l.. Woodruff.
chairman of the Republican State COM
mittee.
Governor Hughes reached Sycamore
Hill from New York by automobile at
| $3.50 o'clock this evening, and received
an enthusiastic welcome from Col
| onel Roosevelt
Tnlk Until Far in Night.
/ Colonel Roosevelt. after a hard day
| in New York, motored home, reaching
Sycamore Hill only short time before
the Governor. Governor Hughes had
dinner with the Roosevelts. Then tho
men withdrew to the colonefs library
where they talked until far into the
night.
A delegation OF correspondents went
lup the hill at 8 o'clock, in the hope
that Colonel Roosevelt or the Gover-
nor would have something TO say af-
ter their talk had been fairly started.
But the colonel sent out word that
%lS Al ~vlrf1 tN<a
Interviewed.
i Colonel Roosevelt has made 1t clear
that he will fight for the direct nomi-
nation BILL and j. w. Wadsworth,
Speaker OF the State Assembly. said
with frankness, when he called on
Colonel Roosevelt in New York to-day.
that this bill was the one thing which
loomed up as rock in the smooth
seas ahead, as he was pleased to paint
the picture.
The Speakers chat with the colonel
gave Colonel Roosevelt in advance
of his talk with the Governor a clear
view Of the attitude of the Republican
organization to the extent that the
Speaker represents 1t.
The Speaker said with a broad smilo
afterward that his position was un-
! changed and that so far as he was
concerned there would be no Sacrifice
, OF principle.
When Colonel Roosevelt came out OF
: his office a little later, he said:
II talked politics with the Speaker.
!, We discussed direct nominations. That
is all / can say.
Man Out Tentative Program.
! 1t Is supposed therefore that the
Governor and the eX-President Went
. over this conference with the Speaker
in detail tonight. and mapped out
tentatively the program announced III
advance of taking steps to force into
the platform when the Repupllc,ah
; claring without eQuivocation for direct
; nominations The general opinion is
/, that the first tangible result OF the
; meeting between the colonel and COY
. until the initial steps in the program
: outlined by them is taken. On the
5 other hand, it Is possible that the
full plan will not be disclosed unIil
= the Saratoga convention mas peei' eaA11 ~"
: MI. Woodruff's visit tomorrow is
n awaited with interest, for he is one
: of the men with whom the colonel
. successful end his fight for direct
: nominations bill. The successful
! Chairman % is Identified closely with
= Wadsworth and VIM. Barnes, Jr., leader
= OF the Republican organization ot AZ
y hany county, and was opposed 70 the
IS direct nominations bill He will be
h the second of these three staunch or
n ganization men to go TO Colonel Roose-
5. yelt The third man, Mr. barnes, Is
q in Europe.
o Dctinite Plan Expected. !.
1t is supposed that Mr., WoodruM
i, will endeavor to ascertain from Coi-
:. onel Roosevelts own lips Just how
: he views the situation, and that ont
. of the colonel's three conferences Will
: Hughes, Wadsworth and Woodruff,
there will arise a definite plan OF
" action on the part OF the organisation,
Q as we'll as the Observation-Disclosures toi-
n lowers =,
New Jersey, who Is an ardent ,insur-
gent, also will be at Sagamore ttiii lo-
morrow The Congressman mad a ion =
talk with Mr.. Roosevelt in New York
] today. but they We're not able to TN
: tsh il. Mr. Fowler's lengthy confer
ence with the eX-President is Regarded
! as Of interest, because OF the faet thai
! he is one or Speaker Cannon's bitter
i, est opponents. ~ y. ~r,,r
= York tomorrow forenoon, ana II y
8 understood that he will leave at once
. for washington.
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