Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-20
Many Favorite Sons Being
GroOmed for Next Convention
Twelve States Will Place Their Offerings Upon the Political Altar
Justice Hughes in No Sense a Candidate.

W~ushington. -. c., Jn3y l9--Mora
tlaum a dozen states, acord.ns TO pres
ent indications. VIII eater tavo7Ito
sons in. the free,ior.all race for the
Republican nomination TO-" President
next year. With this early and TllI-
meroUs O~ltcropping OF candidates,
SOME Of them actual and others pc
rpn+isl, there are aStGfe politicians
vino are already declaring that the
nominee Will be q outsider daTft
horse. Al this time. these students
of politics say. the best choice OF
the probable dark horses in Charles
Evans Hughes, associate Justice OF.
the United States Supreme Court
Mir. Justice Hughes specifically has
announced that ne is not TO be con-
sidercd in any way as an aspiIanfs
This undoubtedly preciudes his be.
ing put forward as New IoTk'S favor
tie son" in the party conventions.
However, il would hardly operate TO
stop a stampede in his direction
should the convention in it's DELHI
Grafton find that he is the logical per-
son to unite the broken party fac
lions. Likewise it. is not probable
that Mr.. Hughes would refuse a mona
NATION rendered him in this manner
on a silver platter.
Endorsement Of Illinois.
Out in Illinois the friends of Rep
reeentatiye James Z. Mann. 1.-THE mi
noritv floor leader in the House OF
REPRESENTATIVES, have calculated thai
il is n0t at all essential that he 20
to the convention as q faroritea son
Of his state. It-woUld be- vastly more
10 his; advantage. in present Repisb-
iicano political conditions, TO be q sec.
ond choice in several states than the
first choice IN only ones Therefore,
Mr.. Mann.s friends, despite the grow
ing prospects that Senator Lawrence
Y. Sherman will 90 70 the conyen-
ton with the Endorsement of Him
DIS, are going right ahead in their.
efforts to. cultivate q good feeling for
him in other states as we'll as in his
home state. \ few complimentary
ballots for w. Sherman, it is argued,
will show the fVtilitv of further. vOt-
ing for him. Then the delegates will
turn TO Mr.. Mann.
Another formidable dark horse cam
didate is likely 10 be Col. Roosevelt.
Even should he be eliminated as a
favOrfte son in the New York state
primaries, there is nothing to keep
the convention from nominating him
should it take i notion hat. way.
Great Uncertainty.
Ii. r~olitics today, as meter before,
there is great uncertainty. Condi-
lions change almost over night. SeT-
aTal months ago President Wilson's
popularity was thought to be at low
ehb. Republicans were Hopeful and
jubilant, ana IS a result Of this feel
ing there began to- be discussed the
prospects of various leaders in the
party as timber for the presidential
nomination next year.
This is about the lineup Of the
~favorite sons: 81 ar
Idaho-SeDatCr William e BOrah
Illinois-Senator Lawrence Y Sher-
mar and Representatives James r.
Mann.
: Indiana-Former Vice President
Charles Warren Fairbanks.
, Iowa-Spnator Albert r. Cummins
, MISUNDERSTANDING John ".
Weeks,
, Michigan-Torrner William Alden
Smith.
Nissouri-Tormer Governor Herb.
aTt s. Radley.
acknowledgements George ". Nor
ris.
New Yor7-Forner Senator EIihu
Root, Gov. Charles S. Whitman, Jus
ice Charles e. Hughes, and Col
Theodore Roosevelt
PpnnsyIvania-Gov. Martin B.
:Brumbaugll and former Senator P. II,
Knox.
Ohio-F0rrner Senator Theodore Z,
burton. Gov. Frank 3. Willis, Senator
Warren G.. Harding. forine" Gov. My
ron 7. HeTrick.
Observation-Disclosures RCJert NJ, La
Toilette.
This list is subject TO revision be-
fore the convention meets. 1t may be
extended 70 include other candidates
and other states.
There is no chance that any ma
will have on tie first ballot approx.
re- 1,Yrr1 (sE HDEAT'