Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1916-06-06
Sentiment Saturday Was That
His Candidacy Was
Hopeless.
EVERYBODY IS STILL IN DOUBT
"What Will the Old Guard
Do?" Question Hard to
Solve.

Chicago, June 5.-For some un-
known reason, for which no explana-
ton is offered, there is growing
conviction here among both republi-
can and progressive leaders assembled
for the national convention that
Col. Roosevelt will not be nominated
by the older party. Among those
who hold this in view are many num-
bered among the colonel's closest
friends, who nonetheless are not CIV
ing up the fight.
The leaders who take this view of
the situation seem to think that JUS
tice Hughes is the man who could
bring the republican and progressive
parties together and present solid
front to the democratic opposition,
even though they are not convinced
that the justice can win the nominal
ton.
The situation which this condition
presents is unprecedented. None of
the leaders on the ground profess to
have any idea of what will happen.
1t seems certain that Col. Roosevelt
could have the progressive nomina-
ton at once if he would say the word
and still leave the way open to with
draw his candidacy if the republican
convention nominated man whom
he was willing to support.
WHAT WILL OLD GUARD DO?
On every hand today there is spec
ulation as to what the Old Guard will
do if it succeeds in defeating Col.
Roosevelt for the nomination; wheth-
er they would go the whole distance
and nominate a man of their ,number,
such as Root, Fairbanks, Weeks or
Burton, or whether they would at
tempt to conciliate the progressives
by choosing man whom the latter
might support. The name of Justice
Hughes is the only one that has been
brought forward so far as having
such possibilities.
Among the rank and file OF the re-
publicans there are indications that a
genuine effort to draw the progress
sives back into the old party will be
made.
The Kentucky delegation arrived
today. The ''big eight" are Edwin
P. Morrow, Somerset, who ran such
strong race against Governor STAN
ley last November; E. C. O'Rear,
Frankfort; William Marshall Bullitt
and A. E. Wilson, Louisville; Con-
gresham John w. Langley, Pikeville;
Congressman Caleb Power, Barbour
vile, and Phil Brown, negro editor,
from Hopkinsville.
Theodore Roosevelt, DR., arrived in
Chicago today with William Loeb,
Jr., and mingled with the pre-con-
vention crowd in hotel Hobbies. He
will attend the convention as guest
OF j. Ogden Armour.
81 do not know what the conven-
ton is going to do, said Roosevelt to
friends tonight, "but the sentiment of
the country wherever polls have been
taken seems to be for father"
MRS. GAIT COMES BACK.
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, presi-
dent of the National American Wo-
man Suffrage association, is here and
will preside today at the opening con-
ference of that organization which
will continue for two days. The
purpose of this conference is to form
ulate the resolution which is to be
offered by the marching women to
| the resolutions committee of the ma
tional republican convention opening
| at the coliseum Wednesday. Repre-
sentatives from all the state women's
delegations which have come to
march in the parade and active Chi
cago suffragists will attend the con-
ference which will adjourn Wednes-
Idav noon.