Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-03-29
REPUBLICANS FLOCK|NG
TO STATE CONVENTION
Slcmp and Martin Among iir>, "a
Rcacl, Roanoke, and Predict
Big Meeting.
LOOK FOR ZOO DEIEGATEs
National ommittccman Admits
There Is Much Uncertainty a. {"
Presidential Nominee. but Relieves
Hughes May &c Named.

rSSEOhNOkE. IA. March 2S.--r.vcry
train entering Roanoke IS bringing
delegates to the Republican state Con-
Ientton which opens here tomorrow.
Early morning arrivals included Rep
rcsentativc c Ras Slemp and NJ
yah RI. Martin. national committeeman.
Indications are that between 100 and
5000 delegates viii be in attendance
when the convention opens.
The convention will elect four dele
Iates-at-larcc 10 tho Republican Ma
tional Convention. together with IN"
election of four alternatss and the 50
lection or two electors large 10 he
voted for on November :. toil"winc
which candidate r election 10 the
United States senate will he nom
mated.
MI siemp expressed himself great
" pleased with the outlook for III"
Republican party in virginia
The convention mere vii! b" me
lsrEes, in years he said. There is
absolute harmony among Virginia he.
publicans as among Republicans all
over tho country
ATT TO NAME HUGHES.
DECLARES t.N All a.. MARTIN
Mir Martin said the question OF who
Mil be the Republican nominee IS one
Of great urceritinty and admitted
,hat, in case % a deadlock. fusic"
hughes might be nominated in spite OF h
dshial OF his candidacy.
Representative Humphreys, of Nash
inEtcn state. who will deliver The prin-
oipai address tomorrow night, Is "N- /.
rcctcd 20 arrive in Roanoke this even I
Ing.
Persons familiar with virginia poll
tics would not he surprised II nSht /
developed over the question whether /
the delegates TO the national CON
vehtion shall so instructed;
= some time ago Representative Slemp.
VIRGINIA ReruhliCan
f,an,n,it-ee who favors uniustructed
delcgatcs gave out correspondence ne /
Tween himself and Supreme Court J US
,ice Hughes. MI Slsinp told the JUS
F1ice that there was q movement o" J"
vi-riuia. directed by Frank IL hitch- 3
cock, former Posimastcr-Gcn"raL ana /
several former Federal otc"h"lders IN
t,he state with the view OF having III" .
delegation instructed for Mr.. tiuEhcS
nv rromise OF political patronage th'S !
movement. Mr. Slemr said was ECU
ieral throughout the south. nu' MAS !
we'll -orSanlzeN Ia t-'",'
rand a fight was being made on MIN NJ
Ssa;d under the superstition that ne WAS i
Composed to Mr.. hughes
& In rcpiv Justice hughes wrote 'hHl
ehe was totally uuoppossd 10 the use ~
This name in connection Win inc h""''
r'nation and the selection or 'nS''".
= lion OF delegates III his interest direyi-'
In, mr. ,nuo,.l. Nj lIitChcock also
sdenie.l tina, h, knew ot any Organizes
! .Nor; in favor 81 MIR. UuEhcs.
: Mr.. Slemp enclosed in his commun!-
s''c..ion To Justice hughes a letter pur'
=. nor,inc 10 have nceu written 10 an un-
named friend hy : Brown Allen, form
or postmaster Al stanton. Alicn wrote
TINT Mr. Hitchcock had advised MN l"
confer with Il f. Cahcll former com
missioner of internal revenue at Rich-
nond ana that Cabell laid before him
a ran. under whIrh II was arranged
that Mi Hitchcock was TO he placed
a, tho mead Of a hughes campaign.
d. with the urdcrsts ud!ue that Roosevelt
: should not nc antar onizcd. "hccaUsc y
!. surely Will hc hughes OF Roosevelt
and under the arrangement Hitchcock
: of course. will bc postmaster genera
and the rremier ~ tn" next admins
tration"
Mr. Cahcil denied tho statement con
tanned in the Aleu- letter Mir Alien
said nc had written only one letter
hearing on the presidential campaign,
and that Was "a confidential cumn.Un.-
cation to q nddaic IN Highland CoUn-
~. He admitted. huwc,cr. that lac
had been working ina his section GOV
Hughes delegates
ROBERT u. >>nEiI. 10
orrnsE GARTER GLASS
: sy-Robert II .Nn=,ll a n.uIrl msrchau,
/ OF THIS cts. was. unanimously uonu-
!. mated by rhr. -! ''~ur,, Eeplbn-
1 cans Tonight to- oppose GARTER class
! for Congress next fall
= r. :. rcdico or Flotd touniy aud
: {. w. surface OF Montgomery Count, .
:. were elected delegates TO the national