The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-19
HUGHES AVOIDS PARTY QUARREL
 ON COAST TRIP
Despite Pleas of Moosers Says Nothing About End
 ing Differences.
in every way

welcomed Candidate Hughes yester- day with cheers, music, parades and a disturbing row between the regular Republicans and the Progressives.
 On his arrival in the city he was greeted by 5000 persons at the ferry and was met by a joint comittee of the two warning factions, each trying to put their respective brands on him. He addressed 1000 women fellow citizens in the palm room of the Palace Hotel and spoke last night to an audience of 10000 in the Exposi- tion Auditorium.
 Tn this speech he touched on pre- paredness, but said nothing that might have been interpreted as relating to Japan or in fact to any local condi- tions in California He repeated much United States in upholding the na- tional honor and in criticism of the administration for it's alleged trans gressions and shortcomings in Mexico. He urged the recognition of the Fili- pinos as soon as they had proved themselves capable of self-govern- ment.
 Didn't Touch on Row.
 But the one subject in which Cali fornia politicians of all parties are most interested was ignored by the candidate. Not 8 word did he say in any of his addresses about the Pro- gressive party, the survivors of which control the state government are whetting their small arms for another battle with the regulars. He adroit- Ixv ,Y,l lr- -c<n oil oft ,fc nf C .Moosers to cry a warming to the tri- umphant regulars who took him un- der their wings and crowded the Pro- gressives off into the back sidelines.
 The Progressives made no attempt to conceal their disappointment over the refusal of the candidate they ac- cepted as a substitute for the man they wanted Haunted by regulars whose Presidential candidate boiled but 3,914 votes as against Roosevelt's 283,610 four years ago, the Progress i've leaders who talked with Hughes on the train this morning and later in this city urged him to say some thing in his speeches while in the state indicating his, desire for har- mony between the two factions.
 Asked to Restore Peace.
 They Automatically served notice on him that the Progressives held the balance of power in the state. az there are 300,000 adlrerents of the party who will follow Gov. Johnson anywhere; that a great army of these Progressives are showing a tendency to 20 over solidly to the Democratic camp, and, that they looked to him as the spokesman and leader of the whole Republican party to compel proper recognition of their claims.
 He was further informed that the labor vote in the Pacific Coast states was almost solid for the President, and was counselled to assume more pronounced stand in advocacy of peace to offset the influence of the Democratic policy in this respect.
 Hughes listened to these statements but evaded all attempts to involve him in the local squatble. He told Chester Rowell, the Progressive leader, that he hoped there would be harmony fin the whole party" but that he could not depart from his established rule of refraining from "meddling in state fights.''
 Captained by National Committee man Crocker and State Chairman Kessling, the regulars almost entirely monopolized the Presidential candi- date.
 Johnson Among the Absent.
 They relented toward the traitors as they describe the Johnson men to the extent of putting Rowell. former 'Congressman Nolan and a few Pro- gressives of the hand picked" va riety on the reception committee 50 that there was semb1ance of har- mony.
 Governor Johnson, the boss Pro- sressive, who did not want Hughes indorsed by the Progressive National committee after Roosevelt declined to accept the nomination, was the most conspicuous absentee during the events that marked the coming of the candidate. He was in the southern part of the state campaigning for the Republican and Progressive nomina- tions for the United States Senate, for which office the straight goods Re- publicans have nominated Elmer Booth, one of their leaders.
 Johnson is fighting for both nomi- nations. If he gets them the Pro- gressives will sheath their knives. If he dosen't he intends to run on the Progressive ticket and take up the cudgels laid aside a few weeks ago.
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