Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1916-06-16
HUGHES BUSY WITH
CAMPAIGN PLANS
PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE OF RE.
PUBLICANS CONFERS WITH
HIS PARTY LEADERS.

Charles Evan Hughes, Republican
nominee for president, who resigned
from the United States supreme court
last Saturday afternoon after hear.
ing of his nomination at Chicago,
plunged right into plans for his cam
paign and has been holding a series
Of conferences with party leaders in
New York City this week. AS a re-
suit, the man who will succeed
Charles D. Hlles as chairman of the
Republican national committee will
probably be chosen at a conference
set for next Monday.
No statements have been issued by
the presidential candidate since his
telegram accepting the nomination,
except to aver his stand for "undi-
luted Americanism." The date for
the occasion of his formal notification
of the nomination and his formal
speech of acceptance, has not been
fixed, being delayed pending the ac-
tion of the Progressive national COM
mittee, which is scheduled to meet
June 25.
PICKUP
Nomination PerfunctOry.
Probably never in the history Of
party government has the naming Of
a candidate been so perfunctory as
was the nomination of Mr.. Justice
Hughes last Saturday afternoon.
Solemnly and with an air of resig-
nation the Republican national con-
vention nominated Supreme Court
Justice Charles e. Hughes for presi-
dent, and Charles Warren Fairbanks
OF Indiana for vice president. Hughes
received 949h votes out of the 985
in the convention on the first ballot
Of the day and the third Of the ses-
sions. Roosevelt's compromise can
didatA Senator Lodge Of Massachu-
sets, got seven votes.
The taking of the ballot and the
slow swinging of one state after an
other into the Hughes column was
applauded with the same enthusiasm
that marks the applauding Of
plugged" vaudeville actor by q
clique in the foyer hired for that pur
pose.
A Solemn Parade.
When the ballot was taken and the
result was made known. some Of the
Hughes delegates arose and paraded
with deep solemnity about the hall.
But though flags were swung and the
band played, there were ripples Of
shouts only here and there and at
times the silence was broken only by
the shuffling of feet and the buxzing
Of conversation.
Frank Hitchcock, who has supplied
most of the craft of the campaign for
Hughes. moved about among the del
egations with sepulchral ofliciousness.
as one who should say:
"Those who wish to view the re-
mains will please pass to the right.
Crane Winks Once or Twice.
Murray Crane of sachusetts
whose shrewd brain discovered that
Hughes alone was strong enough to
prevent the nomination of Roosevelt,
looked straight ahead of him and
said nothing. But once or twice he
vinked.
Governor Whitman Of New York,
the only militant Hughes man on the
floor. shot out his jaw in the particu-
lar manner he employs to denote tri-
umph. He did not smile. Smoot.
long and angular. looked from the
platform to Penrose. whose gigantic
form lowered over the heads Of his
charges in the Pennsylvania delega-
tion. Penrose looked back at Smoot.
Neither Of them looked a. II they
were especially pleased with the work
Of the day.
The Oregon delegates. refreshed
by the rain, which IL their native ele-
ment. stood on their chairs for .
while and tried to yell. But when
they heard the echoes Of their own
voices reverberate from the circling
rafters they subsided. And soon the
sadness of the occasion infected all
present and the sounds died away
into a dismal sizzle.
Resigns and Accepts Promptly.
Within the hour after he had re-
ceived the telegram telling him of his
nomination. Hughes had sent his res
ignation from the supreme court to
President Wilson and had issued
lengthy statement accepting the nom
ination. Within almost as short a
time Roosevelt had telegraphed his
conditional refusal of the Progress