The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-09-08
ROOSEVELT GETS HAND IN RUNNING
 6. .0..P. CAMPAIGN
Called En to Undo Mistakes of Hughes In His Tour
 of West.

New York. Sept. 8.-Colonel Roose- welt was called upon yesterday to put more life into the Republican national campaign and he consented to do it. Members of the Republican national committee who are not satisfied with the progress of the campaign, have agreed that something exceptional will have to be done to offset mistakes which they say have characterized it Since Cherles E. Hughes started on his Western trip.
 MT. Roosevelt will not only make many more speeches than he original ly intended, but he will have a larger voice in the conduct of campaign af- fairs. This much was decided upon yesterday at a conference at Oyster Bay, in which the colonel, George w! Perkins, and Frank H. Hitchcock par ticipated. MT. Hitchcock would not discuss what had taken place at the conference, but it was learned from other sources that the colonel express ed himself as not being at all satis- fled with the way things have been moving lately and that he volunteered to do everything in his power to speed up matters.
 There will be another conference at Oyster Bay today, and a series of nov ing pictures will be made of Colonel Roosevelt in consultation with National Chairman William R. Wilcox, George W. Perkins, Everett Colby, Herbert Parsons, Raymond Robins, Henry D. Estabrook and Frank H. Hitchcock. Newspaper mem have been invited to be in the picture, and a trainload of politicians and reporters left the Pennsylvania station this morning at g o'clock The films will be shown all over the country as evidence that Roosevelt is working hard for Hughes.
 The colonel is already scheduled to make at least six speeches in New York state, Illinois and Indiana, but he has consented 70 do much more and before election it is probable that he will be speaking not only in all the doubtful statea but in the states that the committee feels it is absolutely es- sential that Hughes and Fairbanks carry in order win the election. New York state is we'll to the front in this list, and it is likely that the colonel will be called upon to speak several times in New York city and the important cities upstate.
 Colonel Roosevelt has been asked especially to go into the states where he is popular and do all he can for the Republican ticket. Until the lew iston speech, the Republicans were worried over the Progressive situa ton in several parts of the country but the speech went so we'll with the Pro q roy-y believe the Progressives will flock to him in other states as well if he will show himself on the stump.
 "The Colonel is sorely needed 10 give the big punch to the campaign" said a member of the campaign com mittee yesterday, ~and he has con- sented to take off his coat and supply the ginger which is lacking in Candi- date Hughes's speeches. Roosevelt is specially popular in the Middle West and he will be put into the states where there has been a tendency among Prpgreesiwes ito be lukewarm or to vote for Wilson. Right after the primaries, when the local fights ara out of the way, the Colonel will be called upon to bolster up the cam paign wherever it shows a tendency to sag There has been a tremendous appeal for the Colonel since his Lew iston speech and he has decided to listen to 1t and get out and do the same thing elsewhere" t3 The Republicans are closely watch ing the Maine situation for the effect 1t will have upon the rest of the coun- try. A test of the Roosevelt strength among Progressives will be furnished at the election next Monday, and if it should be shown that the Bull Moose have turned to the Republican party in large numbers. full credit will be given to the Colonel for the result. In talking over the situation with MT. Hitchcock yesterday it is under stood that the Colonel insisted that a. larger voice in the conduct of the campaign be given him. It was ex- plained that he has no intention of suppIanting any of the present man. agers and that he refrained from any open criticism of what has been done, but it was said that he wanted to be consulted more frequently.