The Washington herald., 1916-06-06
JURIST STILL In LEAD
Commands Greatest Number
Of Votes But Hasn't Enough
for Nomination.
LODGE NOT TO BACK HUGHES
Massachusetts, Senator May Give Sup
port to RooseveIt-Favorite Sons
Are Eliminated.
BY JAMES ]. MONTAGUE,


Chicago, June 5.-The outstanding facts
in today's skirmish for the advantage at
the start of the Republican Presidential
race were these:
There are more votes for Hughes than
for any other candidate. but not enough
to nominate the justice
In an effort to recruit suficient dele.
gates to win. the Hughes men got to-
gether and effected a loose organization
today
They will meet again tomorrow, pass
out badges and begin to buttonhole dele
gates
They have given up all disposition to
row among themselves. Frank Hitchcock
and Gov. Whitman, Of New York, made
pleas for harmony. Whitman spoke
about 1000 words, Hitchcock about Is.
So much for the Hughes hopes. Now
for the other side Of the case.
Senator Borah. OF Idaho. who had been
counted on TO come to the conference and
take the leadership. came TO Chicago. but
not to the conference.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, Of Mas..
chusetts, confidently counted on 10 SUD.
port Hughes after Weeks shall be elini-
mated, deposited a fly in the Hughes
ointment by declaring that he is against
Hughes.
May BE for Colonel
The Hughes people think that this
means he is for Roosevelt
They even see in Lodges change of
champions a dark plot on the part Of
the Colonel to block the Hughes candi-
dacy. This they would not put past
either Lodge or the Colonel
Meanwhile the favorite sons have been
eliminated. Fairbanks the strongest Of
them, will, It is known, be serenely con-
tented with the Vice Presidency. His
friends says that Fairbanks was born
for this ofice-that no man in the
universe is so perfectly qualified to fill
It.
Cummins, Of Iowa, with many dele
gates, has been used merely to mask the
purposes of the State leaders. He is
out of it.
Burton has failed to rouse any en-
thudasm.
Weeks will disappear after the first
ballot. bar miracle
In the event of the failure OF Hughes
to receive the nomination, there is grow
ing possibility that Warren G. Harding,
of Ohio, may be selected Harding is
highly regarded by all factions His ad-
herents believe that he will be the
strongest man before the country. He
will be temporary chairman, and in the
sounding of the keynote he will have an
opportunity to impress his personality
upon the delegates.
ProGressfves Restive.
The Progressives continue restive Talk
Of a third ticket wakes louder. Today
they refused absolutely to appoint any
committee to confer with the Republi-
cans. Only stern restraint on the part
of their leaders keeps them from nomi-
mating Roosevelt and fastening home
This attitude the Old Guard leaders
regard as a bluff. Nevertheless there is
a real fear of a third ticket, and this fear
will continue Roosevelt as a possibility
right up to the hour of the balloting.
Thus far the full effort of the Roose-
welt people has been to put Hughes out
of the running.
The Hughes people got together at the
request of former Senator Charles v.
Fulton, chairman Of the Oregon delega-
ton.
The States represented were New York,
Maryland, Vermont Washington. Georgia,
Kentucky, Missouri and Alabama, eight
in ALL
Extraordinary efforts had been made by
all the leaders to be able to electrify the
meeting by some clarion call from JUS
tice Hughes, but these efforts met with
great unsuccess.
Sinn Eein Wnuen Set Erea