The Washington times., 1916-03-02
Activities win Reach Climax
This Month When Delegates
Are Selected.
TONS OF LITERATURE OUT
Numerous Rallies Held and
Many Spirited Pronounce
ments Are Made.


tion on June will be selected.
Numerous rallies have been hold ir
halls. churches. and other meeting
places and many spirited speeches. elo'
quent pronouncemcnt of principles and
enunciation Of policies have been heard
Several tons of literature in advocacy
Of the aspiring candidates havo been
circulated through the mail and BY
hand.
The Republicans in tho District are
anxious to muster as many votes as
possible at the polls in March 30 as tc
make the delegates selected truly rep
resentative of the National Capital. II
10 predicted that at leost 1000 -votef
will be cast in tho primary.
To Fix Date This Week.
The primary date will be fixed at q
meeting this week. The election board
Of the District In composed OF Charles
Linkens, Charles II. Bauman. and Jesse
II. Foster.
They expect to hear from Chairman
Hilless through Chaplin Brown. the Dis.
trict member of the Republican nationa
committee. this week. and will ther
% fs sa iSs Of dthy &. primary fGT the s Rs%ss 81 %a;
by the election board.
There are three tickets in the field
They are as follows:
For deIsgetea,,Frank J. Hogan. DR..
For alternate-Julius I. Peyser
George w. Robinson.
For delegate-Robert /. Miller.
For delegate-Aaron Bradshaw, DR..
Charles II. Marshall.
For alternate-Angus Farley, Meian-
del King.
The slogan Of two OF these tickets is
Anybody to, beat Wilson," while the
HossIt,f sIosan Of the other is Anyone to beat
The Bradshaw-Marshail ticket IN
against Roosevelt. The men on the
other two ticketE are "for the best
man. regardless of whom ne may be-"
For a United Party.
Attorney Hogan. who was a Progress
sive party national committeeman until
January Is. when he sent his resigna-
tlon to George w. Perkins. says his
ticket stands for a united Republican
party. y
Sfn' fomes BSi i MSSose MSs ' has Sa.sG Is fai rs
running mate a man who worked ear
nestly for and supported Taft in 1917,
while his alternate. Julius Peyser. an
ardent Taft advocate four years ago,
another erstShiie Hull Mcoser.
III our ticket Is elected. and we con-
fidently etI ect 1t to be by a large ma
.ority, We will 60 to Chicago Hnpledged.
uninstructed, and unbound" said Mr..
by unpledged we mean that We are
not pledged directly or indirectly for
any Presidential candidate, BY unin-
structed. / mean we will go without in
structions. and will use our best juds-
ment in the selection Of the candidate
~ the marty aa rAnraaantatiVAa ~ tha
District. BY unbound. we mean we
are neither directly nor indirectly
bound by any campaign financial as
sistance from representatives of any of
the candidates.
For District Suffrage.
Our platform IL for District suffrage,
a united Republican party. prepared
ness by increasing the army and navy.
industrial preparedness by a Republican
protective tariff and clean primaries"
Speaking OF the necessity for unity
among Republicans. Mr.. Hogan said:
Common sense nationally exercised
must convince every intelligent citizen
that the Republican party can not sue
year unless there is real unity of and
harmony among the 1912 factions. II
ought to be the aim OF every American
deslrouB Of helping. no matter how lit
ent Democratic Administration, to aid
in bringing about that unity and har-
Ynony. so that those who supported Mr..
Taft In 1912 and those who followed the
leadership OF Colonel Roosevelt then
may Join In electng this year, under the
banner Of the Republican party. a
mutually acceptable candidate upon a
mutually acceptable platform. To help
bring about this contamination is my
"if elected n delegate IN tha Henub-
lican convention, shall go to Chicago
entirely unpledged and uninstructed.
My fellow-delegates and myself have
agreed that, after conference and con-
endeavor to cast the votes of the Dis
trict of Columbia delegation for that
candidate whose nomination by the con-
'vention in June and election by the peo-
pie In November seems most assured.
eliminating the Prohibition and So
cialist votes. there were 1888, ,4S2 votes
cast in 1914 OF these, 6,29S,Ol9 were
Democratic and 1904. .463 were Repub-
S,lS4,9O6 and Mr.. Roosevelt 4.ll9,5J7. With
those iigures before him, will any sane
Republican-anyone not obsessed by a
political suicidal mania-take a position
OF unafterable opposition to anyone this
year on the ground that he was either
for Mr.. Taft or for Mr.. Roosevelt four
years agof
"A National Disease"
THE split in our ranks elected
Woodrow Wilson President. His Al
ministration Is a national disease. 1t
would serve no good purpose now to
discuss who caused the split; such a
discussion would arouse the unfortu-
nate bitterness OF the last campaign;
but II behooves us all to do every
thing In our power to prevent any
sort of a split this year What was
a mistake In 1912 would be a crime
In 1915. We need the four million and
odd votes cast for Mr.. Roosevelt, Just
a. much as we need the three million
end odd votes cast for Mr.. Taft. We
Reed the votes cast for Mr.. Taft in
t9i2 Just as much as we need the
votes cast for Mr.. Roosevelt then.
Are We going TO say that we need and
want at the polls In November the
men who supported Mr.. Roosevelt,
but win have none OF their sort in
the convention?
II shall go 10 the convention as an
unplOdRed delegate, and vote for the