The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-10
Gets 326 While Highest Com
petitor Falls Under Hun
bred Votes
7. S NAME NOT ONE
TO CONJURE WITH
aft Gets IA Votes From Tex.
as - Favorite Sons Well
Bunched But Show No Signs
of Gaining Strength
BY JAMES j. MONTAGUE.

Hughes was far In the lead in the
race for Abe Republican nominu-
ton at the end OF tho second bal
lot, which closed the convention
tonight. He had 32S 1-2 votes. u
gain Of rs over the number he
received on the first ballot. Root
was second with 9S 1-2; Roosevelt
gained IS; Hughes still lacks 1875
f-2 votes OF the number required
to give him the nomina ton.
These, his supporters insist, Inc
will receive when the hattie is re-
summed tomorrow morning.
The vote on the adjournment was
694 Ia to 286 1-2.
A roll call was demanded by Charles
w. Fulton, chairman of the Oregon
delegation, who wanted third ballot
In the belief that Hughes nomination
might be put over. But the managers
of the convention wanted faith kept
with the Progressives and even the
Hughes men made no serious opposi-
ton to an adjournment.
Meanwhile the conference commit
tee from the Progressive and Repub-
lican conventions has again gone into
session, in an endeavor to agree upon
a candidate Up to midnight this ef-
fort had been as fruitless as that of
the night before. The Progressives
Roosevelt all day long
Whether they can be restrained to-
morrow or not even their leaders will
not say
Not Hughes Full Strength.
The Hughes vote on the first and
second ballot tonight was not the full
strength OF the Hughes candidacy.
This was deliberately withheld because
OF fear on the part of the Hughes
people that it might endanger tho
nomination OF Hughes. which would
be regarded as bad faith by the Pro-
gressives The Republicans. and es-
pecially the supporters of Hughes
among them, want no break with tho
Progressives II ii can be possibly
avoided.
At the end of the second ballot the
Hughes people tried to force a third
ballot. but were overruled by the ma
tority and an adjournment was taken
until IL o'clock tomorrow
The balloting began at 1928, after
an uninterrupted session of nine hours
and twenty-eight minutes OF speech
making. Hughes lead was manifested
almost Immediately. He received
263 1-2 votes on the first ballot, John
W. Weeks, of Massa chusetts. being his
next competitor. with los, and Ellhu
Root following. with 100. Roosevelt
received only SIS. The remaining nal-
lots were scattered among favori.o
sons.
On the second ballot Hughes began
to gain slowly but surely. ALBANIA.
the first State called. gave him a gain
of one. Following came California,
contributing two more Georgia. one;
Louisiana, two: Maine, two: Massa-
chusetts, which. after a poll, gave
eight additional Hughes votes. taken
from Weeks; Maine. two; Missouri.
four! Nevada. four; Idaho. four: New
Jersey. four; New York. which had
stood on the first ballot Root, forty
three: Hughes. forty-two; Roosevelt.
two, swung around on the second to
Hughes, forty-three; Root. forty-two:
Roosevelt, two. The big swing was in
Michigan. where the justice got twen-
ty-eight new votes. all taken from
Henry Ford, who got the solid dele
CATION of thirty votes on the first ba'-
lot. Roosevelt got the two other
votes on the second ballot.
Wheel Into Line.
other States wheeled into line, but
grudgingly, and with little enthusiasm.
When Pennsylvania was called upon,
Boise Penrose asked that the delegA-
ton be polled. When the poll was
taken Governor Brumbaugh, who re-
ceived half the vote on the first ballot.
climbed up on his chair and shouted
that he wanted to release his support
ers to a man who could fill the needs
OF the hour and be respected at home
and abroad-namely Theodore Roose-
welt. The Brumbaugh delegates shift
ed at the Governors request, with the
result that Roosevelt got twenty-five
votes, gain of sixteen.
The voting was characterized
throughout bv crafty and careful
politics. which made any hope OF .
stampede wholly out OF the question.
Tafts Gets Fourteen.
Delegations were scatttS ed widely.
Texas, on the first ballot cast fourteen
Of her votes for william H. Taft. and
the former President got more real
cheering than any one who injured In
the balloting
Indiana. Iowa and Illinois chung
stubbornly to their favosite sons on
both ballots voting their solld d4ieGa-
tons for Fairbanks CaWM1na md
Sherman. respectively. Al 49, tAree
men are held to ~ p0al6n A tlla
event that the nosninaAt ~
can b. stopped. The do1eon4 q
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