Omaha daily bee., 1916-06-09
Prospect of An Agreement
Between Conventions Upon
Same Candidate IN Slight
BY VICTOR RosEWATER.

Chicago, June 6.-tSpecial Tele-
kram 1.-The decks are now cleared
#for the main action OF president
choosing,
u Today's meetings Of the republican
national convention may be charac-
terized strictly business sessions, and
by buckling down and aboiding side
diversions, the prcliminarics 10 nomi-
nation have been accomplished in a
dignihed manner without unsecmly
haste or deviation from the usual
regular order
The one thing Of big significance, Of
course, is the appointment upon inyi-
taton Of The Bull Moose convention
Of a'spccial committee OH conference
10 act with like committee with a
view Of blazing a way 10 get togeth-
err" While have some hope that the
desired object may be attained, ! must
confess that at this moment Of writ
ing which is just after adjournment
10 the morrow, am not over san
guinc for realize the tremendous OBJ.
stacles in the way Of complete and
cordial cooperation between the two
conventions
Moose Unanimous.
Ii goes without saying that the
Bull Moose delegates arc almost
unanimous for the nomination for
Roosevelt, in fact ! am informed that
Il was hard driving TO induce them TO
initiate the conference proposition be-
fore making their own nomination.
II goes also without saying that the
committee conference named by the
Bull Moose will hold tenaeiously for
the Colonel. On the other side il
seems equally abvious that the noml-
nation OF Roosevelt by the republi-
can convention is next to impossible
and that il left TO itself II will name
Hughes on a second or third ballot.
The temper OF many Of the rcpub-
liean delegates this morning was that
of being ancttled" by the threats and
ultimatum talk on the part Of the Bull
Moose and a growing disposition 10
"shy Of" but wholly free from bad
ltuinor as attcsted by the few dis
scnts 10 the motion TO accede TO the
conference request.
Yet il should be understood too
that the committee appointed to rep
resent the republican convention IS
hardly a Hughes committee. On the
face OF IT, II ID made up prepondcrent-
ly Of men who have been intimately
associated together in the senate.
THAT committee, II u could nave
its own way, would be for Root, de-
clared well known man who knows
the ins-and-outs OF the game.
This is the final effort" he added,
TO put through the original program
10 name Root, IL the colonel and his
followers can be brought to accept
and support him" 80
To me the probability OF prevailing
on the bull moosers TO take Root
or upon the republicans TO. take any
one acceptable TO the bull moorers,
except Hughes, seems such a long
chance that | would not be surprised
il the conference resulted in no more
than an agreement to disgree and that
the real agreement between the two
parties would have 70 be brought
about by conferences, later OF course.
Fl may be miscalculating the con-
ditions but that is the way they look
10 me for the moment, with what
knowledge have CLEANED from the
men on the inside and higher up.
| repeat that failure 20 agree on a
Joint nomination other than Hughes
means the nomination Of Hughes by
the republicans regardless OF the ac-
ton OF the convention of any other
political party
Platform Seekes High Level.
The platform certainly strikes a
high level of Amcricanism and pro-
gressiyeism and can easily give COM
mon standing room for all who ever
called themselves republicans, II is
distiely an olive branch 10 the ele-
ment that wandered away four years
ago but il is also an inspiring dec
Yration Of prinsipals to which all
republicans can subscribe and chal-
lenge 10 the Americanism OF eyry
loyal citizen.
/ might point out the importance
If the new rules which as | have said
writes into the constitution ot the
party the reorganization begun by
adjustment of delegate representation
ard makes definite the composition
aud responsibility of the party ma
ehlncry. The unanimity with which
all this was done shows the prog
less since the last convention when
so many OF the points took such sharp
controversy,