Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-06-30
TEDDY COMES OUT
FOR JUDGE HUGHES
IN LETTER TO PROGRESSIVE MA
TIoNAL COMMITTEE MAKES
CLEAR HIS MIND.
REFUSES TO BE A CANDIDATE
Colonel Finally Declines Progressive
Nomination and Calls on Loyal
Members of Party to Rally to
Support Of Republicans.

Chicago, June 27.-Theodore Roose
welt, in letter read to the progress
i've national committee in. session
here Monday, finally declined to &C
cept the presidential nomination OF
the party and strongly urged the bull
moose organization to support Chas.
E. Hughes. The colonePs letter was
read by Oscar King Davis, secretary
of the committee.
Questions Before Committee.
The meeting of the national COM
mittee was called to order by Mat
thew Hale of Massachusetts, vice
chairman, in the absence of Victor
Murdoch of Kansas, chairman of the
committee. The message from Colo
mel Roosevelt was given close at
tention by the committee.
Questions which confronted the
committee were:
Shall third party ticket be put in
the field?
Shall Hughes be substituted for
Roosevelt on the progressive ticket
or shall Hughes be indorsed?
Shall the committee refuse to in
dorse any candidate?
Shall the progressive party organi-
cation be continued?
Among those who favored the in
dorsement of Hughes were George w.
Perkins Of New York, Chester H.
Rowell of California and William
Finn of Pennsylvania.
Opposed to such Endorsement we're
John M. Parker of Louisiana, vice
presidential candidate of the party;
Matthew Hale of Massachusetts and
others.
Reports Hughes Views.
The committee decided against the
opening of the session to newspaper
men by vote of IS to Is. John M.
Parker led the fight for an open SEES
sion and George W. Perkins advocat-
ed a closed session, at least for a
time Mr.. Perkins said he had con-
fidential information for the commit
tee from Mr. Hughes outlining the
position which the republican nomi-
nee takes on various questions.
When it was voted to keep the door
shut a number of the committeeman
walked out.
At the executive session Chester H.
Powell of California, Raymond Rob-
ms of Illinois and James r. Garfield
of Ohio related to the committee the
Impressions they had formed at a
conference with Mr.. Hughes in New
York.
The committee then decided to
make the meeting an open one and
the Is members who withdrew re-
turned.
The remainder of the Roosevelt
letter was greeted with applause and
at it's conclusion William Finn of
Pennsylvania moved that Col. Roose-
velt's declination be accepted. The
motion was carried by reclamation
without an objecting voice.
| National Progressives Dead.
By vote of 80 to 6, with 9 mem.
bers declining to vote, the national
committee of the progressive party
Monday, at the end of a stormy SEES
sion, Endorsed Charles E. Hughes fol-
president, and the Bull Moose party
practically went out of existence as
national political organization.
The fight in the committee to in
dorse Hughes was led by George w
Perkins of New York, James R. Gar
field of Ohio, and Chester H. Rowel
of California.
Hughes Declares Ideals Same.
New York.-Charles 3. Hughes, re
publican nominee for president, SEN
a telegram to O. K. Davis, secretary
of the national progressive commit
tee welcoming the support of thu
progressive party and arraigning thu
present administration for its weak
ness and incertitude."
In making public the contents o
the telegram Mr.. Hughes also CAV
out letter he had written to Colone
Roosevelt, in which he declared tina
the nation was indebted to the colo
mel "for the quickening of the ma
tional spirit and for the demand TO
an out-and-out, 100 per cent Amer
canism.'
Would Meet Colonel.
The candidate told Colonel Roose
welt that he had sounded forth tn
trumpet that shall never call retrea