New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-03-23
Roosevelt Has Friends, but
Republicans Think JUS
tiCe Stronger.
STATE CONVENTION
DRAWS BIG THRONG
Portland damned by Workers
for Candidates for Senator
and Governor.
By HOWARD D. HADLEY.
III rs-.rraph . IL T1lua.I

IOFLlAHAf +AN-s -4eAA ga %+s rht'J
York State Republican who signs FOR
the well remembered times at Saratoga
the night before the opening Of an old
time Empire STATE Republican conten-
ton would shout from pure JOY OF llv-
ing if he were here in Portland TO-
night. for a recorl-breakng crowd Of
militant Maine Republicans is making
the wclkin ring.
Bands of music are vending ine.+
way sturdily through streets two feet
deep with snow and slush; banners ana
buttons are everywhere; the Falmouth
Hotel, where all the candidates have
their headquarters. is jammed TO the
roof with a pushing, enthusiastic
cheering throng; every other hotel is
full to running over; men are sleeping
on cots in the halls and psrlors; scores
of private houses have been thto"n
open TO help shelter the crowds whica
are constantly arriving and still they
come.
There are, roughly speaking about
10000 Republicans in Maine al told
and IL is no exaggeration 20 say that
something like one out of every eight
Of them are here in Portland tonight.
Ostensibly they are here to nominate
six candidates for Presidential electors
and four delcgates-at-large and four
al.cnatcs TO the national convention
az Chicago. to elect q state committee
and 10 frame a platform. In addi-
ton. they are lining mp 10 nominate
candidate TO succeed Charles +. john
son. Democrat, in the United States
Senate. and a candidate for Governor
who win succeed Oakley c. Curtis. the
present Democratic incumbent. There
iro three active candidates for Senator
and fve equally busy candidates for
Governor. all with headquarters, press
agents and Heutc-ants, and all the
r.ra0hcrHa.ia.
looks as If Maine were laying plans
10 t4rr out an o,dtimc Republican ma
-ortv at the election on Che second
Monday o. next September.
Two Flies in the Ointment.
There enc only two flies in the Repub-
'icau ointment tonight Announce
meut was made in the evening papers
'lat the Progress state convention
would be held in Bangor on April ., at
which "NIc' Murdoch. chairman Of the
Progressive National Committee. would
speak and 10 is impossible to forget
chat even as late as 1914 the Bull
Uoosers cast 1900 votes i'm the Pine
frrf a
them stil have on their war paint.
That's fy 40. :.
Then this afternoon, about o'clock,
Mayor MILFORD C.. Chapman, Repub-
lican. ordered Chief Of Police Dan"
Bowen, Democrat, 90 close every bar IN
town until after the convention was
over and gone and they are closed. or
course. 10 ig p prohibition state and
this is a "dry" town. but the fact re-
mains that where only a few short
hours ago there were m.rth, hilarity
and the optimistic view or the future
which can only De inspired in one way
in some Maine folk there are now sad
ness, gloom and the tendency 10 view
with alarm which only such a dryness
can produce boz some down East hearts.
This is fly SO. .. But this year such
Announcements as these seem power
less 60 damDcn Tho oEthu asn of the
Republican cohorts
Maine EoQuh rrau7 arc for Hughes
FOR President. and they don't care much
vino kn0va II. 10 ls likely they would
instruct for him lf they were not AFRAID
tlat 10 might do more harm than good
TO 90 instruct. There is lot of R0O= c-
welt sentiment. too. but the Maine Re
publicars believe that the nomination
or Hughes would be more likely TO
unite The parties all over the country
and insure victory.
There is practically no mention of
Weeks. "Thc Kcuncbcc Journal pub
lIsned 40 Bangor, ard owned by Sen
ator Edwin G.. Burlcign. started mildly
20 boost Ncctss stoca some time ago.
Senator's Weeks and Burleigh being
good friends u tho Senate al Washing
ton. but IL aroused so much opposition
that "The Journal has been practi-
cally compelled 10 cease its efforts IN
that direction.
Out for Hughes.
The Lewiston Journal owned By
J. J.. Dineicy. brother Of the late
Rcproscntatiso Nelson Diugley, author
Of the Dinclcy tariff, which was thc
only Progfc I've daily paper in Maine
four years and two years ago, is out Ton
Hughes FOR President. DInCley does
rot approve Of Eooscycit's IDEAS on
r~paredncss. ,,
Fred y. Dow, Of this city who will
head the Republican delegation from
Maine 20 the Chicago convention IS red
not Tor ,Hughcs, first last and all the
Harold ". cewall. the Bath sbipbuild-
or eo, OF Arthur y. ccwall who was
tho candidate for Eicc-PTcs dent on the
T.,,oor.ttc tfcLof Nth Eryau Iu 1896,