Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-02-19
Massachusetts, Methods to Be
Followed in Every State mi
the Union Except Where Fa-
vorite Sons Are in Race,
WE WANT TEDDY is
THE ENTIRE PLATFORM
Candidates for Delegates in
Various States Must Show
How They Stand in Regard
to Naming Colonel,

ESPECIAL coRREsPonoeNce TO MORNING JOURNAL
Washington. Feb. 1S.---It is shown
by the maneuvers of Congressman A..
p Gardner of Massachusetts and
others here that the Massachusetts
plan Of forcing the nomination Of
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt in the
republican national convention is to
be follwed in every ther state where
the primary laws do not make it inn
possible. The plan is simple but eff
fective Men are to announce them
selves as candidates for election as
delegates on the same kind Of a plat
form as that ON which the Massachu-
sets men declared themselves.
I'VE want Roosevelt is all that
platform consists Of and it is antici-
patcd that in each case where a cam
didate for delegate gives out that
platform he will drive from cover all
opposition that is trying to elect
dark horse delegation. Gardner and
his colleagues in Washington are very
active They are going about among
members of congress from the vari-
Gus states seeking TO induce them to
get candidates for delegates into the
fields
Active in PENNSYLVANIA
Already they have men pledged 10
announce themselves in more than
twenty districts DIN Pennsylvania.
Several districts in Illinois also haee
been reached. The propaganda is to
be carried on with all possible speed
50 that the work will he as Tar adj
vanced as possible by the time the
colonel gets wind of what is going On.
1t is intended to have it so far along
that nothing he can do will stop it.
In the favorte son states no candi-
date for delegate will be nominated
IN districts where the favorite son
candidate for delegate pledges him
self publicly TO vote for Roosevelt ar
ter the favorite son has had his run
IN the national convention and dem
onstrated his inability to get the nom
nation. But where the favorite son
delegates will not so pledge them
selves they will have TO beat a pro-
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the convention.
70 "Smoke Them Out"
The charge will be made AGAINST
delegates who decline to pledge them
selves that they are not sincerely for
the favorite son of the state, but in
reality are for some man whom they
dare not acknowledge. This method
is expected to Smoke out the dark
horse delegates. The prospect is not
agreeable to those who set up the
iavorite son movement.
1T is clear. said one of these who
placed Senator John w weeks of
Massachusetts in the race, that under
the most favorable circumstances no
estimate can be made of the strength
of either President Wilson or the chief
man suggested as his opponent
United Party Necessary.
But it is evident that whoever the
opposing nominee is he must com
mand all the friends that can be
scraped together In other words, he
must be nominated by convention
"HtNli thttildiHS the SpiNihIl anu w
lherate belief that he is the strongest
man to lead the anti-Wilson forces. !
Admitting what probably is the truth,
that this man is either Colonel Roose-
Welt, or Justice C. e. Hughes, the
proposition must be stated with its
eorollary that he must open his cam
paign with the sincere good will Of
all the ant-democratic factions be-
mind him. Colonel Roosevelt recog- !
nizes this fact if some Of his boom !
ers do not"
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