Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1916-05-25
Hope to Put New Yorker Across
Before Sentiment For Hughes
CrystaIIizes, or T. R.
Stampedes EN-.
MAY HAVE TO COMPROMISE
Cummins Forces Hope to Be
Able to Profit BY Deadlock
Situation Clear as Mud
as Convention Nears.

Washington. d. c., May 22.-Evi-
dence is accommodating that the old
guard leaders are planning to rush the
voting in the Chicago convention. They
want to put Root across on the second
or third ballot if they can. If they
fail in that they will be in a position
to compromise.
The idea of the old guard leaders is
to head off Hughes and prevent a
to be concentrating all of their efforts
on Root, hoping to put him across be-
fore sentiment for any other candidate
c~rystalizes.
The statement issued yesterday by
Frederick w. Upham in Chicago, upon
his return from New York, is regarded
as prophetic. The Root forces are
claiming that the east is for their can
didate. Root is said to be the first
CHOICE of the monied interests. The
New York World say thai Root has
an enormous campaign fund.
Seek to Make Impression.
If it is r that Root can command
the old guard may be able to put it
over. They do not claim the solid east,
however, but would have it indicated
that the preponderenee of sentiment is
for Root. hat will look impressive in
the south. The southern delegates are
SAAt NtiAiliS W Ssl dDoilu lIle pdllQ
wagon. Although Frank H. Hitchcock
has been all through the south prom
lslng the republicans their Did jobs
pack in the name of Hughes, the south
erners will not stand hitched to Hughes
if it is apparent that Root is the
stronger.
The old guard leaders hope to head
off Hughes in the early voting. 1t is
necessary for them to nominate Root
without delay, because Hughes is the
second choice of a lot of their dele
gates. Should the Hughes move loom
formidable in the early balloting there
might be a break in the and picked
delegations.
But, Then, There's Teddy.
But all this is contingent upon what
Roosevelt is willing to do or not willing
to do. Would Roosevelt support Roo
II ne were nominated? Political dopes-
tiers are unable to get much s~atisfac-
ton on that point from the events that
.transpired at and have t~ranspired since
the famous Observation-Disclosures
Bacon Inner. Some say he would ac-
cept Root; others say he would not.
The same thing applies to Hughes.
If it is apparent that Root cannot be
nominated n Roosevelt cannot be
nominated, would the colonel accept
Hughes? Nobody but the colonel
knows, apparently, and he is saying
absolutely nothing.
Apparently the old guard are pro-
ceeding on the theory that Roosevelt
cannot be nominated unless they say
so. They have c%anvassed and recan-
vassed their han picked delegations
until they are convinced in their own
minds that they are stampede proof.
They wan to keep Roosevelt's friend
ship but they want to beat him.
Backfiring Mr.. Hughes.
The back fire started against Hughes
because he had an intaryiouy NHorIo,y
with ex-President Taft, who was rep
resented as being an emissary of the
reactionaries. is said by Taft's friends
to be an adroit move to make it appear
that Hughes should be eliminated be-
cause he is in league with the in
fluences Taft commonly is ppos to
represent. That might work both
ways, it is pointed out, and could Just
as well be an old guard move to elm
mate Hughes, who is something of an
unknown quantity for Root who is a
known quantity.
If Root cannot be nominated without
the support of the Observation-Disclosures
factions, and if Roosevelt cannot be
nominated without the support of the
Root-Hughes factions, and if Hughes
cannot be agreed upon al a COM
candidate, all factions will be
compelled to turn to some other can
didate. 1t is this contingency that the
forces are waiting for and
expecting to develop.
Objections to Hughes.
Here are the objections which will
be offered to the nomination of Asso-
clate Justice Hughes when the nation
al republican convention at
Chicago:
l. Tha his nomination would tend
TO drag the supreme court into poll
tics. '
2. That southern delegates cannot x-
pect c~onsiderate treatment in the mat
ter of patronage.
). That Mr.. Hughes would have no
himself and must rely upon TIE
made by the republican party.
4. That the republican party, having
divided upon the important questions
winch have arisen during the Wilson
administration, some of it's representa-
yves in the senate and House support
ing the president. a candidate of the
party, such as Mr.. Hughes would lack
issues.
Old Guard Can't See Him.
1t is commended by those opposed to
MI. Hughes that he will not be nearly
the strong candidate which he IS
claimed to be by his hackers, particu-
larly among the old guard"
They say-and the fact is known in
Washlngton-that the democrats will
make a great deal of capital out of his
from the bench in order
70 run for the presidential office, par
should he receive the nom
NATION. by a majority vote, which is all
that is looked for on the ominatfn
named