The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-06-13
Set Free From Party Alliances
by Roosevelt's Action Many
Will Swing Into Line
BAKER SUGGESTED AS
WILSON'S RUNNING MATE
That With Radically Progress.
sive Platform Talked of al
St. Louis Jacob Schif and
Senator Owen Busy

st. Louis Mo-. June 12.--How to
enlist to the support of Woodrow Will
son the 100000 Progressive voters
whom Mr.. Roosevelt left out on a
limb when he declined their nomina-
ton. was the sole topic of conversa-
ton of Democrats gathered for the
coming convention.
Several plans were suggested today
for roptng the mavericks whom
Roosevelt has set free from entang-
ling party alliances.
The first Is the adoption of a Flat.
form so radically progressive that
William Allen White. Victor Mu rlock,
hi" johnson. and the other Progress
sive leaders will simply have to 60
out on the stump for Wilson.
The second. which comes from ia.
cob H. Schiff In the East and Senator
Robert l. Owen from the West. Is
the nomination Of Newton d. Baker,
Secretary of War. as vice-president,
instead OF Thomas Riley Marshall,
present incumbent Of that ONCE.
Why Mr.. schif ana Senator Owen
regard Mr.. Baker as Progressive
they do not say. But both of them
insist that his nomination would bring
all the former Roosevelt boys right
into the Democratic fold.
VIII NOmlnaU6 Marshall.
Mr. schiff's recommendation came
liam F. McCombs, national chairman,
and Henry Morgenthau, former min
lister to Turkey under the present ad-
ministration. Both Of them claim to
have received II. 30 1t may have come
to both OF them. But each raised his
eyebrows this afternoon when asked
II the other got any such message.
MI McCombs said that nevertheless
and Notwithstanding Mr.. Shifts tele-
gram. T. R. Marshall would be NOM
mated for vfce-President Immediately
following the nomination of woodrow
Wilson for President
MI Morgenthau, on the other hand,
took the suggestion seriously and dis
cussed 1t with many delegates. 1t had
not made much Roadway as a boom
when the discussions closed at 4
O'Clock or thereabouts In the morn
ing.
Senator Owen. after expressing his
preference for Mr.. Baker as the nomi-
nee for second place, said earnestly:
I believe the Democrats are nine
tsnths At heart progressive I think
mat BY making our platform express
the sentiment Of this great body, our
own party will attract enough progress
sive votes to carry the election to
wilson We need At least 1900, 900
votes and the only place to get them
Is from the Progressive party. We
are entitled to them. because we are
IN sympathy with what they stand
for"
Some Of the convention leaders.
among them Senator Stone, of Mis-
souri, and Thamas 8. Taggart, Of Indi-
ana, were trfie peeved at these dis
cussions. The plan to pick a progress
sive Vice-Presidept, they said, not only
implied that Mr. Marshall was not
progressive, but It even went to the
blasphem Gus length Of intimating that
Woodrow Wilson Is not progressive.
Stone ana Taggart frowned down at
such talk among those who preached
II. Fred Lynch, Of Minnesota, the
towering strategist Of the convention,
merely laughed at It. In the opinion
OF these gentlemen the ticket Is 60
Ing as It lays and II will be treason
to try to start anything at this or any
later Juncture
Majors Boom Expires.
Mr.. stone and Taggart today got
hold Of Roger Sullivan. who is here
with a vice-presidentiai boom for
himself. Sullivan would willingly
quit. but his followers were very earn
est about the matter and he could not
ma 1t in his heart to pull a Roose-
welt on them.
At the close OF tho interview. how
ever. Stone and Taggart told some Of
the other leaders that Roger had
promised to be reasonable when the
proper time came.
Sullivan being eliminated ana tho
vice-presidential boom of Governor
Major. OF Missouri. having expired
painlessly. prospect OF trouble Is grow
ing less.
Charles Francis Murphy heads the
Tammany rooters and today ne has
been in consultation with Taggart,
Stone. McComhs and several of ths
other bosses, although why anybody
should confer about anything is not
possible to understand, When Mr..
Murphy was asked who would be tbs
nominee he replied soiemnly;
The convention will decide.
Wilson Strongest CasA1Aate. Il
Senator Wagner. who has the dis
tinction Of being tina only 1Anmanv
Hall man who ever refused q 1T of-.
ace. declared It his belief that WfIsos
would b the stFonssst CANDIDATE He
went no further ssss
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