Norwich bulletin., 1916-02-10
HUGHES FORBIDS
 USE OF HIS NAME
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(continued from Page one) in regard to a political situation that has developed in the state of Virginia. Conventions are called in the state to select delegates to attend the repubn- can national convention at Chicago June [. The state convention is called for Roanoke, March 29, the district conventions at various times and places in respective districts.
 There is general feeling in the state that the delegates in the state should go to the national convention uninstructed, and there, with the re- publicans from the other states in the union, assist in selecting the most available man as candidate. I am chairman of our state committee, a member of congress from the only re- publican district in the state.
 About ten days ago movement started in the state, directed from New York city, by Frank H. Hitchcock, for mer postmaster general fayoring you as a republican nominee. He has se- cured around him in our state a few of his old appeintees, MT. Cabell, for mer commissioner of internal revenue now living at Richmond, Va; MT B. A. Davis, postmaster under MT. Hitch cock at Rocky Mount, and MT. $. Brown Allen, former postmaster at Staunton, Va
 'I enclose you a copy of a letter written by Colonel S. Brown Allen to one of my friends, who forwarded the a movement by MT. Hitchcock, and I have other letters of similar character. You will observe it advocates an at tack on me, as state chairman, and the organization generally, with the state ment that MT. Hitchcock is to be chair man of the national committee and again postmaster general, therefore the dispenser of patronage and that those woh endorse his views and sup port you as presidential candidate will receive commensurate consideration afterwards.
 T am not willing that I should be placed in the attitude of opposing you as candidate for the presidency, and that Is the view of thousands of re- publicans in our state: neither do augurated in our state against me and others upon the supposition that we oppose you.
 T am writing you at the earliest moment to acquafnt you of the situa- tion that has so recently developed upon your name, and at the same time to assure you that there has been no hostility exhibited toward you any where in our state, but on the con- trary of the great admiration and friendship exists for you.
 Very truly,
 "C. BAscoM sLEMP.,
 Feb. 3, fs16."
 Justice Hughes Reply.
 Justice Hughes replied as follows: My Dear MT. Slemp:
 Your letter of Feb. Sd has been received, I am entirely out of poli- tics and I know nothing whatever of the matters to which you refer. I am totally opposed to the use of my name in connection with the nomination and to the selection or instruction of any delegates in my interest either directly or remotely.
 Very sincerely yours,
 CHARLES H. HUGHES"
 The letter which Congressman Slemp enclosed in his communication to Jus tice Hughes, which was written to an unnamed friend of the Virginian by s. Brown Allen, former postmaster at Staunton, was also made public. AL len wrote that he had been called on the long distance telephone from New York by MT. Hitchcock and advised to go to Richmond to confer with MT Cabell.
 .sIr. CabelI laid before me the cam paign,' Aliens letter said, which is as follows:
 Friends Urge Candidacy.
 ''The friends of Justice Hughes. with Governor Whitman at the head, got together and sent to Mr. Hitchcock. w. the best politician in the country, and arranged to place him in full charge of the Hughes campaign. The arrange ment Is not to antagoniZe Roosevelt, because 1t will surely be Hughes of Roosevelt, and under the arrangement Hitchcock, of course, will be post master general, and the premier of the next administration. He will be made at Chicago chairman of the national committee in place of lilies and will be in full charge of the campaign un- til the vote is counted in the November election"
 The reference in Aliens letter which prompted Congressman Slemp to com- municate with Justice Hughes was as follows:
 They, too, full well know that the persons who assumed to speak for the organization here are dead against Hughes or Roosevelt, and persons locking for recognition under the next administration would do well to put black mark through the names on an endorsement"
 In making public the correspondence Chairman Slemp issued a statement in which he said the desire was general among Virginia and other southern republicans to send uninstruoted dele gallons to the republican convention at Chicago.
 'As a consequence" said Mir. Slemp. T deplore the effort that is being made in the state of Virginia and, I under stand, in other southern states, to se- cure instruction for candidates, and more particularly to secure them by the promise of political patronage. In pursuance of this thought, the. corre- given"