The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1916-06-16

mated Ieddy's Endorsement doused
its glim, but he never had any show.
The balloting went on, and State del
egations that mad already been called
and voted for their favorites, saw
that Hughes would be the man, be-
gan to change their votes and get in
to the Hughes band wagon, and when
the confusion was at an end Hughes
had the nomination by big majority,
which was at once made unanimous.
At the close of the second ballot on
Friday, Roosevelt had 81 votes, but
at the close of the third ballot on Sat-
urday his 81 had shrunk to 1871 loyal
supporters who stood by him to the
last. The nomination Of Hughes, the
rejection of Roosevelt's compromise
candidate, Lodge, and the desertion of
621a of his 81 votes, was certainly a
humiliating rebuff of the Colonel's at
tempt to lead the g. o. p. again.
While this was transporting in the
Republican Convention the Progressive
Convention nominated their Teddy
with enthusiastic acclaim, only to
have their enthusiasm all knocked out
of them by the Colonels response to
their action, so that they don't know
where they are att, or whether they
have any head or not. When notified
of his nomination by the Progressive
Convention, his own pet aggregation,
he wired the following evasive reply:
ITO the Progressive Convention:
II am very grateful for the honor
you confer upon me by nominating
me for President. | cannot accept it
at this time. | do not know the atti-
tude of the candidate Of the Republi-
can party toward the vital questions
Of the day. Therefore, if you de-
sire an immediate decision, must de-
cline the nomination. But if you pre-
fer it, | suggest that my conditional
refusal to run be placed in the hands
of the Progressive National Commit
tee.
eff Mr.. Hughes statements, when
he makes them, shall satisfy the com
mittee that it is for the interest of the
country that he be elected, they can ect
accordingly and treat my refusal as
definitely accepted. If they are not
satisfied they can so notify the Pro-
gressive party and at the same time
they can confer with me and then de-
termine on whatever action we may
severally deem appropriate to meet
the needs of the country.
(Signed) IL
THEODORE ROOSEVELT"
1t was a terrible blow to his idol
lzing followers. They had expected
him to accept the gauge thrown down
by his enemies with the old fighting
spirit that animated him in 1912, but
he had suddenly contracted cold feet.
Whittier should they turn-to whom
should they look? He gives them the
choice of taking his prompt refusal
to accept or to wait patiently till he
gets ready to tell them what he will
do; and what he intends to do is writ
largely all through his message-'I
am out of politics."
1t was natural that the spirits of
the old standpat, retroactive wing of
the party should rise as that of the
Teddy idolizers fell and dropped,
They have at last tanned and shelved,
they hope, the only man who believed
he was big enough to weld the diverg-
ing factions of the once vir:le Repub-
lican party and save the country.
And yet they are not sure. Will
Teddy recover from the knockout and
get his second wind? They don't
know and they are not easy in their
minds, for
Teddy Roosevelt, you're wonder!
Even when you blunder
Everybody knows that you're a
wonder,
Oh. you Teddy, you're great, old
bow,