The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-09
"Peace Conference" Commmittee Reports That
Progressives Will Agree to But One
Mans Name.
NAY REACH CLIMAX BEFORE EVENING
Justice Hughes is First Name Mentioned and
First Demonstration is When Taft
Is Mentioned.
rBy Perry Arnold. United Press Staff


lBy Perry Arnold, United Press Staff
Correspondent
COLISEUM, CHICAGO. June 81
G. o. P. hosts today received the re-
port of the harmony conferences be-
tween republicans and progressives
without any great amount Of enthus-
iasm and promptly went ahead to
nominate their candidate for the
presidency.
Mention of Colonel Roosevelt's
name by Senator Smoot in reading
the report Of the olive branch com
mittee evoked only one and One.half
minutes OF applause and 1t was not
any too fullsome at that.
Call OF roll OF states for nominating
speeches was begun at 11:47. Ala
bama temporarily passed; Alaska did
not answer and Arizona finally yield
ed to New York. Governor Whitman
then put Justice Charles Nvans
Hughes in nomination.
An attempt to have Colonel Roose-
velt's hint that he would address the
republican convention il invited, tax
en- up, proved abortive. Delegate
Leon Weinberg Of Maryland, had a
resolution all ready providing that
an invitation be issued, but was
forestalled when informed that un-
animous consent was necessary to its
consideration.
Smoots report was considered. He
read it with great emphasis and fire.
quently had to pause for applause.
But never did this applause develop
into anything like really spontan-
eOuS Outburst
Chairman Harding volunteered the
information that the Harmony COM
mittee" not having been discharged,
would continue its work.
The prospect at noon was that the
nominating and seconding speeches
would continue for at least three
hours, probably more.
Hughes 10 Nominated.
Whitman nominating Hughes, said:
I'VE are assembled here to name
the standard bearer of the great
republican party. We are here in
lean people, that a minority presi-
ing the will of the majority. We are
here to select the next president OF
the United States.
The national horizon is dark and
troubled. From afar. the lurid flashes
of a world war remind us Of our own
citizens killed and our own flag in
suited. To the south, we see an
archy encroaching on our borders. At
Washington the president watches
and waits.
Yet we must not think the task
before us an easy one. The country
Is still at peace. and the maintenance
Of peace will be plausibly claimed by
the democratic party. That party
hopes that the country will soon for
get the insults to our national honor
1t Is Its belief that the people will
not long remember the vacillating
diplomacy clothed in glittering
rhetoric which has alarmed our peo-
PIE, discredited our standing among
the nations and brought us to the
verge OF war.
A form OF prosperity is in the
land and few perhaps realize its
temporary nature or pause to analyze
its causes"
Here Whitman cited the European
war as giving unnatural prosperity.
II the devout prayers OF all man.
klnd be answered and our hopes full
iiHed. which God grant, the frightful
holocaust of war will end as quickly
and unexpectedly as 1t begun, and
the products of European labor will
pour in upon us, undeterTed by a
tariff barrier, at prices ruinous to our
trade and industries" he continued.
;, We must choose a man so great
mat he may meet as true Ameri-
can the supreme national Issues, not
only OF the hour but those OF the
future.
Good Men In Party.
Our party Is rich in men infDued
With the true eptrx of Americanism.