The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-06-07
Conventions Open With Dove
FIuttering Near.
Sound of Gayel Preceded by
Secret Conferences.
TELEPHONE TO ROOSEVELT
Believe Some Harmonious Ac.
ton Has Been Arranged.
Visit of Cortelyou, L. r.. Lieu
tenant, Mysterious Factor.

Chicae go. June THE Republican
and Progressive national convention
the first at the Coliseum and the sec
ond at the Northumberland mere
today an hour apart with growing
hopes of harmony and a possibility
that this week may see the finale or
the bitter Republican feud born in
this city four years ago. Leaders OF
the two parties who sought their beds
at dawn for brief maps after a night
of conferences did so with the settled
convictions that incidents which would
become historic in American political
annals were Immediately impending.
This hoped for program of peace of
Republicans and Progressives, how
ever, may go glimmering, but the men
who early today sounded the lend of
the war clarion" asserted their faith
was founded upon a tangible sequence
of events of more than ordinary sig
nificance and Importance.
| Report Peace in Sight.
Here is what led to the peace is in
sight," report, which was served
| everywhere with breakfast here to-
day:
Senator William e. Borah of Ida
no, and other Republicans who have
been working hard for harmony for
several days, yesterday EOHf~
pleted their canvass of heretofore I'M
certain western delegates. including
those from California, Washington
and Oregon. At once Senator Borah
entered the lists as an unqualified
champion of Justice Hughes, declaring
that Nobody but Hughes could win
against Wilson,
After several hours of work among
the delegates, Senator Borah went
into conference with George w. Per-
Ii. <~e-sw~
leader. While al Mr. Perkins's rooms.
Senator Borah had a telephone con-
i. versation with Theodore Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay. When he had concluded
the telephone talk with Colonel
| Roosevelt and the conference with Mr..
Perkins, the Idaho senator admitted
that he was better satisfied with
the prospects for harmony than he
had been at any time since he arrived
in Chicago.
Vetocs Advertising Campaign.
Some time later Mr.. Perkins
| emerged from conference with SEN
ator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu-
sets, and with broad smile. said in
reply to inquiries that the outlook for
harmony between the two conventions
was brighter These incidents were
followed by the announcements that
Mr.. Perkins had vetoed the Progress
sive plan to print advertisements
Throughout the country in behalf of
Colonel Roosevelt. Co-incident with
the statement of the abandonment
) of the advertising campaign came the
. declaration that the two conventions
: today would attempt to name confer
} ence committee to arrange for mar
moniouS action between the two fac
tons.
Such is the basis for the peace talk
which swept through hotel lobbies
conference rooms and the assemblage
? places of the two conventions this
morning. Leaders declared as soon as
the conference committee was APP
: pointed by the two conventions the
!, convention would mark time while the
: conferees attempted to develop a plan
competent to reduce friction to a min
imum and prevent dual nominations
: The plan if materialixed then will
be presented to the two conventions
, for ratification and there were men on
/, the ground today who already had Wis
ualized-to their own satisfaction at
least-a great spectacular reunion OF
: the "old guard" and the Progressiyes
CortelyOu's Visit Significant
In this connection it was suggested
by some claiming political seershiu
that the arrival here yesterday OF
George B. Cortelyou-direct from
Oyster Bay-was in fact the appear-
ance of a silent advance agent whoss
coming may presage that of CoIonel
Roosevelt, who might, it was said
= come out of the east as he did in 1912
2 but this time to re-make what wa
un-made upon that occasion. Others
however, jeered openly at this s,e,
gestion and spurned the idea of Roose.
welt in the role of pacificator.